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moray
Any of about 80 species (family Muraenidae) of shallow-water eels inhabiting all tropical and subtropical seas, where they live among reefs and rocks, hiding in crevices. Their skin is thick, smooth, scaleless, and usually vividly marked or colored. Most species lack pectoral fins. Morays have a wide mouth and strong, sharp teeth for seizing and holding prey (chiefly other fishes). They attack humans only when disturbed. Most species are less than 5 ft (1.5 m) long, but Thyrsoidea macrurus, of the Pacific, may grow to more than 11 ft (3.5 m). Morays are sometimes eaten, but their flesh may be toxic and can cause illness or death.


Moros
Several Muslim peoples living in the S Philippines. The Moros, who constitute about 5% of the Philippine population, are not racially different from other Filipinos but, with a separate Islamic faith and local cultures, they have been the object of prejudice and neglect. They have a centuries-long history of conflict with ruling powers; first with Roman Catholic Spanish colonialists (16th-19th cent.), then with U.S. occupation troops, and finally with the independent Philippine government. The Moro National Liberation Front, which espoused Moro separatism and led a violent insurgency in the late 1960s and 1970s, split into factions at the end of the 1970s, but the insurgency continued. Provisions for the expansion of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, established in the late 1980s, were included in a 1996 treaty, but some separatists continue to hold out for complete independence.


borage
Large hairy annual herb (Borago officinalis), an ornamental species with large, rough, oblong leaves and loose, drooping clusters of starlike blue flowers. It is a member of the family Boraginaceae, which contains mostly herbs but also some trees and shrubs, all found in tropical, subtropical, and temperate areas and most concentrated in the Mediterranean region. Several other ornamental species are grown in gardens, incl. the Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica), forget-me-nots, heliotropes, and lungworts (Pulmonaria). Borage is also used as an herbal and bee plant and eaten as a vegetable.


-->Boris I

Khan of Bulgaria (852-89). He resolved to use Christianity to unite his ethnically divided country, and an unsuccessful war with the Byzantines led to his baptism in the Orthodox faith (864). Boris's attempt to enforce mass baptism set off a pagan rebellion, which he quelled, and he helped establish the Bulgarian church. He sponsored missionaries to foster Slavic learning and the use of the Old Church Slavic language. He abdicated in 889 to become a monk but returned to drive his reactionary son Vladimir from the throne. After installing another son, Simeon I, as khan, Boris went back to his monastery. He was later made an Orthodox saint.


coral
Any of about 2,300 species of marine cnidarians in the class Anthozoa that are characterized by ...

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