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Titan Books. 2024. ISBN 9781803364384. Other novels. The first two entries are the same novel; they are marketed with different names in the US or UK markets. —— (2021). A Dark and Secret Place. Crooked Lane Books. ISBN 9781643855745. —— (2021). Dog Rose Dirt. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008383831. —— Games for Dead Girls. Crooked Lane ...
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.
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.
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"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.
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 .