The interest among Americanists in the origin of corn has been stimulated by an early theory, long since disproved, that corn is the domesticated form of teosinte. This theory has had more influence than it deserves due to the failure of the anthropologists to understand the botanical ...
Then he ran into the field from the east side, and the black corn lay behind him; from the south side, and the blue corn appeared; from the west, and the yellow corn was made; from the north, and the seeds of every kind of cereal and vegetable lay upon the ground. The Turkey tol...
The length of a protein sequence is largely determined by its function. In certain species, it may be also affected by additional factors, such as growth temperature or acidity. In 2002, it was shown that in the bacterium Escherichia coli and in the arch
the Hampshire estate of Mr. Neil Gibson. He did not accompany us himself, but we had the address ofSergeant102Coventry, of the local police, who had first examined into the affair. He was a tall, thin, cadaverous man, with a secretive and mysterious manner...
Isaiah Rashad may not have even found his lane yet, which might be the most exciting thing about him. It feels like he’s been around forever at the fringes of Top Dawg Entertainment, not quite mysterious enough to be a Jay Electronica level enigma but absent enough to tease your imaginati...
They were a mountain people, a mysterious tribe of hunters whose language has never been positively classifies in any major group. In the late seventeenth century they began a long migration to the south and east. It was a journey toward the dawn and it led to a golden age. Along the ...
" L'uomo nero is not supposed to eat or harm children, just take them away to a mysterious and frightening place. A popular lullaby says that he would keep a child with him "for a whole year". In Slovenia, the "Bavbav" is described as a formless spirit. In Greece, the equivalent...
To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction—every kind of evidence...
Iconic Arable Weeds: The Significance of Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), and Field Larkspur (Delphinium consolida) in Hungarian Ethnobotanical and Cultural Heritage by Gyula Pinke 1,*, Viktória Kapcsándi 1 and Bálint Czúcz 2 1 Albert Kázmér Faculty of Mosomagya...
The advantages of cellulose films are the abundant natural origin of cellulose and its complete biodegradability. However, the ability of chemical modification to mitigate the hydrophilic nature of cellulose and to ensure that the mechanical and barrier performance of cellulose-based materials is ...