Super Typhoon Tip was the most intense and largest tropical cyclone on record. The storm weakened greatly before landfall, but still caused widespread flood damage across most of Japan during the 1979 Pacific typhoon season. Typhoon Tip - Storm history. The cyclone formed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean on October 4, 1979 as Tropical Depression 23. It strengthened to tropical storm status on October 6, and became a Typhoon on October 9. After moving into a very favorable environment for development, Typho ...

Including:

• Typhoon Tip - Storm history
• Typhoon Tip - Impact
• Typhoon Tip - Records

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Tip, Tip - Etymology, Tip - Tipping by region, Tip - Australia, Tip - Austria, Tip - China, Tip - Finland, Tip - Germany, Tip - Iceland, Tip - Ireland, Tip - Japan, Tip - Malaysia, Tip - Mauritius, Tip - New Zealand, Tip - Singapore, Tip - Spain, Tip - Sweden and Norway, Tip - Taiwan, Tip - Turkey, Tip - United Kingdom, Tip - United States and Canada

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The Oxford English Dictionary states that it is derived from the English thieves' slang word tip, meaning “to pass from one to another." The notion of a stock tip or racing tip is from the same slang. Another possible source for this term is a concept from Judaism that it is a chiyuv (obligation) for a seller to "tip the scales" in favor of the customer. The Torah says, "Nosen lo girumov (Give to him a tip)." For example, if your customer has asked for three pounds of onions, you should measure out the three pounds plus one extra onion, ti ...

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Tip, Tip - Etymology, Tip - Tipping by region, Tip - Australia, Tip - Austria, Tip - China, Tip - Finland, Tip - Germany, Tip - Iceland, Tip - Ireland, Tip - Japan, Tip - Malaysia, Tip - Mauritius, Tip - New Zealand, Tip - Singapore, Tip - Slovenia, Tip - South Africa, Tip - South Korea, Tip - Spain, Tip - Sweden and Norway, Tip - Taiwan, Tip - Turkey, Tip - United Kingdom, Tip - United States and Canada

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Cow tipping is a pastime allegedly common in rural areas, in which participants sneak up on an upright sleeping cow and then push it over for amusement. Some variants of this urban legend state that the cow is then unable to get up. The appeal of this myth derives from the belief that cows are slow-witted and top-heavy, and the corollary assumption that relatively little force would need to be applied to the top of such apparently precarious ruminants to tip them over. Cow tipping - Evidence that cow tipping is an ...

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• Cow tipping - Evidence that cow tipping is an urban myth
• Cow tipping - Possibility that cow tipping may be achievable
• Cow tipping - Cow tipping in popular culture

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The Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found throughout Europe. This is a fairly large, heavy bodied species with a wingspan of 55-68 mm. The forewings are grey with a large prominent buff patch at the apex. As the thoracic hair is also buff, the moth looks remarkably like a broken twig at rest. The hindwings are creamy-white. This moth flies at night in June and July [1] and sometimes comes to light, a ...

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• Buff-tip - Recorded food plants
• Buff-tip - Subspecies

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The kitchen is one of the most important rooms of the house as the family health and fortune depends on its energy status. The Chinese consider the kitchen stove as the source of health and wealth. kitchen at the wrong place can bring bad luck to the family. The auspicious direction for the kitchen depends on your kua number, which is calculated from your date of birth.

(See also: Feng Shui, Vaastu Shastra, Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space)

Feng Shui Tips For The Kitchen

The Kitchen is the most important part of your house. The food you eat gives you energy and this food is prepared in kitchen, so it is important that proper attention is paid here. Here are some tips for your kitchen.

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The Ramayana, the saga of Rama's life written by Valmiki, is widely acclaimed as among the greatest of all Indian epics. The narrative is regarded as a veritable treatise on social sciences, offering lessons that transcend both time and space. In fact, this famous Grantha carries useful tips on ethics and values, statecraft and politics, and even general and human resources management.

The Ramayana can serve as a useful reference book for those willing to learn. With Rama Rajya as a model for good governance, the Ramayana is a must read for practitioners of statecraft. More so, because much fuss is being made today over Ayodhya being the birthplace of Rama and the controversy over the building of a Ram temple at the Ramjanmabhoomi.

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

We must set a positive goal of where we want to go. Without this positive goal, we're like a driver who gets in the car and just starts driving around, looking for who knows what. Look at people you know well, and you'll see lots of these types of "drivers." They don't like the relationship, job or home they're in, but they've not yet determined what they want instead. They drive in circles and never really go anywhere.

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Meditation is a good stress-reliever. It calms the senses, making the mind inactive and the body, passive. Meditation usually involves concentrating on an object - a flower, a burning candle, a circle, a sound or word, or even one’s own rhythm of breath. Over time, random thoughts peter off. Meditation could also be objectless - just sitting, doing nothing.

Most forms of meditation involve turning your attention inward, away from your usual preoccupations and activities. In the process, you make a simple but significant shift from thinking and doing, to just being. With repeated practice the mind begins to settle down and your breathing slows, and you get into a relaxed, peaceful, harmonious state.

(See also: Meditation, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

The White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi) is a large New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from the southernmost USA through Mexico and Central America south to western Peru and central Argentina. It also breeds on the offshore islands of northern South America, including Trinidad. The nominate race L. v. verreauxi is the form found most of the extensive range, but L. v. tobagensis is endemic to Tobago. The White-tipped Dove inhabits scrub and open woodland. It builds a large stick nest in a tree and lays two white egg ...

