In addition to providing shade and beauty to your yard—not to mention delicious fruit—fig trees also help with soil retention and erosion control. Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's ...

Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...

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Eric Schwitzgebel, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, is the author of “The Weirdness of the World.” He blogs at “The Splintered Mind.” ...

‘Submission to power is complex, it depends on other people submitting to power, and it has deep roots.’ Ficus religiosa, the sacred fig tree, grows on other trees before plunging its roots into the ...

When to Prune a Fig Tree. Fig trees should be pruned in early spring when they are still dormant and before growth begins for the season, says Becky Sideman, a professor of hortic ...

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Nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language at the forthcoming Oscars, The Seed Of Sacred Fig’s behind the scenes story is almost as compelling as its on screen plot. Director Mohammad ...

After being feted at Cannes, this new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is now up for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars – the submission coming from Germany, where the film was finished ...

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(WOOD) — A December power outage at Forest Hills ... In December, a man with a history of tree thefts admitted to pilfering black walnuts in Lowell. Police say the man targeted upwards of ...

Then came The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a (now Oscar-nominated) family-set political thriller and blistering attack on the regime. After refusing to remove the film from Cannes last year ...