The carrot is a root vegetable, typically orange or white in colour with a woody texture. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer while building up the stout taproot, which stores large amounts of sugars for the plant to flower in the second year. The flowering stem grows to about 1 m tall, with umbels of white flowers. Carrot - Uses. Carrots can be eaten raw, whole, chopped or shaved into salads for colour, and are also often ...

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• Carrot - Cultivars
• Carrot - Trivia

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By the 1800s the pasty had evolved to meet the needs of tin miners, as tin mining was a major Cornish industry at the time. Tradition claims that it was originally made as lunch ('croust' in the Cornish language) for Cornish miners who were unable to return to the surface to eat. The story goes that, covered in dirt from head to foot (possibly including some arsenic often found with tin), they could hold the pasty by the folded crust and eat the rest of the pasty without touching it, discarding the dirty pastry. The pastry they threw away wa ...

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The button mushroom, also called the table mushroom, white mushroom, common mushroom, cultivated mushroom, and called champignon de Paris in France, is one of the most widely cultivated mushrooms in the world. Note that while this specific mushroom is sometimes called simply champignon in the English-speaking world, this word means "mushroom" in general in French. Most grocery stores in the Western world sell this mushroom in canned and fresh preparations. An agaric, its gills are often left on in preparations. It can be found cooked on pizzas and casseroles, raw o ...

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Chorizo is a pork sausage originating from Spain. It is made from coarsely chopped fatty pork and usually seasoned with chili and paprika. The mild Spanish paprika used is what gives this sausage its characteristic flavor. The paprika itself can be found as either picante (hot) or dulce (sweet). Some varieties are hung in cold dry places to cure, as happens with jamón serrano (ham). ...

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Buckley (Welsh: Bwcle) is a town in Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom. It is the second largest town in Flintshire in terms of population and is 2 miles from Mold, the county town. It is located on the A549 road. Buckley - History. Buckley (the name comes from the Anglo-Saxon bok lee, meaning meadow, or field) was an Anglo-Saxon location, with some of its houses recorded in the Domesday Book of the 11th Century. However, the first documented evidence of its existence dates from 1 ...

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• Buckley - Mining and pottery
• Buckley - Buckley dialect
• Buckley - The 'Buckley Panto'
• Buckley - Present day
• Buckley - Geography
• Buckley - The Jubilee
• Buckley - Royal Buckley Town Band
• Buckley - Schools
• Buckley - Music / culture

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Cachaça (pronounced ka SHA sa, IPA: /ˌkaˈʃasɐ/) (also called pinga, branquinha, caninha, caxaca, caxa, aguardente or chacha) is the most popular distilled alcoholic beverage in Brazil, made from sugarcane juice (also called garapa). The legal definition of cachaça says "cachaça is the product of the distillation of the fermented sugarcane juice, with alcohol strength between 38% and 51% by volume. U ...

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Backpacking is a subculture of generally youthful travellers exploring the planet on a limited budget. They refer to themselves as backpackers because they can be roughly defined as travellers that travel with a rucksack (a large backpack) instead of a suitcase. They may go hiking and camping, backpacking in the other sense, but they more often explore more urban settings. United in having slim wallets as well as a passion for the exotic, they seek out low-cost options such as sharing lifts, standby flights (or if the ba ...

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Coca (Erythroxylum coca), often spelled koka in Quechua and Aymara, is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to northwestern South America. Under the older Cronquist system of classifying flowering plants, this was placed in an order Linales; more modern systems place it in the order Malpighiales. The plant is best-known in modern times for the drug cocaine that is manufactured from it. The plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2-3 m. The branches are straight, and the leaves, which h ...

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• Coca - Cultivation and uses
• Coca - Pharmacological aspects
• Coca - Traditional uses
• Coca - International use
• Coca - Industrial use
• Coca - Legality
• Coca - International
• Coca - See further
• Coca - External link
• Coca - Photos

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Battery Park City is a 90 acre (0.4 km²) planned community at the southwestern tip of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The land upon which it stands was created from the Hudson River using 1.2 million cubic yards (917,000 cubic meters) of dirt and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects. The neighborhood, which is the site of the World Financial Center along with numerous housing, commercial a ...

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A breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread, it handles the process from ingredients to a finished loaf automatically. The machine consists of a bread pan with a paddle mounted in the centre, in a special purpose oven, with a control panel. To use the ingredients for bread, flour, water, salt, sugar, yeast, butter, and milk powder (or fresh milk) are measured, and added to the bread pan; the pan is placed in the breadmaker. The machine takes a few hours to make a loaf of bread, first by turning the ingredients into dough ...

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Techniques - Utensils Weights and measures Spices and Herbs Sauces - Soups - Desserts Cheese - Pasta - Bread Other ingredients Africa - Asia - Caribbean South Asian - Latin America Middle East - The West Other cuisines... Famous chefs Kitchens - Meals Wikibooks: Cookbook French cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity. French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking, and is reno ...

