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Environmental Factors 2
The sun's height in the sky is crucial in determining climates and microclimates. Latitude, longitude and the earth's tilt govern amounts of sun reaching locations.
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Sun and Shade
Knowing the daily and annual sun positions helps to make landscape designs accurate and realistic. Sizes of extremely shady or sunny spots are easy to estimate.
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JavaScript, Tools, Free Downloads
The best Java tools, free Java downloads, and how to get started with Java, including the difference between Java and Java Script.
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What Kind of Shade? - Part One - Shades of Shade
Definitions of shade aren't an exact science, but it's important to get a grasp on the shades of shade.
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Comets Stay Hot: Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp Keep Comet Interest Coo

Love in Hand: (Part 1) Palmistry
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Selecting A Garden Site
Planting your first flower garden from scratch is exciting – and a challenge! Start out right with this simple guide to selecting the best possible site for your garden.
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Browning’s ‘How do I love thee?’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's speaker in "How do I love thee?" counts the ways that she loves her beloved: there are four ways in the octave and four ways in the sestet.
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Sad Love Story DVD Review
Sad Love Story is one of those typical melodramatic stories about a young couple who fall in love only to be teared apart from each other for their own good.
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Solutions for Global Warming
Many have talked about cutting back on carbon dioxide emissions, as a way of controlling global warming. This article discusses other alternatives.
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Online plants
How to buy plants online: what to look for in the descriptions.
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The Scale of Things: Angles, Speeds and Distances in Astronomy

Looking Back to the 2002 NBA Draft
This June marks the five-year anniversary of the 2002 NBA Draft. Hindsight offers a better picture of which teams were most successful in that draft.
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The Astrology---Love Connection
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Pieris
One of my favorite broad-leafed evergreens, Pieris or often mistakenly called Andromeda, is perfect for the shady garden. A member of the Ericaceae and closely related to Rhododendrons, it thrives in the same kind of moist, organic, acid soil.

Dark Matter in the Universe: Missing Mass Continues to Baffle

Environmental Factors: 1
Recognizing and working with environmental factors helps to avoid expensive and distressing landscape design mistakes. Environmental factors interact with each other to make every site unique. Paying attention to these factors is also essential for a yard or garden plan to be successful over time.
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NL West: Trades, free agents
The San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Deigo Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks were all busy National League West teams during the winter.
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Parallax
How do you know how far away something is when you cannot travel to it? For instance, how do we know how far away stars are from the Earth? One way to find out is by using the principle of parallax.
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Hollies
Hollies (Ilex) belong to the family Aquifoliaceae. There are over 350 species native to North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, the Orient and Brazil. They range in size from dwarf shrubs to huge trees. Both evergreen and deciduous ones are readily available from local nurseries and by mail order. The evergreen varieties are the most useful as ‘bones’ for the garden. Many will also provide the added bonus of berries, which can be red or yellow.
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Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
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Ajuga and other Groundcovers
Perennial groundvers can be attractive and useful and you don't have to restrict your choice to just Ivy or Vinca.
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It's Cold Outside!
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The Night Sky for April 2007
April brings a meteor shower, Venus shining near the beautiful Pleiades cluster, and the moon occulting a planet and a bright star.
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Lights, Camera, Food!
On Oscar night, you don't want to spend the evening in the kitchen. Wraps can help!
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Whiskey Barrel Water Gardens
How to set up a water garden in a whiskey barrel.
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Doing business in Japan
Japan, is there anything other than geishas and sushi? This week we discuss doing business in Japan and try to go beyond the obvious. The article discusses doing busin
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Programming, so simple even a child can do it.
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Red Sea Vacations - Learn to Dive in Egypt
Explore the magical depths of the Red Sea when you learn to dive in Egypt with qualified PADI instructors. Go on a Camel Safari. See Belly Dancers and shop in the markets
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Transition Desert Garden
The "transition" zone portion of your desert garden will require less water and less maintenance after establishment. Here are some suggested plants, as well as watering
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Down with Moustaches: Rethinking front-of-the-house landscaping.
Let's put a stamp of individuality on our front yard landscape instead of that same old dreary line of tired shrubs.
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F/SF Events to April 9
Here's a list of events that may be of interest to F&SF readers and writers
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Flower Garden Basics
How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size.
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Summer Safety for Greyhounds
Greyhounds and Summer Safety
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"The Wilderness": A New Garden From Wild Woods
Extending the garden into the ‘Wilderness' is a large project entailing major clearing to turn this weedy, rooty bit of ground into a proper garden and the fun of selecting new plants to take the place of Nature's weedy bits.
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Kalmia
Kalmia, or Mountain Laurel, is one plant whose buds are just as neat and lovely as the open flowers. Sometimes the buds are a completely different color from the open flower, and since the flowers don’t open all at one time, the effect can be very lively. It is one of the most beautiful of native U.S. shrubs in flower.
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Gardening for the 5 Senses Part II: Gardening for Touch

Gardening for the 5 Senses Part III: Fragrance Gardening

Italy - Explore Capri's Ancient Sites on Foot
Explore Old Capri and shop in via Camarelle for high style Italian fashion. Visit Anacapri, Amalfi Coast, the famous Blue Grotto and the ruins of a fabulous Roman Villa.
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Beauty Makeover
As women we don't have a lot of time but still want to look our best. The 5 Minute Makeover will help you look polished and professional but still on time for the day!
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Gamma Ray Bursts: Powerful Objects Remain a Mystery

Here a Planet, There a Planet

How to Get Out of a Makeup Rut
Make sure the time you spend on your face is well spent. Is your makeup still flattering, or are you just in a makeup rut?
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Nuclear Density, Stellar Mass: Neutron Stars and Pulsars Continu
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Astronomy: An Introduction
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 showed that the solar system is still a very volatile place.
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Creation in the Old Testament
Creation in the Bible is compared with the Hindu view. The anthropocentric focus in the Bible pulls the two views apart and overshadows the similarities.
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Directing Rainfall
Average rainfall in most North American deserts is between 10 and 18 inches per year. Rainfall runoff from an average home there can mean tens of thousands of gallons of
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Edible Desert Gardens
There are many plants that are beautiful, produce edible fruit (or are edible themselves) and grow well in desert gardens.
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Gardening In Shade - Introduction
Shade:. Shade can be cool, dappled, heavy, light, dank, dry and wet. It gives relief from summer’s unrelenting heat. Shade provides a home to some of the most beautiful of plants.
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