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Coca-Cola - Early years. Coca-Cola was invented in Columbus, Georgia, by John S. Pemberton in 1884, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. He was inspired by the formidable success of European Angelo Mariani's cocawine, Vin Mariani. In 1885, after Coca-Cola moved, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed Prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, essentially a carbonated, non-alcoholic version of French Wine Cola. The beverage was named Coca-Cola because origi ...

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Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola - History, Coca-Cola - Early years, Coca-Cola - World War II, Coca-Cola - New Coke to the present, Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola formula, Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola's advertising, Coca-Cola - Sport event sponsorships, Coca-Cola - Criticisms, Coca-Cola - Business practices, Coca-Cola - International appeal, Coca-Cola - As a political and corporate symbol, Coca-Cola - Notes, Coca-Cola - Types of Coke

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Cream soda - North America. In the American market it is usually clear or coloured brown and vanilla-flavored. Canadian cream soda is almost always pink and has a unique taste somewhat reminiscent of grenadine. Red cream sodas also exist. Some versions sold in the Southern U.S. taste of bubble gum. Cream soda - Australia. In Australia, cream soda is generally known as creaming soda and is pink, much like the Canadian version. Australians are also able to enjoy the Americ ...

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Cream soda, Cream soda - International variations, Cream soda - North America, Cream soda - Australia, Cream soda - United Kingdom, Cream soda - Europe, Cream soda - Asia, Cream soda - Africa

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Backpacking (also tramping or trekking in some countries) is the complete combination of hiking and camping. A backpacker hikes into an area with the intent of exiting at a later date, so he or she carries supplies and equipment to satisfy sleeping and eating needs. People are drawn to backpacking primarily for recreation, to explore places that they consider beautiful and fascinating, or for which there is no other way to access. The main advantage of backpacking over day hiking is that it allows the hiker to go ...

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• Backpacking wilderness - What is backpacking?
• Backpacking wilderness - Equipment
• Backpacking wilderness - Skills and safety
• Backpacking wilderness - Related activities

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In packaging, a Bag-In-Box or BIB is a type of container invented by William R. Scholle in 1955 for the storage and transportation of liquids. It consists of a strong plastic bag seated inside a cardboard box. The bag is filled by the manufacturer with the desired liquid, then sealed, and then the box is sealed. For use, the customer tears open a pre-cut window at one end of the box and connects a nozzle to a built-in port on the bag to pump out its contents. The BIB has many common commercial applications. The most ubiquitous is the use of BIBs to supply syrup to ...

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In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a product or service. A brand typically includes a name, logo, and other visual elements such as images, fonts, color schemes, or symbols. It also encompasses the set of expectations associated with a product or service which typically arise in the minds of people. Such people include employees of the brand owner, people involved with distribution, sale or supply of the p ...

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• Brand - Concepts
• Brand - History
• Brand - Examples of well known brand names
• Brand - United States Of America
• Brand - Europe
• Brand - Japan
• Brand - South Korea
• Brand - Criticisms of branding

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"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song written by Freddie Mercury and originally recorded by the band Queen for their 1975 album A Night at the Opera. The song has a somewhat unusual musical form for a piece of pop music, with three very different sections, no chorus, and both a capella and heavy metal sections. However, it was released as a single, and became a huge commercial success. This was a decisive point in Queen's career, setting them on the way to become one of Britain's biggest rock groups. The single was accompanied by what ...

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• Bohemian Rhapsody - Recording
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Structure and analysis
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Introduction
• Bohemian Rhapsody - The opera section
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Heavy rock section
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Reprise of slow section
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Video
• Bohemian Rhapsody - The first ever music promo video
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Popularity
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Trivia
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Cover versions

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Coca-Cola (also known as Coke, a name which was trademarked by The Coca-Cola Company after it was discovered many people called it by that particular name) is a very popular cola, a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines everywhere in the world. It is produced by the Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO), which is also often referred to as simply Coca-Cola or Coke. Coke is one of the world's most recognizable and widely s ...

