We use the bark to wrap things up, or as oven gloves, to make canoes, or to cook food in.
As far back as the fifth century BC Hippocrates used a bitter powder obtained from willow bark to ease aches and pains and reduce fever.
An abandoned horse that looked like a "walking skeleton" and was forced to eat tree bark to survive has been rescued from a field in Hertfordshire.
Mr Djerrkura's home in north-eastern Arnhem Land was the site of Australia's first land-rights campaign in 1963, when a collection of clans known as the Yolngu sent a petition written on bark to Canberra, the Australian capital, objecting to the mining of bauxite on their land by Nabalco, a Swiss-Australian company.
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Smith sang out strongly, choosing to bark rather than to use the mildly strangulated style he had been experimenting with.
Indeed, it is OK, under the new law, to bark if your owner is about to be attacked.
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Psychiatrists began acting like Sherlock Holmes, looking for various "dogs that didn't bark" to explain their patients' problems.
When Ms. Skenderis put Piper in a temporary veil, Boo started to bark.
At the sound of the shot, the dogs in Dashtian had begun to bark, the sound fitful in the breeze.
It is perhaps going a bit far to say he's the underdog as one blog does, but he needs to bark a bit louder.
As he filmed the flooding, his emotions changed as quickly as the tide outside his house, which at one point creeps under a second-floor door, prompting Jackley to bark, "Get the hell out!"
"We have to say 'no' like a loving parent, " Mr. Oguss, who operates the East Hawaii Dog Psychology Center, explains to owners Henry and Lindsey Kapu, whose lenience he thinks makes the dogs feel free to bark.
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But then there were fewer dogs to bark at me as I passed under the trees, and, where the dog was big, so was the dog door, and I could crawl in and avail myself of the canned and packaged foods in kitchen pantries.
Girls with cheeks smeared with thanaka (sun block made from ground tree bark) balance two to a bicycle.
It tested this pine bark-derived molecule to see if it blocked the thrombin receptor and found that it did.
Bark beetles are known to attack trees already weakened by other environmental factors.
The branches of trees were gnarled by the winds into unreal shapes, their leaves growing close to the bark as if for protection.
Armed with open lines to their best customers, the brokers bark prices into squawk boxes all day, hoping to entice traders into doing a deal.
It's like trying to separate a bark from the dog and selling the bark separately.
"Bark mode" allows players to search for play partners for their dog.
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However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of St.
And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.
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Other walkers decided to head north toward Bark Bay (about two-and-a-half hours farther) and get a water taxi ride from there.
Mr McFall has rather made the banking crisis his own to solve and his bark can be as bad as his bite.
Although Tay has little time to tend personally to her budding enterprise, the store, managed by her partner, is, so to speak, the bark of the town.
Dr Metcalf said the Egyptians used natural remedies, such as chewing willow bark - which contains properties similar to aspirin - and honey on open wounds to kill bacteria.
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He showed how paints containing powdered metal can be splashed with acid to create metal oxides that give the effect of natural rusting, and how to make fake tree bark from a mold ingeniously colored using carpet scrapings.
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