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... vegetables such as madder , indigo , sumac , genista , and woad ; some from minerals such as ochre ; and some from animals , mollusks , and insects . Most have been improved by the addition of various chemicals , such as alum , which ...
... vegetables such as madder , indigo , sumac , genista , and woad ; some from minerals such as ochre ; and some from animals , mollusks , and insects . Most have been improved by the addition of various chemicals , such as alum , which ...
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... vegetables , and fruits . The main product of farming in the Russian S.F.S.R. has always been grain , and 60 percent of the farmlands are devoted to wheat , Grain and rye , barley , oats , and groat ( hulled ) crops . Fodder subsidiary ...
... vegetables , and fruits . The main product of farming in the Russian S.F.S.R. has always been grain , and 60 percent of the farmlands are devoted to wheat , Grain and rye , barley , oats , and groat ( hulled ) crops . Fodder subsidiary ...
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... vegetable ) was closely associated with the deity to whom it was offered as the deity's symbolic repre- sentation or even its incarnation . Thus , in the Vedic ritual the goddesses of night and morning received the milk of a black cow ...
... vegetable ) was closely associated with the deity to whom it was offered as the deity's symbolic repre- sentation or even its incarnation . Thus , in the Vedic ritual the goddesses of night and morning received the milk of a black cow ...
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