Word: beese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To city dwellers, the drowsy county of Kent means perfect peace and perfect quiet, dozing to the murmuring of bees, the lowing of cattle, the gentle purl of streams like the Beult, the Great Stour and the Little Stour. But in the Kentish village of Molash, 8½ miles from...
¶ On taxation: "The ancient kings took taxes from the people as bees take honey -without harming the flowers. Indeed, the flowers multiplied. The new rajahs take honey from the people in such a way that they cause pain. The flowers droop in sorrow."
Pearls & Bees. John-"that dear man" to Anne's tea-sipping cronies-was all work, although his peers regarded it as play. He produced artificial pearls from mussels he kept in the bottom of his fish pond. While Anne plunked at her pianoforte, he listened until he fixed the...
¶ Jewish dietary law forbids man to eat bees. But the Old Testament demonstrates over and over that eating honey is permissible, and this is surprising because generally the product of any nonkosher animal is forbidden. Why the exception for honey? Traditional halacha explains this on the ground that the...