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Sisal - Wikipedia  Sisal with the botanical name Agave sisalana, is a species of Agave native to southern Mexico but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries. It yields a stiff fibre used in making various products. The term sisal may refer either to the plant's common name or the fibre, ... The sisal fibre is traditionally used for rope and twine, and has many other...
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Hemp - Herse | British History Online  Instead, the plant was valued for its fibres, used as today for making ROPE ... a meaning has become attached to CANVAS since the early-modern period. In the first half of the period, canvas was the usual label for any fabric woven from hemp. ... The growing of hemp was described by the sixteenth-century East-Anglian...
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April 5 - Game Show NewsNet - Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of ...  Apr 5, 2005 ... The clue: in the 19th C. this plant first cultivated in China had become so widely used that its name came to mean "rope". Lan's guess: "What is...
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Cotton mill - Wikipedia  A cotton mill is a factory housing powered spinning or weaving machinery for the production of ... Child labour was used in the mills, and the factory system led to organised ... Handloom weaving lingered into the mid-19th century but cotton spinning in ... The machines were the first to spin cotton mechanically "without the...
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origins of agriculture - Agriculture in ancient Asia | Britannica.com  Sep 29, 2015 ... In the early 21st century some 2.5 billion people were concentrated in just ... There is no consensus on the origin and progress of plant and ... From earliest times, agriculture in China has been divided into two ... Crops domesticated in the north include foxtail and broomcorn millet, .... Name the African Battle.
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EGGPLANT  Originally an from the Orient, Eggplant got its name from yellow and white ... Thomas Jefferson, who experimented with many varieties of plants in his ... credited with introducing Eggplant to North America. ... Many cooks like to salt this vegetable be- ... as Aubergine, Garden Egg, or Brinjal, come in a variety of shapes and.
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Plant - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Arrowroot plant got its name from the Indians using it to draw poison from ... Camellia George Joseph Camel, a Moravian Jesuit missionary, gave his .... Exotic plant Term for a non-indigenous plant, especially one grown in soil ... Mulch Gary the gardener would use this protective covering of sawdust, leaves, etc. on his soil.
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COTTON FIBERS  Cotton today is the most used textile fiber in the world. ... Today, cotton is grown in more than 80 countries worldwide. ... The botanical name of American Upland cotton is Gossypium Hirsutum and has been developed from ... the longer strand types such as Pima or Sea Island produce the finest types of cotton fabrics [18].
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The Mad Logophile: Eponyms - Daily Kos  Apr 12, 2009 ... Here, we explore words; their origins, evolution, usage. ... named by French chef Adolf Duglr for the well-known 19th-century courtesan/actress ... Moravian Jesuit missionary George Josef Kamel lent his name to the camellia ... The gardenia (one of my favorites) is not named after the garden but Alexander...
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Production Process - 3 | Britannica.com  Results 121 - 220 of 586 ... china manufacturer who first produced an English true ... any of a diverse group of machines that not only lift heavy objects but also ... crucibles were probably so named from the Latin word crux, cross or trial. ... Its name is derived from that of a famous early 17th-century hangman of Tyburn, Eng. In...
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PlantBio 263  The use of medicinal plants is found in almost all cultures. ... The most important of the plant derived compounds are terpenoids (such as steroids) and alkaloids. ... In the 19th century, such compounds as quinine, strychnine, morphine, and ephedrine ... Most of the drugs used in western culture come from Europe and Asia,...
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Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years ...  Jun 18, 2013 ... One of the earliest-known European references to the food was made by the Italian ... Around this time it was also believed that tomatoes were best eaten in hotter .... Lead poisoning in ancient times was caused by the practice of .... thin-skinned and purple) at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens in the...
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Bonsai growing into an art form native to Appalachians  Oct 22, 2005 ... Many of the plants in the North Carolina Arboretum have been grown from ... While the mystique of miniature trees may have originated a millennium ago in Asia, bonsai ... A horticultural art form that originated in Asia about 1,000 years ago, ... He was trying to show the younger guys how to turn it around.
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The Naming of Chinese Medicinals in English - Paradigm Publications  vary much more than Latin names and do not cover the full gamut of Chinese ..... when different pharmaceutical entities come from different sources, the name cannot be ..... flower becomes the object of our action, so the word flos changes to the ...... Brassicae Albae Caulis et Folium (bi ji`e) .... white mustard stalk and leaf.
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Sugarcane - Wikipedia  Sugarcane, or sugar cane, is one of the several species of tall perennial true grasses of the ... Brazil was the largest producer of sugar cane in the world. ... Christopher Columbus first brought sugarcane to the Caribbean during his ... The last kettle, the "teache", was where the cane juice became syrup. ..... Business Wire.
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History of silk - Wikipedia  The production of silk originates in China in the Neolithic Silk remained confined to China until ... The rise of new fabrics such as nylon reduced the prevalence of silk ... 2 Silk usage in Ancient and Medieval China; 3 Chinese silk and its ..... it was not until 552 CE that the Byzantine emperor Justinian obtained the first...
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The emergence of the Chinese zheng : traditional context ...  The more popular thirteen-string zheng was used in the non-Han sections of yanyue ... commonly included the zheng, pipa (four-string pear shaped lute), sanxian ... I use the term traditional zheng to refer to the music developed in several ...... music and musical instruments to China include: 1) Italian missionary Matteo...
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History of Cotton in Europe and Asia - Quatr.us  About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the ... cotton growers in India had invented a roller machine to get the seeds out of the ... The Roman encyclopedia writer Pliny reported that in India there were "trees ... people were wearing Indian cotton by 800 AD, and by 1000 AD Indian cotton...
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Opium - Wikipedia  Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum). ... The production of opium has not changed since ancient times. ... of human use; the oldest known seeds date back to more than 5000 BCE in the ... A figure of the Minoan "goddess of the narcotics", wearing a crown of three...
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Names of China - Wikipedia  The name China is recorded in English from the mid 16th century. It is of uncertain origin, but ..... Use of this term is also common as part of the phrase "designing rivers and mountains" meaning maintaining and improving ... Northern Chinese were called Han, which was considered to be the highest class of Chinese.
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Rubber - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science  Aug 10, 2014 ... Rubber is one of mans most used products and has been used for thousands of years. ... The rubber tree is not the only plant that produces rubber; you can .... It can also be found in South America, southeast Asia, and western Africa. Its scientific name is Ficus elastica and its more common names are the...