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Recent Examples of dunghillIn Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
Animal manure is typically kept on site, which plays a significant role in air quality, according to the study.
And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
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Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
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Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
10 Sep. 2025
According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.
Like similar toilets, the bowl area is lined with a bag-like film that catches excrement and urine.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Oct. 2025
Evidence of damage includes chewed, cut or missing leaves; yellowing or brown leaves; white webbing and green-black excrement on or around the plant, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
At others middens, livestock was reared locally, according to the study.
Only one of us has other people pick up his poop in a bag.
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Bruce Headlam,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
The inspector counted about 53 pieces of rodent poop, including 20 in the kitchen under a storage rack and 15 in a storage area under the ice bin and storage shelves and another 15 under a flip-top cooler.
When work is happening, enough sediment is stirred up that water can run discolored for about 24 hours after the process has been completed until the muck all settles out.
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Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
6 Oct. 2025
McMillan looks like a future star Lost in the muck of the overall offensive performance against the Cardinals was McMillan.
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DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Sep. 2025
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