Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds. Moving about 7o miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
Calico (in British usage, 1505, AmE muslin) is a plain-woven textile made from unbleached and often not fully processed cotton. It may contain unseparated husk parts, for example. The fabric is less coarse and thick than canvas or denim, but it is still very cheap owing to its unfinished and undyed appearance.alico originated in Kozhikode (also known as Calicut, from which the name of the textile came) in southwestern India during the 11th century. The cloth was known as cÄliyan to the natives.
Tiny Mosquito. Calamine Lotion to Treat Mosquito Bites. Calamine lotion has long been used as a simple, inexpensive, and effective remedy for a variety of different skin conditions and irritations including poison ivy, poison sumac, and poison oak as well as rashes, sunburn and insect bites such as those from mosquitoes.