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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 ...
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.
The winnowing machine also had a rotary fan which had a blower that had a crank handle to create air to blow away the lighter seed casings to separate the husks from the pile of grain. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A rotary fan winnowing machine with two farm workers separating the grain from the husks as illustrated in Song Yingxing 's Tiangong Kaiwu .
The drumming sound produced by snipe is commonly heard within the context of a mating display, though that is not always the case. These display flights are performed by both sexes in threat contexts as well and appear to be antagonistic in their action, even when directed by males to females. [3]
"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.
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A winnowing barn consists of a large shed on tall posts with a hole in the floor. Raw, husked rice was carried up into the barn by slaves and then the grain was dropped through the hole. As the grain dropped to the ground, the lighter and undesirable chaff was carried away in the wind, leaving a mound of purified rice grains directly below the ...
-- A comparative view. -- English biography as literature. -- In conclusion. -- Appendix: I. Biographical compilations in Latin. -- II. Biographical compilations in English (to the end of the eighteenth century) III. English autobiographies. IV. Shakespeare in biography. -- Index Subjects: Autobiography; Biography as a literary form