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Tea is a product made from the leaves or buds of the tea bush Camellia sinensis. It is commonly consumed in the form of a beverage made by steeping it in hot water for a few minutes. The English word tea derives from the Chinese 茶, pronounced te in the Min Nan dialect. The flavour of the raw tea is developed by processes including oxidation, heating, drying and the addition of other herbs, spices, or f ...

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• Tea - Cultivation
• Tea - Processing and classification
• Tea - Blending and additives
• Tea - Content of Tea
• Tea - Tea origin and early history in Asia
• Tea - Tea creation myths
• Tea - China
• Tea - Japan
• Tea - Tea spreads to the world
• Tea - The word tea
• Tea - Tea culture
• Tea - China
• Tea - Vietnam
• Tea - Britain
• Tea - Hong Kong
• Tea - Iran
• Tea - Ireland
• Tea - India
• Tea - Pakistan
• Tea - Sri Lanka
• Tea - Turkey
• Tea - Russia
• Tea - Czech Republic
• Tea - Commonwealth countries
• Tea - United States
• Tea - Japan
• Tea - Taiwan
• Tea - Tibet
• Tea - Tea preparation
• Tea - Enjoying tea the modern way

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A bicycle, or bike, is a pedal-driven land vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. First introduced in 19th-century Europe, bicycles evolved quickly into their familiar, current design. Numbering over 1,000,000,000 in the world today, bicycles provide the principal means of transportation in many regions and a popular form of recreational transport in others. To distinguish a bicycle from a mot ...

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• Bicycle - History
• Bicycle - Technical aspects
• Bicycle - Legal requirements
• Bicycle - Construction and parts
• Bicycle - Performance
• Bicycle - Bicycle physics
• Bicycle - Social and historical aspects
• Bicycle - Economic and social implications
• Bicycle - Bicycles at work
• Bicycle - Bicycle recreation
• Bicycle - Bicycles and war
• Bicycle - Bicycle racing
• Bicycle - Modal share: cycle use in modern cities
• Bicycle - Cycling activism
• Bicycle - Types of bicycle
• Bicycle - Standards
• Bicycle - Notes

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Merit (Latin meritum), in general, is understood to be that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward (prœmium, merces) from him in whose service the work is done. By autonomasia, the word has come to designate also the good work itself, insofar as it deserves a reward from the person in whose service it was performed. In Catholic theology, a supernatural merit can only be a salutary act (< ...

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  Catholic Doctrine
• Merit - NATURE OF MERIT
• Merit - The existence of merit
• Merit - CONDITIONS OF MERIT
• Merit - THE OBJECTS OF MERIT
• Merit - External Sources

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1904 - January-February. January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982) January 3 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997) January 10 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987) January 14 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980) January 18 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986) January 22 - George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983) January 22 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)See also:

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