SAFFRON Saffron is a spice obtained from the stigmas of the flower of Crocus sativus Linnaeus‚ commonly known as Rose of Saffron. One of the first historic references to the use of saffron comes from Ancient Egypt ‚ where it was used by Cleopatra as an aromatic and seductive essence‚ and to make sacrifices in temples and sacred places. It was used as a remedy to sleeplessness and to reduce hangovers caused by wine. It was also used to perfume baths. Arabs used saffron in medicine for its anesthetic
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Solar System Our solar neighborhood is an exciting place. The Solar System is full of planets‚ moons‚ asteroids‚ comets‚ minor planets‚ and many other exciting objects. Learn about Io‚ the explosive moon that orbits the planet Jupiter‚ or explore the gigantic canyons and deserts on Mars. How Did The Solar System form? This is an important question‚ and one that is difficult for scientists to understand. After all‚ the creation of our Solar System took place billions of years before there
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SOLAR SYSTEM About 5 Billion years ago‚ y There was no Sun‚ no Earth& no Moon y Only cosmic dust and gasses drifted in the darkness of space SOLAR SYSTEM THEORY The solar system was formed by a slowly spinning cloud of gas and cosmic dust‚ gradually the cloud began to spin faster and faster this formed a large spinning whirl at the centre and smaller whirls surrounding it at various distances. SOLAR SYSTEM THEORY The huge and heavy centre became hot enough to start thermo nuclear
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stereotypically represented in print advertisements and demonstrate that African American women are considered subservient to white females and depicted as exotic. I will draw on the theories of Janell Hobson‚ Audrey Kerr‚ Scott Plous‚ and Dominique Neptune and look at how issues of class‚ power and beauty are constructed. I will conclude that mainstream media reflect a racialized sense of beauty that portray blackness as abnormal and whiteness as an attribute of beauty and that this increases the dissatisfaction
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portraying his desire to be king as damaging from the start. This is evident in the play when Macbeth says: “will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” This use of language is regretful. Many bad things then go on to happen to Macbeth‚ providing that he was wrong to murder the king and this was against the laws in Jacobean times. Macbeth’s reference to “Neptune” conveys a sense of prayer to the language and the question
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Sun= cantaloupe Earth = ball pen Jupiter= finger tip Pluto= dust * Today we know Solar system has: 1 star‚ 8 planets‚ 5 dwarf planets‚ 139+ moons‚ countless small solar system bodies * A major lesson from all this is that the solar system is almost entirely made of nearly empty space * All planets orbit the sun in the same direction (counter-clockwise) * Most rotate in the same direction * Venus rotates backward * Uranus rotates on its side (equator perpendicular to equator)
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Jackson series and the Heroes of Olympus series‚ there are two camps called ‘Camp Half-Blood’ and ‘Camp Jupiter’. The campers of the two camps are sons/daughters of the Greek and the Roman gods and goddesses‚ which include Zeus/Jupiter‚ Poseidon/Neptune‚ Hades/Pluto‚ Apollo/Apollo‚ Dionysus/Bacchus‚ Hermes/Mercury‚ Ares/Mars‚ Hephaestus/Vulcan‚ Hera/Juno‚ Artemis/Diana‚ Athena/Minerva‚ Aphrodite/Venus‚ Demeter/Ceres and etc. The two camps are a place where ‘demigods’‚ thus the children of the gods
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attacks on September 11th 2001‚ also known as 9/11. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the death of over three thousand people‚ ranking him as the number one most wanted terrorist in the world. The assassination of Osama Bin Laden codenamed Operation Neptune Spear‚ was a mastermind plan that took several years to construct. One critical idea people seem to forget when they think of the death of OBL‚ is the brilliant use of US intelligence
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------------------------------------------------- Introduction Wikijunior books welcomes you to the children ’s book "Solar System". Outer space is perhaps the final frontier for man. Even though the rest of the solar system objects may seem like tiny dots from Earth‚ our celestial neighbors are still important to learn about. The importance of this task has led many experts here at Wikijunior to donate their time and talents to bring this volume together. Wikibooks is a project of the Wikimedia
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by the Romans. One of the major deities‚ or Gods‚ of Roman times was the Queen of the Gods‚ Juno. Juno was the daughter of Saturn. She was also the mother of Juventas‚ Mars‚ and Vulcan. She was Jupiter’s wife and sister‚ she was also a sibling to Neptune and Pluto. She protected all or Rome’s finances‚ she was also known as the Matron Goddess of Rome. June was named for her. As
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