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Sri Lanka Rainy Season
2,012 wordsGliricidia was first used in Mexico to provide shade for cacao plantations. It is from this use that the Aztecs labeled the tree "Madre de Cacao" (Mother of cacao). Later, in the 18 th Century, Gliricidia was brought to Sri Lanka to provide shade for coffee plantations. Today, the tree's long leafy branches are used to shade vanilla and tea crops as well. The tree is also known in Spanish as "Palo de Hierrro" (Tree of Iron) which eludes to Gliricidia's hard, heavy wood. This makes it ideal for f...
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Dry Season Central America
1,976 words... owed on old, large diameter trees. Leaves are pinnately compound, alternate in arrangement and 20 to 30 cm in length. Leaflets are generally opposite in arrangement, oblong in shape and pointed at the tip. On some specimens leaflets may be elliptical with rounded tips. There are 7 to 25 leaflets per leaf and size increases towards the tip. Leaflets are 40 to 80 mm long and 20 to 40 mm wide (Lavin 1996). Flower development corresponds to the beginning of the dry season when trees have most th...
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Papua New Guinea Body Piercing
1,260 words... women have. Men have beards, women have none. What kind of person would she be without People? She would not be a woman at all. "The plug of wood in the lips, which became little by little a disk, and then a real plaque, was in some manner a sign of possession of the husband of the Djinja woman. It is the man who is to marry her, and very often him alone who operates, transfixing the lips of the young girl with a blade of straw forms the first sign of the deformation to which she will be sub...
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14 Th Century Scientific Revolution
1,991 wordsA) In source A we are looking at a private picture from a 14 th century manuscript. First of all we notice that this is a wealthy man being treated because you had to pay for treatment, hospitals were scarce and uncleanly, so he would have been treated in his home. The treatment by two lat sisters (nuns of study); the invalid could have had lay brothers (monks of study) Source A shows the nuns were sought after. The picture describes the types of medical instruments and practises used by women. ...
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Sri Lanka Dry Season
4,091 wordsContent Gliricidia Septum GLIRICIDIA SEPIU Content History Introduction and Description Common Names Chemical Compounds Toxicity Uses and Efficacy History Gliricidias was first used in Mexico to provide shade for cacao plantations. It is from this use that the Aztecs labeled the tree Madre de Cacao (Mother of cacao). Later, in the 18 th Century, Gliricidias was brought to Sri Lanka to provide shade for coffee plantations. Today, the trees long leafy branches are used to shade vanilla and tea cro...
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Pulmonary Artery Vena Cava
1,945 wordsHeartthe human heart is a specialized, four-chambered muscle that maintains BLOOD flow in the CIRCULATORYSYSTEM. Located in the thorax, it lies left of the bodys midline, above and in contact with the diaphragm. It is situated immediately behind the breastbone, or sternum, and between the lungs, with its apex tilted to the body cavity's left side. In most people the apex can be felt during each heart contraction. At rest, the heart pumps about 59 cc (2 oz) of blood per beat and 5 l (5 qt) per mi...
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