* Acorns: Annual, singly or in pairs ; nut oval, rounded or acute at apex, bright chestnut brown, shining, one and a quarter to one and one-half inches in length ; cup, cup-shaped or turbinate, usually inclosing one-half or one-third of the nut, thin, light brown and downy within, reddish brown and rough outside, tuberculate near the base.

Acorns and conifer seeds are staples during the non-breeding season ; these are often cached in the ground or in trees for later consumption.

Regional tarot decks commonly feature culture-specific suits ; the German suits of Hearts, Bells, Acorns and Leaves are used through most of Germanic Europe ( Switzerland substitutes Hearts for Roses and Shields for Leaves ), the Latin suits of Cups, Coins, Staves and Swords are common in Italy and Spain, and the French suits familiar to most English speakers are seen in France, Quebec, West Germany and most of the English-speaking world.

Acorns take between about 6 and 24 months ( depending on the species ) to mature ; see List of Quercus species for details of oak classification, in which acorn morphology and phenology are important factors.

Acorns take 2 years to mature and are saucer-to bowl-shaped with a rounded tip, and large in size ( cup 20-30 mm wide, 6-8 mm deep, nut 20-35 mm ).

Mid Somerset Hockey Club and Wells City Acorns Hockey Club both play on the Astroturf pitches at the Blue School, where several other sports clubs are based.

In November 2009, his biography entitled " From Tiny Acorns: The Kenny Baker Story " was made available through his website and at conventions and book signings.

The Oaks ( or “ Acorns ” as they were also called ) played their home games at Freeman ’ s Park at 59th Street and San Pablo Avenue and at Recreation Park in San Francisco.

In their first season at Oaks Park the Acorns finished last, and were mired in the second division for more than a decade.

* Acorns on short stalks and turn chestnut brown in the fall.

Acorns are relatively large in this species, from 2. 5-3 cm ( 1-1. 2 in ) long and 1. 5-1. 8 cm ( 0. 6-0. 7 in ) wide.

Acorns vary from 1 – 6 cm long and 0. 8 – 4 cm broad.

Many of Britain's IT professionals gained their early experiences on Acorns, which were often more technically advanced than commercially successful US hardware.

Acorns germinate on different schedules, depending on their place in the oak family.

Then the announcement of local children's hospice Julia's House as the shirt sponsor for the year, following on from successful schemes such as Aston Villa and Barcelona with Acorns and Unicef respectively.

The Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park Children's Centre in Sutcliffe Avenue ( formed in 2004 by the combination of the Sure Start Centre and Nunsthorpe Nursery School ) and the Woodlands Acorns Daycare Centre on Bradley Park, provide support for the estates ' younger children.

Acorns and pine nuts are the most important foods, making up the great bulk of the diet, with grain, berries and other fruits making up the rest of the vegetable diet.

Acorns with ' hairy ' cups

Acorns, along with other nuts, are termed mast.

Acorns also contain bitter tannins, the amount varying with the species.

Acorns of the white oak group, Leucobalanus, typically start rooting as soon as they are in contact with the soil ( in the fall ), then send up the leaf shoot in the spring.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, an Oak Tree eradicted Vert fructed with five Acorns of the same.

Acorns from the great oaks fed the small black pigs ( akin to Berkshires ), whose `` carcass sweepstakes '' were renowned.

Sibelius, originally created for RISC-based Acorn computers, was so well-regarded that, before Windows and Macintosh versions were available, composers would purchase Acorns for the sole purpose of using Sibelius.

The name also vaguely suggested the name of the old minor league Oakland Oaks, which were alternatively called the " Acorns.

Acorns are used for making flour or roasted for acorn coffee.

Acorns are also edible to humans in processed form, after leaching of the tannins.

Acorns are heavily utilized by livestock, mule deer, feral pigs, rodents, mountain quail, Steller's jay, and woodpeckers.

Acorns constitute an average of 50 % of the fall and winter diets of western gray squirrel and black-tailed deer during good mast years.

Acorns sprout into seedlings after fire and sites that have been cleared of canopy and leaf litter in fires are ideal for seedling success.

Acorns are dispersed from September to early December.

Acorns are available in the valley, but are rare elsewhere in the high country.

the Annual Catalog in March ; ;

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

* Manza, Jeff ; " Political Sociological Models of the U. S. New Deal " Annual Review of Sociology, ( 2000 ) pp. 297 +

The functional language Haskell restricts side effects with a static type system ; it uses the concept of monads to do stateful and IO computations .< ref > Imperative Functional Programming, Simon Peyton Jones and Phil Wadler, < em > Conference Record of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages </ em >, pages 71 – 84, 1993 </ ref >

* July 21 – July 23 – G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit ; issues include AIDS, the ' digital divide ', and halving world poverty by 2015.

* Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ... 1901 ( 1902 ); highly detailed compilation of facts and primary documents ; worldwide coverage online edition

* The Annual Cyclopedia ... 1902 ( 1903 ), highly detailed compilation of facts ; worldwide coverage online edition

* American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1861 ( N. Y .: Appleton's, 1864 ), an extensive collection of reports on each country and U. S. state, Congress, and military activities, and many other topics ;

* The TRS-80 Color Computer ( and clones ) still has users and an annual conference in Chicago ; as of 2007 the 17th Annual " Last " Chicago CoCoFEST is scheduled for April 2008.

; Fairs: The Annual Summer Fair and other seasonal fairs such as May Day were often bawdy affairs.

* Annual day fees: £ 17, 475-£ 22, 815 ; Juniors £ 10, 299 ( numerous scholarships and bursaries available )

Annual precipitation is only ; March and April are the wettest months.

Annual rites took place there in classical times ; Pausanias refuses to describe them.

Annual production is about 300, 000 tons ; 61. 3 % from Portugal, 29. 5 % from Spain, 5. 5 % Italy.

# Annual parliaments, thus presenting the most effectual check to bribery and intimidation, since though a constituency might be bought once in seven years ( even with the ballot ), no purse could buy a constituency ( under a system of universal suffrage ) in each ensuing twelve-month ; and since members, when elected for a year only, would not be able to defy and betray their constituents as now.

* From Berkshire Hathaway 2004 Annual Report ; see Wikiquotes for text.

Annual precipitation ranges from 20 inches ( 51 cm ) in the lowlands to 32 inches ( 81 cm ) in the hills near Skyline Boulevard and I-280 ; most of the rain falls from November through April.

Native plant communities include: coastal sage scrub, California Annual Grassland, and Coastal Dune Scrub species ; however, most native plants have been eliminated from within the city limits to make way for agriculture and urban and industrial development.

* Txoko Ona Basque Dance-date varies ; the 10th Annual Basque Dance was held on March 13, 2010.