The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

There is a thriving industry in constructing words without explicit meaning but with particular connotations for new products or companies.

Now, all that lasts is the decaying shell of a once thriving dwelling .” Thus, without the decrepit backdrop to initiate the events, the Gothic Novel would not exist.

In 1926 he was placed in charge of monitoring shops selling opium, noting regular irregularities and a thriving illegal trade in the controlled substance ; believing opium to be essentially harmless, there is evidence indicating that Gardner probably took many bribes in this position, earning himself a small fortune.

The history of the Netherlands is the history of a seafaring people thriving on a watery lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe.

Conrad ’ s true experience of the Congo River from his time in Africa is that of a river “ thriving ” on the imperialist spirit.

Today, the Irish community in Mexico is a thriving one and is mainly concentrated in Mexico City and the northern states.

Water stress is important to the vine with it thriving in well drained soil more so than at base of a slope.

Once a thriving vacation city on the coast, it is still the second largest city in Mozambique, with a population of 300, 000.

Some non-Western countries, such as Japan, have developed a thriving pop music industry, most of which is devoted to Western-style pop, has for several years has produced a greater quantity of music of everywhere except the USA.

The screwball comedy is a principally American genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

According to a 2005 World Bank report, the " private airline business in Somalia is now thriving with more than five carriers and price wars between the companies.

The Nation of Trinidad and Tobago has enjoyed a thriving economy ( which is based on energy and oil ) from recent oil finds ( 48 million barrels ) to oil finds dating back to the 1950s.

The art was revived in the mid-20th century and natural trumpet playing is again a thriving art around the world.

There is, also, a thriving Bowls Club, with a carpet green, in Jubilee Park.

The Yarra Valley is host to a thriving wine growing industry.

Today, the town, with its population of 7, 444, is a thriving centre for music, art, theatre and natural health.

It is a thriving centre of commerce, and ambassadors from throughout the world arrive there.

Within sub-Saharan Africa, the species is still numerous and even thriving in marginal habitats where other large cats have disappeared.

There is even a thriving collector's market for the toys.

Lexington is home to many thriving arts organizations including a professional orchestra, two ballet companies, professional theatre, several museums including a basketball museum, several choral organizations and a highly respected opera program at the University of Kentucky.

This community is thriving.

There is a small but thriving community on the Internet of hobbyists who program in and design esoteric programming languages.

However, Naples is still characterized by political and economic corruption and a thriving black market, and unemployment levels remain very high.

Part-time farming gives a measure of security if the regular job is lost, provided the farm is owned free of debt and furnishes enough income to meet fixed expenses and minimum living costs.

For some retired persons, part-time farming is a good way to supplement retirement income.

The total is the probably gross income from farming.

Everything shouted gentleman farming, the kind of grandfather-father-to-son folding money the Point is known for.

Agriculture also called farming or husbandry is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain life.

Land which is unsuitable for arable farming usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water ; too hot ( desert ); too cold ( Arctic ); too rocky ; too mountainous ; too salty ; too rainy ; too snowy ; too polluted ; or too nutrient poor.

On the rim of the mountains, on the plateaus and the plains the economy consists of manufacturing and service jobs whereas in the higher altitudes and in the mountains farming is still an essential to the economy.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

Borrowing from the French Physiocrats the idea that all wealth originates with the land, making farming the only truly productive enterprise, agrarianism claims that agriculture is the foundation of all other professions.

He is a prominent defender of agrarian values and has an appreciation for traditional farming.

Thus agrarianism is not industrial farming, with its specialization on products and industrial scale.

Abalone pearl jewelry is very popular in New Zealand and Australia, in no minor part due to the marketing and farming efforts of pearl companies.

The area around Abensberg, the so-called sand belt between Siegburg, Neustadt an der Donau, Abensberg and Langquaid, is used for the intensive farming of asparagus, due to the optimal soil condition and climate.

The river is still used for transportation of farming produce ; however, it is not as important as it once was due to the construction of roads and railways.

Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants .< ref > Aquaculture ’ s growth continuing: improved management techniques can reduce environmental effects of the practice .( UPDATE ).

Peasant farmers who once practiced subsistence farming are being forced to farm what is best for foreign trade, mostly wine and oil.

Slightly over one-third of the canton is wooded (), while nearly half is used from farming ().

Steiner is considered one of the founders of the modern organic farming movement.

Because there is a natural season to farming and herding, it is easy to count and determine if a surplus had been gained after the crops had been harvested or the young animals weaned.

Some Jains abstain from farming because it inevitably entails unintentional killing or injuring of many small animals, such as worms and insects, but agriculture is not forbidden in general and there are Jain farmers.

By 1900, the family was farming southeast of Streetman, Texas, and Lemon Jefferson's birth date is indicated as September 1893 in the 1900 census.