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Like the vast majority of things I grow, I found them, so I don't know what their official variety name is, if they even have one. They...

Back to growing things Alas, when I went to look at it around 11:00 AM this morning, the jacketed seedling had totally dried up and the...

Not for me. My fiction character Andrew Bolt, First Supreme Dictator of Earth uses the one he created for his unit when he was in the...

Beats mine When we did Middle Ages in school, and were told to design our own coats of arms, I was in a pretty dark place. The motto I...

We were once singing it in a car going somewhere in camp (we were a small group) and I scared the crap out of the people in front when I...

The mercury was apparently down there for the same reason there's supposed to be a whole pool of it in the tomb of Chi Shi Huang Di (the...

You left out the Atlas Mountains. Originally, they were one giant forest, full of lions and bears. Then the Romans showed up and wanted...

The Abydos Helicopter is something different, and is now considered definitively a mistake. Someone engraved one hieroglyphic on a...

Well, they do say that something like 93% of human history is unknown, since it occurred before someone invented written language. It's...

I also assume that the ancestors of the yard long beans, as well as of the other Asian cowpeas probably traveled up from Africa, as did...

I think I may need to get out a mister. There's a piece of seed coat still stuck girdling one of the seedlings (and one I only have one...

That's sort of what I am getting at, as far as anyone can tell, no one in Europe saw a P. Vulgaris until the Spanish brought them from...

Actually, they both have problems. P. Vulgaris wouldn't be known in Europe until it was brought from the new world. And while Vulgaris...