Despite what you see at Christmas, Pine trees are not reserved exclusively for decorating houses, hotels and shopping malls. Pine trees are extremely valuable resources for a variety of industries, especially those in the paper industry which use the trees' timber and wood pulp. Pine Tree Logging Other popular uses for Pine trees include: ·Wood: Used for building furniture, homes, coffins, window frames, and floors ·Cones: Crafters love Pine cones to decorate mantles, doors and tables ·Needles: Used to fill mattresses and pillows ·Resin: Good source of turpentine and can be used to waterproof items Pine tree resin can also be heated and used as glue. In colonial America, settlers used hardened Pine resin as dental fillings. Sources: Google Search Google Image Search Author: Kristjan Mägi VLE 1-12 13.02.2013
Alfred the Great and the rise of Wessex to cultural pre-eminence Alfred the Great was the king of southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, stands out for his social and educational reforms and for military successes against Danes Improved the army and navy, bought vessels bigger than vikings The first town planner By 880s Wessex was covered with public strongholds, grid of streets, planned fortified towns where landowners, traders and crafters started marketing First English king who worte books More learned laity Danelaw, Viking territories in the British Isles During 9th C all Scottish Islands and the Isdle of Man went to the Vikings The Danes invaded East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and established their kingdom- Danelaw Even being christianized, they retained their systems of manorial organization, land measurement, law and social differentiations.
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