March Flower: South Africa
April Fool, Blood flower, Paintbrush Lily, PowderPuff Lily, King-of-Candia, Picushion
A Summer surprise popping from bulbs! The bulb contains coccinine which is an alkaloid with a known convulsive action.
Fresh leaves were applied as a dressing to septic ulcers and sores and also to the pustules of anthrax. A diuretic was made from the sliced bulb boiled in vinegar and mixed with honey. Asthma was also treated with this mixture. www.plantzafrica.com
A Summer surprise popping from bulbs! The bulb contains coccinine which is an alkaloid with a known convulsive action.
Gerard Moerdijk: S. African Architect
The Voortrekker Monument was built in honor of the
Construction began on the 13th July 1937 and it was inaugurated on 16th December 1949.
Monument to Karle Landman leader of the Voortrekkers.
Paleontologists Uncover World’s Oldest Dinosaur Nesting Site
This is an artist’s interpretation, showing 190 million year old nests, eggs, hatchlings and adults of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus in
Credit: Artwork by Julius Csotonyi
Close-up of embryonic skeleton of Massospondylus from clutch of eggs at the nesting site.
Credit: Photo by D. Scott
Legendary fossil hunter
James Kitching found thousands of important pre-dinosaur fossils from more than 250-million years ago in the Karoo (South Africa) , and also helped prove the Theory of Ccontinental Drift: that Southern Africa was once part of a much larger land mass that included Antarctica, parts of the Americas and Australia.
There was a lot of debate about whether Gondwana Continent (South America, southern Africa and Antarctica) had ever existed.
So Kitching was recruited to fly down to Antarctica and look for fossils common to both continents. And it was there, on a rocky snowy shelf, that he found the fossilised skeleton of Thrinaxodon, just like the one he had found near Bethulie in the southern Free State province of South Africa.
Historical Period: Early Triassic (250-245 million years ago)
Size and Weight: About 20 inches long and a few pounds
Diet: Meat
The Aardvark: A South African MammaL
This animal is also named antbear or Cape AntEater after the Cape of Good Hope.
Aardvarks have cylindrical shaped teeth that continue to grow through its lifetime!
Aardvarks live in African savannas, open grasslands, woodlands, and scrub, from southern Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
It is a nocturnal animal which lives below the ground in burrows. It can weight between 40 and 65 kg and measures 1-1.30 metres. It eats ants of course!
The only fruit that an Aardvark eats is the Aardvark cucumber (Cucumis humifructus)
Aardvarks have cylindrical shaped teeth that continue to grow through its lifetime!
Aardvarks live in African savannas, open grasslands, woodlands, and scrub, from southern Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
It is a nocturnal animal which lives below the ground in burrows. It can weight between 40 and 65 kg and measures 1-1.30 metres. It eats ants of course!
The only fruit that an Aardvark eats is the Aardvark cucumber (Cucumis humifructus)
Winnie-The-PooH
Lines written by a bear of very little brain...
On Monday, when the sun is hot
I wonder to myself a lot:
"Now is it true, or is it not,
"That what is which and which is what?"
On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,
The feeling on me grows and grows
That hardly anybody knows
If those are these or these are those.
On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
And I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it´s true
That who is what and what is who.
On Thursday, when it starts to freeze
And hoar-frost twinkles in the trees,
How very readily one sees
That these are whose- but whose are these?
On Friday -
On Monday, when the sun is hot
I wonder to myself a lot:
"Now is it true, or is it not,
"That what is which and which is what?"
On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,
The feeling on me grows and grows
That hardly anybody knows
If those are these or these are those.
On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
And I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it´s true
That who is what and what is who.
On Thursday, when it starts to freeze
And hoar-frost twinkles in the trees,
How very readily one sees
That these are whose- but whose are these?
On Friday -
CrAcK SoMe JoKeS
How should you dress on a cold day?
QUICKLY!
What did the hat say to the scarf?
You hang around while I go on ahead.
And here´s list of some books:
1. Easy Money by Robin Banks
2. Time to Eat by Dean R. Bell
3. Long Walk by Miss D. Bus
4. The Dog´s Dinner by Nora Bone
QUICKLY!
What did the hat say to the scarf?
You hang around while I go on ahead.
And here´s list of some books:
1. Easy Money by Robin Banks
2. Time to Eat by Dean R. Bell
3. Long Walk by Miss D. Bus
4. The Dog´s Dinner by Nora Bone
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