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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.
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Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
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The rule of law The Takei family spent the first night after their arrest squeezed into a horse stall at a local racetrack, with flies buzzing overhead, overwhelmed by the stench of horse manure.Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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Ten years ago, in 2014, the Yale School for the Environment published a study that showed that biochar made from plant fodder and/or even chicken manure could be used to remove mercury from power plant emissions and clean polluted soil.Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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To paint a clearer picture of the park’s past, researchers from multiple universities analyzed the steroids present in animal dung — unearthed from lake sediments that range from around 238 B.C. to the present day.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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Homes are made of mud and dung, sandals are made of recycled tires, and there are taboos against cutting down live trees and eating wildlife.Christine Ro, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
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Gross and his team discovered that the new buds blossom around the time when the fish transition from eating larval crustaceans to gobbling up their adulthood staple: bat guano.Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
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The smell of bat droppings, or guano, wafts up from the cave when the breeze is low.Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
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Director Shawn Levy stages the cartoonish violence with less verve than David Leitch’s in Deadpool 2, which featured the franchise’s paradigmatic transition — from the close-up of a sphincter to a human eye — making the point that this is all excrement.Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024
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Trash was strewn about the unit, and the toilet was clogged with excrement.Jeff Mcdonald, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
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Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
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Watch this 💩 Art with a message: Someone placed a bronze replica of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk — topped with a giant pile of poop — near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.Daniel Wine, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Elevate her dog walks and hikes with this chic Springer set, which includes a hands-free leash that attaches to a luxe neoprene belt bag, perfect for stashing dog treats, poop bags, her wallet, keys, and phone.Elizabeth Mitchell Kadar, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2024
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Bodyguards opened umbrellas to protect the royals and officials from the barrage of muck.Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Flooring and Carpets Even with the best of intentions, outdoor muck will inevitably make its way past the entryway.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024
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True lilies need well-draining soil and should be planted in an area that receives full sun or some light shade and within their Hardiness Zone.Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2024
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The gardens crisscrossed by canals in the capital’s southern Xochimilco borough are built up from layers of dredged soil, held together by tall, thin ahuejotes – a kind of willow tree – planted around their perimeter.Mariana Martínez Barba and Julitàn Trejo Bax, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Dunghill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunghill. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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