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The new year of 1922 preventing the dove of peace from flying away. Salting a bird's tail is a legendary superstition of Europe and America, and an English language idiom. The superstition is that sprinkling salt on a bird's tail will render the bird temporarily unable to fly, enabling its capture.
Hare-um Scare-um lobby card (1939). Hare-um Scare-um is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton. [2] The short was released on August 12, 1939, and is the third short to feature the rabbit that would evolve into Bugs Bunny.
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...
The salt from this slab is mined using large rigs, which take away millions of tonnes every single day. What’s more, while this might be the country’s largest salt mining operation, it does ...
Ferric sodium EDTA, also known as sodium ferric ethylenediaminetetraacetate, is a broad spectrum molluscicide used to kill snails and slugs and protect agricultural crops and garden plants, and in particular to eliminate infestations of Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. [1] [2] Chemically, it is a salt of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid ...
"Most bars in San Antonio have containers to pour salt on side of bottles or rims of glasses and at most liquor stores and gas stations sell beer salt at the register." Texans take beer salt so ...
J. janthina is a member of the family Janthinidae, snails that trap air bubbles to maintain their positions at the surface of the ocean, where they are predators on hydrozoa. [6] The air bubbles are stabilized by the secretion of amphiphilic mucins which have evolved from epitoniid egg masses. [7]
A shipwreck dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. was discovered earlier this year off the coast of Sicily, Italian officials said.