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Featured article: June 16, 2004

The exposed geology of the Bryce Canyon area shows a record of deposition that covers the last part of the Cretaceous period and the first half of the Cenozoic era in that part of North America. The ancient depositional environment of the region around what is now Bryce Canyon National Park varied from the warm shallow sea the Dakota Sandstone and the Tropic Shale were deposited in to the cool streams and lakes that contributed to the colorful Claron Formation that dominates the park's amphitheaters. Other formations were also created but were mostly eroded following two major periods of uplift; one around 70 million years ago (creating the Rocky Mountains) and another 10 to 15 million years ago (creating the Colorado Plateaus).

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The only existing song by a trobairitz which survives with music, by Comtessa de Dia (file info)
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Featured picture: March 19, 2006

Two flaming cocktails

A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually containing one or more distilled alcoholic beverages and in addition sometimes containing non-alcoholic drinks, ice and sometimes liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, or spices. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States; to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol, the bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other liquors and non-alcoholic drinks.

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Featured list: List of dinosaurs
This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium), or were not formally published (nomen nudum), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered dinosaurs (many listed dinosaurs have since been reclassified as everything from birds to crocodilians to petrified wood). The list contains 1169 names, of which approximately 770 are considered valid dinosaur genera or nomina dubia. Aachenosaurus — actually a piece of petrified wood "Abdallahsaurus" — nomen nudum, probably Brachiosaurus or Giraffatitan Abelisaurus Abrictosaurus Abrosaurus Acanthopholis Achelosaurus^[1] — misspelling of Achelousaurus Achelousaurus Achillobator Acracanthus — original invalid name of Acrocanthosaurus Acrocanthosaurus Actiosaurus — probably an ichthyosaur Adamantisaurus Adasaurus See full list...

Featured list: List of dinosaurs

This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium), or were not formally published (nomen nudum), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered dinosaurs (many listed dinosaurs have since been reclassified as everything from birds to crocodilians to petrified wood). The list contains 1169 names, of which approximately 770 are considered valid dinosaur genera or nomina dubia.

Aachenosaurus — actually a piece of petrified wood
"Abdallahsaurus" — nomen nudum, probably Brachiosaurus or Giraffatitan
Abelisaurus
Abrictosaurus
Abrosaurus
Acanthopholis
Achelosaurus^[1] — misspelling of Achelousaurus
Achelousaurus
Achillobator
Acracanthus — original invalid name of Acrocanthosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus
Actiosaurus — probably an ichthyosaur
Adamantisaurus
Adasaurus
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