|a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of
certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an
effective remedy for poison.| |a printed punctuation mark (‽),
available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the
question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a
mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical
question.| city, west-central Iran, at the northeastern foot of
Mount Alvand (11,716 feet [3,571 metres]), in Hamadan ostan
(province). Itself at an elevation of 6,158 feet (1,877 metres),
the city dominates the wide, fertile plain of the upper Qareh Su
River. There is a sizable Turkish-speaking minority. Learn more
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