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Air Hockey is a game for two competing players trying to score points in the opposing players goal. Air hockey - Equipment. Air hockey requires an air hockey table, two mallets, and a puck. A typical air hockey table consists of a large smooth playing surface, a surrounding rail to prevent the puck and mallets from leaving the table, and slots in the rail at either end of the table that serve as goals. On the ends of the table behind and below the goals, there is usually a puck return. Additionally, ...

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• Air hockey - Equipment
• Air hockey - Gameplay
• Air hockey - Tips From the Pros
• Air hockey - History of Air Hockey
• Air hockey - Competitive play

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Calligraphy (from Greek καλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφος graphos "writing") is the art of decorative writing. A style of calligraphy is described as a hand. Calligraphy should be distinguished from the studies of epigraphy or palaeography. The study of permanent inscriptions engraved in metal or chiselled into stone and the forms of letters used in them is called epigraphy. Epigraphy is a branch of the broader study of ancient handwriting in more general terms, called palaeography. Example ...

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• Calligraphy - East Asian calligraphy
• Calligraphy - Islamic calligraphy
• Calligraphy - Hebrew calligraphy
• Calligraphy - Western calligraphy
• Calligraphy - Calligraphy as a hobby
• Calligraphy - Materials Required
• Calligraphy - Getting Started
• Calligraphy - Transferring
• Calligraphy - Tips

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Cruising means different things to different cruisers, but all cruising shares the following characteristics: living on the boat, traveling, extended periods of time (more than a week or two). To reduce fuel expense, the most common cruising boat is a sailboat. Many cruisers are "long term" and travel for many years, the most adventurous circling the globe over a period of five to ten years. Many others take a year or two off from work and school for short ...

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• Cruising maritime - Cruising destinations
• Cruising maritime - Destinations for north American cruisers
• Cruising maritime - Problems
• Cruising maritime - How to start
• Cruising maritime - Equipment & tips

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The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) is a small falcon. Birds in northern Canada and Alaska migrate further south. This small falcon species is common in North America, but a very rare vagrant to western Europe. This bird was formerly known as the Sparrow Hawk. This name was unfortunate because it implied a connection with the Old World Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, which is unrelated - the latter is a hawk rather than a falcon. American Kestrel - Description. American K ...

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• American Kestrel - Description
• American Kestrel - Identification Tips
• American Kestrel - Habitat
• American Kestrel - Range
• American Kestrel - Behavior
• American Kestrel - Nesting
• American Kestrel - Food/Diet
• American Kestrel - Voice
• American Kestrel - Reproduction/Life Span
• American Kestrel - Conservation
• American Kestrel - Observing American Kestrels

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• Apostrophe mark - English language usage
• Apostrophe mark - Non-English names
• Apostrophe mark - Geographic names
• Apostrophe mark - Things to note
• Apostrophe mark - Tip
• Apostrophe mark - Greengrocers' apostrophe
• Apostrophe mark - Derivation
• Apostrophe mark - Other languages
• Apostrophe mark - Alternative uses
• Apostrophe mark - Computers and Unicode
• Apostrophe mark - Entering apostrophes
• Apostrophe mark - Eight-bit encodings

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Viz is a popular British adult spoof comic magazine. The comic's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with very adult language, crude toilet humour and either sexual or violent story lines (and often both). It also sends up tabloid style newspapers, with mockeries of letters pages and daft competitions with rubbish prizes. It also often satirises current events and politicians, and pretends to be obsessed with celebrities, including half ...

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• Viz comic - History
• Viz comic - Regular Features
• Viz comic - Featured Strips
• Viz comic - Spoof News Stories
• Viz comic - Letterbocks
• Viz comic - Top Tips
• Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions
• Viz comic - Photo Strips
• Viz comic - Viz in other media

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In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin, to expose the chloroplast containing cells (chlorenchyma tissue) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues. Leaves are also the sites in most plants where respiration, transpiration, and guttation take place. Leaves can store food and water, and are modified in some plants for other purposes. The comparable structures of ferns are correctl ...

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• Leaf - Leaf anatomy
• Leaf - Epidermis
• Leaf - Mesophyll
• Leaf - Veins
• Leaf - Leaf morphology
• Leaf - Basic leaf types
• Leaf - Arrangement on the stem
• Leaf - Divisions of the lamina blade
• Leaf - Venation arrangement of the veins
• Leaf - Leaf terminology
• Leaf - Margins edge
• Leaf - Tip of the leaf
• Leaf - Base of the leaf
• Leaf - Surface of the leaf
• Leaf - Hairiness trichomes
• Leaf - Adaptations

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Since 1956, in the longest running advertising campaign for any brand, PG Tips often advertised using chimpanzees dressed as humans and drinking tea: the "Tipps family". One of these adverts, called "Mr. Shifter" holds the world record, for the advert shown most times on British Television. A whole range of figurine chimps were made as collectors editions for PG Tips, and some are very rare. All the chimps in the adverts were featured ( ...

See also:

PG Tips, PG Tips - Brand name, PG Tips - Advertising, PG Tips - Products, PG Tips - Slogans

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PG Tips is available as loose tea, tea bags, and in Vending formats. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended to the precise proportions (Blend 777 for those who are interested...) at the Trafford Park factory in Manchester. In the 1960s, PG Tips was the first brand to introduce the tea bag. This grew in popularity, eventually becoming more popular than leaf tea in the 1970s. PG Tags, tea bags with a string, were launched in 1985, and pyramid-shaped tea bags in 1996. The Pyramid shaped bag was specifically designed to help the tea leaves move more freely, as loose tea moves in a t ...

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PG Tips, PG Tips - Brand name, PG Tips - Advertising, PG Tips - Products, PG Tips - Slogans

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