… I
took this attitude--to wit,
I
only BELIEVED Bacon wrote Shakespeare, whereas I KNEW Shakespeare
didn't.
[Mark
Twain]
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Their
meals are purposely made
scanty,
in order that they may exercise their ingenuity and daring in
obtaining
additions to them. This is the main object of their short
commons,
but an incidental advantage is the growth of their bodies, for
they
shoot up in height when not weighed down and made wide and broad by
excess
of nutriment. This also is thought to produce beauty of figure;
for
lean and slender frames develop vigour in the limbs, whereas those
which
are bloated and over-fed cannot attain this, from their weight.
This
we see in the case of women who take purgatives during pregnancy,
whose
children are thin, but well-shaped and slender, because from their
slight
build they receive more distinctly the impress of their mother's
form.
However, it may be that the cause of this phenomenon is yet to be
discovered.
[Plutarch]
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Mr.
Darwin conceives that the amount of vegetation supported
at
any one time by Great Britain may exceed, in a ten-fold ratio, the
quantity
existing on an equal area in the interior parts of Southern
Africa.[147]
It is remarked, moreover, in illustration of the small
connection
discoverable between abundance of food and the magnitude of
indigenous
mammalia, that while in the desert part of Southern Africa
there
are so many huge animals; in Brazil, where the splendor and
exuberance
of the vegetation are unrivalled, there is not a single wild
quadruped
of large size.
[Charles
Lyell, PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY]
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SCOTCH
BROOM | Cytisus scoparius (L.) Lk.
… evergreen,
bushy … 3-7 feet tall; occasionally to 12 feet … escaped from
cultivation, obviously … ‘It favors dry, sandy soils in full
sunlight, and has been used successfully in strip-mine reclamation in
Ohio, where it was considered one of the most successful and valuable
plants for wildlife’. … can grow on acid or alkaline soils …
poisonous to livestock … first cultivated on these shores in 18 and
30 … the flowers are into the whole bisexual thing … to propagate
by seed, soak in hot water, then scarify the cotyledon end after its
3-hour soak … ‘For germination, diurnally alternating
temperatures of 68° (night) and 86° (day) for 28 days have been
recommended’. … can also be propagated by cuttings …
[SEEDS
OF WOODY PLANTS IN THE UNITED STATES]
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WANDERING
JEW | Tradescantia
‘This
genus has provided a number of great candidates for container culture
… for outdoor use, though, one stands out from the crowd’ – T.
pallida ‘Purpurea’ … find a plant … do not even think
about setting them outside until nighttime temps remain above 50°…
pinch regularly … high winds make them scream in agony … snip off
stems after they bloom as they become ‘unattractive’ to unnamed
persons … T. fluminensis (syn. T. albiflora) is the
standard-issue wandering Jew; its tendency is to be prostrate – in
a container it will ‘pour over the pot edge, making no pretense of
wanting to grow in any direction but down’ … should have some
afternoon relief from Sol … also: T. zebrina – purplish
foliage with silver bands …
[ANNUALS
FOR EVERY PURPOSE]
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The
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW is one of the sweetest singers among the
sparrow tribes. The brief song that it gives occasionally during the
migration is not its best music, which for its full effect should be
heard on its northern breeding-grounds at evening, when, as Mr. C. J.
Maynard says, ‘the ledges of the mountain tops are gleaming in the
brilliant moonlight and the silvery beams are finding their way
through the openings in the shadowy forest, illuminating the little
glades which form the home of the Sparrows … Then, when all else is
silent save the occasional melancholy notes of the Whip-poor-will or
the distant hoot of some Owl, the effect produced by this
incomparable song is surpassingly beautiful’. …
Normally
this sparrow breeds in the glades of coniferous forests, preferring
northern firs and spruces, but on the hills from which most of the
spruce has been cut it often remains to breed in waste left by the
lumbermen.
[Edward
Howe Forbush]
==========
And
now a last word on Insects.
My
township (Newcastle) is said to have formerly grown more Apples per
annum than any other township in the United States; its apple-trees
are still as numerous as ever, but their product has fallen off
deplorably. I estimate the average yield of the last three years at
less than a bushel per annum for each full-grown tree …
I
lay down the general proposition that no man who harbors caterpillars
has any moral right to Apples – that each grower should be required
to make his choice between them. Slovenly farmers say, 'O there are
so many of them that I cannot kill half so fast as they multiply'.
Then I say, cut down and burn up the trees you can best spare, until
you have no more left than you can keep clear of worms.
If
it were the law of the land that whoever allowed caterpillars to nest
and breed in his fruit-trees should pay a heavy fine for each nest,
we should soon be comparatively clear of the scourges.
[Horace
Greeley, WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING]
__________
»Killing
Bigfoot
"This
issue brings up a longstanding debate within the Bigfoot community:
Would be ethical to shoot and kill a Bigfoot?" …
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Alec
Baldwin drops sugar
the
paparazzi might likes da profile shot.
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MARY
TYLER MOORE BRAVE LAST DAYS
TV
legend MARY TYLER MOORE is bravely facing the end, friends fear.
Ravaged
by a decades-long battle with diabetes, the beloved 75-year-old star
is going blind, has difficulty walking and suffers from
life-threatening heart and kidney problems, sources say.
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Idiot
Man-Child Destroys The Set Of Jeopardy
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Michelle
Obama Turns On Lights In Middle Of Night To Discover Bedroom Full Of
Silent Obese Children Staring At Her
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RICHMOND,
IN—Self-proclaimed strict constitutionalist and freethinker Rick
Crawford told reporters Monday he is supporting Ron Paul in the 2012
Republican presidential primaries because of the way the candidate
looks people directly in the eye, doesn't mince words, and tells it
like it will never, ever be in a million years. "Ron cuts right
through the fat and doesn't sugarcoat anything when he talks about
policies that would be absolutely impossible to implement, like
abolishing the federal income tax, eliminating Medicare, or putting
the nation's currency back on the gold standard," Crawford said
as he pounded a hand-painted "Ron Paul 2012" sign in his
front lawn. "He's not afraid to give Americans no-nonsense
straight talk about his completely delusional fantasy world. That's
why I'm part of the highly unlikely Ron Paul revolution."
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Aretha
Franklin Calls Off Her Engagement
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Nasa
launches vital new mission to recover its stolen moon rocks
Internal
report says 517 rocks and 'astromaterial' samples have been stolen or
are missing
The
American space agency, Nasa, is not as busy as it once was sending
astronauts into orbit aboard its recently retired shuttle fleet,
which means it has time to attend to other urgent business, like
trying to track down countless samples of moon rock it has handed out
over the years that have gone missing.
A
new internal report depicts an agency that has generously distributed
extra-terrestrial flotsam, including moon rock, to government leaders
and scientific institutions promising to use them for research. But
it has also been peculiarly lax about monitoring the whereabouts of
the moon rock and ensuring the bits on loan were returned.
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Spelling
on Chuck Grassley’s Twitter Finally Improves After Being Hacked
WOAH
HEY, how did an intelligible phrase sneak into the stream of
notoriously incomprehensible re-imaginings of the English language
that we are usually treated to on Senator Chuck Grassley’s Twitter
feed? Did science up and find a cure for “teabagger?” Kind of!
It’s known in this case as “hacking.”
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