A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four...
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Bog is a wetland of mosses or lichens over waterlogged peat. Look up Bog, bog, boggy, or bogland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bog or Bogs may also...
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A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and...
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rendering support to display the Sundanese script in this article correctly. Bogor (Sundanese: ᮘᮧᮌᮧᮁ, Dutch: Buitenzorg) is a city in the West Java province...
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Look up bogger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bogger may refer to: LHD (load, haul, dump machine), an articulated mining vehicle A vehicle used in...
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Bog snorkelling is a sporting event where competitors aim to complete two consecutive lengths of a 60 yards (55 m) water-filled trench cut through a peat...
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is also called a bog pool, bog eye, raised bog kolk, bog kolk or just kolk. Bog ponds owe their existence to the growth of the bog body and are thus...
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Pomoz Bog (Serbian Cyrillic: Помоз Бог) or Pomaže Bog (Помаже Бог) is a traditional Serbian greeting used by Serbs. It literally means "God helps" but...
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Lindow Man (redirect from Pete Bog)
Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England...
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The bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) is a critically endangered species of semiaquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the...
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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. In general...
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This is a list of bog bodies in order of country in which they were first discovered. Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of...
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Bog-wood (also spelled bogwood or bog wood), also known as abonos and, especially amongst pipe smokers, as morta, is a material from trees that have been...
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Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with...
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Matley Bog is an ancient woodland bog in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. It is a sphagnum quaking bog with adjacent heather heathland. The stream that...
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Viru Bog is a bog in Harju County, Estonia within Lahemaa National Park. The area of the bog is 235 ha. Thickness of peat layer is about 6 m. "Viru raba...
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Bog butter is an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Likely an old method of making and preserving...
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Burns Bog is an ombrotrophic peat bog located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest raised peat bog and the largest undeveloped urban...
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Bog is a bog in Viljandi County, Estonia. The bog is located in Soomaa National Park. This bog is one of the largest in Estonia. The area of the bog is...
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"The Rattlin' Bog" is an Irish folk song. It is a version of an internationally distributed folk song type. In the Roud Folk Song Index it has the number...
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Bog is a 1979 American independent horror film directed by Don Keeslar and starring Gloria DeHaven, Aldo Ray, Marshall Thompson, and Leo Gordon. Dynamite...
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genus Mictomys. Northern bog lemming - S. borealis (Richardson, 1828) Southern bog lemming - S. cooperi Baird, 1858 Florida bog lemming (S. australis Simpson...
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Bogić Bogićević, Bosnian politician Bogić Bogićević (1955–2017), Serbian football coach Bogić Risimović (1926–1986), Yugoslav-Serbian painter Bogić Vujošević...
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to preserve. Its sister bog, Volo Bog (not to be confused with a bog of the same name in Illinois), is located nearby. The bog contains a large variety...
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Bog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd published by David Fickling (UK) and Random House Children's Books (US) on 9 September 2008, more than...
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By the Bog of Cats is a play by Marina Carr. By the Bog of Cats premiered at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in October 1998. A 2004 revival of the play in London's...
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Peat (redirect from Peat bog fire)
vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss, is one of...
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Bog spavin is a swelling of the tibiotarsal joint of the horse's hock which, in itself, does not cause lameness. The joint becomes distended by excess...
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Frog Bog is a 1982 video game by Mattel Electronics for the Intellivision. An Atari 2600 conversion was released later that year as Frogs and Flies. In...
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Lycaena epixanthe (redirect from Bog Copper)
Lycaena epixanthe, also known as the bog copper or cranberry-bog copper, is a North American species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Adults like...
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