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Deux des six immeubles d’habitation sont à présent occupés. Suivez lÂ’avancement des travaux.
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Teymur Akhmedov raconte son incarcération dans une prison du Kazakhstan. Il a refusé de transiger avec sa conscience et il est resté fidèle à Jéhovah.
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I think it's completely understandable now why it is that I don't like ANY of them.
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You may never have heard of the plant Brassica Oleracea, but you've definitely eaten it.
Six vegetables you can find in any grocery store and which most people eat on a regular basis are actually all from this one plant. Over the last few thousand years, farmers have bred Brassica Oleracea into six "cultivars" that eventually became many of the vegetables we eat:Â
Brassica is also known as the wild mustard plant.Â
"The wild plant is a weedy little herb that prefers to grow on limestone outcroppings all around the coastal Mediterranean region," Jeanne Osnas, a researcher at Purdue University who blogs as "The Botanist in the Kitchen," writes  in a blog post about Brassica Oleracea  . "It is a biennial plant that uses food reserves stored over the winter in its rosette of leaves to produce a spike of a few yellow flowers at the end of its second summer before dying. Those nutritious leaves make its domesticated derivatives important food crops in much of the world now."Â
This one plant was selectively bred over hundreds of years to create dozens of wildly different vegetables. By selecting and breeding plants with bigger leaves, or larger buds, the different cultivars (also known as subspecies) were created.Â
Several Brassica Oleracea cultivars on display.
The Botanist in the Kitchen
Kale, collard greens, and Chinese broccoli were created by making the leaves of the ancestor plant's leaves bigger, and were the first brassica domesticated, sometime before 300 BCE. Collard greens were developed in Europe, while Chinese broccoli was domesticated in China.Â
Red, green and savoy cabbages were created from a kale cultivar (likely the European collard greens) in the 1200s by selecting for a large terminal bud — the growing end at the top of the plant. The leaves are tightly wound around a short, wide stem (the cabbage's core).Â
Brussels sprouts are like tiny cabbages, except they grow from the buds along the plant's stem. They first hit the scene in the 1200s as well.Â
Kohlrabi was created by selecting for a thicker stalk in a kale plant around the 1400s.Â
Broccoli was created from a kale predecessor in the 1500s by selecting for the larger flower clusters, which are then harvested before they bloom. Cauliflower was developed from one of hundreds of broccoli varieties.Â
The amazing evolution of Brassica Oleracea just goes to show: Humans have been tinkering with the genetics of our food for much longer than we've been creating what are now known as genetically modified foods, or GMOs. These new lab techniques just let us do it in a more precise and directed way.Â
Next time you bite into a broccoli stalk, take a second to appreciate the magnificence and deliciousness of human ingenuity. You can read more about the evolution of Brassica Oleracea at The Botanist in the Kitchen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/broccoli-kale-brussels-sprouts-vegetables-all-the-same-plant-2015-11
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I'm not sure I can eat figs anymore. So sad.
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Figs are pollinated by female wasps, who lose their wings in the process of pollination. The wasp has no way to get out of the fig and so they die inside, and then the fig's enzymes breakdown and dissolve the wasp.
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51 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:
I do note that @Jack Ryan has been known to post ten provocative items in a day.
@TrueTomHarley... I wasn't aware that he was spamming links to his own websites to gain traffic? I'll I've seen him do is behave irreverently, disrespectfully and anti-JW. Anti-religion in general sometimes.
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@TrueTomHarley Aren't you taking the spamming to the extreme lately?  Once in A WHILE is ok... but it seems I see you doing it every week on here lately.Â
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Mit einer Grundsatzentscheidung hat das Verfassungsgericht die Regierung Südkoreas angewiesen, bis Ende des Jahres 2019 das Wehrdienstgesetz zu ändern und darin die Möglichkeit eines Ersatzdienstes aufzunehmen.
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My mother, little sister, and I attended three wonderful days of spiritual instructions ?
Writing a caption on this amazing convention that we have been blessed with is nearly impossible since every word that comes to mind seems so poor compared to what I actually feel! ? This convention was a blessing from Jehovah. He provides exactly what we need when we need it. It reminds us that we are all like Jonah. Imperfect humans. We have the desire to do what is right but sometimes we don't get it right. But Jehovah is guiding us all the way ?????
I still get goosebumps when i reflect on this convention, last day particularly. All three days were so full of Jehovah's expression of love for us, urging us to stay on the course ?????? So i'll just say that never have i gone from a convention feeling more touched, encouraged, and equipped to be courageous than after this year "Be Courageous" convention!
Again, words are not enough ???? #BestLifeEver-
jane.feliciaÂ
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Zwei von sechs Wohngebäuden wurden bereits bezogen. Hier kann man sehen, was noch auf der Baustelle geleistet wurde.
THE WATCHTOWER—STUDY EDITION (SIMPLIFIED) | November 2018
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This issue contains the study articles for December 31, 2018 to February 3, 2019.
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