Word: harttung
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...From Vermont, where veal and dairy farmer Abe Collins is developing software designed to help farmers foster carbon-rich topsoil quickly, to Denmark, where Thomas Harttung's Aarstiderne farm grazes 150 head of cattle, a vanguard of small farmers are trying to get the word out about how much more eco-friendly they are than factory farming. "If you suspend a cow in the air with buckets of grain, then it's a bad guy," Harttung explains. "But if you put it where it belongs - on grass - that cow becomes not just carbon-neutral but carbon-negative." Collins goes even...
...summer. The work is a translation with additions of the "Allgemeine Weltgeschichte" originally published in Berlin about fourteen years ago. The first twenty volumes treat the history of the Old World from the earliest times down to 1900, and are by distinguished German scholars, such as Justi, Herzberg, Pflugk-Harttung, Philippson, Prutz and Flathe. The next three volumes, on the History of America, are contributed by Professor John Fiske of Cambridge, and the last volume is an index. The work is profusely illustrated, containing facsimiles of coins and documents and many portraits from authentic originals. The original German edition closed...
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