For several hundred years, a few Amazonian Indian tribes have used a slash-and-char technique in the process of clearing forests to make fields to produce food crops. The timber biomass, removed from the land, was placed in pits and started…
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Sunrise to sunset: the most basic of time references. Light is essential to human activity, and so for early man hunting and gathering were daytime pursuits. For very basic timekeeping, little more was required; when the sun rose it was…
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A hoar frost are ice crystals that can form at ground level or above it, they can form in the air, in crevasses, in the deepness of glaciers and can be the major cause of avalanches under the right environment….
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Considering present day technology, it may be too dangerous, but that is not to say a concentrated effort to eliminate all the risks involved would make it any less dangerous. All is needed to have a disaster is one safety…
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Phyllite is a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed from sedimentary rocks, such as shale and mudstone. A metamorphic rock is created when existing rock is physically and chemically transformed by intense heat and pressure. Phyllite is metamorphosed from shale, its protolith…
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A large percentage of adults over thirty-five, cannot easily tolerate some of the dizzying rides in amusement parks, much less an incredibly fast hundred and fifty million mile journey through space to then attempt life on a planet without comfort…
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Lake effect snow is most often formed in northern America in the areas around the great lakes. This can occur tho anywhere large body’s of water such as oceans, bays, gulfs and lake are present with the right properties in…
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Has Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Ever Worked? Whenever we mess with Mother Nature, the weather, or any ecological system we pay back to nature what is demanded for our sins. Yet we seem to be toying with a subject…
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Dowsing history: The history of dowsing (aka well witching or divining) some say starts with Moses (Numbers 20:9-11), or with the ancient Greeks, but the first written record of finding anything with a forked twig was in 1556 in a…
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Imagine living in a place so cold that you don’t dare take a breath without a scarf and balaclava to protect you, because the air would freeze your lungs. Just imagine living in a place where your spit crackles and…
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