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  2. Nanakusa-no-sekku - Wikipedia

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    There is considerable variation in the precise ingredients, with common local herbs often being substituted. On the morning of January 7, or the night before, people place the nanakusa, rice scoop, and/or wooden pestle on the cutting board and, facing the good-luck direction, chant "Before the birds of the continent (China) fly to Japan, let's get nanakusa" while cutting the herbs into pieces.

  3. 21 grams experiment - Wikipedia

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    One of the six subjects lost three-quarters of an ounce (21.3 grams). MacDougall stated his experiment would have to be repeated many times before any conclusion could be obtained. The experiment is widely regarded as flawed and unscientific due to the small sample size , the methods used, as well as the fact only one of the six subjects met ...

  4. Thomas Walter (botanist) - Wikipedia

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    Flora Caroliniana provided brief Latin descriptions for over 1,000 plant species in 435 genera. [2] Walter is credited with the discovery of some 200 new species and four new genera. Today, 88 of these species and one genus still bear the valid names provided by Walter in his Flora. [1]

  5. Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia

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    One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is first known to have been recorded in 1256 by Ibn Khallikan . [ 3 ] Another version has the inventor of chess (in some tellings Sessa , an ancient Indian Minister ) request his ruler give him wheat according to the wheat and chessboard problem.

  6. Oryza sativa - Wikipedia

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    Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, [2] is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.

  7. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic potrzebies), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halva, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416"), and time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clarke").

  8. FDA elevates recall in 7 states of California farm’s rice ...

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    According to the FDA’s recall notice, 27,600 poly bags of the product — a blend of black, brown, red and wild rice, according to the company — were affected.

  9. History of botany - Wikipedia

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    Between them, they started developing Latin names for plants, in addition to their common names. [63] The exchange of information and specimens between scholars was often associated with the founding of botanical gardens (above), and to this end Aldrovandi founded one of the earliest at his university in Bologna, the Orto Botanico di Bologna in ...