In English, dirt can refer to several things: Soil on the ground. Although the term "dirt" is an often used subsitute for soil, a scientist would define dirt as material staining clothes or found under the fingernails — possibly coming from soil, but certainly not necessarily soil. A dirt road is, technically, an unimproved road. A colloquial term for negative information about a person. See also gossip It can also be a slang term for disapproval or disgust. Dirt is also an album by grunge band Alice in Chains. It can ...

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Magic Dirt - Current personnel. Adalita Srsen (vocal, guitar) Dean Turner (bass guitar) Raul Sanchez (guitar) Adam Robertson (drums) Magic Dirt - Former personnel. Daniel Herring (guitar) Dave Thomas (guitar) ...

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If there are two piles, one of gold and one of dirt, which one will you choose? The gold one. If there is only one pile in which the dirt and gold are mixed you would try to separate the gold from the dirt and take the gold. We need to do the same with our personality.

In the beginning yoga is a practice, then it becomes a way of life. When it becomes a way of life identification with and expression of the balanced, positive and optimistic nature takes place and then one attains physical, mental and spiritual wealth.

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Alternative country is a term applied to various subgenres of country music. The term can refer to several ideas. Most generally, any musician who plays a type of country music different from the prevailing trend can be said to play "alternative country". By this standard, for example, the Bakersfield sound was alternative in the 1950s, and the Lubbock, Texas musicians were alternative in the 1960s. In the 1990s however, "alternative country" came to refer to a disparate group of musicians and singers operating outside t ...

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Buried Alive has several meanings: The literal meaning – either to be placed in a grave or hole and have dirt placed atop him/her, regardless if the person is conscious or in a container (and either accidentally or intentionally); or to be submerged in dirt, mud, etc., while alive as the result of a disaster (such as a mudslide) Buried Alive match – a type of professional wrestling match in World Wrestling Entertainment Buried Alive (band) - a musical band Buried Alive (movie) - a movie by F

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Cleanliness is the absence of dirt, including dust, stains and bad smells. In more recent times, since the germ theory of disease, it has also come to mean an absence of germs and other hazardous materials. A recent shift has now taken place to recognise that ‘dirt’ may play a useful role in our immune systems. This shift in thinking can be traced back to 1989, when David Strachan put forth the ‘hygiene hypothesis’ in the British Medicine Journal. Strachan looked at the records of 17,000 British children and foun ...

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Wort (pronounced [wɜ(r)t]) (to rhyme with dirt or word, not wart or ward) is the liquid extracted from mashing malted barley in a brewing process. It is known firstly as sweet wort and then hopped wort after hops have been added at the boiling process. Wort contains sugars that will be fermented by yeast added once the solution has cooled down

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The word backwash has a number of meanings: In Geography a Backwash (geography) is the water that rolls back down a beach after a wave has broken. Backwash (physical phenomenon) is the backwards flow of air or water. Backwash is also the process of thoroughly cleaning a pool filter pump by reversing the flow of water through it with the dirt and rinse water going to waste. See also: backwash filter Backwash.com is an internet site. For the alb

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For the software build package, see Anthill Build Server. An ant-hill is a pile of earth, sand, or clay or a composite of these and other materials that build up at the entrances of the subterranean dwellings of ant colonies as they are excavated. A colony is built and maintained by legions of worker ants, who carry tiny bits of dirt in their mandibles and deposit them near the exit of the colony. Ant-hill from the Alps Meat eate ...

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Geomancy (from Old French geomancie <Late Latin geōmantia <Late Greek geōmanteia< geo, "earth" + manteia, "divination") from the eponymous ilm al-raml ("the science of sand"), is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground, or how handfuls of dirt land when you toss them. The Arabic tradition consists of sketching sixteen random lines of dots in sand. In Africa one traditional form of geomancy consists of throwing handfuls of dirt in the air and observing ho ...

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Bicycle | Cycling Bike trials riding BMX Racing is a type of off-road bicycle racing. The format of BMX was derived from motocross racing. BMX bicycle races are sprint races on purpose built off-road single lap racetracks. The track usually consists of a starting gate for up to eight racers, a groomed serpentine dirt racecourse made up of various j ...

