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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]
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 ...
Demaree also described a swarm prevention method in 1884, but that was a two-hive system that is unrelated to modern "demareeing". [2] As with many swarm prevention methods, demareeing involves separating of the queen and forager bees from the nurse bees. The theory is that forager bees will think that the hive has swarmed if there is a drastic ...
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 ...
Buckfast bee. Breeder in 2015. 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 ...
Hamsa. A hanging hamsa in Tunisia. The hamsa ( Arabic: خمسة, romanized : khamsa, lit. 'five', referring to images of 'the five fingers of the hand'), [ 1][ 2][ 3] also known as the hand of Fatima, [ 4] is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings. [ 5][ 6 ...
One of Kes's costumes with wig and ear prosthetics. Kes is a fictional character in the science fiction television show Star Trek: Voyager, played by Jennifer Lien. Kes joins the crew of the starship USS Voyager in the pilot episode, opening an aeroponics garden and working as a medical assistant. She is a member of a telepathic alien species ...