The Martyr Hyacinth, who was from Caesarea of Cappadocia, was the chamberlain of the Emperor Trajan. On being constrained by the Emperor to partake of the sacrifices offered to idols and not wishing ...

No one's sure how the South American water hyacinth invaded Africa's Lake Victoria but there's little doubt as to the damages it has caused. In 1989, the weed was spotted in the lake and seven ...

As a child, I was given a toy garden with plastic flowers you could push into holes in a board. Not the most sustainable of ...

Nowruz, which means “new day,” will be celebrated on March 21 this year, and traditions include spring cleaning and family visits. The hyacinth is a symbol of springtime and is used as a popular ...

Bhopal: IISER-Bhopal's groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the genomic basis of water hyacinth's rapid growth and its potential for translational applications. The research has ...

If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad began in 1934, with the Burlington Zephyr's phenomenal Dawn-to-Dusk run, surely they culminated in 1949, with the arrival of the California Zephyr.

Every fall I buy hyacinth bulbs to force into bloom in the middle of January. With hardly any effort, I can have hyacinths ...

Early last year, on a slushy predawn morning, I drove to the Montana state capitol building, in Helena, to see the legislature in action. The body is made up of a hundred and fifty “citizen ...

Lawrence Kipruto runs a bar and a restaurant in Milimani, Kisumu County. He uses wood charcoal to cook food and roast chicken and meat for his customers. But wood charcoal is expensive in Kisumu ...

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The solar-powered Airbus Zephyr S has spent 26 continuous days airborne, beating the record it set in 2018. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air traffic and ...

Billed as five-star cars on account of the quintet of areas in which they pushed the boundaries, the Mk1 Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac packed independent front suspension, oversquare overhead-valve ...