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Egyptian Gallery. Amulet of Egypt, Ancient , Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur. An amulet, also known as a good luck charm, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor. The "Amulets of Ancient Egypt" fall in approximately seven major categories: Amulets of gods/goddesses and sacred animals. Amulets of protection (or aversion)
An entry in the Pet Simulator series, Pet Simulator X sparked controversy among the Roblox community when the developers, BIG Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. [76] [non-primary source needed] [77] The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. [78]
Manufacturer. various. In beekeeping, a Langstroth hive is any vertically modular beehive that has the key features of vertically hung frames, a bottom board with entrance for the bees, boxes containing frames for brood and honey (the lowest box for the queen to lay eggs, and boxes above where honey may be stored) and an inner cover and top cap ...
Minoan seals are impression seals in the form of carved gemstones and similar pieces in metal, ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization. They are an important part of Minoan art, and have been found in quantity at specific sites, for example in Knossos, Malia and Phaistos. They were evidently used as a means of identifying ...
Beekeeping. Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax ...
Buckfast bee. The Buckfast bee is a breed of honey bee, a cross of many subspecies and their strains, developed by Brother Adam (born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany), who was in charge of beekeeping from 1919 at Buckfast Abbey in Devon in the United Kingdom. Breeding of the Buckfast bee is now done by breeders throughout Europe belonging to the ...
Robotics is related to the sciences of electronics, engineering, mechanics, and software. [2] The word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920. The term "robotics" was coined by Isaac Asimov in his 1941 science fiction short-story "Liar!" [3]
For a Swarm of Bees. " For a Swarm of Bees " is an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm that was intended for use in keeping honey bees from swarming. The text was discovered by John Mitchell Kemble in the 19th century. [1] The charm is named for its opening words, " wiþ ymbe ", meaning "against (or towards) a swarm of bees".