Archive for January, 2008

Jan
31

Gardenburger is the brand name of a veggie burger. The company makes a variety of vegetarian and vegan products and meat substitutes. According the the company’s website, the original Gardenburger is made from mushrooms, onions, brown rice, rolled oats, cheese, and spices. Gardenburger is a registered trademark of the Wholesome and Hearty Foods Company. Other […]

Jan
31

A Squirrel nut caramel is a type of chewy caramel candy with pieces of peanuts mixed in. There are two variations, one has chocolate and one is caramel based.

Chocolate Squirrel caramels were the original flavor of Squirrel Brands caramels. The current ingredients are as follows: Corn Syrup, Sugar, Peanuts, Condensed Milk, Chocolate, Partially hydrogenated […]

Jan
31

Chas. T. Main Inc. was founded in 1893 by Charles T. Main, an engineer for the textile mills of New England. In addition to the traditional business of water and steam power, Main soon expanded into the new field of hydroelectric generators. It rose to become a world-wide player in the utility industries, providing […]

Jan
31

The labioscrotal folds (or labioscrotal swellings, or genital swellings) are paired structures in the human embryo that represent the final stage of development of the caudal end of the external genitals before sexual differentiation. In both males and females the two swellings merge:

In the female, they become the posterior labial commissure. The sides of […]

Jan
31

WDBK

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WDBK, known as Real 91.5, “The Radio Voice Of Camden County College”, is a college radio station which broadcasts in the Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia area via a transmitter that covers most of Camden County and parts of Gloucester and Burlington Counties in New Jersey. WDBK features a wide variety of music, much of which is […]

Jan
31

A Diving board may be referred to by its class:

Spring board

Diving platform, referred to as a “tower” or sometimes “Firm board”

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Jan
31

Power Of The Dragonflame is a promo for the album Power of the Dragonflame released by Symphonic Metal band Rhapsody in 2002.

Track listing

“Knightrider Of Doom (Full Song)” - 3:58

“The March Of The Swordmaster (Edit)” - 2:07

“Agony Is My Name (Edit)” - 1:47

“Steelgods Of The Last Apocalypse (Edit)” -2:25

“Lamento Eroico (Edit)” - 1:41

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Jan
31

Sudan Red G

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Sudan I

Systematic name

amethoxybenzenazo-β-naphthol

Chemical formula

C16H12N2O

Molecular mass

248.28 g/mol

Density

Unknown g/cm³

Melting point

225 °C

Boiling point

Unknown °C

CAS number

1229-55-6

EINECS number

214-968-9

SMILES

Unknown

Disclaimer and references

Sudan Red G is a yellowish red lysochrome azo dye. It has the appearance of an odorless reddish-orange powder with […]

Jan
31

Clay pot cooking is a technique of cooking food in an unglazed clay pot which has been soaked in water so as to release steam during the cooking process. This technique has a long history, stretching back at least to ancient Roman times, and is commonly used in several cuisines in Southeast and East […]

Jan
30

The compensation point is the point during photosynthesis where the rate of photosynthesis exactly matches the rate of respiration; i.e. the input of CO2 or O2 is the same as the output of the other by a plant. This point is reached during early mornings and late evenings.(Twilight Zone). It is also involved in […]

Jan
30


Moustache wax is a stiff pomade applied to a moustache as a grooming aid to hold the hairs in place, especially at the extremeties. It can also have restorative properties, which become more important as the hair length increases. The wax used is commonly scented, though not always.

A common recipe for homemade moustache wax […]

Jan
30

Dissolution
Dissolution is the process by which a solid or liquid enters its aqueous phase (solution). This can be explained simply as a breakdown of the crystal lattice into individual ions, atoms or molecules.

Ionic Compounds
For ionic compounds, dissolution takes place when the component ions dissociate into its component parts. This normally […]

Jan
30

Skelly

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Skelly may refer to:

Skelly Oil, a defunct oil company.

William Grove Skelly, founder of Skelly Oil.

A character in Chrono Cross, named Skelly.

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Jan
30

“Something Got Me Started” was the first single released from what would become Simply Red’s biggest selling album, Stars; at the time, the group had not released a record for almost two years, so anticipation was high for the new song.

History
“Something Got Me Started” is an unusual record for the group, as it […]

Jan
30

Chicken Licken can refer to:

The Sky is Falling, an old fable, also called “Chicken Licken” or “Chicken Little”

Chicken Licken (restaurant)

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Jan
30

This is a re-release of the two albums Melting Close and Sabotage.