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• Coca-Cola - History
• Coca-Cola - Early years
• Coca-Cola - World War II
• Coca-Cola - New Coke to the present
• Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola formula
• Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola's advertising
• Coca-Cola - Sport event sponsorships
• Coca-Cola - Criticisms
• Coca-Cola - Business practices
• Coca-Cola - International appeal
• Coca-Cola - As a political and corporate symbol
• Coca-Cola - Notes
• Coca-Cola - Types of Coke

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Cider (also spelled: cyder) refers to a beverage containing the juice of apples. In Europe and Oceania, the term refers to fermented apple juice. In North America cider is normally unfermented; when fermented, it is known as "hard cider" or "alcoholic cider". Cider - Alcoholic ciders. In Europe and Oceania cider is an alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. It is often stronger than beer, and is frequently over 6% alcohol by volume. The common eating apples are unsuitable for cidermaking, be ...

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• Cider - Alcoholic ciders
• Cider - Unfermented cider
• Cider - Brands of cider
• Cider - Cider by country
• Cider - Australia
• Cider - Canada
• Cider - East Asia
• Cider - France
• Cider - Germany
• Cider - Ireland
• Cider - Luxembourg
• Cider - New Zealand
• Cider - Spain
• Cider - United Kingdom
• Cider - United States
• Cider - Related drinks
• Cider - Cider production
• Cider - Scratting and pressing
• Cider - Fermentation
• Cider - Blending and bottling

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Celery (Apium graveolens dulce) is a herbaceous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the coasts of western and northern Europe, most commonly in ditches and saltmarshes. It grows to 1 m tall, with pinnate to bipinnate leaves with rhombic leaflets 3-6 cm long and 2-4 cm broad. The flowers are creamy-white, 2-3 mm diameter, produced in dense compound umbels. The seeds are broad ovoid to globose, 1.5-2 mm long and wide. Celeriac (Apium graveolens rapaceum) is closely related. Celery - Cultivation a ...

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• Celery - Cultivation and uses
• Celery - Food Uses
• Celery - Medicinal uses
• Celery - Caution
• Celery - Etymology
• Celery - Trivia

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Kalimotxo (a Basque language word) is a cheap, wine-based drink, most commonly consumed by teenagers and young adults. Alternative names include Rioja libre (from "Rioja" and "Cuba Libre") and either kali or motxo (shortenings of the Basque name). In Chile, this drink is known as jote (chilean spanish for vulture). Kalimotxo is a simple mixture of: About 50% red wine (usually a cheap brand) ...

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• Calimocho - Preparation and serving
• Calimocho - Spelling

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Food is any substance that can be consumed, including liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and is usually of animal or plant origin. The study of food is called food science. In English, the term food is often used metaphorically or figuratively, as in food for thought. Food - Legal definition. Western food law defines four categories of object as food: any substance or product, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, ...

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• Food - Legal definition
• Food - Human eating habits
• Food - Historical development
• Food - Meals
• Food - Food production or acquisition
• Food - From plants
• Food - From animals
• Food - From neither animals or plants
• Food - Food preparation
• Food - Food manufacture
• Food - Food trade
• Food - Food retailing
• Food - Food sufficiency
• Food - Food safety
• Food - Dietary habits
• Food - Nutrients in food

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Plastic is a term that covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. They are composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. There are few natural polymers generally considered to be "plastics". Plastics can be formed into objects or films or fibers. Their name is derived from the fact that many are malleable, having the property of plasticity. Plastics are designed with immense variation in properties such as heat tolerance, hardness, ...

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• Plastic - Natural polymers
• Plastic - Cellulose-based plastics: celluloid and rayon
• Plastic - Bakelite phenolic
• Plastic - Polystyrene and PVC
• Plastic - Nylon
• Plastic - Synthetic rubber
• Plastic - Plastics explosion: acrylic polyethylene etc.
• Plastic - The environment
• Plastic - Biodegradable Plastics
• Plastic - Price and the future
• Plastic - Common plastics and their typical uses
• Plastic - Special purpose plastics

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Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, personal selling and sales promotion. Advertising - History. In ancient times the most common form of advertising was 'word of mouth'. However, commercial messages and election campaign displays were found in the ruins of Pompeii. Egyptians ...

