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unusual facts about musk



Anointing

For the coronation of King Charles I in 1626 the holy oil was made of a concoction of orange, jasmine, distilled roses, distilled cinnamon, oil of ben, extract of bensoint, ambergris, musk and civet.

Christmas Island shrew

The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island.

Congenital myasthenic syndrome

This pathway consists of agrin, muscle-specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK), acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) and the AChR-clustering protein rapsyn, encoded by the RAPSN gene.

Five grains

Five grains of musk are included with Cubeb (section Uses, subsection Medicinal) in an aphrodisiac recipe in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights popularly known in English as the Arabian Nights

Ittar

Hina and its various forms viz., Shamama, Shamam –tul – Amber, Musk Amber and Musk Hina.

Loggerhead musk turtle

It gets its name from its unusually large head, compared to the common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus).

Musk Duck

Musk Ducks are moderately common through the Murray-Darling and Cooper Creek basins, and in the wetter, fertile areas in the south of the continent: the southwest corner of Western Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania.

Musk Lorikeet

The Musk Lorikeet was first described by ornithologist George Shaw in 1790 as Psittacus concinnus, from a collection in the vicinity of Port Jackson in what is now Sydney.

Musk mallow

Malva moschata, native to Europe and southwestern Asia, also known as the Musk-mallow

Malva alcea, native to southern and eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, also known as the Greater Musk-mallow

Musk turtle

Staurotypus, variously called Mexican, three-keeled, or giant musk turtles

Snow knife

Among the Esquimaux in and around King William's Land I found snow-knives made of copper stripped from Sir John Franklin's ships, the imprints of the queen's broad arrow still showing on many, the blades double-edged or dagger-shape, and the handles of musk-ox and reindeer horn rudely attached by sinew lashings.

SpaceX reusable launch system development program

Following the successful December 3 launch of Falcon 9 Flight 7 with the SES-8 payload, CEO Musk stated that depending on the data analysis from the SES-8 mission, SpaceX may try to recover the spent booster of the Thaicom 6 flight from the ocean.


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