Track listing
2LP:

“Decay” – 5:00

“Hours & Hours” – 5:38

“Braindamage” – 4:04

“Sabotage” – 4:53

“Sick In Your Mind” – 6:33 [1]

“Time Watch” – 5:56 [2]

“Vietnam” – 4:23 [1]

“Burning Inside” – 4:35 [1]

“Never Get Out” – 4:30

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Jan
30

The Malay Chicken is a very large breed of fowl that is originally from Asia. Commercial egg or meat production facilities are sourced from poultry chicken because the Malay Chicken are usually found only in the rural areas and villages.

Preparation
Malay Chicken is a tougher sort of meat than many other breeds. Because of this, […]

Jan
30

Arthur Kallet (December 15,1902 - February 24,1972) was a director of Consumers Research who became the first staff director of Consumers Union and founder of its magazine Consumer Reports.

When CR head F.J. Schlink fired striking employees whom he accused of conspiring with advertisers against consumers, Kallet, who had coauthored a book entitled 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs […]

Jan
30

The Planetary Report is the internationally recognized Planetary Society’s magazine, featuring articles written by space experts and photos to provide comprehensive coverage of discoveries on Earth and beyond. It is an exclusive Society membership benefits, and normally reaches Society members, with news relating to planetary missions, spacefaring nations, intrepid explorers, planetary science controversies and the […]

Jan
30

Computer Hope is a collection of free services that allows users to access a database of extensive computer related information. The company offers free technical support, computer product information, free online forums, computer product buying tips, third-party computer company information, driver listing, computer dictionary, news, and a weekly computer newsletter.

History
Computer Hope came online November 2, […]

Jan
30

The Fujimoto-Belleau reaction is a chemical reaction that forms cyclic α-substituted α,β-unsaturated ketones from enol lactones.

The reaction is a Grignard reaction, followed by a H-shift and an Aldol addition reaction. The last step is an elimination (Aldol condesation) reaction with an E1CB mechanism.

References

Fujimoto, C. I. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1951, 73, 1856.

Belleau, B. […]

Jan
30

Also called National System of Innovation.

The National Innovation System (A.k.a. NIS, National System of Innovation) is the flow of technology and information among people, enterprises and institutions which is key to the innovative process on the national level. According to innovation system theory, innovation and technology development are results of a complex set of relationships […]

Jan
30

Guess What

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Guess What was a Canadian game show, broadcast on CTV television network from 1983 to 1987. It features 2 competing families playing a guessing game.

Personnel
It was originally created by Nick Nicholson & Roger Muir, produced and directed by Sidney M. Cohen, announced by Nick Holenreich and hosted by Robin Ward.

The Main Game
In each round, […]

Jan
30

Beehive

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This article is about hives for bees. For other uses of the term, see Beehive (disambiguation).

A beehive is a structure in which bees live and raise their young. A beehive is located in an apiary.

The internals of the hive comprise a densely packed matrix of hexagonal cells made of beeswax. The cells are […]

Jan
30

Irrigation sprinklers are used on farms, golf courses, residential yards, and other places to water crops, lawns, gardens or other plants in the event of drought. They are also used for recreation or as a cooling system.

Sprinkler types
Sprinklers that spray in a fixed pattern are generally called sprays or spray heads. Sprays are […]

Jan
30

Starka

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Starka is a traditional dry vodka distilled from rye grain, produced mostly in Poland and Lithuania. Traditional starka is made from natural (up to 2 distillations, no rectification) rye spirit and aged in oak barrels with small addition of lime-tree flowers and apple-tree leaves. The process of production is similar to that used in whisky. […]

Jan
30

This article discusses the usage of the term modulo as a form of mathematical jargon. It does not discuss the precise meaning of the mathematical concept.

The word modulo was introduced into mathematics in the book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1801. He defined two numbers to be congruent (i.e., the same) modulo a […]

Jan
30

A Thermostatic Radiator Valve, (TRV), is a self regulating valve fitted to hot water heating system radiators. The TRV controls the temperature of a room by regulating the flow of hot water to the radiator.

