Wolszczyk also emphasises that the production of red fabric was very expensive (to obtain a crimson dye, you had to use female Polish cochineal, a tiny red insect), so only well-to-do people could ...

Among them maybe enumerated, extracts of saffron, buckthorn berries, alkanet root, dragons blood, logwood, cochineal ... afterward take a most beautiful polish, and specimens of dolomite polished ...

Have you ever heard of cochineal? And I am not referring to the upscale restaurant in Marfa, Texas, but to the small, scale insect native to our area. This insect lives on nopal, prickly pear ...

Donald Tusk, who was hosting the prime minister for discussions on a UK-Polish defence pact in Warsaw, said it was his "dream" that "instead of a Brexit, we will have a Breturn". Standing ...

(Jeff Chiu/AP) A Polish general was dismissed last week by the nation’s defense minister after reportedly misplacing a batch of anti-tank mines that were later found in an Ikea warehouse ...

WARSAW, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Any attempts at waging trade wars are a complete mistake, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said over the weekend that ...

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Palmer pointed out many food dyes have come under scrutiny over the years, including those from natural sources: Carmine, a red dye also known as cochineal, is derived from insects and has been ...

“Ask not of America what it can do for our security. Ask yourselves what we can do for our own security,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country holds the EU presidency ...

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