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  • My friend Anthony is sharing this fun video: "This is the installation of a cast copy of U of Wyoming's Apatosaurus excelsus specimen (Formerly CM 563) at the former Weinman Museum (now Tellus Museum) in Cartersville, GA."

    Archive 2008-11-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • My friend Anthony is sharing this fun video: "This is the installation of a cast copy of U of Wyoming's Apatosaurus excelsus specimen (Formerly CM 563) at the former Weinman Museum (now Tellus Museum) in Cartersville, GA."

    Time Elapsed Dinosaurs ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Et benedictus Deus excelsus, qui tradidit hostes tuos in manum tuam: et dedit ei decimam de omnibus.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • The hotel Charlie was staying at was called the Excelsior, a prime example of hyperbole, perhaps, in that the word derived from the Latin excelsus, from the past participle of excellere, which meant “to excel.”

    Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

  • _ At the bluffs single animals lie from twenty to one hundred feet apart; one rarely finds a whole skeleton, such as that of Marsh's _Brontosaurus excelsus_, the finest specimen ever secured here, which is now one of the treasures of the Yale museum.

    Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

  • [Footnote 631: 'Nam licet concordia Principum semper deceat, vestra tamen absolute me nobilitat; quoniam ille redditur amplius excelsus, qui vestrae gloriae fuerit unanimiter conjunctus.'] 'As we cannot in the short space of a letter express all that we desire to say on such an occasion, we have entrusted certain verbal messages to the ambassadors who bear this epistle.'

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • There are nearly 5,000 Metrosideros excelsus trees still out there.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Ms. Short revived her role as city tree defender (sans PowerPoint) and repeated her overall praise of trees, but she also confirmed what is well known about Metrosideros excelsus.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Olaf M�ller, cinephile excelsus and an expert on Japanese cinema since the age of ten.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Olaf M�ller, cinephile excelsus and an expert on Japanese cinema since the age of ten.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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