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Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile and agricultural, Ceres is technically a dwarf planet but is regarded ... Demeter is the Greek equivalent of Ceres, and as the myth goes ...

Plant Medic columnist Ricky Kemery says native coneflowers are drought tolerant and deer resistant while attracting ...

The iris is a uniquely generous perennial; as it grows, the plant produces increasing rhizomes (underground stems), which ...

Astronomers are able to predict eclipses far into the future with increasing precision thanks to records being kept for ...

With US President Donald Trump waging a tariff war with China, the question arises of whether Greece is stuck in a Thucydides ...

This Chick-Fil-A item was a Southern classic staple on the menu for four decades, but tastes change and it was discontinued, ...

However, this model is built on the presumption that dark energy, represented by the Greek letter lambda (Λ ... cosmic explosions that occur when white dwarf stars "overfeed" on a companion ...

Eris is named after the Greek goddess of discord and strife, and the dwarf planet has one moon, named Dysnomia, Eris' daughter and the demon goddess of lawlessness. The last dwarf planet in our ...

In 2003, he unearthed the head of the horned Stygimoloch—from the Greek and Hebrew ... a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or a Nanotyrannus, a dwarf species, rarely documented, the very existence ...

The earliest known reference to a Pygmy—a "dancing dwarf of the god from the land ... In the fifth century B.C., the Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a Persian explorer who saw "dwarfish ...

An interior capital shows the dwarf deity Bes playing a harp and a ... an astrological concept known as exaltation, or hypsoma in Greek, which holds that the planets’ connections with particular ...