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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2018 20:17:11 GMT
It's fun!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 12:44:59 GMT
Last evening a young woman interested in gardening told me that she uses cinnamon as a rooting accelerant.
I had never, ever, heard this before.
I was a bit dubious that perhaps she was confused about this but lo and behold I looked it up and indeed she was correct.
I knew about "willow water" and the powdered commercial brand Rootone but never cinnamon.
Anyone else familiar with this info?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 30, 2018 12:54:58 GMT
No,not at all Casi. Isn't it also a natural pesticide?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 14:57:00 GMT
No,not at all Casi. Isn't it also a natural pesticide? Yes! It is useful as both a insecticide and fungicide and is also used to treat wounds on plants. Fascinating!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 30, 2018 18:19:05 GMT
I am beyond thrilled with this information! I can get cinnamon here cheaply and in bulk, so always have some on hand, but never knew of the wonderful ways it could be used on plants.
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2018 0:38:44 GMT
I wonder if it was used on a plant with a faint aroma, the cinnamon would give the plant a new perfume?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2018 3:27:52 GMT
It's a nice idea, but I wouldn't think so.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 13:49:37 GMT
The murder rate in London has exceeded that of New York City for the first time in modern history. It was a shock of sorts when I read this.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 5, 2018 17:09:43 GMT
But in London they use knives. Knives don't kill people. People kill people.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 17:17:19 GMT
I'm confused by your post Kerouac.
Murder is murder no matter the method.
And yes, I am aware that the murders in London are stabbings.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 5, 2018 17:20:21 GMT
Mostly in the same areas and probably drug and/or gang related.
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2018 17:43:09 GMT
I'm confused by your post Kerouac. Murder is murder no matter the method. And yes, I am aware that the murders in London are stabbings. I think Kerouac is referring to the NRA's claim that "guns don't kill people, people kill people".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 17:47:20 GMT
AHHHH...now I understand.
Thanks BJD.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2018 19:11:27 GMT
5 million died in the Napoleonic wars.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2018 19:14:48 GMT
And to think they weren't even as efficient at killing back then. Is there any stupidity bigger and more tragic than war?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2018 19:16:07 GMT
On a lighter note, I was told the other day that ones eyes don't change, i.e., vision doesn't get any worse past a certain age.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2018 19:37:34 GMT
How many died in the American Civil War?
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Post by questa on Apr 6, 2018 23:29:31 GMT
"Civilization doth get forrard, when mounted on tha' powder cart"
I have forgotten who the old soldier was who wrote this. He is observing how wars and war-time produce rapid advances in the development of civilization in many ways.
The Great War brought a new social class system, new materiel for war, new anesthetics which allowed doctors to use better surgical techniques. Methods of preserving and transporting rations to the Front changed how food was used post war.
WW2 accelerated development in all fields, plastic surgery, antibiotics and speed in getting treatment. Women took on most of the jobs that men did, which led to greater freedom of choice. Aircraft were the key players in this war in many different ways. Then, almost suddenly the world went nuclear.
Civilization's powder cart has got a wheel caught in a rut. The huge strides that are being made in technology, health and social systems should be free from the powder cart now.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 7, 2018 4:47:02 GMT
How many died in the American Civil War? 620,000 “Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts. It was only as recently as the Vietnam War that the amount of American deaths in foreign wars eclipsed the number who died in the Civil War.”
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 7, 2018 9:31:13 GMT
Thanks Kimby. Actually I thought it was more.
That questa is a walking encyclopaedia! Thank you questa as well.
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Post by questa on Apr 7, 2018 12:59:46 GMT
I have a sort of brain that stores trivia but forgets stuff I am supposed to remember!
[back in the days when people walked to market or church, there were intersections where a lesser road met a larger one. Often there was a tree planted for shade and maybe a seat to rest on while you chatted with another person taking a break. Not the place for serious conversation, just Tri-via...the name meaning three roads meeting. As for the chatter, nothing serious...all rather 'trivial']
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2018 13:10:25 GMT
100,755 offical requests for asylum in France last year (+17.5%).
The top four countries are
Albania (12,131) Afghanistan (6,671) Syria (5,824) Haiti (5,744)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2018 13:18:09 GMT
That is interesting. Why so many Albanians? I found the number of Haitians surprising, too, although it makes perfect sense that people with the means to relocate from Haiti would choose France.
The thing I learned last night was "romance time", a phrase I'd never encountered before. I came across it on Expedia. The time offset from UTC can be written as +01:00. The same standard time, UTC+01:00, is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: MEZ) and under other names like Berlin Time, Romance Standard Time (RST), Paris Time or Rome Time. (Wikipedia)
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Post by whatagain on Apr 15, 2018 13:04:35 GMT
Albania is close by so easy to access and economically backwards following a very communistic regime until recently and I am not so sure it is much of a democracy right now.
I also learned today (again) that cats and electricity don't go well along. One cable is half eaten by small teeth. And my fuse blew when a cat pissed into a plug.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2018 18:15:11 GMT
In the UK some 50 farmers a year commit suicide.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 29, 2018 19:01:14 GMT
So few? I looked up the French figures and there were 732 in 2016. It's the second cause of death after cancer. Cattle farmers and dairy farmers are the most likely to kill themselves.
Naturally, not all of these suicides are related to their profession, but a lot of them are.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2018 20:10:09 GMT
That is desperately sad.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2018 21:38:02 GMT
I'll never enjoy produce again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2018 3:31:34 GMT
The Dutch word for "wooden shoe" is ~ klomp. Isn't that wonderful?
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Post by onlyMark on May 3, 2018 13:15:49 GMT
Homer's Iliad was written in dactylic hexameter. "A hexameter consisting of five dactyls and either a spondee or trochee, in which any of the first four dactyls, and sometimes the fifth, may be replaced by a spondee."
I thought so.
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