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5 days ago · Researchers are exploring whether intercropping—a technique of growing different types of plants in close proximity to one another—could be the secret to agriculture on the Red Planet
4 days ago · Warwick Bray takes us through the Aztecs’ maize farming year:-. Pic 3: An Aztec farmer plants maize/corn; Florentine Codex, Book IV (Click on image to enlarge) Planting took place from March to early May, late enough to avoid the winter frosts but in time to catch the rains which normally began in May and reached a climax in July and August.
2 days ago · The acorns did not survive in the flooded soils, but survival rates improved gradually – 43% at high saturation, 77% at medium saturation, and 83% at low saturation – as the water level dropped.
5 days ago · For the first time, 30% of electricity produced worldwide was from clean energy sources as the number of solar and wind farms continued to grow fast. Of the types of clean energy generated last ...
1 day ago · After the Famine: 1869. Having fled famine conditions in Ireland in large numbers, the Irish helped make New York an immigrant-majority city and a metropolis. Joseph and Bridget Moore came to the rapidly growing, culturally diverse tenement neighborhoods in the years after the Civil War. In 1869, they left a more Irish neighborhood for 97 ...
2 days ago · e. Paul Joseph Goebbels ( German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler 's closest and most ...
5 days ago · This Year of St. Joseph happens to be the perfect time to also consider the pious belief that, like Our Lady, St. Joseph was taken up bodily into heaven — the assumption of St. Joseph. Some great saints, Doctors of the Church and other eminent churchmen have spoken of it and taught about it.
