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11Barry Farm, Washington, D.C. — Barry Farm is a small neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., adjacent to St. Elizabeths Hospital. Possibly the oldest African American neighborhood in Washington, it is today almost entirely occupied by public housing projects and has a… …
12Measures of national income and output — A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate total economic activity in a country or region, including gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), and net national income (NNI). All are… …
13Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm — Infobox nrhp name = Gold Ridge Farm nrhp type = caption = location = nearest city = Sebastopol, California lat degrees = lat minutes = lat seconds = lat direction = long degrees = long minutes = long seconds = long direction = area = built =… …
14Intensive farming — or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, fertilizers, labour, or labour saving technologies such as pesticides relative to land area. [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article 9042533… …
15Herbizidtolerante Sojabohne — Herbizidtolerante Sojabohnen, umgangssprachlich auch „Gen Soja“ genannt, sind gentechnisch veränderte Sojabohnen, die bisher eine kostengünstigere, bessere und einfachere Unkrautbekämpfung ermöglichen. Die herbizidtolerante Sojabohne ist die… …
16Rural sociology — is a field of sociology associated with the study of social life in non metropolitan areas. It is the scientific study of social arrangements and behaviour amongst people distanced from points of concentrated population or economic activity. Like …
17High Atlas Mountains — The Atlas Mountains are a series of mountain ranges that stretch from west to east across North Africa. They run for 1,931 kilometers from the Moroccan city of Agadir in the southwest to the Tunisian capital of Tunis in the northeast. The two… …
18Agriculture and Food Supplies — ▪ 2007 Introduction Bird flu reached Europe and Africa, and concerns over BSE continued to disrupt trade in beef. An international vault for seeds was under construction on an Arctic island. Stocks of important food fish species were reported… …
19japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
20Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
