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"Should I order the lemon cake with pistachio crème for dessert ___ or should I get the strawberry sorbet?" Leah asked Michelle as she studied the menu.

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According to some studies, introverted people are generally and organized, making them ideal candidates for detail-oriented jobs requiring minimal social interaction.

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Adult ticks are incredibly small—about the size of a sesame seed—and progress through four stages of egg, larva, nymph, and adult.

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After French revolutionaries overthrew their government in the late 1700s ____ they replaced the Gregorian calendar with a new republican calendar with months named for natural elements.

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Although eating unagi—freshwater eel that has been grilled and served with sweet sauce on a bed of rice—is a summertime tradition in Japan ___ the species is now endangered

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Although only ten percent of the population is many famous people throughout history have been left-handed, including composer Wolfgang Mozart, President Barack Obama, baseball player Babe Ruth, and entrepreneur Bill Gates.

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Among turtles, the giant South American river turtle is one of the most social____ these turtles nest together, migrate together, and communicate with each other using hoots, clicks, and clucks.

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Anita could spruce up her bedroom by purchasing a new headboard for her bed ___ or making one using fabric stretched over plywood.

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As of 2014, the dwarf planet Pluto has five known Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx.

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Because orangutans are often solitary or live in small groups of fewer than they're extremely challenging to track and study

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Before he became president, Ronald Reagan—known as the Great Communicator—was a radio a Hollywood and governor of California.

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Bioluminescent, or light-producing, fungi glow all the time___but are most easily detected in the dark.

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Bobby focuses his workouts on building strength and lean muscle to do so, he performs a variety of exercises using the barbells and weight machines at the gym.

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Boys under the age of eighteen used to dominate the gaming population in the United States___ but in 2014, adult women became the largest gamer demographic.

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Chemoautotrophs are organisms that live on minerals dissolved in water, including and sulfur compounds.

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City Lights bookstore in San Francisco has been a defining institution for the Beat generation since its founding in and the store continues to stand against censorship and publish new titles to this day.

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Due to the threat of rain, the free concert in the park was relocated to the community center___ therefore, attendance was much lower than predicted.

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Duke Kahanamoku was a gold-medal-winning swimmer and master and is often called "the father of surfing" for promoting the sport around the world.

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English speakers may know the tallest peak in the world as Mount Everest, but this iconic mountain is also known by other Chomolungma (Tibetan), Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng (Chinese), and Sagarmatha (Nepali).

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Hummingbirds don't have a sweet-taste receptor ___ but are still able to recognize nectar's sweetness due to a mutation in their umami taste receptors.

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I think some of the creepiest looking freshwater animals piranhas, electric eels, the goliath tiger fish, anacondas, and vampire fish.

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If people are deprived of REM sleep ___ their bodies will adjust by reducing the time spent in other sleep stages—a phenomenon called "REM rebound."

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If you don't have leeks for this dish, try onions instead or use shallots if they're available.

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Important works of abolitionist literature include these texts by former slaves: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive and Twelve Years a Slave.

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In 1392, King Charles VI of France, also known as Charles the Mad, began having and fits of violent behavior.

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In 1958, a landslide following an earthquake created a wave one hundred feet high in Alaska's Lituya Bay___ moreover, the wave snapped trees nearly two thousand feet upslope and killed five people.

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In 2013, the places that most frequently appeared on Instagram Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Times Square in New York City, and Disneyland in Anaheim.

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In Greek mythology, Nyx is the goddess of the night and the mother of many deities, including the Old and Sleep.

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In the nineteenth century, albumen, or the clear part of the inside of an egg, was an inexpensive material used for photographic printing __ so commercial photographers actually kept chickens on-site.

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Journalist Horace Greeley founded the Liberal Republican and he ran for the U.S. presidency in 1872 but died before the election results were finalized.

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Known for her caustic wit, Dorothy Parker was a prominent writer in the 1920s ___ and also an important social activist.

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Large, flightless dodo birds were once plentiful on the island of but sailors—and the introduction of pigs, rats, and monkeys to the island—wiped out the dodo population in 1681.

