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Figs
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Actually, the fig we eat is the flower (of ficus carica) inverted
inward. The seeds are the real fruit in figs. No matter how you want
to classify figs, this is their season. They peak in late autumn,
according to Nick Agouridis, who grows four fig trees in his
Landisville back yard. He says the first slips from Greece came to
Lancaster after 1910, with John Agourides, who owned Rocky Springs
Park. Giving away figs is the best way to make friends, according to
Agouridis. And the best way to eat them is fresh, right off the tree.
A more nourishing, versatile, sweet food is hard to find. Figs ...
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John Hare, the founder of the Wild Camel Protection Foundation (WCPF), is attempting to circumnavigate Lake Turkana in Kenya by camel.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; ...Protection Foundation (WCPF), is attempting to circumnavigate Lake Turkana in Kenya by camel. He hopes that the six-week and 725-kilometre...but I don't think any foreigner has been right around the lake with camels before," said Hare.
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On the road to Lake Turkana. (fourth in series on Kenya) (Secret Corners) (Column)
Magazine article from: International Travel News
; ...join their Jeep ride to Lake Turkana. It took us 12 hours...northern part of Lake Turkana, which was known as Fergusson...arrived at the fringe of the lake and began living in one...The ambition of every Turkana man is to have many goats...
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Geniuses who plan to build a wind farm at Lake Turkana are in for a shock.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa)
; ...landscape and the Jade Sea, Lake Turkana, is there. If there...But the huge vastness of Turkana's water is barely drinkable...Iji, sank. Then the lake began to recede, fast...receding waters of Lake Turkana, the winds off Mount...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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One tribe fired my imagination as a boy. It took me 25 years to find them. Their fate? Engulfed by catastrophe, abandoned by the world, and facing a slow death that will diminish us all Fergal Keane's compelling dispatch from the people on a long march to extinction; THE LAKE - A LAST HOPE Because of the drought, growing numbers of Turkana are turning to Lake Turkana for survival. ......
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...bright, delicate beaded jewellery of the Turkana. One by one the women came up to me and...butt me. Among the tribes of Kenya, the Turkana are famous for their bellicosity. Like...Peter Ekai Lokoel. 'It's just the Turkana sign of welcome. It is their way of saying...
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Precise ^sup 40^Ar/^sup 39^Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...thick, crops out east of Lake Turkana and is part of the much...depositional system of the Omo-Turkana Basin. The upper half...currently drains into Lake Turkana, now a closed...systems. Sediments in the Turkana Basin are predominantly...
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Sequence of tuffs between the KBS Tuff and the Chari Tuff in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...reduced, and that the level of a lake that occupied the Omo-Turkana Basin at the time was low...influence on deposition in the Omo-Turkana Basin, previously shown for...1983) exposed in the Omo-Turkana Basin in northern Kenya and...
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Insecurity Hits Food Production in Turkana.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...Kakuma, Lokitaung and deep into Lake Turkana where fishing can be a major source...paralysed fishing activities around Lake Turkana. The insecurity has also led to...addressed, fishing activities in Lake Turkana will resume and therefore greatly...
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"It is better to be a refugee than a Turkana in Kakuma": revisiting the relationship between hosts and refugees in Kenya.(includes abstract in French)
Magazine article from: Refuge
; ...better to be a refugee than a Turkana in Kakuma. (1) Introduction...wars in the Horn and the Great Lakes region of Africa brought ten...nationalities to live among a people in Turkana District, Kenya, so impoverished...but by the local tribe, the Turkana (hereinafter, the hosts...
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The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Scattering Time is a history of the Turkana from beginnings in the Tarash Valley...between the Karamoja escarpment and Lake Turkana. The author describes the Turkanas...conducted extensive interviews with the Turkana and others in northwestern Kenya...
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Geochronology of the pre-KBS Tuff sequence, Omo Group, Turkana Basin
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...itself. Geological setting The Omo-Turkana Basin is up to 500km in length...and as much as 100km wide, with Lake Turkana occupying a significant fraction...the rift is associated with Lake Turkana, the focus of subsidence, where...
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