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1. Bacteria
commonly inhabit food preparation surfaces and they therefore
often being unsanitary in kitchens.
2. The
smaller of all nine planets in the solar system is
Pluto.
3. Anthropology
is necessity concerned with the human development, specifically
in those areas relating to social customs and beliefs and
biology.
4. Cotton
was one of the first major agricultural industries establishment
in North America after the arrival of the Europeans.
5. Without
the development of a calendar predicting onset of the
seasons would not be possible.
6. The
common strawberry propagates not with the seeds it has on its
skin instead by sending out slender growths called runners into
the soil.
7. The
primary function of any business is to generate a profit,
motivating managers running their operations as efficiently as
possible.
8. During
working as a scientist and chemist, George Washington Carver
discovered over 450 uses for the peanut and other agricultural
products.
9. While
both are members of the citrus family, the lemon is different from
the grapefruit in that it is smaller and bitter.
10. The
notion that an infant’s brain is a tabula rasa or “blank
slate” is one that has been expressed by many developmental psychologies
for decades.
11. Consisting almost
entirely of organic material, coal results from the compaction of decayed
plants over million of years.
12. In 1843
Norbert Rillieux patented a vacuum sugar evaporation system that removed
the liquid from sugar cane juice more efficiency that the
open-kettle systems then in use.
13. Like
cabbage, kale is a leafy vegetable, but its leaves are loose rather
than formed in compact head.
14. Weighing
less than gram at birth, infant kangaroos are reared in their mothers’
pouches from birth to roughly seven to ten months.
15. The term
"ground" refers to an electrical conductor that
completes an electrical circuit by connection to earth.
16. Among
the largest and most distant from the 48 lower states are Alaska, more
than ten degrees north of the northernmost state in the Continental
United States.
17. Martha
Graham started dance career when she founded the Modern Dance
Company in Chicago in the latter part of the 20th century.
18. No machine
that claims to defy the laws of physics by running forever without source
of energy has ever been patented at the United States Patent Office.
19. Poet and
novelist Maya Angelou’s fascinating with language began when
she was still her childhood.
20. Although it
is commonly believed that sharks do not sleep, they have been observed to
experience period of activity and inactivity that would roughly
correspond to the human notion of periods of sleep and waking.
21. More than
just lodgings for travelers, colonial inns and taverns also served as
social gathering place for people who had little means of
communication with surrounding areas.
22. While
more easily digested by those weak digestive systems, goat’s milk
is surpassed in popularity in the United States by cow’s milk.
23. Jazz
singer Lena Horne made one of her earliest film appearances in 1938
in The Duke is Tops, playing lead role of Ethel Andrews.
24. Some
colonial mills have weathered the elements well specifically because
they were constructed from substances durable than wood.
25. So-called “Silicon Valley,” home to Stanford
University and to some of the United States’ foremost high technology
corporations, is a loosely defined area in the Santa Clara Valley in
Northern California.
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