Intermittent, torrential rain showers turned the rutted, cratered road into a bog of red mud. |
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A BOG garden can provide a new habitat for damp-loving creatures like frogs, toads and grass snakes. |
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The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies. |
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The Bog Creeper came out her wee bothy so I stood on the toilet seat and Lanna whipped her skirt down to her boots and sat. |
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Acteon found the air hostess trying to pull on her damasse dress and realign cleavage in the gentleboys' bog. |
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Weapons and horse trappings have been found in the bog at Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey and are interpreted as votive offerings cast into a lake. |
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Peat soils and blanket bog on the moors store carbon while high rainfall fills many reservoirs supplying water to the adjacent conurbations. |
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My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man. |
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This week on The Amazing Prize Giveaway Show, the grand prize is 10,000 bog rolls! |
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The oldest fleshed bog body is that of Cashel Man, who dates to 2000 BCE during the Bronze Age. |
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The newest bog bodies are those of soldiers killed in the Russian wetlands during the Second World War. |
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The preservation of bog bodies in peat bogs is a natural phenomenon, and not the result of human mummification processes. |
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As new peat replaces the old peat, the older material underneath rots and releases humic acid, also known as bog acid. |
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The bog acids, with pH levels similar to vinegar, conserve the human bodies in the same way as fruit is preserved by pickling. |
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Most of the bog bodies discovered showed some aspects of decay or else were not properly conserved. |
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The oldest bog body that has been identified is the Koelbjerg Man from Denmark, who has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period. |
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Many bog bodies show signs of being stabbed, bludgeoned, hanged or strangled, or a combination of these methods. |
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In the case of the Osterby Man found at Kohlmoor, near Osterby, Germany in 1948, the head had been deposited in the bog without its body. |
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Some bog bodies, such as Tollund Man from Denmark, have been found with the rope used to strangle them still around their necks. |
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However, a CT scan of Grauballe Man by Danish scientists determined his skull was fractured due to pressure from the bog long after his death. |
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On various occasions throughout history, peat diggers have come across bog bodies. |
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Records of such finds go back as far as the 17th century, and in 1640 a bog body was discovered at Shalkholz Fen in Holstein, Germany. |
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Worsaae, who argued that the body was Iron Age in origin, like most bog bodies, and predated any historical persons by at least 500 years. |
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The face of one bog body, Yde Girl, was reconstructed in 1992 by Richard Neave of Manchester University using CT scans of her head. |
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Several bog bodies are notable for the high quality of their preservation and the substantial research by archaeologists and forensic scientists. |
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For a more comprehensive list of bog body discoveries, see List of bog bodies. |
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One of the major obstacles to be overcome was Chat Moss, a large bog that had to be crossed. |
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The catchment area is a sheepfarm of rough grassland and sphagnum bog in the valley bottom and surrounding fellside. |
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The eastern side of Skiddaw drains into Skiddaw Forest, much of the water reaching Candleseaves Bog. |
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A fence runs along the ridge, a useful guide in mist and occasionally necessary for bog bouncing. |
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On the unenclosed moorland, there are extensive areas of blanket bog on deep peat soils. |
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In Canada, it has been estimated that new peat bog mass accumulates 60 times faster than the amount harvested each year. |
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The Netherlands, for example, once had large areas of peatland, both fen and bog. |
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It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. |
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This wide expanse of peat bog continues to be dangerous to walkers, especially after heavy rain. |
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It rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill. |
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The ghost hypnotized them, and they wandered into the mire, fell through the ice, and were sucked into the thick bog. |
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Common mosses were areas of bog where the right to dig peat for fuel were shared by neighbouring landowners. |
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Full of bog, goes anywhere you want to go, don't pay for insurance, runs on the smell of an oily rag. |
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The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub. |
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The aerial shots were so sharp they could see every bog hole. |
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It was found impossible to drain the bog at Chat Moss, and one of the men on the site, Robert Stannard suggested timber in a herring bone layout. |
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Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water fringed bog or moor, loch and riverside. |
