Reeves's muntjac Muntiacus reevesi
Observed by kesgeiszler, CC BY-NC
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Scientific Name: Heliotropium indicum
Common Name(s): Indian heliotrope
Family: Boraginaceae (borage)
Life Cycle: Annual
Leaf Retention: N/A
Habit: Forb
USDA L48 Native Status: Introduced
Location: Plano, Texas
Season(s): Summer
Native to India, hence the name.
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what what (European starling butt)
I've heard the Shakespeare's birds thing is overstated, but honestly it is *so* the kind of thing the Victorians/Edwardians would do
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“Introduced” Dialogue Prompts
“You mean I have to remember another name?”
“Welcome to hell.”
“I’d probably leave while I still had the chance.”
“...how much did he pay you-”
“If you think I'm insane, just wait until you meet the rest of us.”
“Huh, maybe you aren't as bad as the last.” “That's . . . very reassuring.”
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•Introduction•
Hello everyone~ I'll be signing in as Columbina, The Damselette and the 3rd of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers.
I'm new to this kinds of stuff and English isn't my first language so please forgive me for my grammar.
I'm new to her character too so if I didn't get her character right, apologies in advance..
I'd love to make friends and a "hi" will be much appreciated! Thank you and that's all.
-i will edit this post if I want to add something-
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Winston Churchill getting introduced to Princess Christina of the Netherlands, daughter of Queen Juliana in the Soestdijk Palace, Netherlands
Dutch vintage postcard
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omg thank you for all the B/Ratman love and new followers. Just fyi this is not my main blog, that is @rats-against-humanity
I do not do alot over there but that is what I will be following people back on :)
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if you’re gonna introduce me to something new you have to defeat my 7 evil ex hyperfixations
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Reeves's muntjac Muntiacus reevesi
with domestic cat Felis catus
Observed by jarvo, CC BY-NC
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Scientific Name: Scabiosa atropurpurea, syn. Sixalix atropurpurea
Common Name(s): Sweet scabious, pincushion flower, mourningbride
Family: Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle)
Life Cycle: Annual, perennial
Leaf Retention: Deciduous if perennial
Habit: Forb
USDA L48 Native Status: Introduced
Location: Plano, Texas
Season(s): Spring
On iNaturalist, there are 12 species listed under the genus Sixalix and another 50 or so under Scabiosa, but it’s not at all clear to me why they’ve been separated. Plants of the World Online (POWO), which iNaturalist uses as its taxon authority, regards Sixalix as a synonym for Scabiosa, and a search for Sixalix in the U.S. government’s Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) yields no results (i.e., it doesn’t even exist in ITIS). It seems to me that all the Sixalix species should be moved under Scabiosa, but what do I know.
The USDA PLANTS database shows this plant as a perennial, but from what I’ve been able to gather, that’s only under the most favorable growing conditions. Even then, it’s a short-lived perennial (perhaps 3 years or so), and it’s an annual otherwise.
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hbomberguy’s latest video on plagiarism has made me completely rethink literature and writing. I have never once so much as considered intentionally plagiarizing anyone or anything, but I think there’s something more that has come out of this: the names of the people who created the works Somerton (and others) ripped off.
Plagiarism isn’t only bad because it is lazy and disrespectful, it’s bad because it buries the truth. If you can’t find a source, the conversation is over. Somerton’s sources are fairly easy to find by simply searching his plagiarized lines, but that isn’t true in most cases. Most of the time, the line from statement to source is a lot less clear.
Today, I was writing a report on English Ivy, which is an invasive species here in the US. I wanted to know when it was introduced and I at last found a source claiming it was introduced to the Americas “as early as 1727” on a .net website that seems quite reputable (it has multiple major universities credited in its home page), but there is no citation for where this date came from. I dug deeper and found a pamphlet created by a city government in Virginia that made the same claim, only to discover the first source linked in their bibliography. Another website (a botanical garden’s page) gave the same date with the same source hyperlinked. Of course, I have classes to attend and things to do and probably not enough time to follow the lines back to where this 1727 date came from, but if I had not just watched this video, I wouldn’t have given that date a second thought.
Of course, it doesn’t matter in the long run exactly what year hedera helix was introduced to the Americas, but it makes you wonder how many facts have been so vaguely attributed that it becomes completely impossible to figure out where they originated (and further, whether or not they’re true at all).
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When the PlayStation 5 console launched ... https://www.xtremeservers.com/blog/introducing-community-game-help-a-new-enhancement-for-game-help-powered-by-user-generated-content/?feed_id=132080&_unique_id=66038d02623c6&Introducing%20Community%20Game%20Help%2C%20a%20new%20enhancement%20for%20Game%20Help%20powered%20by%20user-generated%20content
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"Now let us be introduced," she said.
"Incarnations of Immortality: Being a Green Mother" - Piers Anthony
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