It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

A forest crop that has not been extensively cultivated is ivory nuts from the tagua palm.

The Belgians were interested primarily in the economic development of the Congo, which is rich in copper, tin, cobalt, manganese, zinc, and uranium, and cotton and palm oil.

Characteristic of the Sahara is the date palm, which flourishes where other vegetation can scarcely maintain existence, while in the semidesert regions the acacia, from which gum arabic is obtained, is abundant.

There is also production of textiles, palm products, and cocoa beans.

Popular tourist attractions include the archaeological sites of the Minoan civilisation, the Venetian old city and port of Chania, the Venetian castle at Rethymno, the gorge of Samaria, the islands of Chrysi, Elafonisi, Gramvousa, and Spinalonga and the Palm Beach of Vai, which is the largest natural palm forest in Europe.

Vai has a palm beach and is the largest natural palm forest in Europe.

Masala refers to spices, and this is the name given to the thick and pasty sauce based on a combination of spices with ghee ( clarified butter ), butter, palm oil or coconut milk.

The common chimpanzee is a ' knuckle walker ', like the gorilla and the bonobo, in contrast to the quadrupedal locomotion of the orangutan, a ' palm walker ' that uses the outside edge of its palms.

In comparison with the French bow, the German bow has a taller frog, and it is held with the palm angled upwards, as is done for the upright members of the viol family.

It is held as if the hand is resting by the side of the performer with the palm facing toward the bass.

Another distinctive feature of the modern dagger is that it is designed to position the blade horizontally when using a conventional palm grip, enabling the user to slash right or left as well as thrust the blade between an opponent's ribs.

It is also significant the shrimp production, sugar cane, rice, cotton, corn, palm and coffee.

One exercise to practice the proper weight to air relationship is the palm exercise where you hold your horn by laying it on its side in the palm of your hand.

Another Greenpeace movement concerning rainforest is discouraging palm oil industries.

Acknowledging that mass production of palm oil may be disastrous on biodiversity of forests, Greenpeace is actively campaigning against the production, urging the industries and the government to turn to other forms of energy resources.

The palm tree was also sacred to Apollo because he had been born under one in Delos.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Replacing animal fats with tropical vegetable-oils, such as palm oil, simply substitutes one saturated fat for another.

The first ancestral hyenas were likely similar to the modern banded palm civet ; one of the earliest hyena species exhumed, Plioviverrops, was a lithe, civet-like animal that inhabited Eurasia 20-22 millions years ago, and is identifiable as a hyaenid by the structure of the middle ear and dentition.

What he said was neither new, remarkable, nor particularly interesting ... He talked for more than an hour in a voice which never varied in tone, resting one hand in palm of the other and periodically glancing at his fingernails ... He insisted on my remaining for lunch.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

A hollow outline ( white ) glyph indicates that one is facing the palm of the hand, a filled ( black ) glyph indicates that one is facing the back of the hand, and split shading indicates that one is seeing the hand from the side.

Modified as described below, it indicates that at least one of the four fingers touches the palm of the hand.

Straight lines represent straight fingers ( these may be at an angle to indicate that they are not in line with the palm ; if they point toward or away from the signer, they have a diamond shape at the tip ); curved lines for curved ( cupped ) fingers ; hooked lines for hooked fingers ; right-angle lines, for fingers bent at only one joint ; and crossed lines, for crossed fingers, as shown in the chart at right.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the largest Portuguese cities in the Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products-almost all the produce of a continued forced labour system.

However this may have been nothing more than a symbolic relationship, as one account of the annual tribute owed each year to Majahpahit was a jar of areca juice obtained from the young green nuts of the areca palm.

From castings that fit in the palm of your hand to train beds ( one casting can create the entire bed for one rail car ), it can all be done with sand casting.

The Banys Àrabs, or Arab Baths, one of the few remnants of Palma's Moorish past, are accessed via the quiet Ca ' n Serra street near the Convent of the Cathedral, and include the lush gardens of Ca ' n Fontirroig, home to Sardinian warblers, house sparrows, cacti, palm trees, and a wide range of flowers and ferns.

A friction ridge is a raised portion of the epidermis on the digits ( fingers and toes ), the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot, consisting of one or more connected ridge units of friction ridge skin.

If runs are to be scored as byes, the umpire will hold up one open palm above the head.

* Khalasah ( Arabic: ' quintessence ') — one of the most famous palm cultivars in Saudi Arabia, famous for its sweetness level that is not high nor low, thus, suits most people.

The other common representation depicts him crouching, holding a palm stem in each hand ( or just one ), sometimes with a palm stem in his hair, as palm stems represented long life to the Egyptians, the years being represented by notches on it.

Normally kneeling ( one knee raised ), the god typically holds in each hand a notched palm branch.

But one day while his parents were away, he decided to climb a palm tree any way.

The Arenga palm grows here, one of only a few Australian mainland locations where this occurs.

The complex however includes many more attractions: Besides the Tiergarten, an orangerie erected around 1755, staple luxuries of European palaces of its type, a palm house ( replacing, by 1882, around ten earlier and smaller glass houses in the western part of the park ) is noteworthy.

Nuts of the zamia palm were something of a staple food, though it required extensive treatment to remove its toxicity.

Other staple foods include pulses ( dried legumes ), sago ( derived from the pith of the sago palm tree ), and fruits such as breadfruit and plantains.

The main economic staple in the region is the palm tree, the oil of which is extracted and sold to external markets.

It grew abundantly in the Fertile Crescent and it was so productive ( an average date palm produces 50 kg ( 100 lbs ) of fruit a year for 60 years or more ) that dates were the cheapest of staple foods.

" Wattalapan "-a steamed pudding made with coconut milk, eggs, and jaggery ( a sort of solidified treacle extracted from the kitul palm ) has become a staple Sri Lankan dessert, although first introduced by the Malays.

The date palm was considered a staple in the Judean Desert, as it was a source of food, shelter and shade for thousands of years, and became a recognized symbol of the Kingdom of Judea.