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Different Kinds Of Baskets

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Baskets can be made in many different shapes and sizes, as well as of many different materials. But no matter what the shape or size of material is, there are certain special ways of making ...

Badminton is a game played with rackets that are somewhat like tennis rackets, except that they are longer and lighter. The racket is sometimes called a battledore. Also used is a shuttlecock, or "bird," a ...

Where Is Babylonia

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Babylonia is the name of a very ancient land in western Asia. One of the earliest of all civilizations grew up there, nearly five thousand years ago. Babylonia was in the southeastern corner of the ...

The Famous Orloff Diamond

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

How diamonds are formed is not so difficult to understand when one realizes that the carbon in a diamond has been crystallized under pressure so enormous that it would be found only infrequently near the ...

A Diamond Is Pure Carbon

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Those born in April may rightfully boast that their stone, the diamond, is the most popular of all. Even in the days of Pliny, it was a prized possession: "The substance that possesses the greatest ...

The Cry Of The Flying Horse

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

A Mississippi newspaper recently told its subscribers that "The flying horse is an odd creature with a long brown body about two feet long, its tail is bushy and hangs down like a horse's switch, ...

Against The Blue October Sky

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

The common acorns of the white oak group are smooth, light brown without any markings, and have none of the woolly covering beneath the thin shell as other acorns do. The white oak cup scales ...

Beautifully Shaded With Red

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

The most interesting and perhaps most easily found of all the winged fruits are the paired samaras or keys of the maples. Each kind has two seeds protected by veined, thin coverings that expand into ...

Can't Be Seen, Even With A Magnifier

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

In the last week of May I have found the bigtoothed aspen catkins open, the two valves of the capsule rolled back, and, clinging to the withered catkin, the bunches of hairs containing the minute ...

Scattering The Fruits Of The Trees

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Most fruits of the forest tree, whether the seeds are comparatively heavy like those of the ash, or very light like those of the elm, are furnished with wings of various forms so as to ...

The Purpose Of The Tree

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Fruits of our common forest trees, though sometimes as inconspicuous and nearly as fleeting as the flowers that produced them, offer such ingenious contrivances for our admiration that they rival them, not in exquisite delicacy ...

Three Most Useful Birds

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Through the circulation of leaflets describing the three most useful birds not then selected for State bird honors elsewhere, Mrs. I. T. Frary, chairman of wild life for the State Federation of Ohio conducted an ...

The Popular Birds Of State

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

From October, 1928, to May, 1929, the State Audubon Society of Michigan conducted a systematic campaign to find their bird of state with the cooperation of the press, libraries, schools and many groups. A total ...

The Oldest Bird Of State

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

The choosing of birds as emblems of State gripped the nation in the late 20s/early 30s. For instance, running safely ahead of the red-headed woodpecker and the purple martin, the Brown Thrasher was chosen by ...

Choosing A Stately Bird

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

Forty-three of our States and the District of Columbia have selected a bird to represent them as an emblem. In the majority of the States this popularly-chosen avian representative has been officially recognized and in ...

May The Good Work Go On

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

In the general scheme of gardening for pleasure, a background of green is always necessary for a proper display of color in our delphiniums. Recently the writer saw a background consisting of a wall covered ...

All Praise The Tidy Sand-Hopper

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

The seaweed that drifts ashore on the daily tide will be reduced to fibers. The shell will be purged of its content. The bones of the fish will be cleaned, and the crab's claw hollowed. ...

Plankton: Nourishing Soup-Stock Of The Sea

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

That vast and estimable dame we know as the ocean has a determined antipathy for all untidiness. So varied and prolific is the life she nurtures that death and dissolution are forever in her tides. ...

The High Wall Of Lava

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

All of the comparatively few scientists who have visited the elephant seal beach of Guadalupe Island have been struck by the almost total absence of females and young; yet the herd is increasing. Fifteen years ...

Elephants Of The Sea

By David Bunch · 14 years ago

My dream to see the famous elephant seals of Guadalupe Island seemed entirely out of reach on numerous occasions. Five times I had started for the Island, but on each occasion something came up to ...