(semi-mature young)‚ workers‚ soldiers‚ and reproductive individuals of both genders‚ sometimes containing several egg-laying queens. Contents [hide] 1 Social organization 1.1 Reproductives 1.2 Workers 1.3 Soldiers 1.4 Diet 2 Nests 2.1 Mounds 2.2 Shelter tubes 3 Human interaction 3.1 Timber damage 3.2 Termites in the human diet 3.3 Agriculture 3.4 Termites as a source of energy 3.5 Ground water divining in ancient India 3.6 In captivity 4 Ecology 4.1 Plant defences against
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Hopewell culture left a magnificent legacy behind of earthworks and mounds that are found in what is now southern Ohio and across the United States. These earthworks would be lost if they were not federally protected by congress. What is so special about the mounds the Hopewell culture built is that they are the largest of any found earthworks and mounds. The Hopewell culture was known for the construction of huge geometric mounds‚ as the walls were built from the earth‚ which is believed to be used
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Chapter One: A New World The most detailed American historical records begin after European colonization (2). Countless amounts of people recorded the history America captivated until the present times. Answers to many of the questions some people have about America hides in the past‚ but a good amount of documents provide the public important evidence for some. Explaining how Europeans settled in the New World with various ways of doing so‚ and why Indians and Europeans live differently will take
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the landowner‚ Edith May Pretty‚ helped unearth some of the mounds on the burial site. When they did this‚ they found out that the burial site was Anglo-Saxon‚ and that grave robbers have disturbed some of the ruins. Around the site‚ there are around twenty barrows‚ or mounds‚ and the ship itself was found in one of the mounds. Many of the burials were found in the actual mounds‚ but twenty-seven other burials were found outside the mounds. Sutton Hoo is somewhere as old as around A.D. 625‚ this is
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Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Limited v.The Miller Steamship Co. Pty. Limited and another (Wagon Mound No 2)‚ Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from the Supreme Court of New South Wales‚ 1966 There are extracts from this case at p. 80 of Weinrib and then a summary of the result of this case at p 183. The case has some important passages beyond what appear in the p. 80 extract. Please add the following to your reading: LORD REID‚ LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST‚ LORD PEARCE‚ LORD WILBERFORCE
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During this on-going expansion‚ Americans came across many areas that were inhabited by people including the Indians and the "mound-builders." Bryant describes these primitive‚ yet advanced people as the mound builders as‚ "A race‚ that long has passed away‚/ Built them;-a disciplined and populous race/ Heaped‚ with long toil‚ the earth." Later he compares the mound builders way of
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Barrow sits between the parish church and the River Esk in Repton‚ Bluffshire‚ U.K. Last summer‚ I examined evidence for previous disturbance(s) of the site and assessed the extent to which the original Neolithic burial mound remained intact. I excavated two different sites on the mound‚ one on the east end and another on the west end of the barrow. While excavating and cleaning each of the sections‚ I recovered artifacts and human bones. I was also able to draw a stratigraphic profile of each excavation
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discovered in fragments. The interpretation of excavated Viking graves was also problematic due to religious ambivalence from pagandom to Christianity even though many of the archeological findings were from the Viking Age (Pulsiano and Wolf; Burial Mounds and Burial Practices). Nonetheless‚ the burial customs present the modern world with the important aspects of the perception of reverence for ancestors‚ life after death‚ and social structure in the old Scandinavian culture. Scandinavians believed
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*The Eastgate Complex*: The Eastgate Complex located in Harare‚ Zimbabwe was designed by the Engineers of Arup led by Mick Pearce. This complex is designed with the inspiration from the ventilation design from termite mounds. Termites require their home to remain at an exact temperature of 30.5°C throughout the day even when the temperature ranges from 1°C (during the night) to 40°C (during the day). This complex has natural cooling ventilation process with specially designed hooded windows‚ variable
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remoteness used by the courts was developed in the case‚ Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock & Engineering Co Ltd (The Wagon Mound) No 1. In this case‚ Lord Simons said that it was the foresight of the reasonable man which alone can determine responsibility. However there does not appear to be any definition of what exactly constitutes reasonable foresight. Since The Wagon Mound No 1 the courts have frequently reiterated that the defendant may be liable even though he could not envisage that precise
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