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• Pat Shingleton: "Weather Readings, Leaf and Time Changes"

  October 31, 2019 11:25 PM

  Weather observations probably first occurred when man first stomped around on the earth. The Babylonians recorded wind directions in 900 B.C.E. on an eight point compass. In India and Greece, during the fifth century, rainfall records were kept and from 1337 to 1344 Oxford scholar William Merle made the first... more »

• Pat Shingleton: "Kudzu, LSU and Notre Dame..."

  September 24, 2019 10:48 PM

  You may be pulling a few weeds and vines around the property this weekend. “The vine that ate the South” is the kudzu plant, native to Asia and introduced to the United States in the 19th Century. LiveScience.com reported that the vine was classified as a pest weed by the... more »