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STARNBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STARNBERG  , a

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village and
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climatic
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health resort of Germany, in the
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kingdom of Bavaria, on the Starnberger See, 16 m. by
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rail S. from Munich . Pop . (19o5), 3257 . It has an evangelical and a
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Roman Catholic church, an old castle (now government offices) and a bathing establishment . The Starnberger See (or Wurmsee) is a lake with a length of 12 m., a breadth of 3 m., and covering 23 sq. m . Its greatest
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depth is about 400 ft . The lake is girdled by hills, studded with attractive
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villa residences, commanding beautiful and extensive views of the
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Alps . On the Roseninsel, an island in the lake, remains of lacustrine dwellings have been discovered . The waters abound in fish . In the summer steamboats ply, touching at all the villages lying on the shores . See Ule, Der Wiirmsee in Oberbayern (
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Leipzig, 190,) .
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STAR-NOSED MOLE (Condylura cristata), a North
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American
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species, the single representative of its genus .

In burrowing habits it resembles the

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European mole, but is distinguished from all other members of the
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family Talpidae by the presence of a ring of tentacles round the nostrils, probably serving as
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organs of touch .

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