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• Tile
  ...editerranean Sea|Mediterranean]], including Mainland [[Greece]], Western [[Asia Minor]], Southern and Central [[Italy]].<ref>Örjan Wikander, p.286</ref> E
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• Cement
  ...the same quality."<ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FA07Ad02.html ''Asia Times'' January 7, 2004</ref>
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• AHI Roofing
  !Asia *'''1980's''' - Exports to Asia, licensed manufacture in Malaysia 1985.
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• Ethylene oxide
  |'''Asia'''<br/> [[China]]<br/> [[Taiwan]]<br/> [[India]]<br/> [[Indonesia]]<br/> [[ ...e]], 63% in [[Japan]] and 73% in [[North America]] to 90% in the rest of [[Asia]] and 99% in [[Africa]].<ref>{{cite web
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• Cancer
  ...iver cancer]] in 0.47% of [[hepatitis B]] patients per year (especially in Asia, less so in North America), and in 1.4% of [[hepatitis C]] carriers per yea
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...offered at locations outside the US, including Canada, Australia, and East Asia among other locations.
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• Benzene
  ...pharmacists and perfumers since the 15th century as a product of southeast Asia. "Benzoin" is itself a corruption of the Arabic expression "luban jawi," or
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• Avian influenza
  ...has killed millions of poultry in a growing number of countries throughout Asia, Europe and Africa. Health experts are concerned that the co-existence of h ;*[http://www.oie.int/downld/AVIAN%20INFLUENZA/A_AI-Asia.htm Official outbreak reports by country]
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• Emergency management
  ...In flood prone areas houses can be built on poles, as in much of southern Asia. In areas prone to prolonged electricity [[Power blackout|black-out]]s inst ...World: [http://www.iaem.com/about/membership/Regions/IAEMAsia/IAEMAsia.htm Asia], [http://www.iaem.com/about/membership/regions/Region13.htm Canada], [http
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• Pesticide poisoning
  ...zation]] estimates that 300,000 people die from self-harm each year in the Asia-Pacific region alone.<ref name=WHO_factsheet/> Most cases of intentional pe
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• Arsenic
  ...ndwater. Many other countries and districts in [[Southeast Asia|South East Asia]], such as [[Vietnam]], [[Cambodia]], and [[China]] have geological environ
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• Wildfire
  ...contributor. In Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Fiji, and New Zealand, wildfires can be attributed to human activities suc ...VA /> Such places include the vegetated areas of Australia and [[Southeast Asia]], the [[veld]] in southern Africa, the [[fynbos]] in the Western Cape of S
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• Lead poisoning
  ...poisoning occurs in the Western Pacific, and another fifth is in Southeast Asia.<ref name="Payne08"/>
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• Aerosol
  ...sts to conclude that the aerosol haze over [[South Asia|South]] and [[East Asia]] has been steadily shifting tropical rainfall in both hemispheres southwar
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• Wildfire suppression
  ...df | format = PDF | year = 2002 | publisher = Project FireFight South East Asia | last = Karki | first = Sameer | accessdate = 2009-02-13
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• Burn pit
  ...ir Forces Central|609th Combined Air and Space Operations Center Southwest Asia]] vigorously contested allegations of heath affects and emphasized mitigati
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• Lead
  ...d in [[Central Europe]], [[Roman Britain]], the [[Balkans]], [[Greece]], [[Asia Minor]]; [[Hispania]] alone accounted for 40% of world production.<ref name
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• John Stoke (physician)
  ...pioneer in [[Occupational Medicine]] in New Zealand, with influence in the Asia/Pacific region<ref>Agricultural Medicine & Rural Health, vol 20 no 1, 1996, ...th at the Wellington branch of Otago Medical School, and was active in the Asia/Pacific branch of the WHO. <br />
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• Health Level 7
  ...c. or an HL7 affiliate) is located in Europe, 35% in North America, 15% in Asia-Oceania and 5% elsewhere.<ref>[http://lists.hl7.org/read/attachment/117742/
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• SA8000
  *[http://www.tuev-nord.de/de/index.htm TUV NORD Group (TUV Asia Pacific)] *[http://www.tuv-sud.in/SCS.asp TUV SUD Group (TUV Sud South Asia)]
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• International System of Units
  ...the decimal point is used in English-speaking countries as well as most of Asia and the comma in most continental [[Languages of Europe|European languages]
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• Hitachi
  ...n People Award, [[Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards]] from [[Enterprise Asia]], a regional NGO based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for their continued effor Hitachi Asia Ltd.
