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Orono

[ awr-uh-noh, ohr- ]

noun

  1. a town in S Maine.


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She’s a glacial geologist at the University of Maine in Orono.

“If the ice has been smaller in the past, and did readvance, that shows that we’re not necessarily in runaway retreat” right now, says glacial geologist Brenda Hall of the University of Maine in Orono.

Abrupt spikes in charcoal levels in sediments offer “telltale signs of human arrival” from 1,070 to 620 years ago on New Island, says Kit Hamley, a paleoecologist and archaeologist at the University of Maine in Orono.

It was on these occasions that some of the inferior chiefs frequently requested to be permitted to make an offering to the Orono.

Located originally about a mile below Orono, was not platted as a village until 1865.

Hence Captain Cook was received with honor approaching to adoration, as they imagined him to be their 'Orono.'

“Frank Orono,” said one, patting his hand on his beaded breast.

Orono was surveyed and platted May, 1855; Ard Godfrey, proprietor.

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