The Permaculture Concept (1989 The word permaculture, coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture. Through a series of publications, Mollison, Holmgren and their associates documented an approach to designing human settlements, in particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies. Permaculture design principles extend from the position that "The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children" (Mollison, 1990). While originating as an agro-ecological design theory, permaculture has developed a large international following of individuals who have received training through intensive two week long 'permaculture design courses'.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess by Emily Ruete (Salamah bint Saïd; Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman) (1844-1924) Translated by Lionel Strachey. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907. [Cover] Memoirsof anArabian Princess Memoirs of Charming Women THE AUTHORESS Salamah bint Saïd, afterward Emily Ruete [Title Page] Illustrated New YorkDoubleday, Page & Company1907 THE work of which a translation is here offered originally came out as "Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin." In connection with these memoirs arises the question of their authenticity. "I have consulted a recognised authority – the best – who doesn't want his name mentioned, but you can take the following as absolutely trustworthy: "The lady certainly did exist. PRINCE OTTO VON BISMARCK-SCHÖNHAUSEN "Ruete was killed in a tram accident, and she then took the title of princess, to which she had a right by birth; whether she forfeited it by marrying Ruete, I can't say. My mother was a Circassian by birth.
Godey's Lady's Book: Hope Greenberg In the February 1850 issue of The Lady's Book, Louis A. Godey, publisher, declared: "In 1830, a "magazine of elegant literature was cast, doubtingly, upon the uncertain stream of public favor--its name the Lady's Book and Louis A. These lexia, or perhaps in deference to the times we should say "collection of leaves," examine the Lady's Book, its publisher, its editor, and the world that both created, and was created by, it. Lady's Book: The Collections You may choose from two collections. The second collection contains three full issues of the Book from 1855 offered in "page turner" view. 1) Go to the "samples" collection 2) Go to the "complete issues" collection which contains page images of the July, August and September 1857 issues.
Solar updraft tower Schematic presentation of a solar updraft tower The solar updraft tower (SUT) is a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from solar power. Sunshine heats the air beneath a very wide greenhouse-like roofed collector structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower. The resulting convection causes a hot air updraft in the tower by the chimney effect. This airflow drives wind turbines placed in the chimney updraft or around the chimney base to produce electricity. Plans for scaled-up versions of demonstration models will allow significant power generation, and may allow development of other applications, such as water extraction or distillation, and agriculture or horticulture. Design[edit] Power output depends primarily on two factors: collector area and chimney height. Heat can be stored inside the collector area. Carbon dioxide is emitted only negligibly[citation needed] as part of operations. History[edit] WikiMiniAtlas SUT as seen from La Solana
Craft the Perfect Keychain This Weekend Doesn't that increase the difficulty of turning them? Just curious, not being critical. The plastic hinge ends of that flash drive broke in my pocket after I used the drive once...has yours held up better? Yeah sure, but now it's harder to hold them and turn them. Also, if doing just that for what seems to be 3 keys saved space, your pockets must be pretty tight I do this too. To the guy saying you must not have much pocket space, if I've got a wallet, keys for numerous vehicles and houses, a notebook, pen, two phones (one work one personal), etc, etc then no, I do not have a lot of available pocket space.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. [Page] [Frontispiece] COURT LADY'S FULL DRESS IN THE HEIAN PERIOD (For explanation see List of Illustrations) [Title Page] Professor in the Imperial University, Tokio And with Illustrations The Riverside Press Cambridge THE poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome. Izumi Shikibu's Diary is written with extreme delicacy of treatment. Of the "Sarashina Diary" there exist a few manuscript copies, and three or four publications of the text. [Page vii] [Page viii] [Page ix] [Page xi] THE Japanese have a convenient method of calling their historical periods by the names of the places which were the seats of government while they lasted. We know a good deal about Japan today, but the Japan with which we are familiar only slightly resembles that of the Diaries. [Page 1]
Brontë Sources, Texts, and Criticism search [Rigby, Elizabeth.] "Vanity Fair--and Jane Eyre." Quarterly Review. 84:167 (December 1848): 153-185. Art. V.—1. 2. 3. A REMARKABLE novel is a great event for English society. There is something about these two new and noticeable characters which especially compels everybody to speak out. We must discuss 'Vanity Fair' first, which, much as we were entitled to expect from its author's pen, has fairly taken us by surprise. It is this reality which is at once the charm and the misery here. But if these performers give us pain, we are not ashamed to own, as we are speaking openly, that the chief actress herself gives us none at all. No; let us give Becky her due. It is another thing to pretend to settle whether such a character be primâ facie impossible, though devotion to the better sex might well demand the assertion. The great charm, therefore, and comfort of Becky is, that we may study her without any compunctions. 'How in this vile world below Noblest things find vilest using,'
Cristate and Monster Succulents Succulents (including cacti) are among the best of all the plants to collect and grow in pots and in the garden and are certainly among my favorite plants. As if there weren't enough awesome, cool and bizarre succulents in cultivation to keep one fascinated and obsessed for a few lifetimes, these amazing plants also have their mutant forms- the crested and monstrose plants. Crested or monstrose mutations are not unique to succulents, but they certainly seem to be much more common in these plants than they are in most other flowering plants and conifers. What happens when a plant mutates like this? All plants have a growth center (or growth centers depending on how many branches, leaves, flowers etc. they have). This Sempervivum was one of hundreds I have struggled to grow in the garden over the years (most are pretty wimpy in this climate). Here are two Aeonium arboreum 'Atropurpureum' crests. These two cacti are NOT crested, though many think these are crested plants. Yes and no. l