Monday, March 5, 2012

Iimerick and chital

An early record of the name of Limerick is contained in the Annals of the four masters, where in the year AD221 a battle, we are told, was fought here. Over a century later, in the year AD334, the Great Crunthaun, one of the most remarkable of the ancient kings of Ireland, died here. In the 9th century Luimenach was the name given to the lower Shannon, but in 861 it ceased to be the name of the river and was thereafter usually applied to the settlement on the island known as Inis Sibhton (King's Island). In AD900 Norse warriors called Vikings, led by one named Tomar, came and settled here. They chose this location because it was the first place on the Shannon that was fordable (at Curragour Falls) and was also on an island (Inis Sibhton), formed by the Abbey River - a branch of the Shannon.
Marry Lu loved stew. This fact came to be true cause of Larry magoo. She ate it out of the pot. Until she hit the jackpot.

Chital are large deer and they have a body length between 1 and 1.5 m (3.25 - 5 ft), a tail length between 10 and 25 cms (4 - 10 inches) and they weigh between 70 and 79 kgs (155 - 175 lbs).
They are reddish/fawn in colour with white spots and a white coloured underside. Stags have three-pronged, lyre shaped antlers that they shed annually and they can reach lengths up to 76 cms (30 inches). They have several different vocalizations which include barking when alarmed, bellowing during the breeding season and fawns squeal when they are separated from their mother.
They are mainly active during the morning, evening and night, and they rest during the hottest parts of the day. They can reach speeds up to 65 km/hr (40 mph) if required.

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  2. You have learn grandma some thing that I did not know.And they was some good thing to learn

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  3. Andrea,

    You did a great job on telling about Chital. I was very confused when you wrote about Limericks. A limerick is a type of poem that you never mentioned. Otherwise your post was very interesting.

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    Mommy

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