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Crouch. This is one of Britain's oldest trees, possibly indicating a boundary of Windsor Forest. Its name comes from either its low, crouching form or from a crutch holding up a main branch or from a cross placed on it as a marker. For long known as Wycliffe's Oak - after the medieval scholar reputed to have preached here - it was definitely the scene of a sermon by Spurgeon in 1872. Another tradition is that Queen Elizabeth I picnicked here. It was fenced c1810 by de Visme to prevent village maidens stripping the bark to make a love potion! In 2000 a young oak, known as the Millennium Oak, was planted near it; in 2001 a large branch was pruned by Runnymede Council and the wood given to the Historical Society, who obtained an "Awards for All" grant to do tree-ring analysis and other research into the tree. This has revealed that the central ring of this branch was formed in 1670 and so the main (but hollow) trunk is very much older.

Next Return to Interactive Map. BBC - Earth News - Elephants know how to co-operate. Elephants know how to co-operate Footage of an oversized experiment has revealed that elephants understand when they need help from a partner. In the test, two animals had to work together - each pulling on a rope in order to tug a platform towards them. Elephants' apparent grasp of the need to co-operate shows, scientists say, that they belong in an "elite group" of intelligent, socially complex animals. Researchers from the University of Cambridge built the apparatus, which was originally designed for chimps. The team published their findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers have documented elephants in the wild helping each other Study leader Dr Joshua Plotnik from the University of Cambridge said it was exciting to find a way to study elephant behaviour in such detail. "It's so hard to work with elephants because of their size," he said. "We see them doing amazing things in the wild, but we can see from this that they're definitely co-operating. " Helping trunk. Book Reviews | Becoming Human. Anarchism: Arguments for and against -- by Albert Meltzer. By Albert Meltzer Table of Contents Introduction Inalienable Tenets of Anarchism The Class Struggle Organisation and Anarchism The Role of an Anarchist in an Authoritarian Society Bringing About the New Society The Marxist Criticism of Anarchism The Social-Democratic Critique of Anarchism The Liberal-Democratic Objection to Anarchism The Fascist Objection to Anarchism The Average Person's Objection to Anarchism Introduction The Historical Background to Anarchism It is not without interest that what might be called the anarchist approach goes back into antiquity; nor that there is an anarchism of sorts in the peasant movements that struggled against State oppression over the centuries.

In particular, we may cite three philosophical precursors of Anarchism, Godwin, Proudhon, and perhaps Hegel. Godwin is the father of the Stateless Society movement, which diverged into three lines. The third school of descent from Godwin is simple liberalism, or conservative individualism. The Class Struggle.

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Socially Awkward Seal Chronicles the Collective Awkwardness ... Make a Meme. My TSA Encounter – NO BLASTERS! 日々の生活、姿勢が大事 人間の身体というのは、全ての方が同じ状態になっているわけではありません。 人それぞれに、悩みを抱えていたり、特別な症状を抱えていたりします。 その悩みの中には、特に気にしなくてもよい軽度のものもあれば、適切な手術で治しておかなければならない重度のものもあります。 軽度なのか重度なのか、という判断を誤ってしまうと、深刻な事態になってしまう場合も出てきます。 日本の方は、8割から9割が抱えている症状があります。 まず、生活習慣・姿勢を見直すことから始めるのが適切です。 これらの方法は、短期間で効果が出るものではなく、継続することで少しずつ効果が出てきます。 手術はそんなに大変ではありません O脚によって生じるデメリットとして、多くの人は身長が低くなる、という点を挙げています。 整形外科医院などに行くと、適切な対処方法を教えてもらえます。 様々な治療を試した後、どうしても改善しない場合には手術を行うことになります。

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