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WRETCHED RAGWEED IF YOU ARE AMONG THE 20 PERCENT WHO ARE ALLERGIC, THERE ISN'T MUCH YOU CAN DO TO GET RID OF THIS PROLIFIC PLANT'S POLLEN. BUT THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN DO.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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Byline: DOUG BLACKBURN Staff writer
It looks like a mutant marigold waiting to blossom, standing four or five feet tall. The flowers, though, are more cone-shaped, and pea green in color.
It seems to be everywhere, particularly along roadsides and in fields. And this is its season.
Meet the common ragweed, ambrosia artemisiifolia, the bane of allergy sufferers. This and a less prolific sister species, the 10-foot-tall giant ragweed, are beginning to bloom throughout the Capital Region, much to the annoyance of men, women and children who will ...
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From fabled city to tourist treasure. (Greetings from Mycenae).(ancient civilization in Greece)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; MYCENAE'S SPLENDOR HAS FASCINATED COUNTLESS GENERATIONS...Tsountas, made more amazing finds. High atop Mycenae's acropolis, Tsountas discovered a series...the ground plan for the actual palace of Mycenae's rulers. Tsountas also uncovered a...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Mycenae's miracle; Ancient Greece.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...and a bloody ancient family feud make Mycenae, a fortified hill in the Peloponnese...in this succinct account of Bronze Age Mycenae and its curious hold on the imagination...businessman who turned his attention to Mycenae in 1876 after digging up Troy, was a...
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Mycenae `rich in gold'.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...DESCRIBE the great palace of Agamemnon at Mycenae (my SEE nee). For archaeologist Heinrich...magnificent treasures might lie hidden beneath Mycenae's great walls and dusty landscape...not all ancient graves in and around Mycenae were filled with treasures. In fact...
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HEAVEN ON EARTH MYCENAE - GREECE WHO Actor Robert Hardy WHY 'You would be hard pressed to find somewhere more historic'
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...pressed to find somewhere more historic than Mycenae in the Peloponnese. Legend has it that...preserved, which leads to the little town of Mycenae itself. If you go, be sure to hire a...astonishing part of the world, and a visit to Mycenae and the surrounding area lets you trace...
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The Helleno-British excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae, 159-1969; fascicule, 13: The Service areas of the cult centre. (CD-ROMs included).(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...British excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae, 159-1969; fascicule, 13: The Service...44 pages $52.00 Paperback Well built Mycenae GN720 This is the thirteenth in a series...monographs on the excavations at the citadel of Mycenae. It covers the service areas of the cult...
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BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: On the Amenhotep III Inscribed Faience Fragments from Mycenae.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...Chrestos Tsountas, George Mylonas, and William Taylour at Mycenae and mostly inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs have elicited...should be considered together.(6) The comparison of the Mycenae fragments to Egyptian foundation deposit bricks as put forward...
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Those beyond the walls: the Mycenaean era is known mostly for the great palaces at Mycenae, Pylos, and Tiryns. But what about the working people? It is necessary, and important, to look beyond the palace walls to find out how they lived.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...houses and settlements. Archaeological evidence is sail limited, but a group of four houses excavated outside the walls of Mycenae offers a good view of how private houses were constructed during the period of the palaces. These houses--the West House...
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Mycenae. (Calliope's World).
Magazine article from: Calliope
; Mycenae was an ancient city on the plain of Argolis...modern town of Mikinai. About 1400 B.C, Mycenae reached its height as the chief cultural...in the epics of the Greek poet Homer, Mycenae was the home of King Agamemnon, and the...
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Travel: A man could have no nobler grave Mycenae Dilys Powell's late husband, an archaeologist, was buried at Mycenae in 1936. In this extract from `An Affair of the Heart', just republished, she tells how a return visit rekindled her love for Greece
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; MY VISIT to Mycenae was a looking back. Eight years earlier...rock where Schliemann, when he dug at Mycenae in the 1870s, found royal treasure...for the first time in all my visits to Mycenae, at a table other than the Fair Helen...
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On the net.(web sites about Mycenae and Minoan civilizations)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...that is filled with information about Mycenae and links to related sites, try; www...For a tour of Agammenon's citadel at Mycenae, go to: www.lfc.edu/academics...Classics and Preseus site, with links to Mycenae and the ancient Grek myths, hit: www...
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