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There are an increasing number of initiatives that recognize arable weed species as an important component of agricultural biodiversity. Such initiatives often focus on declining species that were once abundant and are still well known, but the ethnograp
SPREAD AND OBSERVANCE OF ARBOR DAY After two decades, Arbor Day was observed in all states except Delaware. By 1883, Morton’s fellow agriculturist Birdsey Northrop introduced Arbor Day in Japan and continued to influence parts of Europe, Australia, and Canada. In the 1970s, during President ...
speech to theHouse of Commonsin 1920—but theHouse of Lordspraised Dyer and gave him a sword inscribed with the motto “Saviour of the Punjab.” In addition, a large fund was raised by Dyer’s sympathizers and presented to him. The Jallianwala Bagh site in Amritsar is now anational ...
Also known as: Great Zimbabwe National Monument, Zimbabwe Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study...
Demilitarized zone (DMZ), region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea. It roughly follows latitude 38° N (the 38th parallel), the original demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea at the end of World War II. L