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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 ...
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 ...
[2]: 532, 535, 537 A long running series that was set in times contemporary to the readers can be seen as historical if the time in the series progresses very slowly, and it becomes long-running (ex. Alison Uttley’s Little Grey Rabbit series begun in the 1920s and continued into the 1970s, with later books receiving explanatory notes about ...
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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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 .
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