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A Gibson Lines postcard that was published by the Gibson Art Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. The card was posted in Cincinnati using a 1 cent stamp on Tuesday the 20th. December 1921.
It was sent to:
Mr. & Mrs. N. H. (surname deleted),
Felicity,
Ohio.
Felicity is a village in Franklin Township, Clermont County, Ohio. The population was 651 individuals at the 2020 census.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Uncle and Aunt,
Hope this card finds you
both well, and that your
Xmas stocking will be
full to overflowing.
Ada and Charlie."
The Significance of Holly
The European holly, Ilex aquifolium is commonly referenced at Christmas time, and is sometimes referred to by the name Christ's thorn.
In many Western Christian cultures, holly is a traditional Christmas decoration, used especially in wreaths and illustrations, for instance on Christmas cards.
Since medieval times the plant has carried Christian symbolism, as expressed in the Christmas carol "The Holly and the Ivy", in which the holly is said to represent Jesus and the ivy to represent the Virgin Mary.
Christians have identified a wealth of symbolism in its form:
The sharpness of the leaves help to recall the crown of thorns worn by Jesus; the red berries serve as a reminder of the drops of blood that were shed for salvation; and the shape of the leaves, which resemble flames, can serve to reveal God's burning love for His people.
Combined with the fact that holly maintains its bright colors during the Christmas season, it naturally came to be associated with the Christian holiday.
Mistletoe
Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant.
There are hundreds of species of mistletoe which mostly live in tropical regions.
The name mistletoe originally referred to the species Viscum album (European mistletoe); it is the only species native to the British Isles and much of Europe. The genus Viscum is not native to North America, but Viscum album was introduced to Northern California in 1900.
European mistletoe has smooth-edged, oval, evergreen leaves borne in pairs along the woody stem, and waxy, white berries that it bears in clusters of two to six.
-- Mistletoe Life Cycle
Mistletoe species grow on a wide range of host trees, some of which experience side effects including reduced growth, stunting, and loss of infested outer branches.
A heavy infestation may also kill the host plant. Viscum album successfully parasitizes more than 200 tree and shrub species.
All mistletoe species are hemiparasites, because they do perform some photosynthesis for some period of their life cycle. However, in some species its contribution is very nearly zero.
A mistletoe seed germinates on the branch of a host tree or shrub, and in its early stages of development it is independent of its host. The adhesive on the seed tends to darken the bark. On having made contact with the bark, the hypocotyl, with only a rudimentary scrap of root tissue at its tip, penetrates it, a process that may take a year or more. In the meantime the plant is dependent on its own photosynthesis.
Only after it reaches the host's conductive tissue may it begin to rely on the host for its needs. Later, it forms a haustorium that penetrates the host tissue and takes water and nutrients from the host plant.
Most mistletoe seeds are spread by birds who eat the 'seeds' (in actuality drupes). Of the many bird species that feed on them, the mistle thrush is the best-known in Europe.
Depending on the species of mistletoe and the species of bird, the seeds are regurgitated from the crop, excreted in their droppings, or stuck to the bill and causing the bird to have to wipe it off onto a branch.
The seeds are coated with a sticky material called viscin. Some viscin remains on the seed and when it touches a stem, it sticks tenaciously. The viscin soon hardens and attaches the seed firmly to its future host, where it germinates and its haustorium penetrates the sound bark.
-- Toxicity of Mistletoe
There are 1500 species of mistletoe, varying widely in toxicity to humans; the European mistletoe (Viscum album) is more toxic than the American mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum).
In European mistletoe (Viscum), viscumin is the dangerous active toxin. It acts by irreversibly inhibiting ribsomal protein synthesis in cells, which leads to the death of the affected cell, tissue damage in the area of exposure from mass cell death in the very short term, with the potential for organ failure and death depending on the level of exposure.
Mistletoe has been used historically in medicine for its supposed value in treating arthritis, high blood pressure, epilepsy, and infertility.
-- The Cultural Importance of Mistletoe
Mistletoe is relevant to several cultures. Pagan cultures regarded the white berries as symbols of male fertility, with the seeds resembling semen. The Celts, particularly, saw mistletoe as the semen of Taranis, while the Ancient Greeks referred to mistletoe as "oak sperm".
In Roman mythology, mistletoe was used by the hero Aeneas to reach the underworld.
The Romans associated mistletoe with peace, love, and understanding, and hung it over doorways to protect the household.
In the advent of the Christian era, mistletoe in the Western world became associated with Christmas as a decoration under which lovers are expected to kiss, as well as with protection from witches and demons.
Mistletoe continued to be associated with fertility and vitality through the Middle Ages, and by the eighteenth century it had also become incorporated into Christmas celebrations around the world. The custom of kissing under the mistletoe is referred to as popular among servants in late eighteenth-century England.