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This was also the year of the mud, with the site suffering severe rainfalls which turned the entire site into a muddy bog. |
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Rumsfield and Bush feared that a conventional invasion of Afghanistan could bog down as had happened to the Soviets and the British. |
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One of the largest expanses of Atlantic blanket bog in Ireland is to be found in County Mayo. |
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In recent years, the high level of bog being destroyed by cutting has raised environmental concerns. |
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Much effort was put into creating satisfactory conclusions and making sure exposition did not bog down the pacing. |
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Iron ore brought a measure of prosperity, and was available throughout the country, including bog iron. |
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A local nature reserve which comprises a Lowland Raised Peat Bog, a UK BAP priority habitat. |
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Another theory ascribes the name to the meeting point of the Red Burn and Bog Stank streams within Cumbernauld Glen. |
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The Red Burn flows through the Glen and there are walkways alongside this and the Bog Stank. |
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Fannyside Muir, to the south of the town, is part of the Slamannan plateau, an area of 183 hectares of lowland bog. |
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The road his army traveled later became known as the Ffordd y Saeson, the English Road, and leads through heath and bog towards the Dee. |
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The site was no more than a hovel in a bog which may have been used previously by religious hermits. |
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The climate, geography, and environment of Finland favours bog and peat bog formation. |
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The blanket bog further inland also provides a good habitat for breeding waders, such as Golden Plover, Dunlin and Snipe. |
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The bog was affected by high floods, and dikes built on the bog proved to be very fragile. |
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It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland. |
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Lithuania experienced a drought in 2002, causing forest and peat bog fires. |
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In peat bog sediments, the Boreal is also recognized by its characteristic pollen zone. |
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Nydam Bog has played a role in the Danish national claim for Southern Jutland. |
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The first known finds from the bog date from the 1830s, when a local farmer gave old swords and shields as toys to his children. |
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Some of the discoveries from the bog were lost during the Second Schleswig War. |
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The Nydam Boat is the largest and best preserved of the boats found in Nydam Bog and is now displayed at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig, Germany. |
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Interest in the archaeology of Nydam Bog has always been particularly lively in the local area. |
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There are also many bog bodies from this time in Denmark, Schleswig and southern Sweden. |
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Noosemarks and skin piercing were evident and she had been thrown into a bog rather than buried or cremated. |
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Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution. |
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Iron made from bog ore will often contain residual silicates, which can form a glassy coating that imparts some resistance to rusting. |
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The bog iron deposits of Northern and Northeastern Europe were created after the Ice Age ended, on postglacial plains. |
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In Russia, bog ore was the principal source of iron until the 16th century, when the superior ores of Ural Mountains became available. |
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The bog environment is acidic, with a low concentration of dissolved oxygen. |
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In the acidic environment of the bog, a chemical reaction forms insoluble iron compounds which precipitate out. |
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When a layer of peat in the bog is cut and pulled back using turf knives, pea sized nodules of bog iron can be found and harvested. |
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Lake Massapoag in Massachusetts was drawn down by deepening the outlet channel in a search for bog iron. |
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The success of the Saugus Iron Works, and the rapid depletion of the region's natural bog iron, led them. |
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During the American Revolution, bog iron cannonballs were cast for the colonial forces. |
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The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog functions as a carbon sink. |
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There are many highly specialised animals, fungi and plants associated with bog habitat. |
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In drier locations, evergreen trees can occur, in which case the bog blends into the surrounding expanses of boreal evergreen forest. |
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The United Kingdom in its Biodiversity Action Plan establishes bog habitats as a priority for conservation. |
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A layer of peat fills the deepest part of the valley, and a stream may run through the surface of the bog. |
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In periglacial climates a patterned form of blanket bog may occur, known as a string bog. |
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In the absence of disturbance from waves, the bog mat may eventually cover entire bays, or even entire small lakes. |
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A cataract bog is a rare ecological community formed where a permanent stream flows over a granite outcropping. |