TRVs consist of two parts, a valve that opens or closes to control the hot water flow, and an actuator that […]

Jan
29

The yardlong bean is also known as the long-podded cowpea, asparagus bean, snake bean, or Chinese long bean. It is known as dau gok in Cantonese, thua fak yao in Thai and kacang panjang in Malay, and vali or eeril in Goa, India. Despite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard […]

Jan
29


Moustache wax is a stiff pomade applied to a moustache as a grooming aid to hold the hairs in place, especially at the extremeties. It can also have restorative properties, which become more important as the hair length increases. The wax used is commonly scented, though not always.

A common recipe for homemade moustache wax […]

Jan
29

Portuguese sweet bread (Massa Sovada or simply Massa, Pão Doce and the Easter version with eggs is better known as Folar) is a bread made with milk, sugar and/or honey to produce a subtly sweet lightly textured loaf. It was traditionally made around the Christmas and Easter holidays (often with hard boiled eggs baked […]

Jan
29

John Kay was a clockmaker from Warrington, Lancashire, England. He is known by association with Richard Arkwright for the invention of the spinning frame in 1767: an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution.

Kay was originally a partner of Thomas Highs (who seems to have been the true inventor) […]

Jan
29

Chinese wax

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Chinese wax is a white to yellowish-white, gelatinous, crystalline water-insoluble substance obtained from the wax secreted by certain insects.

It resembles spermaceti but is harder, more friable, and with a higher melting point. It is deposited on the branches of certain trees by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus, common in China and India, or a related […]

Jan
29

Schedule 2 substances, in the sense of the Chemical Weapons Convention, are chemicals which can either be used as chemical weapons themselves or used in the manufacture of chemical weapons but which have small scale applications outside of chemical warfare and so can be legitimately manufactured in small quantities. An example is thiodiglycol which can […]

Jan
29

Apis cerana

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Apis cerana, or the Asiatic honey bee (or the Eastern honey bee), are small honey bees of southern and southeastern Asia, such as China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea. This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi, and both are in the same subgenus as the Western (European) honey bee, […]

Jan
29

The Jeepster Commando was first produced by Kaiser Motors in 1966 to compete with the Toyota Land Cruiser and Ford Bronco. It was produced in three different models: the pickup truck, convertible, and wagon. The Kaiser line remained in production until about 1969, until American Motors Corporation (AMC) bought Kaiser in 1970. […]

Jan
28

Morgen

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For the water sprites, see Morgens.

A morgen was a unit of measurement of land in Germany, the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies, including South Africa. The size of a Morgen varies from 1/2 to 2 1/2 acres, which equivalates to approximately 2000 to 10000 square meters. It was also used in old Prussia, Norway and […]

Jan
28

Wax play

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Wax play is a form of sensual play involving warm or hot wax usually dripped from candles or ladled onto a person’s naked skin. Wax play may be combined with other BDSM or sexual activity.

Pure paraffin wax melts at around 130 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Adding stearine makes the wax harder and melt at a […]

Jan
28

Normalcy

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“A return to normalcy” was U.S. Presidential candidate Warren Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920.  Although many of Harding’s detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more usual term “normality”), there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that […]

Jan
28

Integrated circuit packaging is the final stage of semiconductor device fabrication per se, followed by IC testing.

In the integrated circuit industry it is called simply packaging and sometimes semiconductor device assembly, or simply assembly. Also, sometimes it is called encapsulation or seal, by the name of its last step.

The following operations are performed at this […]

Jan
28

Founded in 1937, The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. is the trade association representing one of the largest manufacturing industries in the United States. SPI’s members represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw materials suppliers. The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.4 million workers and provides more […]

Jan
28

Charles D. Seeberger (1857 – September 12, 1931) was an American inventor.
In 1899, he joined the Otis Elevator Company. The Seeberger-Otis partnership produced the first step-type escalator made for public use, and it was installed at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, where it won first prize. Mr. Seeberger eventually sold his patent rights to […]

Jan
28

Doenjang

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Doenjang is a traditional Korean fermented soybean paste. Beans are boiled and ground by rock into fine bits and formed into a block, which is called meju (). The blocks are then exposed to sunlight to be dried, during which mold special to soybean appears and the initial fermentation process begins. This sometimes produces an […]

Jan
28

Beta Lyrae

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Beta Lyrae (β Lyr / β Lyrae) is a binary star system approximately 882 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Beta Lyrae is traditionally named Sheliak which is Arabic for “tortoise” or “harp.”

