The palatine tonsils are the ones seen at the back of the throat.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
The connection to nature at Vista Celestial is truly profound, with wildlife waiting for you at the door—I'm not kidding, at one point, a capuchin monkey walked onto our patio to say hello.
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Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
8 June 2026
Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.
The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.
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Jonny Bierman,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
Watching a documentary about mantas, reef sharks, or this area is one thing.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Mar. 2026
Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak); social calls, dinners, and balls; the weather; her mother’s health; and people—often dozens of names.
In the first and third, the matador performs a series of passes of the bull through capes, first a large pink and yellow cape known as a capote and then a smaller red cape.
No category of paraphernalia was more popular than Lionel Messi gear-- from jerseys, to jumbo foam Messi heads to at least one cape depicting the Argentinian player as a saint.
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Matias Ocner,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2026
The figure features Boba Fett's signature Mandalorian armor, a swiveling helmet range finder, jetpack, blaster and a fabric cape.
Some of the women had their hair covered in lace mantillas, an old Catholic custom.
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Jane Arraf,
NPR,
23 June 2026
One of the hallmarks of its origins is a tile work from 1928 by Ernest Batcheler, an American artist of Dutch descent, that portrays a Spanish woman wearing a pink traditional Sevilla dress with frills, a shawl with fringe and a headpiece known as a mantilla.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2026
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