The Book of Threes - A Subject Reference Encyclopedia

Three Sisters --- corn, beans, squash

threes@threes.com (threes) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:44:19 +0000

Three Sisters

The ancient Native American technique of growing Corn, Beans, and Squash together in an arrangement called the Three Sisters is the ultimate in companion planting and helps increase harvests, naturally!

Corn acts as a support for climbing bean vines, the beans fix nitrogen in the soil for the high feeding requirements of corn and squash, and the squash provides mulch and root protection for the corn and beans! After cooperating beautifully in the garden, corn and beans form a complete protein when eaten together! How's that for a mutually beneficial relationship?

The Three Sisters are all easy to direct sow in the garden and are a great project for children, teaching them about the beauty of natural harmony while providing a fast-growing reward for their efforts.

Make the best possible use of your garden space this season, and try growing the Three Sisters! Just follow the easy steps listed below, fertilize well, plant other companions like herbs to assist with pest control, and you'll be harvesting your best crop in no time!

Soil management

threes@threes.com (threes) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:22:42 +0000

Essential Nutrients

There are 15 essential elements that plants must have in order to grow properly.

The primary nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

18 Essential Nutrients

Nutrient elements obtained from atmosphere through photosynthesis
- Hydrogen
- Carbon
- Oxygen

Plants in threes

threes@threes.com (threes) — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:18:17 +0000

A search list from plants.usda.gov.

Results for Common Name = three

150 records returned.

NASA probes spots temporary third Van Allen radiation belt

threes@threes.com (threes) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:44:17 +0000

NASA probes spots temporary third Van Allen radiation belt

This'll driver the lunar deniers crazy

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco

Posted in Science, 1st March 2013 08:11 GMT

For over fifty years schoolbooks have been teaching about the Van Allen belts, two torus-shaped zones of charged particles that encircle the Earth. Now, a NASA mission has discovered that there is a third – but only when conditions are right.

Last August, NASA fired a pair of Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) into the belts to do the most detailed study yet of their composition. The spacecraft, heavily shielded to function in the plasma belts, were scheduled to start booting up their equipment in slow and steady progression – witness how long Curiosity was on the Surface of Mars before all her systems were used.

The Midnight Riders, April 18-19 1775

threes@threes.com (threes) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:23:44 +0000

Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott Sounded the Alarm

The ride of the three men triggered a flexible system of “alarm and muster” that had been carefully developed months before, in reaction to the colonists' impotent response to the Powder Alarm of September 1774. This system was an improved version of an old network of widespread notification and fast deployment of local militia forces in times of emergency. The colonists had periodically used this system all the way back to the early years of Indian wars in the colony, before it fell into disuse in the French and Indian War.

In addition to other express riders delivering messages, bells, drums, alarm guns, bonfires and a trumpet were used for rapid communication from town to town, notifying the rebels in dozens of eastern Massachusetts villages that they should muster their militias because the regulars in numbers greater than 500 were leaving Boston, with possible hostile intentions. This system was so effective that people in towns 25 miles (40 km) from Boston were aware of the army's movements while they were still unloading boats in Cambridge.

Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord.Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride.Unlike in the Powder Alarm, the alarm raised by the three riders successfully allowed the militia to repel the British troops in Concord, after which the British were harried by the growing colonial militia all the way back to Boston.

The Twenty Amino Acids

threes@threes.com (threes) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:35:53 +0000

Amino acids are organic compounds that combine to form proteins. Amino acids and proteins are the building blocks of life.

When proteins are digested or broken down, amino acids are left. The human body needs a number of amino acids to:

Break down food

Grow

Repair body tissue

Perform many other body functions

Amino acids are classified into three groups:

Essential amino acids
Nonessential amino acids
Conditional amino acids

Basketball

threes@threes.com (threes) — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:52:56 +0000

Basketball - History

There are three special names for some of the NCAA championship rounds (March Madness)

They begin with sixty-four teams
Then become thirty-two teams

The names begin here:

Sweet Sixteen
Elite Eight
Final Four

After that it's the final two teams in the championship

HISTORY

Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

After serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the problem of finding a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. Naismith joined the University of Kansas faculty in 1898, teaching physical education and being a chaplain.

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Triangle, Square, Circle: A Psychological Test

threes@threes.com (threes) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:36:35 +0000

1. Fill in these three forms with one of the the primary colors: red, yellow, or blue. The coloring is to fill the form entirely in each case. One color per shape.

2. If possible, provide an explanation for your choice of color.

In 1923 Wassily Kandinsky circulated a questionnaire at the Bauhaus, asking respondents to fill in a triangle, square, and circle witht he primary colors of red, yellow, and blue. He hoped to discover a universal correspondence between form and color, embodied in the equation red=square, yellow=triangle, blue=circle.

The Ides of March

mike.eck@gmail.com (Mike Eck) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:22:16 +0000

The Ides of March

by Borgna Brunner

The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.

The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:

Kalends (1st day of the month)
Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)