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A crow is an old term referring to a security guard. In the 1930s there were a lot of incidents involving citizens acting as security guards, and many were passing themselves off as policemen. To clear up the confusion, the city fathers in Capitol City enacted a city wide uniform dress code. So that security guards would not be mistaken for the real police dressed in blue, they were mandated to wear all black uniforms. Because they dressed in ...

For more than a century, the Ontario wine industry had found success producing mainly ports and sherries from American hybrid grapes, but as the 1970s approached, consumer tastes were changing and sales of the higher-alcohol wines were decreasing significantly. A new, low-alcohol refreshment wine named "Baby Duck, " produced by Andres winery from native labrusca varieties like Concord, became an overnight sensation, inspiring other wineries to...

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The beginnings of a wine industry in Eastern Canada are rooted in mystery. Why did imported European vinifera grapes, not indigenous here, prove impossible to grow for more than 300 years? What were our original winemaking grapes and where and when did they originate? Who were our first winemakers and what kinds of wines did they produce? What inspired them to start their wineries just when the Temperance movement was gaining strength and thre...

At the Table of Jim Thompson is a unique introduction to the house of Jim Thompson and the cuisine served at the three Jim Thompson restaurants in Bangkok.

After travelling through the Canadian prairies in the 1850s, British adventurer John Palliser deemed a large portion of the region to be a near desert and unfit for agriculture. That reportedly disadvantaged area became known as Palliser's Triangle. In Defying Palliser farmers and ranchers from southwest Saskatchewan and southest Alberta--residents in the Palliser Triangle--tell how they have challenged Palliser's prediction. Incorporating the...

The stories in this book describe a personal encounter with the broader environment of the garden. Nature becomes this book and Human Nature becomes the story. These stories will show you how the garden can speak to you, that you can have an intimate relationship with it from your bicameral brain. The stories describe plaintive and enthusiastic reports from the garden that the author has faithfully translated. By the end of this book, you ...

The stories in this book describe a personal encounter with the broader environment of the garden. Nature becomes this book and Human Nature becomes the story. These stories will show you how the garden can speak to you, that you can have an intimate relationship with it from your bicameral brain. The stories describe plaintive and enthusiastic reports from the garden that the author has faithfully translated. By the end of this book, you ...

These working papers provide students with a starting point for completing end-of-chapter assignments from the textbook.

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These stories have been brought to you rocketing out of the past and into the future. It has been said that people are not ready for this, that these legends winging in from bygone times have arrived seriously ahead of schedule. In fairy-tales witches always wear those absurd black pointed hats, black cloaks, and ride on broomsticks, to a moon made up of green cheese. This is not a fairy tale, this book is about those extravagant, entrancing, ...

This book describes life long learning expressed often as allegory or metaphor, but derived from life long events. The braided cord reflects the union of body, mind and soul, but because I am a surgeon, the body is topmost in my mind and my book. My exploration of flesh, and the rest, derives from 40 years of surgery and anatomy. All of us are in nature and of nature and there are no natural borders that divide us. To see nature and ourselves ...

This book describes life long learning expressed often as allegory or metaphor, but derived from life long events. The braided cord reflects the union of body, mind and soul, but because I am a surgeon, the body is topmost in my mind and my book. My exploration of flesh, and the rest, derives from 40 years of surgery and anatomy. All of us are in nature and of nature and there are no natural borders that divide us. To see nature and ourselves ...

All our lives, we are told tales of heroes, heroes from far-off lands battling mystical creatures and braving unknown perils. They face the odds at whatever cost to rescue the beautiful princess. We are told of villains so dark and powerful that the last of our hope is placed in the hands of the gods. But on the world called Hajun, the fairytale doesn't have a happy ending. But then, with the vast universe itself being threatened, how many her...

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