Beta Lyrae is an eclipsing contact binary star system made up of a blue-white dwarf (B7V) star and a white main sequence […]

Jan
28

The Broma process is a method used to remove cocoa butter from cacao beans. In about 1865 Domingo Ghirardelli discovered that by hanging a bag of ground cacao beans in a warm room, the cocoa butter would drip off, leaving behind a residue that can then be converted into ground cocoa. This technique is now […]

Jan
27

Re gan mian

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Re gan mian is a typical breakfast fare of Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province in central China. It is made of hand-pulled, wheat-based noodles over which soy sauce, sesame paste, pickled vegetables, chopped chives and rice vinegar are added. The noodles are mixed with the added ingredients just before consumption. It […]

Jan
27

Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL) is an aqueous extract of blood cells (amoebocytes) from the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. LAL reacts with bacterial endotoxin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which is a membrane component of Gram negative bacteria. This reaction is the basis of the LAL test, which is used for the detection and quantitation of bacterial endotoxins.

The […]

Jan
27

Inland Torpe Hundred, or Inlands Torpe härad, was a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden.

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Jan
27

Pie method

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The pie method is a method for fairly dividing a pie between two people (although the value of this approach is that it applies to any divisible goods). The basic idea is that one person cuts the pie, and the other person chooses which of the two pieces he wants. The person who […]

Jan
27

Witness protection is protection of a threatened witness, before, during and after a trial, usually by police.

Witness protection is usually required in trials against organized crime, where law enforcement sees a risk for witnesses to be intimidated by colleagues of defendants. It is also used at war crime trials.

Witness protection by country
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Jan
27

Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred or Whitechurch Canonicorum Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:

Burstock

Catherston Leweston

Charmouth

Chideock

Lyme Regis

Marshwood

Pilsdon

Stanton St Gabriel

Stockland (part) (ie, Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844)

Symondsbury

Thorncombe (transferred to Devon 1844 and back to Dorset 1896)

Whitchurch Canonicorum

Wootton Fitzpaine

See also: List of hundreds in Dorset

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Jan
27

Kind

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Kind can mean:

The type of types in a type system in type theory

Natural kind, in philosophy a grouping of things which is a natural grouping, not an artificial one.

KIND is the ICAO designation for Indianapolis International Airport

Created kind, often abbreviated to kinds, is a term used by some creation biologists to […]

Jan
27

Castor wax

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Castor wax, also called hydrogenated castor oil, is a hard, brittle, vegetable wax. It is produced by the hydrogenation (chemical combination with hydrogen) of pure castor oil, in the presence of a nickel catalyst. It is odorless and insoluble in water.

Uses
Castor wax is used in polishes, cosmetics, electrical capacitors, carbon paper, lubrication, and coatings […]

Jan
27

The Chicken

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This stub is about a dance called The Chicken. Go here for information about The San Diego Chicken

The Chicken was a dance featured lateral body movements, was used primarily as a change of pace step while doing The Twist.

(not the chicken dance)

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Jan
27

Redirect Diffuse axonal injury 

This is a redirect from a title that is an alternative name, a pseudonym, a nick name or a synonym.

It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names and can help writing.

For more information, follow the category link.

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Jan
26

Hesperoyucca is a small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Agavaceae, closely related to and recently split from Yucca, but distinct in having dehiscent fruit and a scape more than 2.5 cm diameter with reflexed (not erect) bracts. It is also distinct in DNA analysis. The genus is native to Mexico […]

Jan
26

A parent process is a computer process that has created one or more child processes.

In UNIX, every process except process 0 (the swapper) is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process and the newly-created process is the child process. Every process (except process 0) […]

Jan
26

Sparkenhoe

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Sparkenhoe was a hundred of Leicestershire, England. It was in the south-west of the county, covering Market Bosworth and Hinckley, broadly corresponding to the modern districts of Blaby and Hinckley and Bosworth.
The meeting place of the Sparkenhoe Hundred was probably at Shericles Farm near Desford (SK467026), which derives from scirac meaning “the hundred oak”.
Sparkenhoe […]

Jan
26

Audiometry

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Audiometry is the testing of hearing ability. Typically, audiometric tests determine a subject’s hearing levels with the help of an audiometer, but may also measure ability to discriminate between different sound intensities, recognize pitch, or distinguish speech from background noise. Acoustic reflex and otoacoustic emissions may also be measured. Results of audiometric […]

Jan
26

Beuthanasia

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Beuthanasia is a drug combination used for veterinary euthanasia, marketed under several tradenames, and used as an injection to give animals a quick and painless death. It is a mixture of the sodium salts of phenytoin and pentobarbital.

