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If you want real empanadas you gotta get them from random street carts … ive had rubens emapanadas by the seaport and i thought they sucked.
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Spruce-fir forest type only occurs at the highest elevations and contains the largest contiguous block of virgin Picea rubens on earth.
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The ecoregion has a large number of reptile species, four strictly endemic species; Afrogecko ansorgii, Coluber zebrina, Ruben's sand lizard (Pedioplanis rubens), and the skaapsteker (Psammophylax ocellatus) a solid-bodied, venemous snake that reaches up to 1 m in length.
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Old-growth cove forests at mid-elevations once supported massive tulip poplars (Liriodendron tulipifera), chestnuts (Castanea dentata), red spruce (Picea rubens), and oaks.
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Wide distribution of red spruce (Picea rubens) and red pine (Pinus resinosa) distinguish the ecoregion from the predominantly deciduous woodlands of the Great Lakes lowland forests and the mixed woods of the Eastern forest-boreal transition area.
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Conifer belts can be found in the high and cool localities and are dominated by red spruce (Picea rubens) and hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) (Williams and Fridley, 1938).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The closed mixedwood forests of this ecoregion are strongly influenced by a maritime climate where warm summers allow for good growth of hardwoods, which are often mixed with red spruce (Picea rubens) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea).
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“Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper,” yet that might be by demonstration, and not in fact; and if by travel, it requireth the voyage but of half the globe.
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Examination of the shell disk by our archaeozoologist Wim Van Neer showed that it was made from the shell of the local freshwater mollusk Spathopsis rubens, that had been carefully cut out, smoothed down and then pierced by drilling.
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_S. pseudo China, S. S.rsaparilla, S. rubens_, and _S.
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