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• Panasonic Corporation
  ...ational.'' It operated [[Factory|factories]] in Japan and other parts of [[Asia]] through the end of [[World War II]], producing [[electrical]] components
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• Robert Bosch GmbH
  *15% in Asia ...quisition, Bosch also obtained additional sales channels in Latin America, Asia-Pacific (including Australia), and Europe.
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• Deferiprone
  It is currently licensed for use in [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], but not in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]].<ref name=savulescu/>
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• List of foods named after people
  ...he Seville oranges. The fruit, however, may have originated long before in Asia.
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• List of diseases caused by insects
  ...transmitted diseases pose a particular threat on the continents of Africa, Asia and South America, there is one way of controlling invertebrate-borne disea ...o]]||[[West Nile virus]]||Birds, human||Fever then [[meningitis]]||Africa, Asia, North America, South and East Europe||None
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• List of parasites of humans
  |tropical regions of Asia ...ralia, the Americas and Oceania; ''Fasciola gigantica'' only in Africa and Asia, 2.4 million people infected by both species
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• Kikuchi disease
  ...d mainly seen in Japan. Isolated cases are reported in America, Europe and Asia. It is mainly a disease of young adults (mean age, 20–30 years) with slig
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• Valdecoxib
  ...in [[United States|U.S.]], [[European Union|EU]], [[Canada]] & parts of [[Asia]]
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• Kratom
  ...harvested from a large tree in the Rubiaceae family native to [[Southeast Asia]]. It was first formally documented by the [[Dutch Empire|Dutch colonial]] ...|pmid=20371282 |doi=10.1016/j.jep.2010.03.035 |url=}}</ref> In Southeast Asia the fresh leaves are commonly chewed, often continuously, by workers or man
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• Menthol
  ...numerous ailments (the latter being much more frequent and elaborate in [[Asia]], especially [[Japan]]: some varieties use "functional protrusions", or sm
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• Synthetic cannabis
  ===Asia===
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• Cannabis (etymology)
  ...he Semites could also have spread the word during their migrations through Asia Minor.<br/> ...traded it as a commodity throughout the ancient trade routes of Southeast Asia, thus utilizing Indo-Iranian terms 'panang','banag', etc. in reference to t
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• Religious and spiritual use of cannabis
  ...s body."<ref>Li Hui-Lin (1973). "The Origin and Use of Cannabis in Eastern Asia: Linguistic-Cultural Implications", ''Economic Botany'' 28.3:293-301, p. 29 ...ses."<ref>Li (1973), p. 297-298.</ref> Li suggested shamans in [[Northeast Asia]] transmitted the medical and spiritual uses of cannabis to the ancient Chi
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• Cannabis
  ...] are [[Indigenous (ecology)|indigenous]] to [[Central Asia]], and [[South Asia]].<ref>"Marijuana and the Cannabinoids", ElSohly (p.8)</ref> ''Cannabis'' h ...ecious,"<ref>Li Hui-Lin (1973). "The Origin and Use of Cannabis in Eastern Asia: Linguistic-Cultural Implications", ''Economic Botany'' 28.3:293-301, p. 29
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• Hashish
  It is believed that hash first originated from [[West Asia]], as this region was among the first to be populated by the cannabis plant
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• Cannabis (drug)
  ...[indigenous (ecology)|indigenous]] to [[Central Asia|Central]] and [[South Asia]].<ref>"Marijuana and the Cannabinoids", ElSohly (p.8)</ref> Evidence of th ...can carry long [[prison]] terms in some countries, particularly in [[East Asia]], where the sale of cannabis may lead to a sentence of [[life in prison]]
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• Cannabis ruderalis
  ...is''''' is a putative species of ''[[Cannabis]]'' originating in central [[Asia]]. It flowers earlier than ''[[Cannabis indica | C. indica]]'' or ''[[Canna
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• Charles Ledger
  ...went later to Peru, and Bolivia, and succeeded in acclimatizing trees in [[Asia]] and the [[Dutch East Indies]].
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• Tonic water
  ...ce it was originally intended for consumption in tropical areas of [[South Asia]] and [[Africa]], where that disease is [[Endemic (epidemiology)|endemic]].
