Diamonds described by experienced gemologists as red are some of the rarest in the world. |
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Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius, with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire. |
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That makes this leaf eater with its furry feet one of the rarest animals in the world. |
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It's a Titan arum, and its flowering is one of the rarest events in botany. |
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He had a distinctly scientific approach to eating and was never more satisfied than when digesting the rarest species known to the palate. |
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Bechstein's, Daubenton's and barbastelles are the rarest of British bats and all occur here. |
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We are in one of the rarest of all jungle settings, a true triple-tiered canopy. |
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The whooping crane, named for its loud and penetrating mating call, is one of America's best known and rarest endangered species. |
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Bitterns are one of the UK's rarest birds, with only 30 breeding pairs left as marshland habitats dry out. |
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That is what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price. |
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The horizontal headdresses worn by the Ijo people are some of the rarest in Africa. |
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One of the world's rarest animals, the giant panda lives in the sub-alpine forests in the west central region of China. |
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This species is endemic to the Western Ghats and is considered the rarest and endangered swallowtail. |
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But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents. |
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Triassic asteroids are among the rarest of fossils, hitherto comprised of only three genera, all from Europe. |
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From Luke comes news of the ovipository feats of the world's rarest parrot, the kakapo. |
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The rarest mushroom, they're so coveted that truffle hunters jealously guard their favorite truffling spots. |
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This tranquil and peaceful haven is home to some of the largest and rarest trees and shrubs in England. |
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Donahue is that rarest of TV creatures, an unabashed liberal with his own prime time show. |
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The Javan rhinoceros is often called the rarest large mammal on earth and perhaps the most endangered. |
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Those who brandish or discharge firearms in a public place would, in all but the rarest cases, be locked up. |
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Fitzpatrick's rarest wine, called Tir Na Nog, is a robust blend of Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, and Zinfandel. |
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This part of the National Park is home to some of the rarest creatures in the country such as adders, otters, goshawks and water vole. |
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With an air of proprietary pride, he looks out over the nesting site of one of the world's rarest birds. |
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One of the world's rarest cars is a Vauxhall built at Luton, the priceless Silver Bullet. |
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It is only the rarest few who have come to earn this privilege in past lives. |
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It would appear that one of Earth's rarest bird species might have gone extinct. |
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They are composed of iron, boron and neodymium, one of the rarest metals on Earth and their strength range from 2000 to 3600 gauss. |
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All but the rarest genetic changes will be drowned in the gene pool, so to speak. |
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Drills once congregated by the thousands in the rainforest. Now they are among the rarest primates. |
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Torik, besides being a master metal smith, was also the rarest of craftsmen, one who could weave enchantments into his work. |
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Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude. |
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You've been seeing these figures for awhile now but you have GOT to see them in graphic form to see why this rarest of sentiments, hope, has take root in my bosom. |
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He is that rarest of rare breeds, a Tory activist and campaigner who keeps the blue flag flying above the housing schemes and wastelands of Glasgow's east end. |
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This one features no red carpet, no paparazzi and, only in the rarest of circumstances, a celebrity. |
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Closet and pantry were distrained of their rarest delicacies, and the poultry-yard of its fattest broodlings, to furnish a palatable variety for his table. |
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With sphalerite, it is one of the rarest minerals of the pillow basalts. |
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One is the Saint Lucia racer, perhaps the rarest snake in the world, and the other is the worm snake, one of the smallest, measuring less than six inches long. |
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Many of Africa's rarest trees, such as mahogany, ironwood, camwood and mimosup, grow in this forest, that is connected to a larger forest area in neighbouring Cameroon. |
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Close monitoring and rapid, targeted vaccinations may be the best way to protect the Ethiopian wolf, the world's rarest canine, against extinction. |
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Go behind the scenes with the movie's snake wrangler, learn how to survive snakebites, and discover some of the weirdest and rarest snake species on the planet. |
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The Suffolk Punch is the oldest and now rarest breed of heavy horse. |
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To photograph the black-faced lion tamarin, one of the world's rarest and most elusive primates, I went to the Atlantic coast rainforest of Parana State in southern Brazil. |
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The world's rarest parrots, including most macaws, are at special risk. |
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But it is a new Pogo book, and Pogo completists have been eager to get their mitts on a copy of what may turn out to be the rarest Pogo item in this country. |
