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They have as an additional benefit that the villagers receive carbon credits for the sequestered CO 2, [82] as part of a carbon offset programme. [83] The revenues are then reinvested in the villages, according to the priorities of the communities; [ 84 ] it may be for an additional class in the village school, a water pond, conservation in the ...
James Clark (1825–1890), horticulturist and early genetic hybridist who specialised in breeding new potato varieties. [156] He was born in Wick near Tuckton (then a part of Christchurch) and lived his whole life in the Christchurch area. Donald Bailey, a civil engineer who developed the Bailey bridge, lived in Christchurch from 1966 to 1985. [29]
Pythagoras of Samos [a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) [b], often known mononymously as Pythagoras, was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
The Polled Hereford is an American hornless variant of Hereford with a polled gene, a natural genetic mutation selected into a separate breed from 1889. [13] Iowa cattle rancher Warren Gammon capitalised on the idea of breeding Polled Herefords and started the registry with 11 naturally polled cattle. The American Polled Hereford Association ...
Carter County is a county in the Ozarks of Missouri.At the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,202. [1] The largest city and county seat is Van Buren. [2] The county was officially organized on March 10, 1859, and is named after Zimri A. Carter, a pioneer settler who came to Missouri from South Carolina in 1812.
This was the first confirmed breeding pair in Oregon. [137] By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24. One of the Oregon gray wolves, known as OR-7 , traveled more than 700 miles (1,100 km) to the Klamath Basin and crossed the border into California . [ 138 ]