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Look up: CIRQUE

  1. cirque
    [n] - a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. cirque
    the heads of many glaciated valleys...are shaped like a theatre, or half bowl....The feature is...known as a --. Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Cirque
    Cirque noun [ French, from Latin circus .] 1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. « A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats. » 2. A kind of circular va...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/83

  4. cirque
    corrie noun a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Cirque
    • (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. • (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. cirque
    (French: `circle`), amphitheatre-shaped basin with precipitous walls, at the head of a glacial valley. It generally results from erosion beneath the ... [5 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/87

  7. Cirque
    Glacially eroded rock basin found on mountains. Most alpine glaciers originate from a cirque.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  8. cirque
    French name for a corrie, a steep-sided armchair-shaped hollow in a mountainside
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  9. Cirque
    A steep-walled horseshoe-shaped recess high on a mountain that is formed by glacial erosion.
    Found on http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education

  10. Cirque
    A `cirque` (French for "circus") or `corrie` (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a "kettle") is an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion.--> Coombe rock (glacial sludge) was named after where it was found in southern non-glaciated...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque

  11. Cirque
    (album) | Name = Cirque | Type = Studio album | Artist = Genre = Ambient music|Ambient | Length = 47:26 | Label = Last album = Substrata (album)|Substrata<br />(1997) | This album = `Cirque`<br />(2000) | Next album = Substrata²<br />(2001) --> `Cirque`...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque



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12 February 2012

This day in history:
/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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