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5 hours ago · The scientific names for all these plants weren’t up to the seed companies or plant nurseries to decide. That responsibility fell to the International Botanical Congress which first met in 1864.
14 hours ago · 1804: Friedrich Sertürner discovers morphine as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant. 1804: Joseph Marie Jacquard develops his automated Jacquard loom. 1804: Richard Trevithick invents the steam locomotive. 1804: Hanaoka Seishū creates tsūsensan, the first modern general anesthetic.
14 hours ago · Tuvalu (/ t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː / ⓘ too-VAH-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.
14 hours ago · Designed to be the successor to Chicago's Midway International Airport, itself once nicknamed the "busiest square mile in the world," O'Hare began as an airfield serving a Douglas manufacturing plant for C-54 military transports during World War II. It was renamed Orchard Field Airport in the mid-1940s and assigned the IATA code ORD.
14 hours ago · The plant has been occupied by Russian troops since early in the conflict. Mr Shoigu claimed that foreign advisers are helping Ukraine to prepare acts of sabotage on Russian territory, but did not ...
14 hours ago · Even domesticated cats can consume freshly killed meat from rodents, rabbits, amphibians, birds, reptiles and fish, whether through hunting or by having it provided by humans, but cats are also opportunistic feeders and will readily take cooked food as well as dried cat food when offered, if that food is palatable.
14 hours ago · The first utility-scale solar power plant was built in 1982 in Hesperia, California by ARCO. The plant was not profitable and was sold eight years later. [53] However, over the following decades, PV technology significantly improved its electricity generating efficiency , reduced the installation cost per watt as well as its energy payback time ...
