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The Hidden Gifts of Nature by Sigrid Leger - Introduction
... Bushmanland. At that time, West Bushmanland was mostly unpopulated as there was no surface water. The South African Army drilled boreholes and so enabled people to settle permanently in West Bushmanland. Today, most of the villages in Bushmanland have developed from former army bases and depend on government diesel for generators for their water supply. The !kung people are no ...
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Historical Perspectives on Scouting
... conditions. The program was started during the Boer War in South Africa by Robert Baden-Powell. In 1899 as a colonel in the British Army, he developed the military textbook called 'Aids to Scouting' ... History of the Left-Hand Handshake comes from Africa. " During the summer of 1946, a young West African, named Djabonar, came to Gilwell Park to take his Wood Badge Training. He is hoping eventually to ...
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Wood Badge For The 21st Century
... from a necklace he had found in a deserted hut of Zulu chieftain Dinizulu when on campaign in South Africa in 1888. The Scoutmasters' training course was a great success and continues to be held year-after ... Exploring, etc. the Kudu horn, was the horn of a Greater Kudu, one of the largest of African antelopes, that Baden-Powell brought back from Africa and made into a trumpet to call classes to order ...
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Flowering Plants
... 20,000 species. Left: A vivid red daisy (Gerbera jamesonii) native to the Transvaal region of South Africa. Right: The black orchid (Encyclia cochieatum), national flower of Belize. Flower heads of the sunflower ... -like prop roots. Alexander the Great reportedly camped with an army of 7,000 soldiers under such a fig tree. A South African baobab tree (Adansonia digitata), one of the most massive ...
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Radio drama review 2002 - DIVERSITY
... drama of the highest quality. The remarkable story of the friendship between a former master and an African slave was covered in Evaristo's Epitaph, by Patrick Carroll (R4, 1415, 25 Nov 02). The ... of Polkerris who departed this life January 28th 1861 aged 61 years / Evaristo Muchiavella, born in Mozambique South Africa, died at Redruth February 19th 1868, aged 38 years. Here lies the master and the ...
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A brief history of health and medicine by John Silveira Issue #100
... treatments were later extended to treat wounds suffered on the battlefield by members of the Roman army. But the Romans made an even greater contribution to general health. Without understanding germs or even ... have been reduced by an amazing 50 percent in this country. Also in 1967, the South African doctor, Christian Barnard, performed the worlds first human heart transplant. Today, the use of ...
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James Bowie
... 80. He never married. In his younger days Bowie had contributed articles, mainly on aloes, to the "South African Quarterly Journal". His name is commemorated in the genus Bowiea . James Bowie might have ranked ... competition among collectors could have been fierce - Bowie complained there was even "an officer of the army who has sometimes 40 soldiers at a time told off to collect for him". Poor old ...
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Biography: Orchid Personages
... (formerly known as the AOS Bulletin), Orchid Digest, Die Orchidee (June 98), Journal of the South African Orchid Congress, as well as the Awards Quarterly. Tom is an accredited American Orchid ... Museum, avian and mammal surveys in Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea for the U.s. Army (1962-63); research assistant, University of Maryland School of Medicine, anthropod-borne disease project in ...
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Speaker Biographies
... s "speaktacular" topic will illustrate some of the beautiful orchids that may be found in the South African bush, as well as some of the beasts. Hendrik van der Hoven, who is ... talk! Bill Bergstrom Topic: "Weird and Wonderful Species: Stanhopeas, Coryanthes, Gongoras, Bulbophyllums and Catasetinaes" After the army Bill went to work for the Atomic Energy Commission until the reactors were shut down. ...
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What's in a (Botanical) Name?
... caerulea, caeruleum, caeruleus blue (L.) [see-ROO-lee-] caesia, caesium, caesius light blue (L.) [SEES-ee-s] caffer Kaffir, a South African; a pejorative word (L.) [KAF-fr] caffra, caffrum Kaffir; a South ... , microstrobilus tiny + cone (Gr.) [myk-ro-STRO-bi-ls] militare, militaris of soldiers/of the army; usually referring to spines (L.) [mil-i-TAHR-ee] miniata, miniatum, miniatus red (L.) [min-ee- ...
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