Broad beans, also called fava beans, in their wild state the size of a small fingernail, were gathered in Afghanistan and the Himalayan foothills.

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Broad beans however produce large seedlings, and will suffer far less profound effects of weed competition other than during periods of water shortage at the crucial time when the pods are filling out.

Broad beans in the pod

Broad beans, shelled and steamed

Broad beans are eaten while still young and tender, enabling harvesting to begin as early as the middle of spring for plants started under glass or overwintered in a protected location, but even the main crop sown in early spring will be ready from mid to late summer.

Broad beans were one of the main foods in old Mediterranean Civilization above all for Old Romans and old Greek.

Broad beans are widely cultivated in the Kech and Panjgur districts of Balochistan Province in Pakistan, and in the eastern province of Iran.

Broad beans are primarily cultivated in the central and north parts of Iran.

Broad beans (, koukiá ) are eaten in a stew combined with artichokes, while they are still fresh in their pods.

Broad beans ( Amharic: baqueella ) are one of the most popular legumes in Ethiopia.

Broad beans are rich in tyramine, and thus should be avoided by those taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors.

Broad beans are rich in L-dopa, a substance used medically in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

Broad beans subsequently became traditional on Saint Joseph's Day altars in many Italian communities.

Broad beans remained prominent though, be it in the Near East where the seeds are mentioned in Hittite and Ancient Egyptian sources dating from more than 3, 000 years ago as well as in the Bible, or in the large Celtic Oppidum of Manching from La Tène Europe some 2, 200 years ago.

Broad and Ross have lately contended that this fitness is one of the main facts of ethics, and I suspect they are right.

Broad blades often have grooves known as fullers which lighten the blade while conversely increasing its strength and stiffness.

Broad areas, especially in Saguache County, Colorado have a high water table or are even flooded part of the year.

Broad calligraphy pens may have several slits in the nib to increase ink flow and help distribute it evenly across the broad point.

The Flyers have played their home games on Broad Street since their inception, first at the Spectrum from 1967 until 1996, and then at the Wells Fargo Center from 1996 to the present.

Albemarle and Pamlico sounds in North Carolina, Great South Bay between Long Island and the barrier beaches of Fire Island in New York, Isle of Wight Bay, which separates Ocean City, Maryland from the rest of Worcester County, Maryland, Banana River in Florida, Lake Illawarra in New South Wales, Montrose Basin in Scotland, and Broad Water in Wales have all been classified as lagoons, despite their names.

Ormesby Little Broad is used for sailing model yachts, and the Norfolk Model Yacht Club have an arrangement with Essex and Suffolk Water, which allows them to use the broad for this purpose once a month.

In 1567, an orata ( minor chief ) from Kituhwa is believed to have met with Spanish explorer Juan Pardo in the French Broad Valley to the north.

Samuel Dougherty, a carpenter, is claimed to have built the first dwelling in North Belle Vernon on Broad Avenue near Spring Alley.

The locks on the Aire and Calder and the lower Calder and Hebble ( below Broad Cut Locks at Calder Grove ) have since been lengthened, and can accommodate boats which are 120 ft by 17. 5 ft ( 36. 6m x 5. 3m ), but the shortest locks on the upper Calder and Hebble force boats longer than about to lie diagonally in the locks.

He did not have any capital to invest in the quarry, however, and the first workings reopened were on the " Broad Vein ", which yielded relatively hard slate that was less popular and harder to sell.

Since the start of the BID, a number of changes have happened on Broad Street, the first of which, the introduction of a team of Street Wardens, commenced in July 2005.

William Broad and Nicholas Wade, reporters who wrote Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud in Science ( 1983 ), have stated that scientists should have reviewed Miller's research more seriously at the time, and that their refusal to do so is evidence of incompetence and unprofessional conduct.

Broad Channel and West Hamilton Beach have teleprinters in parallel with the FDNY fire companies that also serve their area.