The serving class of Victorian England is credited with perpetuating the tradition. The tradition dictated that a man was allowed to kiss any woman standing underneath mistletoe, and that bad luck would befall any woman who refused the kiss.
One variation on the tradition stated that with each kiss a berry was to be plucked from the mistletoe, and the kissing must stop after all the berries had been removed.
Mistletoe is the floral emblem of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and the flower of the UK county of Herefordshire.
Every year, the UK town of Tenbury Wells holds a mistletoe festival and crowns a 'Mistletoe Queen'.
Sir George Fuller
So what else happened on the day that Ada and Charlie posted the card?
Well, on the 20th. December 1921, Sir George Fuller took office as the new Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales, seven days after Premier James Dooley had lost a vote of confidence in the state legislature.
However, only seven hours after Fuller had formed a government and had become the head of government as premier, he lost another vote of confidence in the legislature and was not seated.
On the 27th. December 1921, James Dooley was appointed premier again after forming a new government.
The Russian Famine Relief Act
Also on that day, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the Russian Famine Relief Act, and approved the appropriation of $20,000,000 ($300 million in 2021) for that purpose.
The vote was pursuant to the request of President Harding, subject to the condition that all purchases of food be made in the U.S. and shipped to the Soviet Union in American vessels.
Julius Richard Petri
The 20th. December 1921 also marked the death at the age of 69 of the German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri.
Julius, who was born on the 31st. May 1852, is generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, which is named after him, while working as assistant to bacteriologist Robert Koch.
-- Julius Richard Petri - The Early Years
Petri was born in the town of Barmen (now a district of the city of Wuppertal), Germany. He came from a distinguished family of scholars, and was the eldest son of Philipp Ulrich Martin Petri (1817–1864), a professor in Berlin, and Louise Petri.
Petri's grandfather, Viktor Friedrich Leberecht Petri (1782–1857), was also a scholar, being both a director and professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany.
Petri initially studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians (1871–1875) and received his medical degree in 1876.
He continued his studies at the Charité Hospital in Berlin where his thesis on the chemistry of protein urine tests earned him his doctorate.
-- Julius Richard Petri - The Later Years
Julius was on active duty as a military physician until 1882, continuing then as a reservist. In 1886 he was a curator at the German Hygiene Museum where he subsequently worked under Robert Koch.
From 1877 to 1879 Julius was assigned to the Imperial Health Office in Berlin, where he became an assistant to Robert Koch. On the suggestion of Angelina Hesse, the New York-born wife of another assistant, Walther Hesse, the Koch laboratory began to culture bacteria on agar plates.
Petri then invented the standard culture dish, or Petri plate, and further developed the technique of agar culture in order to purify or clone bacterial colonies derived from single cells. This advance made it possible to rigorously identify the bacteria responsible for diseases.
Petri's first wife, Anna Riesch, died in 1894 during childbirth, and in 1897, he married Elizabeth Turk.
-- The Importance of the Petri Dish
Petri dishes are extensively used as research plates for microbiology studies. The dish is partially filled with warm liquid containing agar, and a mixture of specific ingredients that may include nutrients, blood, salts, carbohydrates, dyes, indicators, amino acids and antibiotics.
After the agar cools and solidifies, the dish is ready to receive a microbe-laden sample in a process known as "inoculation" or "plating". For virus or phage cultures, a two-step inoculation is needed: bacteria that is grown acts like a host for the viral inoculum.
The bacterial sample is diluted on the plate in a process called "streaking". This involves a sterile plastic stick, or a wire loop which is sterilized by heating; the loop is used to collect the first sample, and then to make a streak on the dish with the agar.
Then, using a fresh stick and sterilized loop, the new loop is passed through that initial streak, spreading the plated bacteria onto the dish.
This process is repeated a third time, and if necessary a fourth, resulting in individual bacterial cells that are isolated on the plate, which are then able to divide and grow into single "clonal" bacterial colonies.
Petri plates can be incubated upside down (agar on top), which can help lessen the risk of contamination from airborne particles containing microbes settling, and to decrease the chance of condensation from water accumulating and disturbing the microbes being cultured.
The basic design of the Petri dish has not changed since being created by Petri in 1887. It was a challenge to keep dishes free of dust, and extra bacteria could collect and alter samples; heavy bell jars used for this purpose proved ineffective, and so six years later Petri created a transparent plate slightly larger than the dish, which served as a transparent lid.
The Petri name has come into public prominence following a spate of serious food poisoning incidents on cruise liners; ships operating buffets in their restaurants have been referred to as 'floating Petri dishes.'
