Pertinax
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I enjoyed your graph very much-all life is there!
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None of these people is at all negative-so the situation remains hopeful and a closer scrutiny of the area is officially sanctioned.You cannot now accuse yourself of any tardiness ( as you hinted at and I thought was a ltitle hard on yourself) or failure to act as your conscience dictated.With luck this may yet have a positive outcome.
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The blog entry is not a critique of the gallery as such, just an indication that my own galleries are untidy. If new /revised software alows of drag and drop ordering in the future all my problems would be resolved! The problem arises when adding to a gallery that needs alpha -numero sorting but the images dont arrive in that order.
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You have a fascination with plants
and food let it be said!
The reason I am so concerned with both plants and food is ,that if you can sometimes use .or examine a thing in everyday use or familiar use in Rome or Celtiberia -some odour or taste just takes you a fraction nearer touching the reality of these past lives. At Pompeii I want to will the Taverns back to life for a few moments to see and smell whats cooking.
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Good Luck and please send some photos!
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laptops are , of course , inherently evil .They are possessed by numerous Demons and Affrits, and cursed by the Awful Doom of very short battery life. Human brains are far superior , the only real defect is the lack of a windows based spell check when tired
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This is the specific "naming of names " that I was hopeful you would achieve.The Doctor seems to be quite definite in his identification and in his pleasure at your commitment to the proper "understanding" of the site.
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Very best of Luck to you all.
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So do you have quite a number of artefacts to hand or catalogued in other ownership? I was wondering as to what quantity or quality would be needed to be considered significant in "cultural" terms ? Or would a handful of accredited finds be sufficient to back up your request?
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You can have all the a-Thujone you want, just don't cut my ear off... :bag:
As your Herbalist I advise ........a course of leeches.
Uhg, I hate leaches and worms. What phobia is that called again. Scared of creepy crawlers.
were you thinking of arachnaphobia? that only covers stuff clinging to the light shade.
Entomophobia otherwise for all insects.
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You can have all the a-Thujone you want, just don't cut my ear off... :bag:
As your Herbalist I advise ........a course of leeches.
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The reason for the effectivness is essentially due to the presence of L'Methionine -this stuff is really good for "ladies of a tempramental disposition" as it tends to mop up hormone surges, as well as being useful in de-toxing blood poisoned with heavy metals (mercury, lead and cadmiun) ,so if Pliny used cabbage the lead piping would not have harmed him!
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As Lord Melchette would say "Au contraire Blackaddder", I suggest a light Troll to start, Chimay Red to enhance learned discourse and a Sour to round off the night, or for the strong of liver a Kwak.
I was only suggesting that the individuals around me at the time had not aquired the taste for Flemmish sours... Not you my friend.
Kwak, that reminds me, what do you think about it's sister Triple Karmeliet?
The triple I enjoyed more than the Kwak,( wheat ,oats and barley ?).Did Imention we had Anchor Porter?
The Kwak is like eating best quality Turkish Delight-from time to time and a little at a time What about the "glass" it comes in?
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good for hypochondria as well I see.You beat me to the draw on Pliny!
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Yes indeed the fortunate brassica!Galen says " most use this as an accompaniment to bread ,but doctors use it as a drying medicine" ."its juice contains a purgative element .. I do not cook it in water when attempting to use it as a drying medicine ..but sek to retain its special juices".
It contains vitamin U -(dont snigger it does exist just like vitamins P and R
) -meaning aagainst Ulceration ,so it could be used as a wound dressing on infected and ulcerated legs where B6 deficiency is noted and in all seriousness if the breast has dense tissue build up,also on the scalp if scrofulous.So not only -make me a pan of cabbage juice -but-put a couple of leaves on my head as well!
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I love reading Pliny's anecdotes on what to use for what. It can be quite entertaining!
As for the beer selection, very nice. Especially the Duchese! I think you know how I feel about that one from TNOG!. Flemmish sours are a wonderful thing.
Sour is the word-as happens everyone just wanted to try a sip-but it was too lip puckering for them
On that note, Rodenbach just arrived in Atlanta. I had a 750ml of Grand Cru all to myself because I guess I'm the only one who really enjoys Flemmish Sours
As Lord Melchette would say "Au contraire Blackaddder", I suggest a light Troll to start, Chimay Red to enhance learned discourse and a Sour to round off the night, or for the strong of liver a Kwak .
My co-worker (as you say in the Americas) arrived at work inebriated having drunk numerous Leffe blond in his especially vast 1500ml glass, we didnt understand his behaviour at first until he was seen drinking tea and singing to passerby outside the premises, in his shirtsleeves ,in sub zero weather.
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Now FVC I have found a link which tells how Linnaeus (1707-1778) systemised the naming of plants. The basic method is via the reproductive characteristics of the plant. Prior to his time although much sytematic work was done endless confusion could arise if similar plants were mistaken for each other-this as you know from Yarrow and Hemlock can get you into difficulties. So genus and specific names were laid down-the binomial classification-just as well because plants from various continents were turning up all the time and getting confused with related species
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
look here to see a brief life and idea of nomenclature
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The individual plant types and the toxilogical categories. By the way pertinax, do you have any orchids, cuz those are my favorites types. I once saw a documentary on orchid hunters, and from then on, they became really cool flowers to me. Have you had any aspirations to name a newly found plant after yourself.
This will need a blog to itself-so I will oblige but will have to ask you to be patient.I regret I have no orchids though I do have photographs of wild pyramidal orchids from open woodland habitats. My brother in law is waiting to see if a type of moss will be named after him (
) as he is a specialist in mosses and lichens, and is due to publish a book very shortly! Im happy enough learning more medicinal usesfor the existing plants. -
I wonder how they even came up with such complicated names for these plants.
do you mean the Linnaean name classification of individual plant types or the toxicological catergories?
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Its very odd that people have forgotten that plant medicine was the only medicine for most of human history
And of course the fact that much of our modern medicines are synthesized forms of the chemical compounds found in those very plants that people have used for those millennia...
Asprin to name just one! but white willow ( tastes vile) or meadowsweet (acceptable)dont give you acetylanide poisoning but do give you plenty of salycillic acid.And Vallium
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Museums are very strange-things should be available to everyone-in every sense.
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my goodness that does look appetising.
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remember 1. nothing is as indestructible as stupidity -all generations have seriously stupid people
2.he who fails to learn the lessons of history is doomed to repeat them
3.knowledge is power
These people are weak and fear knowledge
oh yes-no one ever lost money underestimating the taste of the general public (Barnum)
that should make you feel better!
Pertinax
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I looked hard at the passage-and was trying to imagine what he was driving at ,obviously the Elephant was a cultural icon (to use a modern term), and ivory was fantastically valuable -as an item of conspicuous consumption vis a vis the fabulous nature of the actual beast, how would he know that they buried tusks? so I think your comment is very appropriate Pantagathus, it seems to betray a pre knowledge of fossil deposits. The whole entry on elephants is suffused with a sort of moral restraint and sadness, not reserved for many other animals or people.
Distribution Of Income And Unrv Posting
in M. Porcius Cato's Blog
A blog by M. Porcius Cato in General
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I got into the wrong entry! My praise for this piece of work is attached to the forum photo.