“Oranjegekte is the expression of the Dutch spirit. It is a phenomenon that occurs every year on queensday (30 April) and on every international football championship. Those are the very few occasions where our normally dormant patriotism comes back with a vengeance...Orange is our national colour. it comes from the Royal Family who's surname is Van Oranje-Nassau.” http://www.flickr.com/groups/oranjegekte/
An unpeeled orange floats, while a
peeled orange sinks.
“Because the mutation left the fruit
seedless and, therefore, sterile, the only method to cultivate navel
oranges was to graft cuttings on to other varieties of citrus tree. …
Today, navel oranges continue to be propagated through cutting and
grafting. This does not allow for the usual selective breeding
methodologies, and so all navel oranges can be considered fruits from
that single nearly two-hundred-year-old tree: they have exactly the
same genetic make-up as the original tree and are, therefore,
clones.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28fruit%29
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