41. Straddling the top bar of my bike, I try to stand motionless as the pines, mountains and water before me. 42. The plank hive did not use moveable top bars , however bees would attach comb in natural patterns to the roof. 43. Alternatively, some use a table saw to cut two closely spaced slots along the long axis of each new top bar . 44. In 1848, Dzierzon introduced grooves into the hive's side walls replacing the strips of wood to hang top bars . 45. Radial baskets have the top bar of the frame facing outwards while tangential baskets have one side of the comb facing outward. 46. Top bar hives were originally used as a traditional beekeeping method in Greece and Vietnam with a history dating back over 2000 years.47. Top bar hives are mostly kept by people who are more interested in having bees in their garden than in honey production per se.48. Medals pinned to the breast use only a small cut of ribbon that is attached to a top bar where the brooch pin is affixed. 49. The correct distance between combs had been described as 1?inches from the center of one top bar to the center of the next one. 50. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says that over-the-top bar mitzvah parties were already common when he was growing up in Miami in the 1970s.