-- Julius Petri's Other Work
Not only was Petri responsible for many innovations and inventions, he also published a variety of papers including 150 on the topic of bacteriology and hygiene, which contributed significantly to information and concepts related to them.
Petri's papers detailed a number of steps in understanding microbiology, not limited to the study of microorganisms, but also including biological pathways and mechanisms.
In his paper of 1876 Julius considered questions regarding proteins found within urine, seeking ways that they could be used to identify conditions or functions.
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VIVA COMO AS FLORES...
Em um antigo mosteiro budista, um jovem monge questiona o mestre: Mestre, como faço para não me aborrecer? Algumas pessoas falam demais, outras são ignorantes, muitas são indiferentes.
Sinto ódio das mentirosas e sofro com as que caluniam.
Pois viva como as flores, orientou o mestre.
E como é viver como as flores? - Perguntou o discípulo.
Repare nas flores, falou o mestre, apontando os lírios que cresciam no jardim.
Elas nascem no esterco, entretanto, são puras e perfumadas. Extraem, do adubo malcheiroso, tudo que lhes é útil e saudável... mas não permitem que o azedume da terra manche o frescor de suas pétalas.
É justo inquietar-se com as próprias imperfeições, mas não é sábio permitir que os vícios dos outros o perturbem.
Os defeitos deles são deles e não seus.
Se não são seus, não há razão para aborrecimento.
Exercite, pois, a virtude de rejeitar todo mal que vem de fora.
Isso é viver como as flores.
Numa simples orientação, sem dúvida, uma grande e nobre lição de bem-viver.
Mas, para viver como as flores, é preciso, ainda, observar outras características que elas nos oferecem como exemplo.
Importante notar que nem todas as flores têm facilidades, mas todas têm algo em comum: florescem onde foram plantadas.
Seja em terreno hostil, em meio a pedregulhos ou em jardins tecnicamente bem cuidados, as flores surgem para perfumar e embelezar a vida.
Existem as flores heroínas, que precisam lutar com valentia por um lugar ao sol. São aquelas que surgem em minúsculas frinchas, abertas em calçadas ou muros de concreto.
Precisam encontrar, com firmeza e determinação, um espaço para brotar, crescer e florescer.
Há flores, cujas sementes ficam sob o solo escaldante do deserto por muitos anos, esperando que um dia as gotas da chuva tornem possível emergir...
E, então, surgem, por poucos dias, só para espalhar seu perfume e lançar ao solo novas sementes, que germinarão e florescerão ao seu tempo.
Em campos cobertos de neve, há flores esperando que o sol da primavera derreta o gelo para despertar de sua letargia e colorir a paisagem, em exuberância de cores e perfumes.
Ah! Como as flores sabem executar com maestria a missão que o Criador lhes confia!
Existem, ainda, flores resignadas, que se imolam na tentativa de tornar menos tristes as cerimônias fúnebres dos seres humanos... enfeitando coroas sem vida.
Viver como as flores, portanto, é muito mais do que saber retirar vida, beleza e perfume, do estrume...
É mais do que florescer em desertos áridos e em terrenos inóspitos...
É mais do que buscar um lugar ao sol, estando numa cova escura sob o concreto espesso...
É mais do que suportar a poda e responder com mais vida e mais exuberância...
Viver como as flores é entender e executar a missão que cabe a você, a mais bela e valorosa criatura de Deus, para quem todas as flores foram criadas...
* * *
As flores são uma das mais belas e delicadas formas de expressão do Divino Artista da natureza.
Parece mesmo que o Criador as projetou e as colocou no mundo para nos falar da grandeza do Seu amor por nós, e também como lições silenciosas a nos mostrar como florescer e frutificar, apesar de todos os obstáculos da caminhada...
Pense nisso, e imite as flores!
Redação do Momento Espírita, com
base em história de autoria ignorada.
Em 04.05.2009.
Desejo a todos e a todas que vivam como as flores obtendo e extraindo da vida o que ela tem de melhor..
beijos
Jana
M04We - IDK
So many questions that I don't have answers to.
What songs are we going to do? Who is going to play? What about this one? What about this one? Can I ___ ? What's my motivation? What's your motivation? Does this bother me? If it does, why? Should it bother me? Do I have time to do this? How important are my Saturday evenings? Do you really need the money? What are you doing here? When are you coming home? What do I need to stop doing? What am I doing?
I took a nap when I got home from work today to restart my brain. 'Cause it crashed ... apparently my brain is a PC. Crap.
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Question mark (Polygona interrogationis), photographed at Chadron State Park, about 9 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska on June 1, 2018.
Using typography and photography to create graphic imagery exploring questions I ask my self everyday.
