After more than a year of unrelenting bad economic numbers, we finally received a glimmer of hope.

Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.

In Southwest Asia, cereals were among the first plants to be domesticated, with einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L.), emmer wheat (T. dicoccum Schiibl.), and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) present at farming sites dating to the 9th millennium BC (Bell, 1987; Kislev, 1992; Zohary and Hopf, 2000).

You have seen some of its [the dispute’s] disastrous working upon the men: you cannot see it all, for it would take a whole volume to depicture it.