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8 hours ago · Flame Test. The flame test is a quick and effective way to identify pure camphor. Pure camphor burns with a bright, smokeless flame and leaves little to no residue. Procedure: Light a small piece of camphor using a match or lighter. Observation: Pure camphor will burn with a bright flame and produce minimal smoke.
8 hours ago · Prior to this, England teams for home Tests had been chosen by the club on whose ground the match was to be played. England lost the 1899 Ashes series 1–0, with Grace making his final Test appearance in the first match of the series. 1900s The Adelaide Oval, second day of the third test between Australia and England, 20 January 1902.
8 hours ago · The tiger is an apex predator and preys mainly on ungulates such as deer and wild boar, which it takes by ambush. It lives a mostly solitary life and occupies home ranges, which it defends from individuals of the same sex. The range of a male tiger overlaps with that of multiple females with whom he mates.
8 hours ago · Germany was particularly important in the early modernist movement: it is the home of Werkbund initiated by Hermann Muthesius (New Objectivity), and of the Bauhaus movement founded by Walter Gropius. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe became one of the world's most renowned architects in the second half of the 20th century; he conceived of the glass façade skyscraper . [276]
8 hours ago · To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643. Turn over a new leaf. Edmund Burke, letter to Miss Haviland; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643.
8 hours ago · The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939, and initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. The HP Garage at 367 Addison Avenue is now designated an official California Historical Landmark, and is marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of ' Silicon Valley '".
1 day ago · Poland is a parliamentary republic, with its bicameral legislature comprising the Sejm and the Senate. It is a developed market and a high-income economy. Considered a middle power, Poland has the sixth-largest economy in the European Union by GDP (nominal) and the fifth-largest by GDP (PPP).
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