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Damsons are small, ovoid, plum-like fruit with a distinctive, somewhat astringent taste, and are widely used for culinary purposes, particularly in fruit preserves and jams. In South and Southeast Asia, the term damson plum sometimes refers to jamblang, the fruit from a tree in the family Myrtaceae. [4]
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild.
Johnny Carson joked about sending Gibbons a "lumber-gram", and on the 5/17/1974 episode of The Tonight Show joked that "Mary Tyler Moore needs another Emmy like Euell Gibbons needs prunes". Gibbons himself joined in the humor; when presented with a wooden award plaque by Sonny and Cher, he good-naturedly took a bite out of it (the "plaque" was ...
As we are communing with nature, let me suggest a few classic texts and one modern text destined to join our conservation canon: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) By Henry David Thoreau
Desert Spider, Stegodyphus lineatus, one of the best-described species that participates in matriphagy Matriphagy is the consumption of the mother by her offspring. [1] [2] The behavior generally takes place within the first few weeks of life and has been documented in some species of insects, nematode worms, pseudoscorpions, and other arachnids as well as in caecilian amphibians.
Reading Eggs (stylised as ABC Reading Eggs in Australia), is a subscription-based digital literacy program [1] aimed at improving reading skills in children aged 2 to 13. [2] Owned by 3P Learning, [ 3 ] Reading Eggs comprises five programs catering to different age groups, Reading Eggs Junior (ages 2–4), Reading Eggs (ages 3–8), Fast ...
The academic field of infant cognitive development studies of how psychological processes involved in thinking and knowing develop in young children. [1] Information is acquired in a number of ways including through sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and language, all of which require processing by our cognitive system. [2]
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...