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Fugu

The Question: What is the very poisonous fish that Japanese like to eat? And why do they bother? The Answer: That would be fugu, which…

Some Facts about Eclipses

Source: U.S. Naval Observatory and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Anaxagoras, in the 5th century B.C., is credited as the first to figure out the true cause of a lunar eclipse, but his…

Chauncey Judd: Dayton's Den

Search for the Fugitives Captain John Wooster's Dayton's Den About a mile and a half west of David Wooster's is a naked bluff of rock, the extremity of which breaks into a jagged…

Roger Sherman: Countryman III

Countryman IIIRoger ShermanThursday, November 29, 1787To the People of Connecticut The same thing once more—I am a plain man, of few words; for this reason perhaps it is, that when I have…

A Whisper Of AIDS

by Mary Fisher Address To The Republican National Convention Less than three months ago, at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of…

All About Lightning Preparedness

Lightning is powerful and bright and sometimes deadly. Being struck by lightning can cause a lot of health challenges and could prove fatal. According to the National Weather Service, 305 people…

recycling

(Encyclopedia) recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.…

food preservation

(Encyclopedia) food preservation, methods of preparing food so that it can be stored for future use. Because most foods remain edible for only a brief period of time, people since the earliest ages…

commercial law

(Encyclopedia) commercial law, the laws that govern business transactions, except those relating to the maritime transportation of goods (see maritime law). Commercial law developed as a distinct…