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• History of general anesthesia
  ...erians, a non-[[Semitic]] people who descended from the uplands of Central Asia into Southern Mesopotamia...."|author=Neligan AR|publisher=John Bale, Sons
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• 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters
  ...pila, Subhash">"Pakistan's Foreign Policy Predicaments Post 9/11", ''South Asia Analyst Group'', ''Paper No. 564'', December 12, 2002</ref>
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• Terrorist front organization
  ...ance to local [[Jemaah Islamiyah]] plots and Al-Qaida plots in [[Southeast Asia]]
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• Tablighi Jamaat and allegations of terrorism
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/world/asia/30pstan.html ...ation) has been supporting Islamic terrorist groups in South and Southeast Asia under the cover of conducting religious activities. The group is closely a
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• Definitions of terrorism
  .... 3. Paper presented at the International Conference on Terrorism in South Asia: Impact on Development and Democratic Process Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Kathman
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• History of terrorism
  ...torical Memory and Reconciliation: World War II to Today] Mark Selden, The Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus</ref><ref>[http://www.littlemag.com/security/a ===Asia===
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• Aircraft hijacking
  ...= B. Raman | title = PLANE HIJACKING: IN PERSPECTIVE | publisher = [[South Asia Analysis Group]] | date = 2000-01-02 | url = http://www.southasiaanalysis.o
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• Guerrilla warfare
  ...[[hit-and-run tactics]] employed by the nomadic [[Scythians]] of [[Central Asia]] against [[Darius the Great]]'s [[Persian Empire|Persian]] [[Achaemenid Em '''Asia:'''
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• Organized crime
  ...aging]]. Smuggling and drug-trafficking rings are as old as the hills in [[Asia]] and [[Africa]], and extant [[criminal organization]]s in [[Italy]] and [[
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• Drug cartel
  ...rinidad and Tobago]], [[Jamaica]], [[Mexico]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[South Asia]]. Some cartels are even establishing themselves in [[U.S.]] cities like [
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• Taliban
  ...-seven-years-later-us-safe.html 9/11 seven years later: U.S. 'safe,' South Asia in turmoil] ''"There are now some 62,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan, i | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10quetta.html}}</ref><ref name="nyt20090924">{{
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• Al-Qaeda
  “We know that South Asia is no longer their primary base,” a source in the US defense agency said ...elegraph]] |date=2009-12-25 |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/6867331/Osama-bin-Laden-came-within-minutes-of-killing-Bill-Cli
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• List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
  *[[Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)|Golden Triangle]]<ref name="traffic"/><ref name="drugs"/><ref name="gangst ...cate]] 重慶犯罪集團<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6900598.ece The Times - 'Godmother' of Chinese gangsters, Xie Caipin
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• Ken Alibek
  ...rdable anti-cancer therapies available in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Central Asia]], AFG is using Alibek’s biotechnology experience to plan, build, and man
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• Abu Sayyaf
  |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/719623.stm ...Abu Sayyaf |date=2000-12-30 |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/719623.stm | location=London}}</ref>
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• Black site
  ====Asia==== ...nd other information to locate the black site in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...ithout proper visa documents.<ref name="Habib">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4214747.stm Profile: Mamdouh Habib], ''[[BBC News Online]]'', Decem
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• Haqqani network
  | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/world/asia/17warlord.html | publisher=[[Asia Times]]
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• Operation Enduring Freedom
  ...eate a Pan-Islamic superstate across the ''Malay'' portions of [[Southeast Asia]], spanning, from east to west, the large island of Mindanao, the Sulu Arch ...the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic [[theocracy]] in [[Southeast Asia]], in particular [[Indonesia]], [[Singapore]], [[Brunei]], [[Malaysia]], th
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• Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
  ...ate=2004-08-30 |publisher=Time Asia Magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501040830-686107,00.html}}</ref> ...l Jazeera]] |date=29 September 2009 |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/20099298614751808.html |accessdate=29 September 2009}} and
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• PISCES
  | publisher = OneWorld South Asia
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• Preventive war
  ...ents of conquest by Germany will continue and will extend beyond Europe to Asia, Africa, and even to the Americas, unless they are stopped by military forc
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• Special Registration
  ...on the list are predominantly [[Muslim]], while all of the countries are [[Asia]]n or [[Africa]]n. Some national security experts said that the program wa
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• Anthrax
  ...illed hundreds and thousands of animals and people each year in Australia, Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, specifically in the concentration camps ...th America, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Europe and parts of Africa and Asia, anthrax infection is now relatively rare in domestic animals with normally
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• Beurre noisette
  ...he latter is the type of [[clarified butter]] known as [[ghee]] in [[South Asia]] and ''samna'' in the [[Arabic]] countries.
