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Thistle is classified as a noxious weed in most places and must be controlled.
I've got the same problem, where there are fields of dandelions just beyond the borders of my gardens.
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Support is good for eggplants as the fruit may become heavy and can even break the branches.
Some support won't hurt, especially if it is a large fruited variety.
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To paraphrase a common saying, "One man's weed is another man's lawn".
First, let me say I've no experience doing battle with Bermuda grass.
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Just about anything can be grown indoors without natural sunlight.
We have quite a few people here who have grown peppers and small tomatoes indoors and in pots.
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Chances are picking the seeds once it's gone to seed isn't going to actually encourage new growth.
The longer you can leave the seed-heads on the plant the better (IMHO).
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So you know, I do not have personal experience with this.
Since you've already accepted a nicely sourced answer, I'll contribute some unsubstatiated tradition (i.e.
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In the past it has grown almost like a weed in our pots on our deck here in North Texas.
Additional to the other answers, basil famously doesn't like to be damp overnight.
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There is a very full description of the various types of hormone rooting compound here.
It is meant to stimulate root growth - in particular to stimulate the creation of roots.
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I found it difficult to mark just one answer as correct because all are.
I reccomend "Monkey Grass" because it is like a slow growing weed that reproduces slowly and looks nice!
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Simple answer is yes, flower shoots on lettuce is a sure sign of bolting.
It appears as though it has likely started to bolt.
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Dirt can mean pretty much anything, from good to poor quality soil.
Use coco peat - It's an organic soil derived from coconut husks for garden vegetables and plants which is Eco-friendly.
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If you can get over the "ick factor," you have an easily-applied source of organic nitrogen fertilizer close at hand.
The NPK numbers on the fertilizer represents the percent, by weight, of Nitrogen, P2O5 and K2O, respectively.
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The point of aerating your pile is to get oxygen to the microbes that break down the organic matter.
Your pile will compost without turning it, but it goes faster if you turn it.
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I bought a book, which talks about this, so here's an answer to my own question.
Well I wouldn't risk it, not in a cold compost system.
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Aloes, like most succulents, are very hardy and will withstand considerable neglect .
Some of the guys at my office have potted aloe plants.
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This looks a lot like an invitation to a No True Scottsman argument.
I concur with @T.E.D; the question is a "no True Scotsman" bar bet.
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Some villages had histories and thus names going back to Ancient Roman times.
Many towns and villages took their name from the ruling family, the owners of the village.
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The USA is the world's strongest country because of its military force.
The United States is one of the five largest countries in the world by area.
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Nearly all countries grew quickly in the 1950s and 1960s for pretty much the same reasons.
The USSR growth rate during the 50's was not exceptionally high.
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While Queen may refer to both Queen regent (sovereign) or Queen consort, the King has always been the sovereign.
There is a very good reason not to refer to the Queen's spouse as "King" - because they aren't the King.
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To no extent at all is the wars in the middle east caused by trade making the area heterogeneous.
They had a treaty beginning in 1941, after a few skirmishes along the area in question.
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"What I am really looking for is an estimation of the Muslim population..." @ThanosK and @T.E.D., an overall, general population estimation f.e.
The following is taken from my dog-eared copy of the New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History.
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In Hinduism and Buddhism there is message of peace and an encouragement to not be materialistic.
This relates to the "discovery" of Asian, and other non-European cultures by Americans.
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I guess those are greek tickets (εισιτηριον) for excavation sites or museums.
That is indeed Greek Looks like a Ticket to a museum or field.
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These are tickets to the archaeological sites of Epidaurus (which includes the still in use theatre) and Mycenae.
I guess those are greek tickets (εισιτηριον) for excavation sites or museums.
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Looks like you've rediscovered Jaspers's concept of the Axial Age.
There was no influence from China to the culture of Greece.
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Yes, I can tell you from personal experience that they certainly did whistle.
It is true that bombs in World War II would make a whistling sound as they fell.
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By the time that Qin had totally collapsed, Xiang Yu was China's hegemon.
The Han Dynasty came after the Qin Dyansty, after the government under Shi Huang Di collapsed.
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There were indeed some serious issues surrounding Kennedy's election in 1960, one of the closest elections in History.
As per your original question: The Wikipedia section does not claim that Joseph P Kennedy bought John F Kennedy's victory.
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"The grass family is one of the most widely distributed and abundant groups of plants on Earth.
As noted on the Wiki page, grass seed was imported to the new world to improve pasturage for livestock.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delhi#Early_history shows that the city was called Delhi (or Dilli) at least since the 12/13th century.
I am not exactly sure but I remember the media (in India) addressing Delhi as "HASTHINA".
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Dominus, plural Domini, in ancient Rome, “master,” or “owner,” particularly of slaves.
A greek-speaking slave (δούλος, doulos) I think would call his master κύριος (translit: kurios; lord, master, sir; vocative form: κύριε).
