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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of north-central Iraq on the Tigris River north-northwest of Baghdad. The capital of the Arabic Abbasid dynasty in the 800s, today it is a pilgrimage center for Shiite Muslims.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
simar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
simar .
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SAMARRA, IRAQ - A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday near a crowd of Shiite pilgrims at a bus depot in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, killing 38 people and wounding scores of others, police and officials said.
Suicide bomber kills 38, wounds dozens in Iraq Sabah al-Bazee 2011
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SAMARRA, IRAQ - A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday near a crowd of Shiite pilgrims at a bus depot in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, killing 38 people and wounding scores of others, police and officials said.
Suicide bomber kills 38, wounds dozens in Iraq Sabah al-Bazee 2011
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SAMARRA - The Iraqi army found three Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims who were among a group of 12, including an Iraqi driver, kidnapped by gunmen in Samarra on Friday, Iraqi army officials said.
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SAMARRA - The bodies of two police officials were found in Samarra.
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SAMARRA, Iraq Reuters - A suicide bomber targeting Shi'ite pilgrims killed 28 people and wounded 24 near the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, a police source said.
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SAMARRA, Iraq AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims at a checkpoint outside the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 27 people, police sources said.
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SAMARRA, Iraq Reuters - A suicide bomber targeting Shi'ite pilgrims killed 28 people and wounded 24 near the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, a police source said.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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SAMARRA, Iraq Reuters - A suicide bomber targeting Shi'ite pilgrims killed 28 people and wounded 24 near the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, a police source said.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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I´m reminded of John O´Hara´s Appointment in Samarra as prologue to which he wrote (and I loosely quote):
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The married Army Airborne Ranger died while on patrol in Samarra, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee military vehicle.
Justices refuse to hear case over protests at soldier funerals 2009
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A samara is a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall. A samara is a simple dry fruit and indehiscent (not opening along a seam). It is a winged achene. The shape of a samara enables the wind to carry the seed farther away than regular seeds from the parent tree.
* The seed can be in the centre of the wing, as in the elms (genus Ulmus) and the hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata).
* The seed can be on one side, with the wing extending to the other side, making the seed autorotate as it falls, as in the maples (genus Acer) and ashes (genus Fraxinus).
A samara is sometimes called a key and is often referred to as a whirlybird, helicopter, whirligig, polynose, or, in the north of England, a spinning jenny.
Some species that normally produce double samaras, such as Acer pseudoplatanus, can also produce a few multi-lobed samaras with 3 or 4 seeds.
November 5, 2011