paddy

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• In a 2015 and 2016 drought, saltwater reached up to 90 kilometers inland, destroying 405,000 hectares of rice paddies.

• Most rice plants are grown in fields, or paddies, that are typically filled with around 10 centimeters of water.

• Among those on board an overcrowded cargo plane that crashed into a rice paddy shortly after takeoff on April 4, was Captain Mary Therese Klinker, 27, of the Air Force.

• They also introduced a lottery system for rice paddy location that shifts each season, so that farmers have a greater incentive to follow these organic rules.

• The legendary Captain Paddy Brown was by some accounts the most decorated firefighter in the nation.

• Is Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (which won the Mann Booker Prize in 1993) the only one of your novels that stands on its own?

• Irish bookmaker Paddy Power funded the trips to the Hermit Kingdom, but stopped after Kim Jong-Un purged his uncle.

• Was it anything that Scott saw when he was in Pyongyang that encouraged Paddy Power to drop the project?

• One time, when an armored car drove by, Paddy Considine said, “Hey, Martin, are those your Hobbit residuals?”

• Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.

• The warrior uttered a grunt of pain, cast a surprised angry stare at the shaveling of a Paddy, and thrust with his lance.

• "I should like to see you do it," returned Aunt Maria, looking indignantly at the interfering Paddy.

• Paddy Rouse sprang inside with drawn pistol, but a hand struck up his pistol arm and his harmless shot went through the roof.

• At that moment Paddy, hatless and disheveled, plunged through the crowd toward Peter Gross.