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Les Deux Magots café in Paris has hosted such literary geniuses as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernest Hemingway ___ consequently, the café remains a popular spot for tourists from all over the world.

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Many common household items can be used to keep ants out of your home, such as adhesive and orange peels.

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Most people have never heard of Sybil nevertheless, in 1777, the sixteen-year-old girl made a forty-mile night ride—far longer than Paul Revere's ride—to warn the local militia of the imminent approach of British troops.

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Musician David Bowie was known for his numerous alter agos___ however, his character Ziggy Stardust, a rock star alien portrayed in Bowie's hit single "Starman," has enjoyed more enduring popularity than the rest.

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Over the summer, Ernest read Natural Histories by Guadalupe The House on Mango Street by Sandra What's to Become of the Boy? by Heinrich and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

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Parasitic flowering plants like dwarf the Australian Christmas and dodder extract water and nutrients from host plants to survive.

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People living near Italy's Mount Etna, an active volcano, have tried to redirect the flow of lava for hundreds of years and they have even used explosives to divert the flow away from towns.

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Professional eater Sonya Thomas weighs only ninety-eight pounds___ but she has competed in nearly two hundred eating contests and is ranked sixth overall in the International Federation of Competitive Eating.

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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury once dined at director Alfred Hitchcock's home___the eccentric Hitchcock served a meal consisting entirely of purple food.

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Several surgical instruments from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are, thankfully, no longer the gorget, the probe-razor, and the jugum.

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Sidney made her own all-natural lip balm olive oil, coconut oil, vitamin E oil, honey, and cocoa powder.

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Some of Bonnie's favorite books include Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya and The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank.

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Some of the most infamous assassins in American history include John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. and James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Terrell rattled off a list of his favorite David Lynch, Christopher Guest, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson.

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The Chelsea Hotel wasn't always a hotel frequented by writers, artists, actors, and musicians ___ it was a cooperative apartment complex in New York until 1905.

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The Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, collects and preserves an extensive collection of more than thirty-six million five million and one million rare books—all accessible to the general public.

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The Seismofon is a musical sculpture at the Science Museum of Minnesota____ it converts data from earthquake monitors into sounds produced by marimbas and xylophones.

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The massive bluestones at Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in England, weigh four to eight tons apiece___ therefore, it's quite astonishing that they were transported 170 miles from north Wales nearly five thousand years ago.

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The novel Ulysses by James Joyce was banned completely in the United States until and off and on in Australia until the mid-1950s.

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Thomas Jefferson thought the Erie Canal was an impossible endeavor ___ nevertheless, under New York Governor De Witt Clinton, the 363-mile waterway connecting Yardley and Buffalo was completed in 1825.

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Three of the most important breakthroughs in medicine the identification of insulin, the introduction of aspirin, and the discovery of penicillin.

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Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the contributions of female scientists such as Ida Noddack, a German Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an American and Muriel Wheldale Onslow, a British biochemist.

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Unless the Timberwolves score in the next two the Colts will advance to the playoffs and have a shot at the championship.

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Until I started exercising I had no energy and suffered from insomnia.

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Vancouver, British Columbia, aims to be the greenest city on the planet and is making strides reducing waste, increasing green space, and switching to renewable energy.

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Vivien Leigh, a famous actress in her own right, was married to film star Laurence olivier___ the two appeared in numerous movies together.

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When Alfred Hitchcock was making the movie The Birds in the 1960s ___ he borrowed a special camera from Walt Disney to film the infamous bird attack scene.

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When taking photographs, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson wanted to remain an unseen witness ___ so he sometimes concealed his camera under a handkerchief.

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When visiting Rocky Mountain National Park, many visitors drive the Trail Ridge Road for stunning views___ or they climb the 14, 259-foot-high Longs Peak.

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With just a pair of scissors and some electrical tape, Emma decorated her old the pattern she created was inspired by traditional Turkish rugs.

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Zinc is a trace element found in the pancreas, where it may help store in the gastrointestinal tract, where it's a part of enzymes that digest and in red blood cells.