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Hereford History The Hereford Comes to America Compiled By Jill Hotchkiss and Byron Bayers (Sources: History of Hereford Cattle by T.L. Miller and The Here...

Operation Paperclip, named after the use of the ordinary paperclip attached to the personnel files of select German scientists, was a special operation.

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We spoke to some experts to help demystify what "sushi-" and "sashimi-grade" mean, and to outline best practices for preparing fish at home for raw consumption, whether it's crudo, sashimi, ceviche, or <em>aguachile</em>.

designation of governmental religious references and practices deemed to be mere ritual and non-religious through long customary usage

FBI sting operation

A salute to Mark Twain, one of the original “surf writers”.

Jewish American mathematician (1884-1972)

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Tipu's Tiger or Tippu's Tiger is an eighteenth-century automaton or mechanical toy created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms…

miracle fruit, causes sour foods to taste sweet

1990 heist in London

Timur (Chagatay: تيمور Temür, lit. 'Iron'; 9 April 1336 – 17–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī (Chagatay: تيمور کورگن Temür Küregen), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia…

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In 1940, Giuseppe accepted to become the Venice rabbi and guide the Jewish community in such hard, disturbing, and dangerous times.

Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese mathematician, cyberneticist, aerospace engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.…

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The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. A completed version dated 1792 by Franz Xaver…

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by ...