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Oh look! Mermaid come out of swamp. Oh boy!

Lots of herons live in the marsh.

We had a savanna, a marsh, a desert.

Yes, it is swamp. We live in the swamp in a tent, but I must tell you, every day is exhilarating.

Maybe it was swamp gas, but I know what I saw.

Or the swamp at Gramercy Park, right here.

Tom's body was found in the swamp.

He lives alone in a little cottage in the swamp.

Flooded savannas are savannas that are flooded seasonally or year round.

Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.

Jungian analysts call shame the swampland of the soul.

The coast has areas of low lying Guinean mangroves swamp.

The area was heavily wooded, with a marsh nearby.

Listen, I'm going back to the swamp mermaid. Can you call me in a little while?

History The most common theory of the origin of Brussels' name is that it derives from the Old Dutch Broekzele or Broeksel , meaning marsh ( broek ) and home ( zele sel ) or home in the marsh .

Unfortunately for him, he fell into a swamp and couldn't get out.

The average flow rate of the White Nile at the tails of the swamps is about .

Now I think the whole concept of a mermaid doesn't really blend into the swamp feel.

Since then, a large amount of subfossil material has been collected from Mauritius, mostly from the Mare aux Songes swamp.

Fictional character biography The Swamp Thing character first appeared in House of Secrets 92 (June July 1971), under the name Alex Olsen.

Municipal Library The Municipal Library, named after the teacher Jandira Basseto Pântano, was founded on October 25, 1955.

Sundance Film Festival NHK Award for La Ciénaga, (Latin America) 1999.

This view is supported by the fact that the Mare aux Songes swamp is close to the sea in south eastern Mauritius.

The word is believed to derive from Ameri , which is an old word meaning swamp .

After all, as the US extricates itself from its Afghan quagmire, its own national interests will continue to trump all other considerations.

At first they found few bones, until they cut away herbage that covered the deepest part of the swamp, where they found many fossils.

The fact that no juvenile dodos have been found in the Mare aux Songes swamp, where most dodo remains have been excavated, may indicate that they produced little offspring, that they matured rapidly, that the breeding grounds were far away from the swamp, or that the risk of miring was seasonal.

A female gorilla in the Nouabalé Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo was recorded using a stick as if to gauge the depth of water whilst crossing a swamp.

Volume 3 Written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Roger Petersen and Giuseppe Camuncoli in 2001, the third Swamp Thing series focused on the daughter of the Swamp Thing, Tefé Holland.

In October 2005, after a hundred years of neglect, a part of the Mare aux Songes swamp was excavated by an international team of researchers.

The steep and varied topography and proximity to the ocean create a number of different habitats within the city limits, including tidal marsh and canyons.

The major difference between the first and second Swamp Thing is that the latter appears more muscular than shambling, and possesses the power of speech.

Its central character is the streetwise magician John Constantine, who was created by Alan Moore and Stephen R. Bissette, and first appeared as a supporting character in The Saga of the Swamp Thing 37 (June 1985), during that creative team's run on that title.

He is transformed into a monstrous creature who kills Ridge before the latter can murder Linda, who has started to suspect Ridge of murdering Alex.

Work at the Mare aux Songes swamp has shown that its habitat was dominated by tambalacoque and Pandanus trees and endemic palms.

Though many small skeletal elements were found during the recent excavations of the swamp, few were found during the 19th century, probably owing to the employment of less refined methods when collecting.

Most of the country consists of lowland terrain, with mountainous terrain north west of the Tees Exe line including the Cumbrian Mountains of the Lake District, the Pennines and limestone hills of the Peak District, Exmoor and Dartmoor.

63 of the fossils found in the swamp belonged to turtles of the extinct Cylindraspis genus, and 7.1 belonged to dodos, which had been deposited within several centuries, 4,000 years ago.

It was donated by Marjorie Courtenay Latimer, whose great aunt had received it from a captain who claimed to have found it in a swamp on Mauritius.

A second female was seen using a tree stump as a bridge and also as a support whilst fishing in the swamp.

She found the box in a tree in Byblos, a city along the Phoenician coast, and brought it back to Egypt, hiding it in a swamp.

To prevent malaria, the British had covered the swamp with hard core during their rule over Mauritius, which had to be removed.

There are people who like the summer and people who like the winter.

In 1866, Clark explained his procedure to The Ibis , an ornithology journal he had sent his coolies to wade through the centre of the swamp, feeling for bones with their feet.