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The bulk of India then was not controlled by Porus, but by the Nanda dynasty, centered at Pataliputra.
I believe Alexander lost heart after his horse, Bucephelus, died from a wound received in the battle against Porus.
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Yes, this is true and yes, in most cases indefinite articles indeed developed from numerals, as @MGN already said.
Indefinite articles developed from numerals, and the definite articles developed from demonstratives.
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Preserving grammaticality and preserving meaning of the sentence are two different things.
In fact, you can remove pretty much and preserve grammaticality if you don't care about preserving meaning.
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In some nowadays Indo-European languages you can still see rests of base-20 numeral systems.
Modern Englishes, and many other well-known languages, use base 10 (ie decimal) systems of numerals.
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The difficulty arises not from the various linguistic properties of the language pair as many here suggest.
It depends on generally syntactic structure of two languages and -yes- some pragmatic issues.
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In English, certainly the most common use of do is Do-Support.
In traditional grammar, the word doing is a participle in all your examples.
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A caveat: I'm experiencing the tail end of a three day migraine.
I agree with the commentators that your question is a little confusing.
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The reason for this is that Russian is a much more tonal language than English.
Although I am quite fluent in Russian, I wouldn't say English sound particularly 'cold' to me.
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Palatalisation of /k/ before front vowels happens all over the place: Russian, Greek, Turkish, Persian etc.
Sinhala, one of the languages spoken in Sri Lanka has a four way deixis system.
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All the same methods of analysis that are used with spoken languages apply successfully to signed languages.
One idea that's been going around at least since the 80s is that you can distinguish between Holds and Moves.
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Newspeak, a "deliberately impoverished" language designed to prevent people from communicating and thinking about subversive ideas.
Every language is permeated by the cultural values in which it is immersed.
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In Russian, for example, animacy is not clear-cut in the distinction animate/inanimate.
As in Russian, Polish marks animate masculine nouns by having a genitive-accusative vs. the nominative-accusative of inanimate masculines.
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As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many.
This is an example I always find is helpful for first year.
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Zipf’s law, as I understand it, is not really about languages, but about statistics and probability.
As with all natural laws, Zipf's law is an approximation.
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A part of the question thusfar unattended is whether the concept of phoneme has always been contentious.
"Phoneme" is a theoretical construct which probably can't go away.
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If you arecomming from the non-linguistics environment, the best book is to start with Is Fromkin, Introduction to language.
This is what they recommend at Oxford as introductory textbooks to students starting a Masters' in Linguistics.
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From what I'm seeing it's generally accepted that most English speakers have a vocabulary size of 15000 to 20000 words.
According to a statistical estimation I know roughly 7000 words in English.
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A tent may give you slightly more protection than sleeping out in the open, but not much.
No, a tent will not give you any protection from bears that want what's inside.
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A few points to add here: Coyotes are not know to be aggressive towards humans.
In general they are not considered dangerous because they rarely attack humans.
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Nylon dries fast, is resistant to ripping and tearing, and fairly breathable.
Nylon, among other synthetics, is an ideal material for clothing for most outdoor pursuits for several reasons.
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GPS (wikipedia) is based on orbiting satellites and so is accurate worldwide.
GPS systems can, and do, work everywhere you can get satellites.
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Different parts of California have different wildlife, so you should probably narrow the region.
American black bears They are somewhat common in some wilderness areas of California, mostly in the mountains.
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So it's important to have a basic understanding before you even get on skis.
Skiing is a sport where taking lessons pays off very quickly.
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In a gym, the toprope will be wrapped over a cylindrical bar.
Alright, there are several different issues here that we must be sure to address.
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I visit AZ every summer and include some hikes in the desert when I'm there.
Apart from what has been said, your need of water also depends on what you eat.
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A wonderful woman I know has the Habenera bag by REI (link).
If you can settle on purple Nunatak and Feather Friends have good sleeping bags in those colors.
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An embolism in a medical context refers to any large moving mass or defect in the blood stream.
Here is an interesting article on wikipedia to give overview of pressure related injuries.
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It would be unusual for a snake to attack a stationary person.
I'm no herpetologist, but in my experience, snakes are in the "you don't bug me, I won't bug you" category.
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As I wrote above, it's hard to rate this wall.
Unlike others, I think the route is pretty well described.
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Once you open it up to toxins, the answer is clearly no, boiling is not enough.
Boiling eliminates only a certain class of contaminants that can make you ill.
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Different parts of California have different wildlife, so you should probably narrow the region.
You can get a rough estimate from using an online calorie estimation website.
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If you wear a bear bell on your backpack, your fellow hikers will kill you for being annoying.
The above advice is quite good, just wanted to add on thing to consider regarding food in bear country.
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Oh friend, I have been down this miserable road just like you.
