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Prairial was the ninth month in the French Republican Calendar. This month was named after the French word prairie, which means meadow, and started on May 20 or May 21 of the Gregorian calendar. Jump to: navigation, search The month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as some natural period related to the motion of the Moon (i. ... The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about twelve years from late 1793. ... Jump to: navigation, search 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nowadays nearly everywhere in the world. ...

Months in the French Republican Calendar
Vendémiaire | Brumaire | Frimaire | Nivôse | Pluviôse | Ventôse | Germinal | Floréal | Prairial | Messidor | Thermidor | Fructidor

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Prairie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (400 words)
Prairie refers to an area of land in North America of low topographic relief that principally supports grasses and herbs, with few trees, and is generally of a mesic (moderate or temperate) climate.
In Canada, the terms Prairie provinces and the Prairies refer to the western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, where prairie grasslands and shrubs are abound.
Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
North American Prairie (681 words)
The prairies are a type of grassland dominated by herbaceous plants and grasses.
The climate of the prairies is influenced by its mid-continental location, and the sheltering effect of the Rocky Mountains.
The soil under a prairie is a dense mat of tangled roots, rhizomes, bulbs, and rootstock.
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