Tequila And Agave
.... is the pulgue sap that is fermented to make
mescal (the national drink of Mexico) and later distilled twice and aged to
make tequila.
Some of the other products that are made with the sap include soap,
tortilla flavoring, a chemical for stunning fish, a vitamin mixture for
livestock, and a chemical to enhance the whiteness of the pulp in paper
making.
Agave is actually a monocot in the Sisal Family, Agavacae. There
are 12 genera and 400 species that make all sorts of products from sisa .....
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Arches And Vaults In Architecture
.... from which it springs are known as imposts. The
upper part of the arch is the crown, the portions near the impost are the
haunches, its wedge-shaped segments are voussoirs, and the central or
crowning voussoir is the keystone. The inner edge of the arch is the
intrados; the outer edge, the extrados; and the undersurface, the soffit.
The molded band that often is found around the opening of the arch is the
archivolt. The wall spaces on either side of an arch, or between adjacent
arches, are spandrels .....
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Mummies And Embalming
.... and nails were painted
in gold. All king of jewels were put on the mummy. Then it was carefully
wrapped in strips of linen. Twenty layers of linen strips were used.
The head of the mummy was covered with a mask that looked like the person's
face. Then the mask was wrapped and the entire mummy was coated with resin.
Finally the mummy was placed in a series of coffins and painted with all
king of gods, goddesses, and magic spells. This was put in a stone
sarcophagus and painted with all kinds of scen .....
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Hebrew Text And Fonts
.... on any word processing unite unless it was a specialized
typewriter made in Jerusalem. The new Hebrew type has now been transformed
into a computer compatible typeface found in two forms; script and print. The
script form of the Hebrew type is equal to the commonly used italic form of the
English typeface. Hebrew print form is a more linear and boxy form of the
hebrew lettering.
The Hebrew fonts and word processing software is easily downloadable to
anyone though access to the internet. The .....
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How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies
.... flour, one-half teaspoon salt, and one-half teaspoon of baking
soda. Add the salt and the baking soda before adding the flour so it will
mix more completely. All of this mixing should also be done with an
electric mixer.
After combining all the ingredients and mixing them until they are
smooth and creamy, add the chocolate chips. It is up to the baker to decide
what type of chocolate chips should be used. Most people prefer the milk
chocolate ones. Add one six ounce bag to the dough. Stir them in by hand, .....
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Halloween
.... was said to come from people leaving food for the
spirits on their doorsteps to ensure a good year. Another myth about how
Trick-or-Treating got started is by the Celebration honoring Muck Olla
where a parade of people begged for food and the leader wore a mask, which
is how costumes were started.
Halloween didn't become widely celebrated in the United States
until the 1800's when immigrants from Ireland and Scotland came to America.
The immigrants brought their own customs as well as .....
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A "Full House" In The "Hand" Of Education
.... on each subject in the same manner
so as to keep balance among them all. He gave the example,
In the combination of colors, very different effects are produced
by a difference in their selection and juxtaposition; red, green, and white
change their shades,according to the contrast to which they are submitted.
And in like manner, the drift and meaning of a branch of knowledge varies
with the company in which it is introduced to the student. If his reading
is confined simply to one subject, certainly it h .....
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Comparison Between Greek And Islamic Mythology
.... only worship
Allah and no one else. When there is a bad timing or when peoples are in
trouble they pray to Allah to make everything better for them. Islamic
mythology doesn't include how Allah came about. It says that Allah is the
only creator of all planets, which include earth. So eventually there is no
other god besides Allah. In which the prophet Mohammed is the only hero in
Islamic mythology because he was the one who spread Islam.
The comparison for these two myth is that there is god and hero in
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Acient Mathematics
.... added.
Multiplication was based on successive doublings, and division was based on
the inverse of this process.
The Egyptians used sums of unit fractions (a), supplemented by the
fraction B, to express all other fractions. For example, the fraction E was
the sum of the fractions 3 and <. Using this system, the Egyptians were
able to solve all problems of arithmetic that involved fractions, as well
as some elementary problems in algebra. In geometry, the Egyptians
calculated the correct areas of triangles .....
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Chinese Architecture
.... are not used when building a structure, which is different from us.
Wood to the Chinese respectes life, and “life” is the main thing in Chinese
culture. This feature has been preserved up to the present. Builders
would apply a lacquer to the wood to preserve it. These lacquers were made
in bold colors, and this became one of the key ways to identify Chinese
architecture. The highly varied color found on a traditional Chinese
building have a symbolic meaning to the Chinese culture. People would
pain .....
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Chemical Warfare And Its Uses
.... The effect of mustard agent is delayed and the first symptoms do
not occur until between 2-24 hours after exposure.Mustard agent is simple
to manufacture and can therefore be a "first choice" when a country decides
to build up a capacity for chemical warfare.
Mustard agent was produced for the first time in 1822 but its
harmful effects were not discovered until 1860. Mustard agent was first
used as a CW agent during the latter part of the First World War and caused
lung and eye injuries to .....
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Viking Sailing Ships
.... to twenty men. These ships were deep and wide and fifty-
four feet long. They sailed through the ocean mostly by the sails and not
much by rowers.
Early Viking navigators depended on the sun and the stars, but by
the 900's they developed a system to figure out which direction they were
sailing. They made a table of figures with the sun's midday height for
each week of the year, with using a measuring stick and the table of
figures a navigator could estimate the latitude of the ships location.
O .....
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Instant Replay Should Be Reinstated In The NFL
.... just change the
outcome of a game/season of a team, it also affects people affiliated with
the team. Examples of this include rival games that cause coaching
positions to become tougher to hold on to . Also included in these are
momentum halting calls and calls that could possibly deny records to be
made and/or broken.
One other group that will benefit from instant replay being
reinstated, besides the teams, are the sports gamblers. With instant
replay, states allowing sports gambling and gambler .....
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Basketball And Its History
.... to keep spectators from interfering with the game.)
The baskets are attached firmly to the backboards about 3 m (about 10 ft)
above the playing surface. Each basket is about 46 cm (about 18 in) in
diameter and consists of a horizontal hoop, or metal ring, from which a
fringe of wide-meshed white netting is hung. The regulation basketball is
an inflated, leather- or nylon-covered sphere that weighs from 567 to 624 g
(20 to 22 oz) and has a circumference of about 76 cm (about 30 in).
History
Bask .....
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Fire Or Ice? How Will The World End?
.... focus around the new millennium; especially between 1999 and
2280. There is a larger concentration involved in the 2010-2020 range.
For one, the majority of psychics claim they cannot see past 2012 in the
future. Also, the Mayan calendar, recently revered as a major clue holder,
ends on December 21st, 2012. The Mayans believe time on earth will roll
over into "fourth dimensional time" in 2013, following the end of
civilization. Another interesting point involving this time frame centers
around the ozon .....
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