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• Sugar beet
  == Culture == ...he Rhineland area, this sugar beet syrup (called ''Zuckerrüben-Sirup'' in German) is used as a spread for sandwiches, as well as for sweetening sauces, cake
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...kes reference to a 1982 European Patent (patent number 0049355), as well a German patent dated 21 January 1986. Bayer introduced ciprofloxacin in 1987 and wa Although quinolones are highly toxic to mammalian cells in culture, its mechanism of cytotoxic action is not known. Quinolone induced DNA dama
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• Acetic acid
  ...trivial name for water-free acetic acid. Similar to the [[German language|German]] name ''Eisessig'' (''ice-vinegar''), the name comes from the ice-like cry ...most noticeable one being copper(II) acetate). The 16th-century [[Germany|German]] alchemist [[Andreas Libavius]] described such a procedure, and he compare
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• Mercury (element)
  ...him eternal life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qin Shihuang|publisher=Ministry of Culture, [[People's Republic of China]]| year=2003|url=http://www.chinaculture.org/ ...legedly used by [[Western Allies|allied spies]] to sabotage [[Nazi Germany|German]] planes. A mercury paste was applied to bare [[aluminium]], causing the me
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• Narcissus (plant)
  ...the sweetest fragrances of any flower. So it is highly revered in Chinese culture. In some countries the yellow variation is associated with [[Easter]]. The German for daffodil is ''Osterglocke'', that is "Easter bell."
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• Stinging nettle
  ==Influence on language and culture== ...enetrate the skin so easily.{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}} In the [[German language]], the [[idiom]] "sich in die Nesseln setzen", or to sit in nettle
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• James Louis Garvin
  Though a fan of German culture, Garvin was alarmed by the growing challenge the country posed to Britain i ...[Battle of the Somme|Somme campaign]] and was killed in a night assault on German line in late July.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/200
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...iew]]''. The significance of the work's publication in English rather than German or Hebrew is captured by [[Harry Wolfson]] writing in 1926 {{Harv|Schwarz|1 ...enefit thereby would have been better served if it were put out in Hebrew, German or [[Russian language|Russian]].|Harry Wolfson}}
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• Gunpowder
  <!--Considerable and continuing academic controversy rages over the exact culture and origin of gunpowder. A common understanding, now argued to be simplisti ...for the secrets of life, to filter through the channels of Middle Eastern culture, and take root in Europe with consequences that form the context of the stu
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• History of clothing and textiles
  ...tory—so have their [[material]]s, production [[tool]]s and techniques, [[culture|cultural]] influences, and [[social]] significance. ...p of textile history, especially its earlier stages, is part of [[material culture]] studies.
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• Super Adobe
  German architect [[Frei Otto]] is said{{Who|date=February 2010}} to have experimen ...bility implies a level of social awareness paramount to a healthy building culture.{{Or|date=February 2010}}
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• Hemp
  ...rg/plants/cannabis/cannabis_culture2.shtml | title=Erowid Cannabis Vault : Culture #2|publisher=www.erowid.org | accessdate=2008-06-20 | last= |first=}}</ref> | caption1 = [[Yangshao culture]] (ca. 4800 BCE) [[amphora]] with impressed hemp cord design
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• Crystal violet
  ...opy]] sections.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Methylene blue staining of tissue culture monolayers|author=Sheila A. Henneman and Frank S. Kohn|year=1975|journal=Me ...ultaneously [[Fixation (histology)|fix]] and stain cells grown in [[tissue culture]] to preserve them and make them easily visible, since most cells are colou
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• Work–life balance
  ...lty and a "sense of corporate community" have been eroded by a performance culture that expects more and more from their employees yet offers little security ...ies; but many ignore this option, encouraged by prevailing [[consumerist]] culture and a political agenda that has "elevated the work ethic to unprecedented h
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• Mining
  ...or chain link armor in addition to swords, lances and other weapons.<ref>A culture of Improvement. Robert Friedel. MIT Press. 2007. Pg.81</ref> The overwhelm Hall, Bert http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/scitech/iron_steel.html</ref> The silver crisis of 1465 occurred when the
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• List of foods named after people
  ...entury princely [[Battenberg family]] living in England, who gave up their German titles during [[World War I]] and changed their name to [[Mountbatten]]. ...f figure in the unification of Germany in 1870 and first Chancellor of the German Empire, has many foods named after him, including pickled herring, pastry,
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...ryID=B048 Gideon Blackburn] in the ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''</ref> | German patriotic author and poet who was a student at the university and later tau
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• List of eponymous laws
  * [[Godwin's law]] — An adage in [[Internet]] culture that states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a co ...uropean languages. Discovered by [[Jacob Grimm]], (1785–1863), [[Germany|German]] [[philologist]] and [[mythology|mythologist]] and one of the [[Brothers G
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• List of prizes named after people
  |Outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man. | Society and culture
  74 KB (9,674 words) - 20:06, 21 September 2010
• Cannabis
  ...ditor-last = Rubin|editor-first = Vera|editor-link = |title = Cannabis and Culture|edition = |series = |place = The Hague|publication-place = |publisher = Mou ...t3222674/?p=17537b5e5396490d82c1dd09c0da993d&pi=9 Preliminary results of a German field trial with different hemp (''Cannabis sativa'' L.) accessions]. ''Gen
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