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In the year 2005, the world's population of six billion is suffering from acute famine.The World Food Organization decides on desperate measures to decrease the population by a process of triage.
Rice winnowing, Uttarakhand, India Winnowing in a village in Tamil Nadu, India Use of winnowing forks by ancient Egyptian agriculturalists. Winnowing is a process by which chaff is separated from grain. It can also be used to remove pests from stored grain. Winnowing usually follows threshing in grain preparation. In its simplest form, it ...
Drumming (also called bleating or winnowing) is a sound produced by snipe as part of their courtship display flights. [1] The sound is produced mechanically (rather than vocally) by the vibration of the outer tail feathers when flying in a downwards, swooping motion.
The name of the machine is derived from the fact that the harvester combined multiple separate harvesting operations – reaping, threshing or winnowing and gathering – into a single process around the start of the 20th century. [2] A combine harvester still performs those operation principles.
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author , or marketed as a group by their publisher .
"Sifting and winnowing" commemorative plaque. Sifting and winnowing is a metaphor for the academic pursuit of truth affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison.It was coined by UW President Charles Kendall Adams in an 1894 final report from a committee exonerating economics professor Richard T. Ely of censurable charges from state education superintendent Oliver Elwin Wells.
Oar-shaped winnowing shovels. The Winnowing Oar (athereloigos - Greek ἀθηρηλοιγός) is an object that appears in Books XI and XXIII of Homer's Odyssey. [1] In the epic, Odysseus is instructed by Tiresias to take an oar from his ship and to walk inland until he finds a "land that knows nothing of the sea", where the oar would be mistaken for a winnowing shovel.
Winnowing is an agricultural method for separating grain from chaff. Winnowing may also refer to: Winnowing (sedimentology), a natural sediment separation process; Winnowing (snipe) or drumming, a courtship sound "The Winnowing", a 1976 short story by Isaac Asimov