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• Clarified butter
  ...[Middle Eastern cuisine|Middle East]] ('samna') and [[Indian cuisine|South Asia]] ('[[ghee]]'), the butter is cooked long enough to evaporate the water por
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• Butter
  ...avored &mdash; or "rancid"&mdash;yak butter and salt. In [[Africa]]n and [[Asia]]n [[developing country|developing nations]], butter is traditionally made
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• Ghee
  ...n-e khoob'') is a class of [[clarified butter]] that originated in [[South Asia]],<ref>http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=/DAR/DAR69_01/S00220
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• Kumis
  ...mare]]'s milk. The drink remains important to the peoples of the [[Central Asia]]n [[steppe]]s, of Turkic and Mongol origin: [[Bashkirs]], [[Kazakhs]], [[ ...lomar College: "In the Indian subcontinent and much of Central and Western Asia, dairy products are consumed frequently but usually only after bacteria (la
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• Malai
  '''Malai''' is a [[South Asia]]n term for [[clotted cream]] or Devonshire cream. It is made by heating no
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• Kaymak
  ...e in the [[Balkans]], [[Iraq]], [[Turkey]], the [[Middle East]], [[Central Asia]], [[Iran]], [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]], and [[India]]. It is made from
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• Fermented milk products
  | [[Central Asia]] || [[chal]] & [[kumis]]
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• Baked milk
  ...om: Glenn Randall Mack, Asele Surina. ''Food Culture In Russia And Central Asia''. Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 0313327734. Page 22.</ref>
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• Condensed milk
  ...h East Asia use condensed milk to flavor their coffee. A popular treat in Asia is to put condensed milk on toast and eat it in a similar way as jam and to
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• Buttermilk
  * [[Lassi]], a [[South Asia]]n yogurt drink.
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• Infant formula
  ...d saturated, while Asia is 53% of the market.<ref name="ubic"/> South East Asia is a particularly large fraction of the world market relative to its popula .../Southeast_Asia/IG25Ae01.html Spilled corporate milk in the Philippines]", Asia Times Online, 25 July 2007, retr 22Dec 2008</ref>
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• Raw milk
  ===In Asia=== ...milk, especially from [[water buffalo]], is typical. In most countries of Asia, laws prohibiting raw milk are nonexistent or rarely enforced.{{Citation ne
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• Dairy product
  ** [[Kumis]]/[[Airag]], slightly fermented mares' milk popular in [[Central Asia]]
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• Ice cream soda
  ...'''float''' ([[United Kingdom]], [[Canada]], [[United States]] and [[East Asia]]), '''spider''' ([[Australia]]),<ref>"spider, n.4" ''The Oxford English Di
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• Curd
  In [[Asia]], curds are essentially a [[vegetarian]] preparation using [[yeast]] to fe
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• Cheese
  ...indicating where cheesemaking originated, either in [[Europe]], [[Central Asia]] or [[the Middle East]], but the practice had spread within [[Europe]] pri ...dle East]] or by [[nomad]]ic [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] tribes in [[Central Asia]]. Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient time
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• Yoghurt
  ...Empire]] (and especially [[Central Asia]] and the [[Caucasus]]), [[Western Asia]], [[South Eastern Europe]]/[[Balkans]], [[Central Europe]], and [[India]].
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• Ice cream
  ...|title=AsianWeek |work=Rice Noodles in Your Frozen Delights |publisher=Pan Asia Venture Capital Corporation |accessdate=2006-11-04 |archiveurl = http://web
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• Ayran
  ..., [[Turkey]], [[Uzbekistan]] and other parts of the [[Balkans]], [[Central Asia]], [[Kurdistan]], and the [[Middle East]].<ref>Heyhoe, Kate. ''The ABC's of
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• List of vegetable oils
  * [[Rice bran oil]], suitable for high temperature cooking. Widely used in [[Asia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.californiariceoil.com/healthbenefits.htm|t ...ling because of lower cost than many other vegetable oils. Widely grown in Asia.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/congress/papers
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• Vegetable fats and oils
  ...oil]], [[coconut oil]] and [[rice bran oil]], are particularly valued in [[Asia]]n cultures for high temperature cooking, because of their unusually high f ...saturated fatty acids on serum lipoproteins in non-human primates |journal=Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition |volume=11 |issue=Suppl 7 |pages=S408
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