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Specific gravity is commonly used in industry as a simple means of obtaining information about the concentration of solutions of various materials such as brines, hydrocarbons, sugar solutions (syrups, juices, honeys, brewers wort, must etc.) and acids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must


Grapes being pressed to create must.
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Salt is the only seasoning used, and used only to raise the specific gravity of the water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_gravity


Testing specific gravity of fuel.
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The area draws hundreds of thousands of visitors yearly to its quaint villages, seasonal cherry picking, and fish boils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_boil


Platter of Fish Boil, which is traditionally served in Door County.

Bonus Link: Door County Dining Must Do--The Door County Fish Boil
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In the late 19th century, Democrats would call the Republicans "Know Nothings" in order to secure the votes of Germans, as in the Bennett Law campaign in Wisconsin in 1890.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin


Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Spring Green
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Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing political parties, and later split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding a definite end to its expansion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing


Citizen Know Nothing: The Know Nothing Party's nativist ideal.
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The painting Aurora Borealis (see Aurora Borealis) (1865) by American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church is widely interpreted to represent the conflict of the American Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War


An 1863 photo of Gordon, distributed in the North during the war.
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Aurora Borealis tends to reflect whatever color is worn near it, and it is named after the Aurora Borealis atmospheric phenomenon, also known as the "Northern Lights".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora


Red and green auroras, Norway
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Despite its association with punk fashion, however, the faded effect was copied by many individuals not associated with the subculture, who dipped their jeans in diluted bleach and embellished them with metal studs, embroidery and rhinestones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone


Rhinestones on a tiara
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The used or "acid wash" look is created by means of abrading the jeans and/or treating them with chemicals, such as acryl resin, phenol, a hypochlorite, potassium permanganate, caustic soda, acids etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_washing#Acid-washed_jeans


Ronald Reagan wearing stonewash denim associated with Western clothing, 1970s.
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It is the blue of blue jeans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans


A traditional female Genoese dress in "blue jeans" (1890s)
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A tagelmust (also known as cheich or cheche) is an indigo dyed cotton garment with the appearance of both a veil and a turban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_dye


Pot of freeze-dried indigo dye
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Depending on their location and occupation, they may wear a Tuareg-style turban around this to veil the face (known as Alasho or Tagelmust).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagelmust


A cheche, worn by a woman.
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In a study on the maternity records of 5750 Hausa women living in the Savannah zone of Nigeria, there were 40 twins and 2 triplets per 1000 births.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_people


The 15th century Gobarau minaret in Katsina.
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Twins are rare, occurring about once per 1000 deliveries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin


A pair of female ere ibeji twin figures (early 20th-century) in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Yoruba people have the highest twinning rate in the world.
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The vicuña and guanaco can be found living in the Altiplano, while the closely related domesticated llama and alpaca are widely kept by locals as pack animals and for their meat and wool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca


Guanacos (wild parent species of llamas) near Torres del Paine, Chile
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In most of Andes' towns "vamos a ir a la quena" (we will go to the quena) was a popular sentence to threaten little children, because the quena was made of totora, a hard material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes


A male Andean cock-of-the-rock, a species found in humid Andean forests of Peru, the country of which it is the national bird.
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In pre-Hispanic times, musical expressions varied widely in each region; the quena and the tinya were two common instruments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quena


The quena is a South American wind instrument, mostly used by Andean musicians
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European discovery of the Galápagos Islands occurred when Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, sailed to Peru to settle a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and his lieutenants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru


The citadel of Machu Picchu, an iconic symbol of pre-Columbian Peru
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The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands


Blue-footed booby
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In the tropics, tropical waves move from east to west across the Atlantic and eastern Pacific basins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean


Tahuna maru islet, French Polynesia
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