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My brother's best friend's parents are Japanese. The mother is now blind, but she still continues arranging flowers, as she has done all her life. She claims she can "feel" the colours. It seems weird and amazing to me.
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A word only a dedicated entomologist would know:
Campodeiform. Head prognathous. Body somewhat slender and dorsoventrally flatenned. Three pair of well developed thoracic
legs. Usually with cerci and with antennae well developed. Present in some families of Coleoptera, Neuroptera, and Trichoptera.
Active predators.
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A martial arts weapon, loosely classed as form of blackjack. Two strong foot long wood pieces
connected by a short chain.
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'Entrecote' means 'between the ribs' and
refers to a steak cut from the rib section of beef, specifically between the ninth and eleventh ribs. ...
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Just for you, AS:
Brazilian Barbecue - Churrasco. ... The only seasoning was coarse salt and each gaścho had
his own churrasco knife which he used to cut pieces of meat from the spit. ...
http://www.maria-brazil.org/barbecue.htm
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I think geography needs to be taught rigorously in at least 4th - 6th grades as a separate subject.
Geography was taught as a separate subject in my fourth-sixth grades (1950-52), but by then it was too late. My knowledge of names and places had come from doing jigsaw puzzles - United States (half-inch plywood), The World (quarter-inch plywood), Dominion of Canada (pressed cardboard). As a result I can't tell which one is Colorado and which is Wyoming when I look at a map: same size, same shape. But I know all the other ones. Now I'm not nearly as adept - a lot of the names have been changed, and faster than new puzzles can come out! I certainly couldn't find any good ones for my own kids, more's the pity.
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An excellent free reference for matters geographical is The CIA's World Factbook. You can use it online or download it. A Very nifty little (or not so little -130MB) tool. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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My husband has a set of "beginner nunchucks". Instead of wooden ends, they are PVC pipes covered in foam. I guess they hurt a lot less when you miss and whack yourself in the head! 
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