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In a win for gardeners everywhere, a Florida couple who battled the state for six years is enjoying the right to replant a vegetable garden that had brought them joy for years. Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts of Miami Shores held a ceremonial replanting on July 1, the day a statewide law went into effect that nullified local bans on such gardens. In 2013, Carroll and Ricketts of Miami Shores, a small burg of 10,500 Floridians that was originally a neighborhood within the city of Miami until it was incorporated as its own village in 1932, were ordered by town officials to do away with the vegetable garden that had been thriving in front of their home for 17 years....

HBO’s Game of Thrones sits alongside Marvel, DC, and Star Wars as the biggest pop culture phenomenons of all time. The unprecedented viewing figures, critical response, and interest throughout the entire show made it that much more impactful when Season 8 proved to be such a disappointing ending for many.Nonetheless, Warner Bros. Discovery and book author George R.R. Martin are determined to push ahead with expanding the world into new corners....

Whilst the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy prepare for what will be a jam-packed 2023, their fellow Flora Colossus, Groot, is prepping for his own solo adventure. This will come with I Am Groot, a Guardians spin-off series set to debut later this year on Disney+ that focuses on Baby Groot as he gets up to all sorts of intergalactic shenanigans. Announced back in December 2020, I Am Groot will offer up bite-sized doses of the MCU fandom’s favorite walking flora as he stars in his own solo outing....

Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly known as the black locust, is a prickly tree within the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family called Fabaceae and is considered to be a legume with flattened pea pods several inches long. Black locust is native to the southeastern United States, but has been widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia. The original range of the locust is in the Appalachian, Ozark and Ouachita range located in the middle mountains of Eastern North America....

Even with its most populated content year in the rear view, Marvel Studios is snowballing its momentum into 2022. The Marvel Cinematic Universe kicks off the new year this Monday with the first full trailer for Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight and is expected to debut that series ahead of May’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Those two projects will precede at least six more movies and streaming shows scattered across the rest of the year....

Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin made a triumphant return in Hawkeye, serving as the show’s overarching villain. The character’s surprising comeback earned a positive reaction from fans, mainly due to the actor’s incredible performance in the three seasons of Netflix’s Daredevil series. Although the canonicity of the aforementioned series to the MCU is still up in the air, Kingpin’s upcoming return to Echo could potentially address this issue. Echo is set to feature Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez at the forefront, with the series expected to dive into the character’s backstory....

Warning - this article contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Moon Knight. The fourth episode of Moon Knight just aired for audiences worldwide, and it sure did drop quite the bombshell on audiences. Not only was Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector shot, but instead of falling to his death, he awoke in a psychiatric hospital. Is he dead? Is this new world his actual reality, or some trick of the mind? There are lots of questions to be had, but little to no answers have revealed themselves....

Obi-Wan Kenobi is set to add a brand-new layer to the story of Ewan McGregor’s famous Jedi Master, showcasing an unexplored chapter after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and before Star Wars: A New Hope. The upcoming Disney+ series will not only feature the return of McGregor into the titular role, but it will also mark the triumphant comeback of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader. This means that a highly-anticipated rematch between the two former friends will happen, thus turning Obi-Wan Kenobi into must-see content for any Star Wars fan....

The Flash’s final season is expected to be filled with exciting guest stars from across the DC universe, and there are no signs of slowing down as another major Arrowverse hero is set to take part in Barry Allen’s final run. The anticipation surrounding The Flash Season 9 has been sky-high since it was announced that it would be its final run. Part of the reason why there is hype for the Grant Gustin-led series is the abundance of guest stars that will show up....

These Millennials are experts when it comes to waste reduction, and they want you to join the movement. Living a zero-waste lifestyle isn’t easy. It takes time, persistence, and creativity to eliminate disposable plastics from one’s life. It’s a particularly frustrating process when all of society seems to be conspiring against such a mission. That’s where finding a good support network is key. The Internet is a wonderful resource, with a vibrant community of zero waste bloggers sharing advice, resources, and stores....