"How do we convince young women aged 12-17(ish) to cycle when physical activity levels are so low? How do we engage younger women?"
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but the people who worked in the museum didn't speak english.
and our italian wouldn't have been any help since we wanted to know what this this was about, not order coffee or find the toilets...
The question surrounding the legalization of marijuana has both attributes quoting legalizing weed advantages and disadvantages. I work a forum that supports those people who are striving to stop the substance and also have read literally 1000s of reports of the that are acquiring their usage of
Mark Hamill came to Point Park University on Wednesday April 9 2008, to talk to the students about his opinion of Barack Obama and absentee ballets. Jess asks him in a question.
I was on my back patio looking out into the garden when I happened to look down at my largest Butterfly Bush. There was this lovely Question Mark. There was only enough time to snap off one quick shot before it flew away.
This week was chill, had basically a 5 day weekend... so i did nothing but hangout with my friends and play games. And guesss what gameee came out this weeekkk?! ...not digimon. pokemon! White that is! This game is sooo fun. But i had to take time out of it to do gayhomework and this which is fine :D
BUTBUTBUT the theme, is "the age old question" of which one!?
PROLLY THE HARDEST PART OF THIS GAME!!! lol i picked oshawott (blueone) lol
Editing:
Textures LOTS
Masking
Tea
Curves
Strobe:
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Cactus V5 :D
And i gotta new bag :O so prettyyy. lol new week tomorrow :]
Most places don't offer things like see through sticker vinyls, for a low price and a low-ish quantity
Let me know!
Bob's question #2: what does one do when the pizza lady passes out due to alchohal
His awnser: steal the pizza.
Bob would like your awnser
This trophic interaction is that of a pill pug using decaying wood as a home and as a food source.
I would think that the most influential species in my location used to be the white-tailed deer that lived there. This was the area they often bedded down in and they made the area their own. However, due to construction they no longer inhabit the area. The current influential species is most likely now the grasses/flowers in most of the floor area. They provide food for the herbivores in the area, a nesting space for the insects, cover for potential prey animals. Without it, the space would be a completely different ecosystem, probably, at most, a tree filled section. At worst it would be muddy dirt and ground with a much smaller species diversity, as the grasses provide many things for many organisms. If you replaced it with an invasive species, the surrounding forest area would be taken over. If the invasive species could survive, it would overwhelm the nearby marshy land, draining the water and the current cabbage plants. There are invasive species that could easily strangle and kill the trees nearby. In fact, in the past we have actually had problems with vine type plants that have had to be forcibly removed before tree death occurred.
One organism in the area is the rabbit (the picture of dead furs and whatnot). The article would say that this herbivore is not limited by food, but by the predators. In this area, that would be coyotes, foxes, and possibly large feral cats. The mosquito would be limited by prey. If there are no prey for the mosquitoes, then they will not be able to breed in the area. The skunk cabbage in the area is probably limited by nutrient flow (and predation?). There is no lack of water in the marshy section, so that is probably not a limiting factor.
Question; There are three different types of ecosystem in my small area; marshland, tree cover, and a grassy clearing. Are these shifting? I would suspect that over time the grassy clearing area will grow into the tree cover, with very little undergrowth. The new trees might be enough to drain the small marshland area, shifting that to grasses; or possibly the marshland is what is preventing the grassy clearing from supporting trees. What is the role of succession in my area?
Question One: What do you consider to be your ethnicity?
Answer: Irish, Russian, some sort of African, and Native American.
Question Two: What do other people think your ethnicity is?
Answer: Mutt, or whatever place I am in.
L’Allemagne, souvent citée comme exemple en Europe sur les questions environnementales, pourrait jouer un rôle clé dans les négociations de la COP21, réunissant 196 délégations à Paris jusqu’au 11 décembre. L’objectif : limiter à 2 degrés l’augmentation moyenne de la température.
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CommonGround Nebraska volunteers gathered to work on how to answer consumer questions about food, sharpen their media skills and telling their story.
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I've been getting lots of links back to this picture from different tumblr sites, especially this one.
Nowww, I don't know anything about tumblr, and it kind of confuses me what's going on when i try to figure out if they're using it as a background or posting it for fun or whatever. I don't really mind I guess, but is this normal?
Just wondering!!
Question One: What do you consider to be your ethnicity?
Answer: Filipino.
Question Two: What do other people think your ethnicity is?
Answer: Mexican, Hawaiian, Malay.
Director David Gelb answered audience questions at the March 13, 2012 screening of "Jiro Dreams of Sushi." The screening was held at the Academy of Television of Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood by the KCET Cinema Series. It was hosted by movie critic Pete Hammond.
For more on 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' and other films in this screening series, visit www.kcet.org/socal/cinema_series/