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Filomena Maria Spencer Africano Fortes was born on 10 April 1966 [1] in Luanda, Angola. [2] In 1979, she started playing handball after a brief stint in association football, [3] including for C.D. Primeiro de Agosto and Clube Ferroviário de Luanda; she later recalled that this decision was "perhaps because in Luanda it was the most popular sport for women". [2]
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The terraced fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top, between 600 and 800 metres (2,000 and 2,600 ft) above sea level. [1] A coiling terrace line that starts from the mountain foot up to the mountain top divides the mountain into layers of water in spring, layers of green rice shoots in summer, layers ...
Terraced fields in the Jabal Haraz region of Yemen. Rice terraces in Sa Pa, Vietnam. Rice terraces of the Hani people in Yunnan, China. Rice terrace in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective ...
Spanning nearly 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) of pine forest, rice fields and cypress swamps, Mansfield Plantation was once one of the largest rice producing plantation in the country. Mansfield, along with adjacent rice plantations up and down the Black River, provided much of Europe with "Carolina Gold" rice during the late 18th and early 19th ...
Asakusa tanbo torinomachi mōde (Asakusa ricefields and torinomachi festival). Ukiyo-e print shows a cat sitting on a wall where the sliding panels have been opened, watching the festival procession in the rice paddies nearby, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Number 101 in the series One Hundred Famous Views From Edo. Date: 1857: Source
This rice mill and rice barn are associated with Milldam, one of several productive rice plantations on the Santee River. Agricultural features include examples of historic ricefields, including canals, dikes (including remnants of a dike hand-built by slaves) and trunks. The Rice Barn was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. [2] [3]