OldDog/NewTricks
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Interesting Facts:
Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
(Source: snapple(.com))
News Item:
Thirty Percent of Children under 3 have Televisions in their bedroom.
(Source: Focus on the Family-Citizen, January 2004)
Teatime
Although the word “tea” is used quite loosely to describe many steeped hot beverages, true tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, a member of the camellia family. Only the leaves of the top 12 inches of the plant are harvested to make tea.
Fine teas are made from the youngest top leaves; medium teas come from the leaves below these fine top leaves and course teas come from the leaves farther down. Three main types of tea are: black tea, the most fermented type, providing the richest flavor; green tea, where the leaves are steamed immediately after picking to stop fermentation and oolong tea, a lightly fermented tea between the black and green teas.
(Source: Highways, November/December 2003)
Innovation
The first U.S. patent was granted in 1790 for potash, a soap and fertilizer ingredient. Thomas Edison’s light bulb, Samuel Morse’s telegraph and the Wright brothers Flyer followed, as did patents for such things as underwater bicycles.
(Source: USA Today, Tuesday, January 13, 2004)
2003
Nearly half of the world’s population is between the ages of 4 and 14.
(Source: The Jesus Film Project, A Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, 12/03)
Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
(Source: snapple(.com))
News Item:
Thirty Percent of Children under 3 have Televisions in their bedroom.
(Source: Focus on the Family-Citizen, January 2004)
Teatime
Although the word “tea” is used quite loosely to describe many steeped hot beverages, true tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, a member of the camellia family. Only the leaves of the top 12 inches of the plant are harvested to make tea.
Fine teas are made from the youngest top leaves; medium teas come from the leaves below these fine top leaves and course teas come from the leaves farther down. Three main types of tea are: black tea, the most fermented type, providing the richest flavor; green tea, where the leaves are steamed immediately after picking to stop fermentation and oolong tea, a lightly fermented tea between the black and green teas.
(Source: Highways, November/December 2003)
Innovation
The first U.S. patent was granted in 1790 for potash, a soap and fertilizer ingredient. Thomas Edison’s light bulb, Samuel Morse’s telegraph and the Wright brothers Flyer followed, as did patents for such things as underwater bicycles.
(Source: USA Today, Tuesday, January 13, 2004)
2003
Nearly half of the world’s population is between the ages of 4 and 14.
(Source: The Jesus Film Project, A Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, 12/03)