Other locations have been suggested including the Broad Street area ; Hockley in the Jewellery Quarter ; or the site of the Priory of St Thomas of Canterbury, now occupied by Old Square.

On the western flank of this lower range the French Broad and the other rivers of the first section, including the headwaters of the Great Kanawha, have their rise.

The Broad Gauge was technically superior but conversion of the standard gauge routes to broad would have meant reconstructing every tunnel, bridge and station platform, whereas universal adoption of the standard gauge only required the progressive conversion of the track itself.

Smaller portions have also been reclaimed at a number of places around the harbour, including Port Chalmers, Macandrew Bay, and Broad Bay.

The Broad Survey would have looked at approximately 1, 500 stars to help determine the abundance of Neptune-mass and larger planets around all star-types in Earth's sector of the Milky Way.

Opponents of Student Broad Left claim that many of the founders of the group, including all SBL candidates to the NUS National Executive Committee, have been closely linked to Socialist Action, pointing out that the Student Broad Left supports the same campaigns as Socialist Action, for example the Student Assembly Against Racism, Unite Against Fascism, Student CND and Cuban solidarity.

The school has built up a training mode of " Broad Entrance, Strong Foundation and Emphasis on Practice ", and under this training mode, the graduates have got high praises from their employers.

There is the city centre ( the economically valuable Central business district ), the affluent Jewellery Quarter, and Broad Street areas which have become fashionable for " luxury apartment " living, the Lee Bank area ( now known as Park Central ) which has been fully redeveloped, and there is the remainder of the ward ( herein: " remainder Ladywood ") which is relatively economically impoverished.

Saltillo was an important place on the EBT acting as a base station for the long grade up to Broad Top Mountain.

The scheme involved dredging of the River Yare from Norwich to Reedham, to make it deeper, construction of the Haddiscoe cut between Reedham and Haddiscoe on the River Waveney, enlarging of Oulton Dyke, between the Waveney and Oulton Broad, and linking of Oulton Broad to Lake Lothing by a channel which was long, and included a sea lock, so that it could be used at all states of the tide.

Just six miles ( 10 km ) long it rises two miles ( 3 km ) from the coast near Martham Broad and is navigable from West Somerton.

When completed it was 3. 5 miles ( 5. 6 kilometres ) long, with major wharfs at Broad Lane, Landywood and Wyrley.

Broad axes are used in the construction of timber houses, which has long traditions in the municipality.

The Broad Street Extension has five stops, is long, and connects Newark Penn Station to Newark Broad Street Station.

Originally planned as the first phase of the Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link, the line is one mile ( 1. 6 km ) long and connects Newark Penn Station to Broad Street Station.

It has a summit over long, thus " Broad Peak ".

Broad Universe created the Rapid Fire Reading with a small group of member authors who each read an excerpt from their work no more than 5 minutes long.

Broad Street is a 15-mile long road located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia and adjacent Henrico County.

While the Rockaway Line is a long and substantial line, it consists mostly of a long right-of-way crossing Jamaica Bay with a single station on Broad Channel island and two branches on a peninsula that is only several city blocks wide.

His professional record was 58-17-1 with 48 knockouts, defeating Gerrie Coetzee, Jimmy Young, James " Quick " Tillis, Renaldo Snipes, George Chaplin twice, Larry Alexander, Stan Ward, Alfredo Evangelista, Scott LeDoux, James Broad, James " Bonecrusher " Smith, and Tim Witherspoon in an exceptionally long career, and was a regular sparring partner for Mike Tyson, famously knocking the champ down in a 1990 session.

" Broad Street today is the Mecca of visitors as it has been through all its long history ," Newark merchants boasted, " they come in hundreds of thousands now when once they came in hundreds.

NUSA has long been held by the left factions of the National Union of Students of Australia usually by either the National Broad Left or the National Organisation of Labor Students or more often by the two, cooperatively.

* Broad, short loins, allowing the horse to raise the forehand and engage the hindend ( Xenophon describes the ability to collect ), and are stronger than long loins.