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egypt-museum:
“ Ancient Egyptian Beekeeping In a scene from the noble Pasaba’s tomb in West Thebes, a beekeeper pours honey into a mud container. Egyptians also kept bees in pots like this, a labor-intensive method still used there today.
Late...

Ancient Egyptian Beekeeping
In a scene from the noble Pasaba’s tomb in West Thebes, a beekeeper pours honey into a mud container. Egyptians also kept bees in pots like this, a labor-intensive method still used there today.
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC. Detail of a painting on pillar of the hypaethral court, from the Tomb of Pabasa ((TT279), El-Assasif, West Thebes.

everythingfox:

My god he just demolished that cat

splatteronmywalls:

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 21 September 1945, 200,000 coal miners in the US went on strike in support of supervisory employees’ demand for collective bargaining; part of a wave of strikes in the wake of World War II. More info in this excellent book, which is available in our online store. All proceeds help fund our work:: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/strike-jeremy-brecher https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1216192131899268/?type=3

ladamarossa:

A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971)

It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this explanation for themselves. They know that law has merely utilized the social feelings of man, to slip in, among the moral precepts he accepts, various mandates useful to an exploiting minority, to which his nature refuses obedience. Law has perverted the feeling of justice instead of developing it.

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—	Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality (via philosophybits)

mamoru:

thingsfromthedirt:
A radiator in a Victorian house with bread warmer built in
now THIS is galaxy brain

biodiverseed:

Treating Fire Blight
Fire blight is a bacterial disease that primarily affects the young, rapidly-growing shoots of pome fruits (especially pears and quince, but also apples and firethorns, and to a lesser degree, hawthorns, serviceberries, loquats, mountain ashes, and other related species in the subtribe Malinae).
It is spread by pollinators like honeybees during flowering, and pinkish orange streaks develop in the wood as a canker develops. If left over many seasons, the infection moves from the canker towards the roots.
The name ‘fire blight’ refers to the burnt appearance of leaves, bark, and fruit at infected sites.
Younger trees—and rapidly-growing tissues—are more vulnerable to infection. Infected wood can’t be treated with the application of antibacterial and antifungal copper sprays: and must be pruned out. However, an older tree tree can live with the disease.
The tree above is my Clapp’s Favourite European Pear, on an espalier. As sad as I was to cut off 10 fruiting spurs, it’s much better for the long-term health of the tree that infections are eradicated as soon as they appear.
The canker becomes active in spring, dripping a sap laden with bacteria down to the soil, and also slowly moving towards the trunk and roots, thus continuing the life cycle of the pathogen. Instead of allowing that to happen, I am burning the infected tissue and converting it into useable ash and biochar, both excellent soil amendments.
Read more: Fire Blight Identification, Life Cycle, and Management
Related: Bridge Grafting to Bypass a Fungal Lesion
#Pyrus #pruning #plant diseases #fruit trees #microorganisms