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A mesotrophic bog, also called a transitional peat bog, contains a moderate quantity of nutrients. |
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Bog oak, wood that has been partially preserved by bogs, has been used in the manufacture of furniture. |
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One ancient artifact found in bogs in many places is bog butter, large masses of fat, usually in wooden containers. |
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A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. |
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Unlike most ancient human remains, bog bodies have retained their skin and internal organs due to the unusual conditions of the surrounding area. |
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The oldest known bog body is the skeleton of Koelbjerg Man from Denmark, who has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period. |
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The gritstone and shale of the Dark Peak supports heather moorland and blanket bog environments, with rough sheep pasture and grouse shooting being the main land uses. |
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The 2016 event was held in the last weekend of April, and featured cover bands such as the Silver Beatles, the Bog Rolling Stones, and Fleetingwood Mac. |
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From 1859 to 1863, archaeologist Conrad Engelhardt excavated the bog. |
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With the rise of modern archaeology in the early 20th Century, archeologists began to excavate and investigate bog bodies more carefully and thoroughly. |
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This allows bog acids to saturate the tissues before decay can begin. |
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The growth of blanket bog and the extensive clearing of woodland to facilitate farming are believed to be the main causes of deforestation during the following centuries. |
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The bog chemical environment involves a completely saturated acidic environment, where considerable concentrations of organic acids and aldehydes are present. |
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Iron was extracted from bog iron in peat bogs and the first iron objects to be fabricated were needles and edged tools such as swords and sickles. |
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A quaking bog or schwingmoor is a form of bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs, and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes. |
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Litt had been last seen on the bog about 200 yards west of Raven Crag where he had been, with other, resting and watching the hounds in the valley below. |
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Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog. |
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Bog ore often combines goethite, magnetite and vugs or stained quartz. |
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The vast majority of the bog bodies that have been discovered date from the Iron Age, a period of time when peat bogs covered a much larger area of northern Europe. |
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The face of Tollundmanden, one of the best preserved bog body finds. |
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Even after improved smelting technology made mined ores viable during the Middle Ages, bog ore remained important, particularly to peasant iron production, into modern times. |
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It is possible that some of the bog bodies recovered from peat bogs in northern Germany and Denmark and dated to the Iron Age were human sacrifices. |
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Sphagnum with northern pitcher plants at Brown's Lake Bog, Ohio. |
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On 22 June, Dafydd and his younger son Owain ap Dafydd were captured at Nanhysglain, a secret hiding place in a bog by Bera Mountain to the south of Abergwyngregyn. |
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In Wales, polecats were widely believed to migrate in large numbers every spring to the great peat bog of Tregaron to feed on the breeding frogs there. |
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To further confuse matters, it was found in a bog in north Denmark. |
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The clothing is believed to have decomposed while in the bog for so long. |
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This leads to lower levels of CO2 storage than the original peat bog. |
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It takes centuries for a peat bog to recover from disturbance. |
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Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War. |
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The western shore however is characterised by broad tundra lowlands that are an extension of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the vegetation is mostly muskeg bog. |
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Bog rosemary contains grayanotoxin, which when ingested lowers blood pressure, and may cause respiratory problems, dizziness, vomiting, or diarrhoea. |
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Unlike many areas of moorland in the north of England, the moors here are not managed for grouse shooting and consist largely of rough grassland and peat bog. |
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Although, Stephenson usually gets the credit for this feat, it is believed that it was Locke who suggested the correct method for crossing the bog. |
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They are found throughout the arctic, subarctic and temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere in acid bog habitats, being particularly abundant in Arctic tundra regions. |
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With the rise of antiquarianism in the 19th century, some people began to speculate that many of the bog bodies were not recent murder victims but were ancient in origin. |
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Tolkien grew up in Birmingham, Kings Heath, then part of Worcestershire, and was inspired by Moseley Bog and Sarehole, and perhaps by the Perrott's Folly. |
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Amongst numerous other items, three boats were found in Nydam Bog. |
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