Samez
Emperor
Flowers can also be a symbol for fertility...
Hmmmm. I'd like to hear/read more about this.And specific flowers had specific meanings, so you could send secret messages through them.
Any contemporary drama on TV shows what happens. The guy turns up at the door with flowers, the woman looks surprised, gives them a cursory sniff, and says she'll find a vase to put them in. After that the flowers are never mentioned unless the woman wants to know what the occasion is or someone else wants to know why she received flowers, and from whom.Why are flowers considered romantic gifts? I mean, they've pretty, but what would a woman actually do with them? Is it just a holdover from when women were expected to be homemakers?
One year my dad's girlfriend pushed him into doing the "traditional Valentine's Day" present she thought suitable for a father to give his daughter. So he gave me a white teddy bear and a box of chocolates. The bear was cute, but the problem with the chocolates is that they had ingredients to which I was allergic. Not his fault; he didn't know, and even I didn't realize until I tried one.Vincour said:Depending on the woman there may be alternatives to what they consider a romantic gesture. Chocolates, for some, can be romantic. A gift, for others, can be romantic. Then you head into unusual territory where for some people a romantic gesture is doing a difficult chore, helping them out with a problem, or gifting them something eccentric that appeals specifically to their interests.
Basil is among the worst of the things to which I'm allergic, at least in its raw form. It produces an instant migraine.Vincour said:Cue the clueless romantic giving his beloved a handful of basil leaves instead of the flower.
Still working on that hunter-gatherer dental health question, eh, Mouthwash?
Did you try National Geographic?
You might need different keywords, since "mammoth hunters" tends to turn up the novel by Jean Auel.
Can anyone direct me to A) descriptions of how mammoth (or general megafauna) hunts likely transpired, and B) resources for how ice age people/hunter-gatherers in cold climates lived? Google only turns up clickbait articles and Google Scholar is way above my head.
By a coincidence I just read a novella by Poul Anderson (SF/F writer) dealing with a time-traveling paleozoologist/naturalist who was researching mammoths in ice-age Beringia (the land that used to be above water but is now what we call the Bering Strait). It's in his Shield of Time book.
Where are you setting your story?
So where are you going from HK?Say I have a layover in Hong Kong from 1:25pm on a Monday until 7:10pm the next day.