1. Ceramics can be harder, light, and more resistant to heat than metals.
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2. Not everyone realizes that the most largest organ of the human body is the skin.
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3. Mold is extremely destruction to books in a library.
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4. Sidney Lanier achieved fame both as a poet or as a symphony musician.
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5. The horses used to playing polo are not of any special breed or of any definite size.
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6. A tapestry consists of a foundation weave, called the warp, which across are passed different colored
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threads, called the weft, forming decorative patterns.
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7. The works of early American woodcarvers had many artistic qualities, but these craftsmen probably did not
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think of them as artists.
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8. Perhaps mankind’s first important musical influence were the songs of birds.
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9. The techniques of science and magic are quite different, but their basic aims – to understand and control
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nature – they are very similar.
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10. It was a cave near Magdalena, New Mexico, when the oldest known ears of cultivated corn were discovered.
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11. The fossil remains of much extinct mammals have been found in the tar pits at Rancho La Brea in Los
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Angeles.
12. Sharks can detect minute electrical discharges coming from its prey.
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13. A dark nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar dust enough dense to obscure the stars beyond it.
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14. Commercially honey is heated and filtered in order to stabilize and clarify it.
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15. The various parts of the body require so different surgical skills that many surgical specialties have developed.
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16. One reason birds have been so successful is because of their able to escape from danger quickly.
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17. The wood of the rosewood tree is used to do fine musical instruments.
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18. Chemical engineering is based on the principles of physics, chemists, and mathematics.
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19. Ballet performers must be believable actors and actresses as well as experts dancers.
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20. Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is exactly almost the same size as the Earth.
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21. P.T.Barnum opened his own circus in 1871 and become the most famous showman of his time.
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22. The way a child plays with other children reveals a lots about the child’s emotional development.
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23. Sheep have been domesticated for over 5,000 years ago.
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24. Chemical compounds with barium, cobalt, and strontium are resposible to many of the vivid colors in
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fireworks.
25. Duke University in North California has an outstanding collecting of documents concerning Southern history.
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26. Dreams are commonly made up of either visual and verbal images.
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27. The Yale Daily News is oldest than any other college newspaper still in operation in the United States.
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28. Mary Rinehart was a pioneer in the field of journalist in the early twentieth century.
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29. The Dave Brubek Quartet, one of the most popular jazz bands of the 1950s, had a particularly loyal following
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on campuses college.
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30. In the architecture, a capital is the top portion of a column.
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31. Today successful farmers are experts not only in agriculture, but also in market, finance, and accouting.
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32. In the early days of jet development, jet engines used great numbers of fuel.
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33. Georgia has too many types of soil that virtually any temperate-zone crop can be grown there.
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34. The sum of all chemical reactions in an organism’s living cells are called its metabolism.
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35. River transportation in the United States consists primarily of barges pull by towboats.
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36. Most modern barns are both insulated, ventilated, and equipped with electricity.
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37. Many bridges in New England were convered with wooden roofs to protect it from rain and snow.
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38. It is their nearly perfect crystal structure that gives diamonds their hardness, brilliance, and transparent.
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39. Needles are simple – looking tools, but they are very relatively difficult to make.
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40. Ducks are less susceptible to infection than another types of poultry.
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41. Unlike competitive running, race walkers must always keep some portion of their feet in contact with the
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ground.
42. One of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the United States is the wildly and lovely Magnolia Gardens
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near Charleston, South California.
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43. Composer John Cage used many unusual objects as instrument in his music, including cowbells, flower pots,
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tin cans, and saw blades.
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44. Woody Guthrie wrote thousands of songs during the lifetime, many of which became classic folk songs.
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45. Runner Wilma Rudolf win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics, and she set the world record for the 100A
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meter dash in 1961.
46. Some critics have called Theodore Dreiser’s book Sister Carrie a first modern novel because it broke so many
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tranditions.
47. Abigail Adams’ letters to her husband present a graphic picture of the age which she lived.
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48. Viscosity is a measurement describing the relative difficulty or easy with which liquids flow.
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49. More than 10,000 years ago, glaciers moved across the Minnesota region four time, levelling mots of the land.
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50. The discover of gold and silver in the rugged mountains of Nevada in 1858 attracted many fortune-seekers to
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that area.
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51. The rock formations in the Valley of Fire in Nevada has been worn into many strange shapes by the action of
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wind and water.
52. The author Susan Glaspell won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for hers play, Alison’s House.
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53. Haywood Broun was a read widely newspaper columnist who wrote during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
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54. Researches in economics, psychology, and marketing can help business.
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55. Because of their color and shape, seahorses blend so well with the seaweed in which they live that it is almost
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impossible to see themselves.
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56. Although the social sciences different a great deal from one another they share a common interest in human
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relationships.
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57. Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick describes the dangers, difficult, and often violent life aboard a whaling
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ship.
58. Near equator, the slant of the Sun’s rays is never great enough to cause temperatures to fall below the freezing
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point.
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59. Stephen Hopkins was a cultural and political leadership in colonial Rhode Island.
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60. A mousebird’s tail is double as long as its body.
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61. The Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah are the only range of mountains in North America that runs from
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east and west for its entire length.
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62. The tools used most often by floral designers are the knives, scissors, and glue gun.
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63. Most types of dolphins live at less twenty-five years, and some species may reach 50 years of age.
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64. Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior can only be reached by the boat.
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65. The main divisions of geologic time, called eras, are subdivided in periods.
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66. All root vegetables grow underground, and not all vegetables that grow underground are roots.
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67. The process of fermentation takes place only in the absent of oxygen.
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68. In about 1920, experimental psychologists have devoted more research to learning than to any other topic.
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69. Transfer taxes are imposed on the sell or exchange of stocks and bonds.
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70. One of the greatest of mountains climbers, Carl Blaurock was the first to climb all of the mountains higher
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than 14,000 feet in the United States.
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71. Biochemists have solved many of the mysteries about photosynthesis, the process which plants make food.
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72. Oceanic islands have been separated from the mainland for too long that they have evolved distinctive animal
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populations.
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73. Certain species of penicillin mold are used to ripe cheese.
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74. Many of the important products obtained from trees, one of the most important is wood pulp, which is used in
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paper-making.
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75. Not longer are contributions to the advancement of industry made primarily by individuals.
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