Finally there is opium, which was originally grown to deaden the pain of that rheumatism which was inevitable in a country where the greater part of the population spent so much of its time slushing knee-deep through mud, cultivating its meagre daily portion of rice....
They were first grown in tropical (热带的) India and Southeast Asia over 4,000 years ago, and then brought to North Africa and the Middle East. What is a banana plant like? Although bananas grow like trees they are actually plants. They are made up of stalks (茎) that are covered wi...
Arriving in 1805,he wrote a letter complaining that it was a place of “mess and drunkenness”.However,it seems as though Byron did manage to pass the time pleasantly enough. I'm not just talking about the pet bear he kept in his rooms.He spent a great deal of time walking in the ...
题目Some of the world's most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from agriculture. Food unrest and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in production of some of the ...
“In the spring of 1874,” wrote Mrs. Everett Rorabaugh, “the farmers began their farming with high hopes, some breaking the sod for sod corn, others…sowing spring wheat, corn, and cane, and with plenty of rain everyone… [was] talking about the bumper crop they were going to have...
During the 1920s, Leslie Cheek and his wife, Mabel Wood, invested in the new coffee brand and made the Cheek family a fortune. The house, decked out for Christmas, was once used by the Cheeks for their history-themed parties celebrating bygone eras: a Victorian Stable party in 1933 where...
As I look at it, I think back to when I first constructed an altar in my old house–when my husband left suddenly and I was all alone. At the time I was afraid, in despair, sad about what had already happened and scared about what might come. My altar truly became a sanctuary in...
People living in Garo hills were among the first to grow rice. Rice was also grown towards the north of the Vindhyas. Indus and its tributaries The earliest cities developed near the banks of Indus and its tributaries; around 4700 years ago. Ganga and Son It was about 2500 years ago when...
Clearly, there has been some demand destruction, and perhaps this was enough to cause the price of gasoline to come back down a little. But maybe it wasn’t. Maybe this demand destruction wasn’t the cause of the decline in gasoline prices. Maybe they fell ...
Where Did You Grow Up? Where did you grow up? I spent most of my childhood in the Michigan suburbs, where my siblings and I rode bikes down dirt roads, my first job was at the neighborhood pizza place, and we’d ring in the fall with donuts at the cider mill....