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• French cuisine - Ingredients
• French cuisine - Present-day food and drink in France
• French cuisine - Structure of meals
• French cuisine - Drink
• French cuisine - Divisions of restaurant cuisine
• French cuisine - Cuisine bourgeoise
• French cuisine - Cuisine du terroir
• French cuisine - Cuisine nouvelle
• French cuisine - Today
• French cuisine - Foreign cuisines
• French cuisine - Notable dishes
• French cuisine - Famous French dishes
• French cuisine - Quick food
• French cuisine - Common canned food
• French cuisine - Common salty pies
• French cuisine - Famous but untypical dishes
• French cuisine - Desserts
• French cuisine - Specialties by region/city
• French cuisine - Un-French dishes

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An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption games, video games or pinball machines. Arcade game - History. See also: Timeline of arcade game history The first popular "arcade games" were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those which claim to tell a person ...

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• Arcade game - Technology
• Arcade game - Emulation
• Arcade game - Locations
• Arcade game - Game design

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Customer service is the set of behaviors that a business undertakes during its interaction with its customers. It can also refer to a specific person or desk which is set up to provide general assistance to customers. The term customer care has been increasingly adopted by firms, and is generally synonymous in meaning. The notion of customer service as a tool of competitive advantage started to gain ground in the United Stat ...

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• Customer service - Factors which contribute to Customer Service
• Customer service - Consequences of good Customer Service
• Customer service - Consequences of poor Customer Service
• Customer service - Greeting customers

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The Tylenol murders occurred in the autumn of 1982, when seven people in the Chicago, Illinois area in the United States died after ingesting Extra Strength Tylenol medicine capsules which had been laced with cyanide poison. This incident was the first known case of death caused by deliberate product tampering. The perpetrator has never been caught, but the incident led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substance and federal anti-tampering laws. 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders - The incidents. In ...

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• 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders - Investigation
• 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders - Aftermath

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W H Smith is a British company, with headquarters in Swindon, England. It is best known for its chain of high street and railway station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, and entertainment products. It is also a major distributor of newspapers and magazines, and formerly owned publishing businesses, and a number of other retail chains in the United Kingdom, North America, and the Pacific Rim. WHSmith PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange as SMWH, and is part of the FTSE 250 Index. Including:

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• W H Smith - News distribution
• W H Smith - History
• W H Smith - Takeover plans
• W H Smith - Awards and prizes
• W H Smith - W H Smith in British life
• W H Smith - Trivia

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In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. Pop musicians may play covers as a tribute to the original performer or group, to win audiences who like to hear a familiar song, or to increase their chance of success by using a proven hit or to gain credibility by its comparison with the original song. Covering material is an important method in learning various styles of music. Bands may also perform covers for the simple pleasure of playing a familiar song. Cover version - Early cover ver ...

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• Cover version - Contemporising older songs
• Cover version - Introduction of new artists
• Cover version - Tributes tribute albums and cover albums
• Cover version - Cover bands tribute bands and impersonators
• Cover version - Most covered songs
• Cover version - Covers in particular genres
• Cover version - Punk
• Cover version - Hip-Hop
• Cover version - Swamp pop
• Cover version - Samples

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Washington is a town in the county of Tyne and Wear in northeast England. Washington is administered as a part of the City of Sunderland and is located some 10 miles (16km) west of the city centre, and is located roughly the same distance south of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 55,454. Washington was designated a new town in 1964 and expanded dramatically to house overspill population from surrounding cities. While administratively part of the City of Sunderland, Washington has received large in ...

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A Cornish pasty or Cornish pastie is a type of pie, originating in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is an oven-cooked pastry case traditionally filled with diced meat—nowadays beef mince (ground beef) or steak—potato, onion and swede (rutabaga). Some pasties contain carrot but this is not part of the traditional recipe; the presence of carrot in a pasty is usually an indication of inferior quality. It has a semicircular shape, caused by folding a circular pastry sheet over the filling. One edge is crimped to form a seal. In Devon, a Devon Pasty is very similar but the cr ...

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Whitebait are young fish; in Europe the term applies to young herring, but in other parts of the world it is used for similar fish of other species. Whitebait are tender and edible. The entire fish is eaten including head, fins and gut but typically each 'bait' is only 25-50 mm in length and about 3 mm in cross-section. Whitebaiting is the activity of catching whitebait. Whitebait - New Zealand Whitebait. New Zealand whitebait are the juvenile of certain galaxiids which mature and live as adul ...

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• Whitebait - Australian Whitebait
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Chinatown bus lines, also called 野雞車 (ye3 ji1 che1, which translates as wild chicken trucks) in Chinese, refers to the private transportation industry that has arisen in the Chinatown communities of the East Coast of the United States during the 1990s. Similar Chinese American-run bus services are cropping up on the West Coast. The companies typically use large (50 to 60 passenger) buses comparable to those used by oth ...

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