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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A translucent reddish-brown fossil resin, occurring in small scales or plates on the Mersey river, Tasmania, between the layers of a rock containing alumina and ferric oxid, forming from 30 to 40 per cent. of the entire deposit.
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Tasmanites is a marine alga the remains of which make up nearly all the kerogen of such oil shales as the Permian tasmanite of Australia and the
The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book). Ann Althouse 2008
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