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Chicory is related to the Dandelion and common salad greens, such as endive.

10 things you might not know about chicory.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/11/23-november-chicory.html

#Chicory #Plants #frenchRevolutionaryCalendar

The word teasel comes from an old use of the plant, which was raising the nap on woollen cloth, also known as teasing, which produces teased wool.

10 things you didn't know about teasels:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/09/3-september-teasels.html

#Teasels #Plants #Nature #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Oh my! The French revolutionaries didn’t joke when they called this month #Thermidor! Today is the 6th, celebrating horsetail. #OnThisDay #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar #FrenchRepublicanCalendar

Ancient Mesopotamians believed juniper oil would ward off the evil eye. In Britain it was used in a similar way – hung over doorways on May Day Eve and burned at Halloween. Dreaming of gathering juniper berries in winter meant you would be prosperous.

10 facts about juniper.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/11/29-november-juniper.html

#Juniper #plants #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

In cookery, haricot beans are good at absorbing the flavour of the dish they are served with. They are commonly used to make canned baked beans.

Ten things you might not know about haricot beans.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/07/11-july-haricot-beans.html

#Beans #HaricotBeans #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Ants love peony nectar, which forms on the outside of the petals, so the flowers will attract them. The ants do no harm to the plant and it’s thought they might deter other harmful insects.

10 things you might not know about peonies:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/06/17-june-peonies.html

#Peonies #plants #Flowers #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

The Langton Elm in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, was a large elm tree that "was for a long time so remarkable as to have a special keeper", according to a book published in 1881.

Ten things you might not know about elm trees:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/03/2-march-elms.html

#Trees #Elms #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Zinc was probably given its name by alchemist Paracelsus, from the German word Zinke meaning "tooth-like, pointed or jagged", because zinc crystals look a bit like Needles.

10 things you might not know about zinc:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/01/17-january-zinc.html

#Zinc #Facts #Metal #Elements #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

The chemical symbol for tin is Sn. This is short for the Latin name for it, stannum.

10 things you might nto know about Tin:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2017/01/15th-january-tin.html

#Tin #Elements #Metals #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

The word copper has its origins in Roman times when they referred to it as “aes cyprium” meaning ore from Cyprus, since that is where most copper came from back then.

10 facts about copper:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/01/13-january-copper.html

#copper #elements #metals #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

One of the things maples are famous for is their beautiful autumn foliage. In Japan, there is a custom called momijigari that specifically celebrates the changing of the maple leaves.

Ten things you might not know about maple trees:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/12/11-december-maple-trees.html

#Maple #Trees #Facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

There are about ten species of ivy, including English Ivy, Irish Ivy, Persian Ivy and Japanese Ivy. Ground Ivy, Boston Ivy and poison ivy are not related to the true ivies.

Because today is the Day of Ivy in the French Revolutionary Calendar, and because Christmas is coming, 10 things you didn't know about Ivy.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/12/8th-december-ivy.html

#Ivy #Facts #Plants #Christmas #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

In the French Revolutionary Calendar, 5 December was the Day of Roe Deer. 10 things you might not know about deer:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2020/12/5-december-deer.html

#Deer #Facts #Animals #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

A cedar tree can grow to 30–40m in height and have been known, on occasion, to reach 60m. At the other end of the scale, the trees can be trained as bonsai trees and be small enough to keep indoors.

10 things you might not know about cedar trees:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2020/12/3-december-facts-about-cedar-trees.html

#Facts #Trees #Cedar #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

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Pheasants can fly, but prefer to run. Running, they can reach eight or ten miles an hour.

10 things you might not know about pheasants:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/11/november-15-day-of-pheasant.html

#pheasants #gamebirds #facts #birds #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Oranges are one of the best sources of Vitamin C, and as they don't spoil easily, were great for stopping sailors getting scurvy. Citrus trees were planted along trade routes by Spanish and Dutch traders. The peel is also rich in vitamin C.

10 facts about oranges:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2016/11/14-november-oranges.html

#oranges #fruit #citrus #facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Pomegranates often appear in heraldry. Granada has pomegranates on its coat of arms. Pomegranate was also an emblem in the arms of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife. When Anne Boleyn took her place as Henry’s wife, she changed to emblem to an image of a white dove pecking at a pomegranate.

10 things you might not know about pomegranates:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2016/11/november-9-pomegranate.html

#Pomegranate #Fruit #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar #facts

The world’s first Sandwich, invented and eaten by the Earl of Sandwich, contained cold roast beef and watercress.

Ten things you might not know about watercress:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/11/7-november-watercress.html

#Watercress #Facts #Plants #Food #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Pear trees belong to the genus Pyrus, a member of the Rose family. Hence the word pyriform means pear-shaped.

10 things you might not know about pears:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2017/10/24-october-pears.html

#pears #fruit #facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

There are about 70 different species of sunflower. They are not all yellow. Some are Orange, Red, peach or even striped. There are even some which are shaped like puffballs.

10 things you might not know about sunflowers:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2017/10/10th-october-sunflowers.html

#sunflowers #facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar #flowers

The presence of a donkey in a stable or field is thought to have a calming effect on nervous horses.

10 things you might not know about donkeys:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/10/6th-october-day-of-donkey.html

#Donkeys #Facts #Animals #DayoftheDonkey #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

In the French Revolutionary Calendar, a different plant, tool, substance or creature was celebrated each day of the year. 30 September is the turn of the Parsnip.

10 things you might not know about parsnips:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/09/30-september-parsnips.html

#Parsnip #vegetables #facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Folklore in the United Kingdom says that blackberries should not be picked after Old Michaelmas Day (11 October) as the devil will have made them unfit to eat, by stepping, spitting, or fouling on them.

10 things you might not know about blackberries:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/07/27th-july-day-of-blackberry.html

#blackberries #fruit #food #facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

Watermelons get their name from being 92% Water. In fact, early explorers would use them as water canteens.

The French Revolutionary Calendar celebrated melons on this date. Here are 10 facts about melons.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/07/21st-july-melons.html

#Melons #Fruit #Facts #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

It’s said that planting elder near your home will keep Witches and the devil away, although burning the wood is said in some traditions to summon the devil, and witches are said to congregate under the trees, especially when they are full of fruit.

10 things you might not know about elderberries:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/06/5-june-elderberries.html

#Elderberries #Fruit #Folklore #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar #Elder #Trees

In Handel's opera Serse, the famous aria, "Ombra mai fu," is sung by the title character in praise of his favourite plane tree.

In the French Revolutionary Calendar, today is Platane, or Day of the Plane-tree. 10 things you might not know about plane trees:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/03/22-march-plane-trees.html

#PlaneTrees #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar #Trees #Facts