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• Advertising - History
• Advertising - Media
• Advertising - Objectives
• Advertising - Political uses
• Advertising - Impact
• Advertising - Techniques
• Advertising - Public service advertising
• Advertising - Social impact
• Advertising - Regulation
• Advertising - Critiques of the medium
• Advertising - Public perception of the medium
• Advertising - Future
• Advertising - Bibliography

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Coca-Cola Enterprises NYSE: CCE is the largest bottler by volume in the Coca-Cola System. It is the anchor bottler for North America and parts of Europe. The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its other soft drink products, and in some areas a few other soft drink products, often Dr Pepper, in about 90% of Canada, 75% of the United States, all of the United Kingdom, except Northern Ireland, and all of France, Belgium, and The Netherlands. The parts of North America not controlled by CCE are easier to list than those ...

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Water rockets are like their model rocket cousins, except that these are powered by a combination of water and air pressure. The pressure vessel, the engine of the rocket, is usually a used soft drink bottle. Water rocket - How they work. The bottle is 30% to 40% filled with water (usually 33%), then inverted so the nozzle points towards the ground. The bottle is then pressurized (usually by means of a bicycle pump) and then released. The water will be pushed out by the compressed air, and because of Newton's thir ...

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• Water rocket - How they work
• Water rocket - Parachutes
• Water rocket - Multi-Bottle Rockets and Multi-Stage Rockets
• Water rocket - Nose cone
• Water rocket - Other sources of pressure
• Water rocket - Fins
• Water rocket - Aerial Photography
• Water rocket - Safety
• Water rocket - Records

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Concordia is the Latin word for "harmony," literally "with (one) heart." It has been used to refer to many things: Concordia was the Roman goddess of harmony. Concordia is the official title for the compilation of Lutheran doctrinal statements (Book of Concord) published in 1580. 58 Concordia, an asteroid, was named after the goddess. There are several universities named Concordia; many are Lutheran and named for the Lutheran document:

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Cream soda is a sweet carbonated soft drink. It varies from country to country, but its most usual property is its vanilla flavouring. Its name originated, at least in the United Kingdom, from "ice cream soda" as it was traditionally served with a dollop of ice cream floating in it. Cream soda - International variations. Cream soda - North America. In the American market it is usually clear or coloured brown and vanilla-flavored. Canadian cream soda is almost always pink and has ...

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• Cream soda - International variations
• Cream soda - North America
• Cream soda - Australia
• Cream soda - United Kingdom
• Cream soda - Europe
• Cream soda - Asia
• Cream soda - Africa

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Waco is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 113,726. Waco Texas - History. Prior to white settlement, a Wichita Native American group known as the "Waco" or "Hueco" lived on the land of contemporary downtown Waco west of the Brazos River. In 1824, on an expedition to the Waco village, Thomas M. Duke reported the following to Stephen F. Austin: "[T]his town is situated on the West Bank of the River about half a mile from the River[. T]hey have ...

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• Waco Texas - History
• Waco Texas - Geography
• Waco Texas - Demographics
• Waco Texas - Athletes with Waco ties
• Waco Texas - Actors with Waco ties
• Waco Texas - Musicians with Waco ties

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7 Up (sometimes spelled Seven Up) is the brand name of a lemon-lime flavored soft drink marketed by Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. (DPSU) in the United States (a unit of Cadbury-Schweppes since 1995). It has been bottled by Britvic in Britain since 1987. Outside the United States, the trademark to 7 Up belongs to PepsiCo. 7 Up, originally named Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda, was concocted in 1929 in Saint Louis, Missouri. It originally contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. Many early soft drinks contained h ...

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• 7 Up - History
• 7 Up - Brands and Variations
• 7 Up - pH
• 7 Up - Pop Culture

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Cola wars is the term used to describe the campaign of mutually-targeted television advertisements in the 1980s between Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola. They first began showing people doing blind taste tests in which they preferred one product over the other, then they began hiring more and more popular spokespersons to promote their products. They focused particularly on rock stars; notable soft drink promoters included Michael Jackson (for Pepsi) and Paula Abdul (for Coke). One example of a heated exchange that occurred during the Cola Wars was Coca-Cola making a strategic retreat on July 11, 1985, by ...

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