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pittance

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extraordinary archive

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heraldry

branding th eold fashioned way

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Killing Colors

Despite its high toxicity, Scheele's Green was also used as a food dye for sweets, drink: the green in absinthe is now thought to be the source of the problems with the liquor instead of the ingredient thujone (leading to its banishment in most European countries and the US by 1915)

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science or entertainment?

A huge amount of effort went into this website. Misguided?

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"quite honest, quite bleak"

16,306 species threatened with extinction, up from 16,118 last year

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At powwows — there are dozens every year — thousands of Germans with an American Indian fetish drink firewater, wear turquoise jewelry and run around Baden-Württemberg or Schleswig-Holstein dressed as Comanches and Apaches.

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