A carbuncle is a cluster of boils caused by bacterial infection, most commonly with Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. The presence of a...
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Carbuncle (/ˈkɑːrbʌŋkəl/) is another name for a deep red almandine gemstone that has been cut with a smooth, convex face in a method called cabochon....
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"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is one of 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the seventh story of twelve in the...
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Carbuncle (Spanish: Carbunclo, Carbunco or Carbúnculo) is a legendary species of small animal in South American folklore, specifically in the mining folklore...
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Look up carbuncle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A carbuncle is an abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto...
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The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture prize, given annually, originally by the magazine Building Design, and since 2024 by The Fence, to "the ugliest building...
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A carbuncle or escarbuncle is a heraldic charge consisting of eight radiating rods or spokes, four of which make a common cross and the other four a saltire...
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The Carbuncle is a small island, part of the North Coast Group of islands, lying in southern Bass Strait near Port Sorell in north-west Tasmania, with...
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The Carbuncle Awards were architecture prizes, presented by the Scottish magazine Urban Realm (formerly Prospect) to buildings and areas in Scotland intermittently...
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20 Fenchurch Street (section Carbuncle Award)
building was granted full planning permission. In 2015 it was awarded the Carbuncle Cup for the worst new building in the UK in the previous 12 months. In...
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"The Great Carbuncle" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in December 1835 before being included in the collection Twice-Told Tales...
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Pyrope (redirect from Bohemian carbuncle)
Arizona ruby, California ruby, Rocky Mountain ruby, Elie Ruby, Bohemian carbuncle, and Cape ruby. The composition of pure pyrope is Mg3Al2(SiO4)3, although...
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2020-05-09. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Carbuncle", in Twice-Told Tales, 1837: Hide it [the great carbuncle] under thy cloak, say'st thou? Why, it will...
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extends beyond the swelling. Carbuncles and boils are types of abscess that often involve hair follicles, with carbuncles being larger. A cyst is related...
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basically pus-filled nodules. Individual boils clustered together are called carbuncles. Most human infections are caused by coagulase-positive S. aureus strains...
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by: Aoi Inase (Japanese); Lynsey Hale (English) Will's pet familiar, a carbuncle capable of casting reflective magic. Elfaria Albis Serfort (エルファリア・アルヴィス・セルフォルト...
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African) – Trickster spider Arachne (Greek) – Weaver cursed into a spider Carbuncle (Chilote) – one of its many descriptions is a greenish-red fiery light...
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Gemstones in the Bible (section Carbuncle)
relates that the most perfect carbuncles were brought from Carthage, Marseilles, Egypt, and the neighbourhood of Siena. Carbuncles were named differently according...
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aged 49. Officially, it is said that Selim succumbed to a mistreated carbuncle. Some historians, however, suggest that he died of cancer or that his...
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Fire Station, designed by Calderpeel Architects, was shortlisted for the Carbuncle Cup award for ugly buildings. Nonetheless, the project has also received...
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Urban Realm (section Carbuncle Awards)
Urban Realm. Retrieved 10 April 2024. "Carbuncle Awards: 2010 Nominations". Retrieved 3 September 2010. "Carbuncle 'crown' for Coatbridge". BBC. 26 November...
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impetigo contagiosa, ecthyma, folliculitis, Bockhart's impetigo, furuncle, carbuncle, tropical ulcer, etc. Autoimmune conditions include pyoderma gangrenosum...
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dangerous streptococcus was present.: 345 : 247 Pyoderma Serous fluid Boil Carbuncle Phlegmon Empyema "Pus". dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2008-08-18...
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Pravec; P. Pravec (4790) Donald P. Pray 3 1949–pres. D. P. Pray; at Carbuncle Hill Obs.Src and Sugarloaf Obs. Src, (bio-it) D. P. Pray (35364) Christopher...
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1967, 1970) and in 1968, with Peter Cushing in the episode "The Blue Carbuncle", the BBC's Sherlock Holmes. In 1968, he was offered the role of Private...
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was nominated and made the Building Design short-list for that year's Carbuncle Cup, which was ultimately awarded to Woolwich Central with St George Wharf...
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as The Fool to Michael Hordern's King Lear, as Henry Baker in The Blue Carbuncle episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1984 and Brezhnev in Tom...
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Building Design (section Carbuncle Cup)
12 September 2010. "Winner of 2018 Carbuncle Cup announced". bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 5 September 2018. "Carbuncle Cup 2017 winner announced". bdonline...
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Rafael Viñoly (section Carbuncle Cup)
gallery in Colchester, Essex. 20 Fenchurch Street in London won the 2015 Carbuncle Cup for its ugliness. Two of the skyscrapers designed by Viñoly, the Vdara...
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Charles III (redirect from Monstrous carbuncle)
proposed extension to the National Gallery in London as a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend" and deplored the "glass stumps and...
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