How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as chinampas, then they farmed them intensively.
These ingenious creations were built up from the lake bed by piling layers of mud, decaying vegetation and reeds. This was a great way of recycling waste from the capital city Tenochtitlan. Each garden was framed and held together by wooden poles bound by reeds and then anchored to the lake floor with finely pruned willow trees. The Aztecs also dredged mud from the base of the canals which both kept the waterways clear and rejuvenate the nutrient levels in the gardens.
A variety of crops were grown, most commonly maize or corn, beans, chillies, squash, tomatoes, edible greens such as quelite and amaranth. Colourful flowers were also grown, essential produce for religious festivals and ceremonies. Each plot was systematically planned, the effective use of seedbeds allowed continuous planting and harvesting of crops.
Between each garden was a canal which enabled canoe transport. Fish and birds populated the water and were an additional source of food. [x]
This is literally so cool. Not only does it contribute to spacial efficiency, but the canals would easily keep pests, weeds, and possibly even diseases out of the respective plots. Companion planting and bio-intensive planting would be so much easier. Water-wise systems would be inherently present. Plus it looks so super neat aesthetically. I am just all about this.
Indigenous civilizations invented sustainable development way before there was a term for it.
if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here
what does this say in english
“Good sir, if you are a resident of the United States of America and coming to visit the sunny land of Australia, allow me to inform you that you should be rather more concerned about being sucker punched by a gentleman named ‘Dane’ who is likely to be seen wearing a wifebeater with a beer company logo on it than by any of the dangerous spiders that exist on this lovely continent”.
ok so what does it say in american
“You’re more likely to get sucker punched/cold-cocked by an asshole than you are to be bitten by a spider”.
thank you
Well rattle my spoons, that don’t make a lick of sense. Wot in tarnation does this hootenanny say?
“If ya mosey on by Australia, you best be fixin’ to get to some fisticuffs more’n checkin fer spiders.”
So, while watching Game Center CX, they came across a very unusual game that I cannot find any records of.
Not much is known of this game since naturally it was never sold outside of Japan, perhaps maybe not even outside of Tokyo, but what we do know of it is this:
– The main characters are Isamu (the bear dude) and Condor (a drag queen trying to expose a serial killer in Tokyo’s gay district)
– It was made and funded by the gay community, programmed together by the bartender of a gay bar.
– It had a rather unusual time limit where the main character, Condor, had to solve the case before 5am or else their beard would be too unshaven and they would become exposed out of shame.
– and lastly, most impressively, it was a game that can only be played at night.
An internal clock in the cartridge would prevent the game from booting up unless it was after dark, since that is when most businesses open up in Shinjuku-Nichome.
I’m just stunned nothing of this exists from what I can find, but Game Center CX opened a little window into Japanese gay culture that I found really interesting.
you’ve seen the dog outside of town, lying where the witches were buried.
*rises out of the grave to pet the dog*
It’s a church Grim! He protects new graveyards from evil spirits who can hurt the young and innocent people who died tragically. *He’s protecting “the witches” who were hung for their “crimes” of witchcraft. When they were actually charged with refusing to help the mayor use love potions to seduce his neighbors’ wife even though she’s young and beautiful and he’s revolting and old enough to be her grandfather.
*The mayor should he ever decide to take a moonlit walk best try to stay his home across town. He wouldn’t want to be the victim of those wolves the children hear about in stories so much.
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