Using native shrubs for landscaping in Tennessee makes plenty of sense. It gives the local wildlife familiar food and shelter sources, decreases the risk of nonnative species escaping into the surrounding countryside and provides you with a low-maintenance landscape, according to the Southeast Exotic ...
The glottal stop, an interruption of breath produced by closing the vocal cords (such as the sound in the middle of English oh-oh!), is a common consonant. Glottalized consonants are fairly common in western North America, produced not by air from the lungs as are all English speech ...
Traditional Chickasaw clothingHand-beaded cap, which belonged to Chickasaw Chief George Colbert, exhibited in the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Probably the earliest contact between Europeans and the Chickasaw wasHernando de Soto’s expedition in 1540–41. In the 18th century...
V. vinifera grapes can be grown with variable success in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. However, production of this species, and many bunch grape hybrids derived from V. vinifera and other nonresistant species, cannot be sustained due to ...
The Southeast region stretches from east Texas, north to Tennessee, then to the inland areas of North Carolina and Virginia. This region's climate is warmer and more temperate than that of the Northeast. The region includes a variety of geographic features, including coastal areas and the uneven...
Dr. Haskell has used the metaphor of the mandala, a spatially small construct which is representative of the Whole, the universe, as the philosophical underpinning of this gem of a read. Creating his own “mandala” by selecting a site from a square meter of old growth Tennessee forest with...
Vitis riparia, a critically important Native American grapevine species, is used globally in rootstock and scion breeding and contributed to the recovery of the French wine industry during the mid-19th century phylloxera epidemic. This species has abioti
In Palenque, Mexico (a prominent Mayan city in the Classical period), the ruler Lord Pakal commissioned a grouping of large structures that stand on high ground in the middle of the town. One of those buildings, the Temple of the Inscriptions, is a nine-level pyramid that is 75 feet high...
The glottal stop, an interruption of breath produced by closing the vocal cords (such as the sound in the middle of English oh-oh!), is a common consonant. Glottalized consonants are fairly common in western North America, produced not by air from the lungs as are all English speech ...