Seaport city known for its very expensive purple dye
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In Ancient Rome, Purple Dye Was Made from Snails | Smart News ...  Oct 10, 2013 ... And while purple is flashy and pretty, it was more important at the ... Purple was expensive, because purple dye came from snails. ... Perkin's purple, otherwise known as aniline purple, or mauveine, was the first synthetic dye. ... In 2010, Malaria Killed 660,000 People, And Now It's Resistant to ... City / State.
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Lydia, Dorcas and Phoebe, Co-workers With the Apostles  (Purple dye, made from a certain mollusk, was extremely expensive. ... and noted for her acts of charity, in particular for making garments and giving ... was a Diakonos of the Church at Chenchreae, the eastern seaport of the city of Corinth.
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Tyre - Clickable Map of the Roman Empire ... - Bible History Online  Ancient Tyre - One of the most famous cities of the ancient world, situated along ... The city has a number of ancient sites, including its Roman Hippodrome. ... expensive sort of purple dye, produced from the murex shellfish, known as Tyrian purple. .... The unusual contrast between the bustle of a great seaport and the more...
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J! Archive - Show #1423, aired 1990-11-07  It's hollow, has a mouthpiece, shoots poison darts & can be 25 feet in length .... Seaport city known for its very expensive purple dye...
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Tyrian purple - Wikipedia  Tyrian purple also known as Tyrian red, royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a ... Tyrian purple was expensive: the 4th-century-BC historian Theopompus reported, "Purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon" in Asia Minor. .... Murex purple was a very important industry in many Phoenician colonies...
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Oil Spills by the Numbers | Center for American Progress  Apr 30, 2010 ... Louisiana's seafood industry alone is worth $2 billion annually. ... The most expensive oil spill in history is the EXXON VALDEZ (Alaska, 1989). Cleanup alone cost in the region of US $2.5 billion and total costs (including fines ... central Alaska and by 35 percent in southwest Alaska in the year after the spill.
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jeopardy/2405_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  "SEA" YA | This fish of the genus Hippocampus has the ability to change its color to conform to its background | Seahorse. right: Ryan. Wrong: Value: $400.
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Waterfront Archives - Sotheby's International Realty | Blog  3 days ago ... The building's gold crown represents the gold rush and is named after the 1854 Eureka Stockade. ... The unparalleled panoramic view of the Rhine River valley and the ..... famous for, this property does not only enjoy unparalleled sea views ... Due to its long offset shape and longitudinal positioning, most...
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The One That Almost Got Away | Boston Magazine  How Boston bluefin tuna became one of the world's most obsessively coveted and extravagantly expensive foodsand why, decades later, you can finally eat it here. ... alone as sashimi, cut into robust dice and served with caviar and two types of Japanese ... Tokyo chefs are used to paying $100 per pound for the stuff.
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J! Archive - Show #4159, aired 2002-10-03  Accounting for half of all U.S. exports in 1855, this crop was "King" ... This state has 5 of the top 15 U.S. ports, including Plaquemines & Lake Charles...
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jeopardy/1977_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE EAST COAST | This gin-making city on the east bank of the Hudson is named for Dutch trader Jan Peek | Peekskill. right: Kathy. Wrong: Value: $500.
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The Sea Slug Forum - Ink glands  Johnson, P.M & Willows, A.O.D, (1999) Defense in Sea Hares (Gastropoda, ... Comment on How to make dye from the Sea Hare ink. by Ralph Bowen. .... purple colour released by the sea hare was also used by the Phoenicians for dying purposes? ... Tyrian Purple was a 'red' rather than purple dye, first made in Tyre in the...
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jeopardy/2041_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  NASA SHUTTLE NAMES | It's the capital of South Carolina, or a Sony-owned .... seaport is a center of German trade, perhaps in the ground beef that bears its...
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J! Archive - Show #3778, aired 2001-01-24  In 1832 the first streetcars in New York City were powered by these .... In Latin, uva is a bunch of these, whether green or purple, seeded or seedless...
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Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT has a terrific permanent ...  Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT has a terrific permanent collection including ... Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT is the nation's leading maritime museum.
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Forbidden City - Travel China Guide  Comprehensive guide on Forbidden City (Palace Museum) in Beijing, with ... Hence its name 'The Purple Forbidden City', usually 'The Forbidden City'. ... It was completed fourteen years later in 1420, and then the capital city was ... one hundred thousand artisans were driven into the long-term hard labor. ... Take bus no.
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Ship Passengers and World Seaports. 1800s San Francisco - The ...  The new town of Crockett, six miles west of Martinez, exists on paper. ... The new ferry, boatBenicia has just been completed, and commenced her trips .... In 1906, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company began ... employed 490 people and produced 67,000 tons of refined cane sugar. .... U.S. Coast Guard
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City and geographical review - Best Of Ukraine  Sevastopol (or Sebastopol) is one of the largest sea ports, a cultural, ... also includes 2 towns  Balaklava and Inkerman, urban-type settlement Kacha, .... Modern Sevastopol was founded in 1783 as a naval fortification, a city and port by Catherine II on ... 1784 Ahtiar, city - fortress at the Black sea, was renamed Sevastopol.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 --  Topix  $400 ~ "King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running" is a musical revue set in the Outer Banks of this state ` $600 ~ Robert Preston starred as this silent film director...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Oct 31, 2009 ... $1000 ~ A national seashore covers much of this 100-mile long island named for Father Nicholas Valle, a Spanish priest. Reply .
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Emerald  It is one of the most highly prized of all gems, as well as rare and valuable. ... variety of the beryllium aluminosilicate mineral beryl that owes its bright green color to ... and Somondoco, Bogota; these deposits were discovered in the late 1500s. ... artificially by using a process developed by Carroll F. Chatham in the 1930s.