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81How Many Calories Do You Burn in a Day? More Than You Realize!
How many of you out there run….I mean walk, away from exercising? Do you think strenuous exercise is what is needed to burn calories? Well, you will be glad to know that you expend calories with every activity you perform, even sitting there...
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76The Amazing World of Flowers-Smallest, Largest, Tallest, Smelliest and Ugliest Flowers
Which flower has the honor of being the largest flower in the world? Or at the opposite end of the measuring tape, the smallest flower in the world? Which flowers are considered the smelliest or the ugliest...
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91How to Prepare for Google Adsense Payments
As you approach the appropriate thresholds in the Google Adsense program, some very important steps need to be followed in order to begin receiving payments. This discussion will be for U.S. members, but if you reside in a different country check...
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84English Words-Or Are They? Word Origins- English Words Derived From Other Languages
Many of the English words we speak today are derived from other languages. They are called loanwords or borrowings. Wikipedia has lists of English words derived from many other languages. The work wiki comes from the Hawaiian word wiki-wiki which...
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78A Brief History of Some of our Favorite Garden Vegetables
Ever wonder where all the great vegetables we eat everyday came from? Only a few are native to North America. So where did they originate and how did they get here? Corn (Zea mays) Corn is native to...
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77What is in a Name: Calligraphy Alphabet – Beautiful Writing
Calligraphy is a Greek word meaning ‘beautiful writing’. I took some calligraphy classes back in the 1980’s. It was a very fascinating hobby which could either be very satisfying or very frustrating because it takes a tremendous amount of...
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73Galaxies Imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
A galaxy is a system of an enormous collection of stars – up to a trillion or more individual stars or suns, dust and gas held together by gravity. Each galaxy belongs to a larger cluster or supercluster. ...
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71Why Are Sunrises and Sunsets So Colorful?
Author photo. Do a web search and you will come up with around 4 million photos. People love sunrises and sunsets. They are fascinating and they change by the second. They are definitely more interesting if...
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77The Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomers Eye in the Sky
Astronomers dreamed of a telescope in space or an eye in the sky for many decades. The Hubble Space Telescope was the result of those dreams. In 1973 NASA selected a team to design the telescope and its instruments. The specs originally called...
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73Going-to-the-Sun Road: A Drive You Will Never Forget
An excellent adventure at Glacier National Park is a journey by car across the Going-to-the-Sun Road. First, a little bit of background about the road. It was first considered in 1910 but construction was not...
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