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2. Tsubo-niwa - Wikipedia

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   They are traditional locations for temizu (handwashing). They also provide light and ventilation. They also provide light and ventilation. As the floorboards in a traditional Japanese building are usually raised above the ground, a niwa is an area without the wooden flooring; the floorboards surrounding a garden may form a veranda called an ...

3. Adenostoma fasciculatum - Wikipedia

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   The plant is considered a useful medicinal plant by the Tongva who know the plant as huutah. They use the oils from the twigs and leaves and make a strong tea from the bark for the treatment of skin infections. For sores and snakebites, the leaves and twigs are ground into a powder and mixed with animal grease and applied.

4. Lignum vitae - Wikipedia

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   Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...

5. Houseplant - Wikipedia

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   Ficus elastica, or the rubber plant, is a common house plant but is also a tree which can grow up to 30–40 metres (98–131 ft) tall in the wild. Aglaonema (Chinese evergreen) Alocasia and Colocasia spp. (elephant ear) Anthurium spp. Aphelandra squarrosa (zebra plant) Araucaria heterophylla (Norfolk Island pine) Aspidistra elatior (cast iron ...

6. Bischofia javanica - Wikipedia

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   Bischofia javanica, or bishop wood, is a plant species of the family Phyllanthaceae. It and the related Bischofia polycarpa are the only two members of genus Bischofia and tribe Bischofieae . These species are distributed throughout southern and southeast Asia to Australia and Polynesia also in North America (brought to North America as a ...

7. Government shutdown updates: Biden signs funding bill ...

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   With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier ...