commonly cultivated of the millets. Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are other important crop species. Millets may have been consumed by...
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Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia. It is...
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Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, commonly known as the synonym Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa...
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second-most widely planted species of millet, and the most grown millet species in Asia. The oldest evidence of foxtail millet cultivation was found along the...
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proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet. Archaeobotanical evidence suggests millet was first...
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Look up millet or Millet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Millet is a cereal grain. Millet may also refer to: Millet, Alberta, Canada Millet, a fictional...
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In the Ottoman Empire, a millet (Turkish: [millet]; Ottoman Turkish: ملت) was an independent court of law pertaining to "personal law" under which a confessional...
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2014, Millet was acquired by Swiss holding Calida group. In January 2022, Calida agreed to sell Millet to Jean-Pierre Millet, grandson of Millet's founder...
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Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa milɛ]; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon...
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Rūm millet (Ottoman Turkish: millet-i Rûm, lit. 'Roman nation') was the name of the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the Ottoman Empire. Despite...
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as a common millet in recent decades Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet), the most commonly cultivated millet Setaria italica (foxtail millet), historically...
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Gabriel Millet (17 April 1867 – 8 May 1953) was a French archaeologist and historian. After he passed his agrégation of history in 1891, Gabriel Millet became...
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Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1848 – April 15, 1912) was an American academic classical painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the...
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Fèlix Millet i Tusell (8 December 1935 – 15 March 2023) was a Spanish businessman and convicted fraudster. Born in Barcelona, Millet was the nephew of...
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Millet is a French surname. As of 2014, 73.0% of all known bearers of the surname Millet were residents of France (frequency 1:2,403), 12.3% of the United...
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Nisha Millet (born 20 March 1982) is a swimmer from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. An Arjuna Award winner, she was the only woman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics...
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Louis J. Millet was an educator, industrial art school founder, and interior designer in the United States. He was a celebrated stained glass artist. He...
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Vercingétorix monument (redirect from Vercingétorix (Millet))
by Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars. The monument was designed by Aimé Millet and constructed in 1865. It is designated as a monument historique. The...
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Paspalum scrobiculatum (redirect from Kodo Millet)
commonly called kodo millet or koda millet, is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to be confused with ragi (finger millet, Eleusine coracana))...
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Robert L. Millet (born 30 December 1947) is a professor of ancient scripture and emeritus Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University (BYU)...
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The Sower is an oil painting by the French artist Jean-François Millet from 1850. It is one of several versions of the theme that he painted. The work...
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Javier Milei (redirect from Javier Millet)
Javier Gerardo Milei (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ xeˈɾaɾðo miˈlej] ; born 22 October 1970) is an Argentine politician and economist currently serving...
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Francisque Millet (27 April 1642, in Antwerp – 3 June 1679, in Paris), also known as Jean-François Milée or Millet I, was a Flemish-French landscape painter...
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Aimé Millet (September 28, 1819 – January 14, 1891) was a French sculptor who was a professor at the École des Arts décoratifs. Born in Paris, Millet was...
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Millet beer, also known as Bantu beer, malwa, pombe "Tchouk" or opaque beer [बाजरा बियर in Hindi], is an alcoholic beverage made from malted millet that...
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Pierre Millet (Milet) (19 November, 1635 at Bourges – December 31, 1708 at Quebec) was a French Jesuit missionary to the Iroquois people in the area that...
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The Millet motorcycle, designed in 1892 by Félix Théodore Millet, may have been the first motorcycle (or motorized bicycle) to use pneumatic tires. It...
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Ponk (redirect from Ponk (Roasted Millet))
Ponk or Paunk (Gujarati પૌંક) is a Gujarati snack made from tender roasted sorghum grains mixed with other products such as sev. To prepare the snack,...
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Panicum sumatrense (redirect from Little Millet)
known as little millet, is a species of millet in the family Poaceae. This species of cereal is similar in habit to the proso millet except that it is...
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intercropping. finger millet fonio foxtail millet Japanese millet Job's tears kodo millet maize (corn) millet pearl millet proso millet sorghum barley oats...
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