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The talk in the lecture theatre on Saturday at 1.30 pm will look at living animals as well as extinct species revealed in some of the rarest fossils. |
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One advantage that Canadian winegrowing has over almost all other winegrowing nations is its capacity to produce reasonable quantities of the rarest of wine styles, ice wine. |
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Even today only the rarest company can claim unfettered independence. |
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It's similar to bird-watching where you tick off the rarest species. |
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The trumpeter swan, largest and rarest of the world's eight swan species, was once a common nesting bird in north, west, and central North America. |
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It also possesses the biggest reserve of coastal temperate rainforest in the world, which is the rarest and most valuable type of forest. |
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Alderman Joseph Moore is that rarest of Chicago political creatures, a white antiadministration alderman. |
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Being a unique ecosystem in the British Isles, the Caledonian Pinewoods are home to some of the country's rarest wildlife. |
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It is one of the rarest fish species in Britain, found mainly in deep, cold, glacial lakes, and is at risk from acidification. |
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The Canary Islands were also formerly home to a population of the rarest pinniped in the world, the Mediterranean monk seal. |
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Although all Dominican amber is fluorescent, the rarest Dominican amber is blue amber. |
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Its intention was to focus conservation efforts on some of the rarest plant species in Britain. |
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As well as some of the world's finest and rarest wines being offered, there is a superb selection of everyday and table wines for sale. |
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A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless. |
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The Hawaiian Monk Seal, one of the rarest mammals in the world, and the Nene, the world's rarest goose, can also be spotted around the property. |
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Showy Stickseed Considered the state of Washington's rarest plant, this species was listed on February 6 as endangered. |
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Among the rarest birds we saw were the stone curlew and the great grey shrike. |
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The rarest vehicle in the sale is the 1933 Pierce-Arrow 836 with two-door Club Brougham coachwork. |
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Wild boars, the Great Grey Shrike and Wales' rarest deer are also on my list. |
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Their trip included spotting 70 species in North Wales, including the great northern diver and one of the UK's rarest birds, the chough. |
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It's home to some of the UK's rarest birds and to the egger its mountainous and remote terrain is suitably challenging. |
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The Lesser Horseshoe Bat, often found in the caves of Kinver, is on the 'red list', making it as endangered as the rarest tigers and rhinos. |
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Michael Jackson, the noted British beer writer, has put his imprimatur on a new beer club designed to provide members with samples of some of the rarest beers in the world. |
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Adjacent organ injuries represent rare complications with pulmonary and colonic representing the most common, while hepatic represents one of the rarest. |
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Showy Stickseed Fewer than 150 individuals of this showy wild-flower, the rarest plant in Washington, are known to exist at a single location in Chelan County. |
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Showy Stickseed Fewer than 150 individuals of this showy wildflower, the rarest plant in Washington, are known to exist at a single location in Chelan County. |
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The 100 toman note is amongst the rarest of Iranian and Persian banknotes. |
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The site, festooned with bird feeders, backs up to a dense curtain of granjeno, catclaw, and other native brush that harbors some of North America's rarest birds. |
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His research has resulted in the documentation of some of the country's rarest and most endangered species, including grizzly bears, gray wolves and the Canadian Lynx. |
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The Large Mason Bee is Britain's rarest solitary bee and is found only at two sites where it forages nectar from horseshoe vetch, bramble and bugle. |
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Mr Williams hopes the latest project will enhance the survival prospects of the dunes' rarest inhabitants such as petalwort, sand wasps and mining bees. |
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Alongside the adder, the grass snake, the common lizard and the slow worm are vulnerable populations of the country's two rarest species, the sand lizard and the smooth snake. |
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Last month, Twycross keepers took in two male red ruffed lemurs, now one of the rarest primates on the planet, in an attempt to save them from extinction. |
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The innovation will be amazing, hopefully enabling us to find where our rarest songbird, the Kirtland's warbler, mysteriously goes for the winter, for example. |
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The Orinoco crocodile is one of the rarest reptiles in the world. |
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The Dalmatian pelican is the rarest species with a population estimated at between 10,000 and 20,000 following massive declines in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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In recent years, some important changes have been made to fisheries byelaws covering the north west region of England, to help protect some of the rarest fish species. |
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The turtle Allan rescued in December was a Kemp's ridley sea turtle, which is the rarest and most endangered of the seven sea turtle species found in North America. |
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The peak time of year for this is generally in October when it is not unusual for several of the rarest birds in Europe to share this archipelago. |
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