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A brevia paper in Science last week titled "Post-Wildfire Logging Hinders Regeneration and Increases Fire Risk" [PDF] touched off a storm of controversy in my neck of the woods.
Archive 2006-01-01 ScienceWoman 2006
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"Ex his debet invenire præcentor incaustum omnibus scriptoribus monasterii; et Pergamenum ad brevia, et colores ad illuminandum, et necessaria ad legandum libros."
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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The short gastric arteries (aa. gastricæ breves; vasa brevia) consist of from five to seven small branches, which arise from the end of the lienal artery, and from its terminal divisions.
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Bullarium Romanum: Clementis XIV epistolæ et brevia, ed. Theiner (Paris, 1852); Cordara, Memoirs on the suppression of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Rex Perpiniani agebat, ad millia passuum sex non brevia, uti nosti.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Tris £urus ab alto In brevia et fyrtis urguet, miferabile vifu,
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Stam« Filamenta plurima brevia fubulata in receptaculi elevati. feu difci hypogyni parte externa inferta j Antbera ob* longae ere6lae.
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Frutex • Fol. brevia, feiTiUa, carinata ', gla&ra »
Summa plantarum 1789
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Nam & in Chve omnem Ciceronianae do&rinae fylvam dilttcide ezplkut, mukarumque renun & ver* borum vim, quae antea perverfe intelligerentor, ape« ruit, maltisque libris brevia, fedetegantia accurata*
Bibliotheca critica 1779
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Folia inferioribus caulibiis et ramis fterilibus linearia, fubacuta, inermia, fupra linea fulcata, brevia fparfa, cum fafciculo folio - rum PLANTAE HISPANICAK 121 rum ex alls, interdum glabra faepius levif - iime pubefcentia.
Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana. 1771
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