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Selasa, 06 Juli 2010

Black Friday is a Famous Name of Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving Day (in English, Thanksgiving, thanking literally) is a traditional celebration of the United States and Canada. In the United States on the fourth Thursday of November, although it was originally made last Thursday.

In Canada, meanwhile, held the second Monday in October. Usually in this festival come together around a table family and friends to share a feast. Although religious in origin, is considered a secular holiday.

Traditions in the United States


Family Dinner

Most people in the United States celebrate this holiday with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks.

The traditional main dish for dinner is a great roast turkey or baked. This turkey is traditionally served with a filling made of cornbread and sage. It is traditionally served with a jelly or cranberry sauce.

Besides vegetable dishes are often served as the green beans (green beans, green beans), sweet potatoes (yams) and mashed potatoes (potatoes) with gravy, a sauce made from the juice of turkey is often served also a variety of desserts, pumpkin pie being the most popular. It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple juice.

Parade in Manhattan

Annually, the department store chain Macy's made a big parade through the streets of Manhattan, New York, which attracts millions of people to Broadway to see the huge giant balloons and witness the performances of guest artists.

Top of the shopping season

Most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores, malls, restaurants and bars stay open. The Friday following the holiday is traditionally the opening of the holiday shopping season.

This day is known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer bargain prices and great people come from the early hours of the day shopping.


Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_de_Acci%C3%B3n_de_Gracias


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Rabu, 30 Juni 2010

Attractive Genus

Rebutia is a genus in the family of cacti (Cactaceae). The botanical name honors the French winemakers and Sukkulentengärtner Pierre Rebut.

Description

Rebutia species are succulent plants with small down-spherical, spherical or short columnar shape. At the mother plant often form in culture Kindel. This can be used for the propagation and plant in sandy substrate.

In case that they are on the mother plant, they can act as a group plant is very attractive. The ribs are broken in warts. The spines are straight, fine to almost borstendünn and yellow, white or slightly brownish color.

The dainty-trichterfömigen (rarely bell) flowers appear in part already annuals. They arise laterally in the lower half of the plant body and often appear in large number to bloom for several days, open during the day and close the evening.

Initially, only red flowering species were known, were later discovered, some with purple, lilac, orange, yellow and white flowers. The corolla tube is usually thin and scaly on the outside small.

The scales bare shoulders, depending on the nature, woolly or even be bristly. Some species share after fertilization with their own pollen fruits, others only after pollination.

The thin-walled, small tears on fruit during drying. It contains fine mützenförmige seeds of black or brown, the surface can be matt or shiny.


Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebutia


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Senin, 28 Juni 2010

Syringa vulgaris

The common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a plant that belongs to the family of the olive family (Oleaceae),.

The plant grows as a deciduous shrub or small tree with height 2:00 to 6:00 meters. The branches have a rounded gray green or brown bark, which is longitudinal cracks on the branches and the trunk.

The opposite leaves arranged between five and 12 centimeters long and are stalked by three centimeters. The heart-shaped leaves are long and pointed glattrandig.

The strong-smelling, flowers are four-fold in a dense terminal panicle. The color can be blue, purple, red or white. Flowering period is from April to May.

As bivalve fruits, brown and woody capsules are formed. The fruit ripening begins in September.

The common lilac is widespread in southeastern Europe and western Asia. The type is often grown in a number of garden varieties and is naturalized in many cliffs or railway embankments.

As the site of open woods and thickets are preferred.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeiner_Flieder
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Selasa, 22 Juni 2010

Casuarina

Casuarina is a genus of trees of the family Casuarinaceae. The genus includes 17 species from Australasia, South East Asia and its islands of the western Pacific Ocean. Once considered the only genus of the family, it is now one of the three genres (Casuarinaceae).

Description

Casuarina species are shrubs or trees up to 35 meters tall evergreen. The foliage consists of many branches of fine twigs green or gray-green leaves, bearing minute scales.

The flowers are grouped in catkins, the male flowers in simple spikes, the female flowers on short stalks.

Most species are dioecious, but some are monoecious. The fruit is a woody, resembling a conifer cone made up of numerous carpels, each containing a single seed with a little wing.

The Casuarinas are a food source for caterpillars of Hepialidae; Aenetus the genus, including A. lewinii and A. splendens, burrow horizontally into the trunk then vertically down. Endoclita malabaricus also feeds on Casuarina. The Agrotis also feeds on Casuarina.



Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuarina


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Rabu, 16 Juni 2010

Yellow Anemone Blossoms

Yellow anemone (Anemone ranunculoides) is a low perennial in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). The species is threatened with extinction in the Netherlands. The plant is native to Central Europe and western Asia. In the Netherlands, the only plant in South Limburg in the wild. If stinzen plant at locations outside the yellow anemone in the rest of the Netherlands rare. Also, the plant is much planted in ornamental gardens. If stinzen plant is the species listed in 1683 for the woods and Haagse Bos.


The plant is 15-25 cm high and has creeping rhizomes. The stem of the leaves are bare root. The stem leaves are much longer than the petiole.


The yellow anemone blooms from March until May with a 1.5 cm wide, yellow flowers, often two or three sit together. The usually five petals, which are botanically sepals are hairy outside.


The fruit is an achene eenzadige. The seed is an ant sandwich.


The plant grows on nutrient-rich, moist, often calcareous soil in deciduous forests, scrub and between dikes.


The latex of the yellow anemone is slightly toxic, the substance in the juice protoanemonine occurs.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gele_anemoon

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