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Recent Examples of dunghillWhen Job, who is on a dunghill, oozing pus, after the death of his entire family, accuses God of needless cruelty, God appears in the form of a whirlwind, chastising Job for expecting something as measly as fairness from the Creator of the Universe.—Audrey Wollen, New Yorker, 6 May 2026 In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
This source of damage is easily avoided by purchasing manure and hay from a reputable source and asking if the source material was treated with aminopyralid.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
Problems begin when fertilizer, livestock manure, septic waste and industrial runoff wash into rivers and groundwater.
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Ryan Brennan
May 27,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2026
As late as the 19th century, the most reliable source of usable nitrogen was guano harvested from islands off the coast of Peru, a resource so valuable and rare that nations went to war over it.
If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
Hantavirus is contracted through inhalation or contact with rodent excrement or saliva.
Massachusetts-born, Robinson will be playing on home soil in front of friends, family and national team fanatics, an honor every player dreams of but only very few get.
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Jim Sciutto,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
Founded in 1847 by immigrants seeking religious freedom, Pella still feels like a small slice of the Netherlands on Midwestern soil.