2. eBay This one is obvious. You can sell anything on eBay, but electronics do especially well on the auction site right when a new model is announced. All generations of Kindle should get a nice bump in selling price right now, but it also allows someone looking to get their first e-reader or tablet to start at a cheaper price point. 3. NextWorth The ultimate electronics reseller, NextWorth buys just about any type of gadget or accessory you can think of, including many models of the Kindle....

Some midsize cities in America have developed respectable dining and arts scenes. These places might not have as many restaurants, bars, museums, and galleries as, say, New York or Chicago, but they hold their own in terms of creativity and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Many of the most interesting cultural enclaves in North America are actually found in smaller population centers (of less than 200,000 people) in places that are often considered fly-over country, like Marfa, Texas....

Trees frame life, providing shade, oxygen, food, homes, heat and of course, building materials. Trees are universal, they house our swings and tree houses; they overlook our first kisses and marriage proposals. There are an estimated 100,000 different species of trees comprising a quarter of all living plant species around the world. Spread among the billions of trees around the globe are a few special ones, especially worthy of attention. Here are seven of the world’s most amazing trees....

Environmental science is the study of the interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological components of nature. As such, it is a multidisciplinary science: it involves a number of disciplines like geology, hydrology, soil sciences, plant physiology, and ecology. Environmental scientists may have training in more than one discipline; for example, a geochemist has expertise in both geology and chemistry. Most often, the multidisciplinary nature of environmental scientists’ work comes from collaborations they foster with other scientists from complementary research fields....

Despite the Marvel Cinematic Universe expanding in ways that fans never expected, there are still a few recent Marvel entries that remain outliers in the grand scheme of things. One of the biggest of these is ABC’s Agents of SHIELD, the first Marvel TV project that could have added a new layer to the MCU’s story.In the beginning, the show felt definitively connected to the MCU, with Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson coming back to life after Phase 1 along with key players like Samuel L....

Red maple is the state tree of Rhode Island and its “Autumn Blaze” cultivar was selected 2003 Tree of the Year by the Society of Municipal Arborists. Red maple is one of the first trees to show off red flowers in the spring and displays a most magnificent scarlet fall color. Red maple is a fast grower without the bad habits of fast growers. It quickly makes shade without the compromise of becoming brittle and messy....

After introducing the first Variant of Kang the Conqueror in Marvel Studios’ Loki, the Disney+ series has come back into the fold for the marketing campaign for the MCU’s newest movie, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.Tom Hiddleston’s Loki had the unique honor and challenge of introducing the first Variant of Kang in its final episode, setting him up as the main villain of Season 1. To kick off Phase 5, Jonathan Majors is back in action as the prime version of Kang in Ant-Man 3, embodying the ultimate big bad of the entire Multiverse Saga as he faces off against this threequel’s core group of shrinking heroes....

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow began as a by-the-books time-traveling superhero show with a cast composed of side characters from The CW’s Arrow and The Flash series. But around the third season of Legends, the tone started to shift wildly into a zany, madcap trip through time with increasingly less focus on actual super-heroics. Over the years, the series was host to a wide variety of DC characters, like Hawkgirl, Firestorm, and John Constantine....

Over a year ahead of Sony Pictures’ Madame Web releasing in theaters, star Dakota Johnson reminisced on the experience she had making the movie.Johnson has spent most of the last year busy on set filming her first superhero outing, where she’ll lead Sony’s latest Spider-Man film centered on a hero that’s never been seen on the big screen before. This will be the latest new personality to get her own solo movie after October’s Kraven the Hunter and January 2024’s El Muerto as Cassandra Webb joins a world filled with nods and references to the web-slinger....

This weekend is an exciting one for DC Comics fans, as it’s finally time to see James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. It’s a film that seems to have been teased for years, so to finally reach its US debut is a wonderful feeling for many. Audiences should expect great things, as the film received glowing praise from critics far and wide — a rather unfamiliar feeling for the franchise. It would seem that Warner Bros....