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Sonata Arctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1147 words) |
 | Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. |
 | In the beginning of 2000, Sonata Arctica was chosen as the band to support the veterans from Stratovarius throughout their European tour. |
 | A promotional tour was to follow, but Sonata Arctica was invited by the popular Nightwish to join their European tour, and thus made a change of plans. |
| Salicaceae of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago - Salix arctica Pall. (1664 words) |
 | arctica (circumpolar from Iceland and the Faeroe Islands across northern Russia, Alaska and Canada to Greenland, south to the Hudson Bay shores of Ontario and the Gaspé Peninsula.), (2) subsp. |
 | In northern Greenland Salix arctica is one of the primary foods for muskox, arctic hare, and collared lemming (Klein and Bay 1991). |
 | arctica characteristics include prostrate habit, pruinose [glaucous] stems and buds, sparse branchlet-pubescence, dark-colored bracts with long, straight trichomes, leaves with long straight trichomes on the lower [abaxial] surface projecting in a beard at the apex, capsules reddish with long stigmas, and dark colored anthers. Specimens identified as hybrids combine these characters in various ways. |