Yes, it is accepted practice to wash new Semi-Static rope (or Single Rope Technique/SRT Rope as it is known by cavers).
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My opinion is to wait for the child to ask for it.
My opinion is to wait until the child itself expresses a desire for this.
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You are safe to use the bottles as long as they have been properly sterilised.
I would say it's completely safe so long as the bottles have been adequately rinsed to remove any detergent residue.
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He is taking the diaper off because he is uncomfortable.
You can try putting the diaper on backwards which may only work for a little while.
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I would recommend asking questions in a way that doesn't require a yes or no answer.
Would you be concerned with the mind changing if he wasn't shouting and/or misbehaving?
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Yes, twins can develop their own language, but it's not a given.
Here's what I saw with my fraternal twins: While learning to speak, all children develop some of their own dialect.
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Whatever you do, don't bite him back to show him that it hurts.
We always lightly bopped our kids on the mouth, therefore showing him that his mouth is what hurt you.
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A rule of thumb that I've heard is "for small children, big dogs".
Any breed of dog can be perfectly safe or extremely dangerous.
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I know of no firm evidence indicating that baby talk is either helpful or detrimental in language development.
Baby talk, when used correctly is beneficial to speech development.
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A possibility is to have a family meeting with the stated goal of working out the reward(s) for chores.
Many children, instead of being motivated by reward are motivated by being in control.
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The point is to get the air out that the infant sucks into the stomach while feeding.
I've found with my baby that it's more accurate to go by his behavior than by "rules".
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You should have a consultation route with the school head which can lead to direct consultation with a health professional.
It is always difficult when parents refuse to see what seems obvious to a teacher.
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You will be hard pressed to find scientific studies that answer these questions with any certainty.
The topics you mention are very broad and not closely related in the scientific world.
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Although cheese is very healthy and also good during pregnancy, some types might contain Listeria, which can cause serious problems.
As was mentioned, the problem with cheese is the potential for Listeria.
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Both of our children slept in a portable pen for at least their first year, and there were no problems.
Yours looks like the one we used for my kids (same brand and everything).
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I have never read anything that said teethers were bad--where did you read that?
We used a clean cloth or baby sock wrapped around an ice cube with our kids and grandkids.
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I'm facing a similar situation; being Danish and living in (German-speaking) Austria.
An alternative would be to expose her solely or additionally to Hindi in daycare.
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My son didn't become potty trained until about his 4th birthday.
Here are some things that worked with my son who started toilet training around 2.5 years.
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Show her how much fun splashing is - that's what we did, and made a game of it.
You can put her toys near her or give he toys to her.
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Our daughter has always loved her bath, but coming out... not so much.
My wife and I originally had the same problem with our newborn twins fussing when bath time was over.
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Playing doctor is something all kids want to try at some point.
I have been in a simular situation with my daughter and a female friend when they were 5 and 4.
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Most doctors do recommend rice cereal as the first food, as there is almost no worry of allergic reaction.
Eating off a spoon has to be an unusual experience for them.
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Most of the literature I can find about infant sleeping has to do primarily with waking habits, not eating habits.
In my experience, babies tend to wake up by themselves when they get hungry.
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Here is my advice based on my personal experience pumping breastmilk for twin boys for a full year.
I understand that the first 3 days are the most important, so much so it is vital you do it then.
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It is possible, but it will have to be a docile female betta and a bigish tank.
We tried putting a male betta in a community tank once.
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Turtles love eating goldfish and lots of things that fit into their mouths.
First, the turtles are eating the fish because fish are food, not friends.
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Given that the amount of shedding is normal, I don't think there's anything you can do to lessen it.
To reduce the amount of fur a cat malts over your furniture and clothes you could try a deshedder brush.
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My experience with Danios has that they always have been "bossy" fish.
Breed Zebra Danios are extremely hardy fish, they are almost difficult to kill.
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I have seen cats not like using the litterbox for a variety of reasons.
I think Keltari has some good ideas.... A cat can change its "taste" in litter material.
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Cats (and all animals in general) do not understand the concepts of order or tidiness.
They don't intend to leave those items around the house or untidy the house.
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It does sound like your cat is upset about something, and trying to communicate it to you.
Something is bothering your cat and he does not like it.
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I have noticed most cats don't lick people a great deal.
Cats may or may not lick a person based on all kinds of things.
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How could be you so sure that the fish died a natural death.
In my 200 L fresh water tank, which is an aggressive tank, fish occasionally get harassed to death.
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First, double-check the dog's body language to make sure that it is truly aggressive.
First, you should realize that this is not you or your dog's problem.
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The appropriate pH level of the water does vary a bit by fish, but too acidic can definitely kill them.
The info you've been given in the previous answers is good.
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My guess is that means your cat only marginally likes the food you're feeding him.
Some researchers believe domestic cats never really mentally grow up completely and they always look at you like their mom.
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