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A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from carpeted floors. Most homes with carpeted floors in developed countries possess a domestic vacuum cleaner for cleaning. The dirt is collected by a filtering system or a cyclone for later disposal. Vacuum cleaner - Configurations. Several general configurations for vacuum cleaners have emerged: Upright vacuum cleaners have the pump mounted directly above the suction intake, ...

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• Vacuum cleaner - History
• Vacuum cleaner - Recent developments
• Vacuum cleaner - Vacuum cleaner specifications
• Vacuum cleaner - Electric mop combo

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BMX (an abbreviation for bicycle motocross) is a form of cycling on specially designed bicycles which usually have 20-inch wheels (smaller than the 26-inch wheels found on mountain bikes and the 700C or 27-inch wheels found on more conventional road racing bicycles). The sport includes races on sandy and hilly tracks—BMX racing—as well as the performances of tricks on flat ground, wooden ramps or obsta ...

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• BMX - Racing
• BMX - Skill Levels Race Structure Awards
• BMX - Skill Level Advancement Local Points awards and District Ranking
• BMX - National and Special Event Points Awards
• BMX - Open and Trophy Dash Events
• BMX - Professionals
• BMX - American Sanctioning Bodies
• BMX - Sanctioning Bodies of other Nations
• BMX - Legendary BMX Racers
• BMX - American Santioning Body Number One racers by year
• BMX - Popularity of BMX
• BMX - Freestyle
• BMX - Street
• BMX - Park
• BMX - Vert
• BMX - Trails
• BMX - Flatland
• BMX - History of freestyle
• BMX - In the media
• BMX - Women in BMX
• BMX - BMX Industry

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New Orleans Voodoo is a system of folk magic used in New Orleans and surrounding areas of Louisiana, in which objects like roots, gris-gris bags, powders, graveyard dirt, and "poppets" or "voodoo dolls" are employed for magical effect for the purpose of material gain or against an enemy. It is more or less synonymous with hoodoo and is not to be confused with the religion of Vodou. Other related archivesArena Football League, Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans VooDoo, Vo

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Cobblestones are stones used in the pavement of early streets. Smooth stones were usually taken from riverbeds and cobbled (roughly assembled) together with mortar. While this removed the mud and dust from dirt roads, it was also quite loud with carriage wheels and horse hooves. Cobblestoned streets gradually gave way to macadam roads, and later to tarmac surfaces in the 19th century with the last holdouts finally being covered by asphalt at the beginning of the 20th century. However, cobblestones are often retained in historic

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A shovel is a tool for lifting and moving loose material such as coal, gravel, snow, dirt, or sand. It is usually a hand tool consisting of a broad blade with edges or sides that is fixed to a medium-length handle. The term "shovel" is also applied to larger excavating machines, such as steam shovels, which are designed for the same purpose—lifting and moving material, see Loader (equipment). Hand shovels have been adapted for many different tasks and environments. They can be optimized for a single task or designed as cross- ...

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Beehive tombs, also known as Tholos tombs (plural tholoi), are a style of Mycenaean chamber tomb from the Bronze Age. Beehive tombs developed from Mycenaean shaft tombs, which first appear around 1600 BC. After about 1500 BC, beehive tombs became more widespread. They were built as corbelled arches, layers of stone and dirt placed closer together as the arch tapers toward the top of the tomb. This style is probably an influence from Minoan tombs. Each tomb usually contains more than one person, in various places i ...

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Washing is one way of cleaning, namely with water and often some kind of soap or detergent. Washing is an essential part of good hygiene. Soaps and detergents assist in the emulsification of oils and dirt particles so they can be washed away. People usually wash themselves. Little children, the sick, and people with disabilities may be washed by a caregiver. Lovers may wash each other for fun. Often a shower or a bathtub is used. More frequent is washing of just the hands, e.g. before and after preparing food and eating, after using the toilet, after handling something dirty, etc. Hand washing ...

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In baseball, softball, and similar sports and games, the batter's box is the place where the batter stands when ready to receive a pitch from the pitcher. It is usually drawn in chalk on the dirt surrounding home plate. In fact, there are two batter's boxes, one for left-handed batters and one for right-handed batters, although rules-wise they serve the same purpose. A batter may only occupy one batters box at a time. The pitcher may not throw his pitch while any part of the batter's body is touching the ground outside o ...

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