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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A large international team of researchers recently published the 240-megabase DNA sequence of Phytophthora infestans, a robust parasitic water mold responsible for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, in Nature (1). Breeders have not been able to produce potato cultivars that remain resistant to this insidious blight, aptly named as the plant...
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Late blight is infamous as the cause of the Irish Potato Famine, an unforgettable period of Irish history in which four consecutive years of potato crop failure in the mid-1800s left millions of people starving or dead. And though these days most people think of the disease as a potato plague of the past, it remains a serious problem, threatening to wipe out...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... have been victims of various and sundry human rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent, I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European...
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Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... have been victims of various and sundry human rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent, I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European...
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Skippy's Vegetable Garden (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... there's a non-bee speaking. And someone who don't need the pleasure of beauty. I did like to hear potatoes described as "exciting". The Irish potato famine of 1740, caused by Late Blight spreading rapidly in Irish fields planted almost exclusively with a single variety, lasted 3 years. I hope our Late Blight episode in New England is more short-lived....
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Bifurcated Carrots (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here’s a video made during the recent get-together in Oxford. This is Tom talking a bit about his seed catalog as it was in the past, together with his vision for the coming years. Tom also has a few words at the end of how important the Lumper potato is to him and [...]
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Frugal Café Blog Zone (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... the Great Depression as Obama said, what is our condition now? What tops the Great Depression? The Irish Potato Famine?)Why, maybe ANOTHER exaggeration would do the trick. Like announcing that Obama’s stimulus/porkulus package created thousands more jobs than it actually did. Inflate AND exaggerate… let’s see if that works.I won’t be nasty and unfair to POTUS as he has been...
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Osoblog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... onto the subject of her father: 'My dad is literally the biggest tight-arse, he's a miser, an Irish potato famine miser.' Seriously, doesn't Peaches have an agent or something to shut her up at moments like this? Or better yet, just stop her giving interviews altogether. She even moved the usually bland Fearne Cotton to note 'she hasn't got that base level of politeness or...
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Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... with cash. ‘My dad is literally the biggest tight-a***,’ Peaches complains. ‘He’s a miser, and Irish potato famine miser.’ Given he is such a tight-arse, one suspects Geldof may regret his support for Peaches’ spiritual journey. A French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of banning the group from operating in France. Two branches of the...
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Fire on the Mountain (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... House lawn. It shares the northwest corner with similar monuments to the Armenian Genocide, The Irish Potato Famine, and the Nazi Holocaust. Lawrence Hamm, state Chairman of POP, along with other speakers spoke about extensively the history of slavery in NJ and its legal abolition after the Civil War. "Many people don't know that the NJ State Assembly voted to nullify...
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SOCIAL BIKING BLOG (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
When Jonathan Swift suggested that Irish children be fattened up and fed to rich landowners he was KIDDING and everyone knew it. The terrible Irish potato famine could have ended at any time, if only rich British landowners had simply dropped their selfish opposition to imported potatoes. Famine on your doorstep is a life or death issue and Swift wanted to...
