Tulips and the Tulip Bubbles They're a riot of color that make people smile. Yet economists make a Bad Example of tulips. Tulips cr...
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Hamburg Botanic Garden, Germany Trip Part 6 Today we visited the Botanic Garden of Hamburg, Germany. Not, however, the old, well-known park...
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Trip To Tropical Crop Plants Germany 2016 part 5 Today we visited the Universit�t Kassel Gew�chshaus f�r tropische Nutzpflanzen (greenhouse...
Friday, 30 September 2016
Trip To Germany Part 4 2016 The G�nseliesel fountain is probably the most iconic landmark of G�ttingen. For many decades graduating Ph.D. s...
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Trip To Burg Hanstein In Germany Part 3, 2016 The trip today was to a castle ruin called Burg Hanstein and the nearby forest. Burg Hanstein...
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Trip To Kassel In Germany Part 2, 2016 Today we visited the city of Kassel, specifically the Bergpark Wilhelmsh�he, a large park to the wes...
Monday, 26 September 2016
Trip To Germany Part 1, 2016 We have arrived in Germany for a family holiday. A few observations, mostly on the trip getting here. I ...
Sunday, 12 June 2016
Plant Story Of The Peonies From Europe Europeans have been using two of their five native peonies, the female peony Paeonia officinalis ...
Sunday, 12 July 2015
the Frisian Coast Frisians? Who are the Frisians? I first remember asking that question in reaction to a Great Courses course ( link ) about...
Sunday, 24 May 2015
I hadn�t grasped how small and densely populated Gibraltar is: 2.6 square miles with over 30,000 people. The bay teemed with commerce. The ...
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