There are known to be 27 species of earthworm in the United Kingdom, and 182 in North America. Of all of the earthworms known in North America, over 30 percent of them are introduced. This means they are not native species, and have found their way into the continent, usually by the ...
WE admired some of the native plants and wildflowers, including the Utah Agave with its tall colorful frond and the bush-like shrub, the Rubber Rabbitbrush. After our GC experience we headed to Flagstaff for the night at one of the nicest Comfort Inn hotels we have seen. Miles today: 150...
The black maple is a tall deciduous tree native to North America and common in the midwestern United States. This maple species has green leaves with three or five lobes, deeply grooved bark, and clusters of yellowish-green flowers. The black maple thrives in USDA zones 5 to 7 and grows 7...
The very last year, before my parents relocated to Texas, we were informed by a Native American lady who lived nearby that the puffballs that we kids had been playing with for years were edible. We would pick the white globe-like mushrooms and would throw the puffballs onto the ground with...
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‘Banana Cream’), near-black, such as ‘Indigo Rose’, and every colour in between. The last, which looks like a shiny black billiard ball, was the product of a breeding programme at Oregon State University aiming to develop tomatoes with high amounts of purple anthocyanins — a natural ...
In The Home Front, the Oregon-born photographer Kenneth Graves explores the transitional America of the 1960s and 70s. His images exemplify photography's potential as a 'tool to document everyday surrealism, the improbable episodes and happy accidents which unfold before the camera'. T...
A pile of skulls at the Majdanek extermination camp. Most of these would have found their way into the ovens, but this unlucky batch likely occurred right before the liberation when there as no time. Another surprising but very common scene from World War 2 was soldiers posing with the bodi...
Pines are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. In Eurasia, they range from the Canary Islands, Iberian Peninsula and Scotland east to the Russian Far East, and in the Philippines, north to just over 70 degrees North in Norway, Finland and Sweden (Scots Pine) and eastern Siberia (...
The city of Portland, Oregon, cemented its status as a foodie capital with 13 restaurants on the... Opening a Restaurant Is Hell. So Here I Go Again. November 1, 2016 Opening a Restaurant Is Hell. So Here I Go Again. By KEITH McNALLYOCT. 31, 2016 Continue reading the main story It...