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July 19, 2015, 07:47:28 PM |
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Shrubland, scrubland, scrub or brush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plantTrientalis latifolia (Broadleaf Starflower) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ground layer of forests in western North America.
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July 19, 2015, 07:50:33 PM |
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Others form the main vegetation of many stable habitats, occurring for example in the ground layer of forests, or in naturally open habitats such as meadow, salt marsh or desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeadowWildflower meadow
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July 20, 2015, 07:42:57 PM |
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Bumblebee mating plugs, in addition to providing a physical barrier to further copulations, contain linoleic acid, which reduces re-mating tendencies of females. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BumblebeeBeatrix Potter called Babbity Bumble a "bumble bee" in The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, 1910.
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July 22, 2015, 01:39:44 AM |
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European bumblebees have been introduced to New Zealand and Tasmania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TasmaniaAlthough Tasmanian devils are nocturnal, they like to rest in the sun. Scarring from fighting is visible next to this devil's left eye.
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July 22, 2015, 01:42:48 AM |
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Tasmania has extremely diverse vegetation, from the heavily grazed grassland of the dry Midlands to the tall evergreen eucalypt forest, alpine heathlands and large areas of cool temperate rainforests and moorlands in the rest of the state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_climateWhite Mountain, an alpine environment at 4,300 metres (14,000 ft) in California
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July 22, 2015, 01:48:35 AM |
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As the altitude increases, the main form of precipitation becomes snow and the winds increase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SnowSnow on trees, Germany.
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July 22, 2015, 01:51:52 AM |
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Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands their images under a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotographyColor photography was possible long before Kodachrome, as this 1903 portrait by Sarah Angelina Acland demonstrates, but in its earliest years the need for special equipment, long exposures and complicated printing processes made it extremely rare.
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July 25, 2015, 04:09:10 AM |
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Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuclidOne of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.
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July 25, 2015, 04:25:56 AM |
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Proclus later retells a story that, when Ptolemy I asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_SoterThe taking of Jerusalem by Ptolemy Soter ca. 320 BC, by Jean Fouquet.
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July 25, 2015, 04:31:21 AM |
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This account is generally accepted by modern scholars, although the earliest datable mention of it is from coins issued by Ptolemy II in 263 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcademiaNalanda, ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India from 427 to 1197
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July 25, 2015, 11:01:08 PM |
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The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OliveOlive tree in Bar, Montenegro that is over 2,000 years old
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July 25, 2015, 11:04:51 PM |
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Rabbits eat the bark of olive trees and can do considerable damage, especially to young trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RabbitOutdoor entrance to a rabbit burrow
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July 27, 2015, 07:13:40 AM |
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The funnels of the RMS Titanic and all other ships of the White Star Line were designated to be "buff with a black top" in order to indicate their ownership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_TitanicCopy after Merry-Joseph Blondel of the neoclassical oil painting La Circassienne au Bain; the most highly valued single item of cargo lost on the Titanic.
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