Links

FDA basic information

Jan
26

Emulsifying wax is a cosmetic emulsifying ingredient. The ingredient name is often followed by the initials NF, indicating that it conforms to the specifications of the National Formulary.

Emulsifying wax is created when a wax material (either a vegetable wax of some kind or a petroleum-based wax) is treated with a detergent (typically sodium dodecyl sulfate […]

Jan
25

Gochujang

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Gochujang (고추장、) is a spicy Korean condiment, made from glutinous rice powder mixed with powdered fermented soybeans, red chili powder, and salt, and fermented, traditionally in the sun. Other grains can be substituted for the glutinous rice, including normal rice, wheat, and barley. A small amount of sweetener, such as sugar, syrup, or honey […]

Jan
25

Candelilla wax is a wax derived from the leaves of the small Candelilla shrub native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, Euphorbia cerifera and Euphorbia antisyphilitica, from the family Euphorbiaceae. It is yellowish-brown, hard, brittle and opaque to translucent.

Composition
Candelilla wax consists of mainly hydrocarbons (about 50%, chains with 29-33 carbons), esters of higher […]

Jan
25

Arijac

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Harry Jacques (born 1937), known by the pseudonym Arijac, is a Haitian painter. He was born in Gonaïves, Haiti. After completing high school, Arijac took international correspondence courses in architecture and worked as a draftsman from 1962 to 1963 for the noted artist Sacha Thèbaud’s (Tebo) architecture firm. Arijac also worked in the school construction […]

Jan
25

Hua

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Hua as the transliteration of the Chinese character , which literally means prosper, can refer to:

a name of China. See Huaxia and Names of China.

a Chinese surname. See Hua (surname). For example, the surname born by

Hua Loo-keng, a Chinese mathematician

Hua Guofeng, a Chinese politician

Hua as the transliteration of the Chinese character […]

Jan
25

Unflappable

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You may like to search Wiktionary for “[[Wiktionary:Special:Search/|]]” instead.

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Jan
25

Edwin J. Houston (1847–1914) was an American electrical inventor. He helped design an arc light generator with Elihu Thomson.

See also

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

References

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Jan
25

Bordelaise Sauce A classic French sauce named for the great wine area of Bordeaux. The sauce is made with dry red wine, bone marrow, shallots and a rich brown sauce called demi-glace. Sauce marchand de vins (”wine-merchant’s sauce”) is a similar designation.

New Orleans sauce Bordelaise
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Jan
25

The Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection is a ministry in Germany. Its headquarters are located in Bonn with a second major office in Berlin. It had originally been created as Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture on January 22, 2001 from the Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests (Bundesministerium für […]

Jan
25

George Richards (25 February 1865 – 4 December 1915) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Elected as an independent, he served as the member representing Drummoyne in 1913–1915.

Notes

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Jan
25

The American Candy Company is a confectioner specializing in old-fashioned hard candies. They are best known as the inventor of wax lips, though their wax candy division was sold to Concord Confections in 2002. Founded in 1899 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the company moved to Selma, Alabama, in 1939.

Products

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Jan
25

Chicken of the VNC is a Virtual Network Computing client for Mac OS X licensed under the GNU General Public License. The current version is 2.0b4. Development has been stalled since 2005. The name is a play on words referencing the Chicken of the Sea Tuna brand.

See also

Comparison of remote desktop software

External links

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Jan
24

Ozokerite

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Ozokerite or ozocerite (Gr. oze, stench, and kero, wax) is a naturally-occurring odoriferous mineral wax or paraffin found in many localities.

Sources
Specimens have been obtained from Scotland, Northumberland and Wales, as well as from about thirty different countries. Of these occurrences the ozokerite of the island (now peninsula) of Cheleken, near Turkmenbashi, and the deposits of […]

Jan
24

Chort

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Chort can mean

An

alternative name for Chertan, a star in the constellation Leo

An
alternative name for Hortaya Borzaya, a dog breed

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Jan
24

A granular material is a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact (the most common example would be friction when grains collide). The constituents that compose granular material must be large enough such that they are not subject to thermal motion fluctuations. Thus, the lower […]