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The Haw Lantern (1987) is a collection of poems written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Several of the poems—including the sonnet cycle "Clearances"—explore themes of mortality and loss inspired by the death of his mother, Margaret Kathleen Heaney (the "M.K.H." referenced in the dedication to "Clearances"), who died in 1984 and of his ...
A Horizontal top-bar hive is a single-story, frameless beehive in which the comb hangs from removable bars that form a continuous roof over the comb, whereas the frames in most current hives allow space for bees to move between boxes. Hives that have frames or that use honey chambers in summer and use management principles similar to those of ...
[2] In 1986, Cadillac Desert was a finalist for both the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award (BABRA). In 1999, a Modern Library panel of authors and critics ranked it 61st on a list of the 100 most notable English-language works of nonfiction of the 20th century.
BS National Beehive: This smaller version of the Langstroth class of hive is designed for the less prolific and more docile Buckfastleigh bee strain, and for standard dimension parts. It is based on square boxes ( 18 + 1 ⁄ 8 in or 460 mm side), with a 8 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (230 mm) standard/brood box and shallow, 5 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (150 mm) Supers ...
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, is a 2010 book by science reporter Sam Kean. The book was first published in hardback on July 12, 2010, through Little, Brown and Company and was released in paperback on June 6, 2011, through Little, Brown and ...
Each chapter contains a number of short passages describing short episodes and focusing on a particular character. In this way a series of insignificant events and characters work together to form an important conclusion, much in the same way that a hive of bees works together to achieve something much more than they could achieve individually.
[2] NPR said, "Disappearing Earth comes closer in spirit to great American literature than most of the fiction set within U.S. borders." [1] The book was named one of the top ten books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review. [5]
The first chapter of this novel is a short story titled "The Stoker". The story describes the bizarre wanderings of sixteen-year-old European immigrant Karl Roßmann (Rossmann), who was forced to go to New York City to escape the scandal of getting a housemaid pregnant. As the ship arrives in the United States, he becomes friends with a stoker ...