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Allocasuarina portuensis: Nielsen Park She-Oak
Allocasuarina portuensis in * Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia * – April 2011 Allocasuarina portuensis Common Names: The Nielsen Park She-Oak Taxonomy: Kingdom: Plantae; Angiosperms; Eudicots; Rosids; Fagales; Casuarinaceae; Allocasuarina portuensis. Location/Environment: Originally found at Nielsen Park in Sydney, Australia … Continue reading
6,500 year old popcorn and 5 other foods with ancient origins – Yahoo! News
6,500 year old popcorn and 5 other foods with ancient origins By The Week’s Editorial Staff | The Week – 14 hrs ago Email Print Popcorn, ice cream, and the hamburger share something other than being American favorites — they’re all much older than one would … Continue reading
Mysterious Winged Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered – Yahoo! News
Mysterious ‘Winged’ Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered By Owen Jarus | LiveScience.com – 6 hrs ago Click image for more photos A recently discovered mysterious “winged” structure in England, which in the Roman period may have been used as a temple, presents a puzzle for … Continue reading
UK scientists find lost Darwin fossils – Yahoo! News
UK scientists find ‘lost’ Darwin fossils By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Associated Press – 2 hrs 51 mins ago Email Print RELATED CONTENT This image made available by the Royal Holloway, University of London on Tuesday … This image made available by the Royal Holloway, University of … Continue reading
Yorktown Colonial National Historical Park
Yorktown Colonial National Historical Park * http://www.nps.gov/colo * PO BOX 210, Yorktown, Virginia 23690 * Yorktown Battlefield Another National Park of the Historic Triangle lies a small museum and visitor center where the staff will orientate you on the history … Continue reading
Acacia viscidula: the sticky wattle
Acacia viscidula in * National Botanical Gardens *Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia * – April 2011 Acacia viscidula: Sticky Wattle Common Names: Sticky Wattle Taxonomy: Kingdom: Plantae; Fabaceae, Mimosoideae; Acacia viscidula. Location/Environment: The viscidula is found mainly on the Tablelands … Continue reading
“Zombie” Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees – Yahoo! News
By Katherine Harmon | Scientific American – 22 hrs ago cross-posted via WordPress “Press This” A heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. Instead, the pile ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that … Continue reading
Mint Bush; Prostanthera stricta
Prostanthera stricta in Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia * – April 2011 Prostanthera stricta. : Common Names: Mount Vincent Mint bush. Taxonomy: Kingdom: Plantae; Angiosperms; Eudicots; Asterids; Lamiales; Lamiaceae; Prostanthera stricta. Other Species are: Prostanthera albiflora; Prostanthera albohirta; Prostanthera althoferi; … Continue reading
Ethicist: 18th century ‘giant’ should be buried – Yahoo! News
By JILL LAWLESS | AP – Thu, Dec 22, 2011 [ ~ copied for research purposes via WordPress’ “Press This” application. ~ ] In this undated image provided by the Royal College of Surgeons, the skeleton, left, … LONDON (AP) — … Continue reading
HMB Endeavour In-Depth: The Officer’s Mess and Gentlemen’s Quarters
HMB EndeavourEagle Pier, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia HMB Endeavour – In-Depth: The Officer’s Mess & Gentlemen’s QuartersHMB EndeavourEagle Pier, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Another interesting area of the HMB Endeavour is the Gentlemen’s Quarters and Officer’s Mess which is stylized after which … Continue reading