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If there is too much pituitary hormone or too few insulin, the amount of sugar in the blood rises abnormally, producing a condition called hyperglycemia.



 
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A liter of lake water may contain the more than 500 million planktonic organisms.


 
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In Connecticut, hundreds of houses dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are preserved by more as 100 local or national historical societies.

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The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century strove to revitalizing handicrafts and applied arts during an era of increasing mass production.


 
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Hard and resistant to corrosion, bronze is traditionally used in bell casting and is the material used widely most for metal sculpture.

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By A.D. 1050, similar styles of pottery, architecture, and farming could been found in small pueblos throughout sections of what is now the southwestern United States.


 
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As the railroads began to compete effective with canals, engineers became more daring in the design and construction of waterways.

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In the eighteenth century, the Pawnees, descendants of the Nebraska culture, lived in villages sizeable on the Loup and Platte rivers in central Nebraska.


 
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Dehydrated food is prepared by removing water from fresh food to yield a relatively dry, stable product in which the growth of microorganisms are inhibited.


 
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The thirteen stripes of the United States flag represent the original thirteen states of the Union, which they all were once colonies of Britain.


 
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The first form of education children receive begins at birth and is providing by their caregivers

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Used for making pottery, clay has two characteristics distinctive: it can be molded and it can be baked to form a brittle but otherwise durable material.

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A basic premise of humanism is that people are rational beings who possesses the capacity for truth and goodness.



 
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The most widely cultivated of all fruit trees, the apple is second only to the grape in importantly as a temperate-zone fruit.



 
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A nation's currency is considered a soft currency if its value tends to be vulnerable to suddenly drops on foreign-exchange markets in times of political or economic uncertainty.

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The macula is responsible for central vision, which enables people do activities that require focusing directly ahead.


 
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The atmosphere is layered into zones, each with its own distinctly characteristics with respect to temperature and composition.


 
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Since mud retains heat well and distributes it evenly to the skin, mud baths have long used to apply heat to the body.



 
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Glaciers, mass of ice that flow outward from ice caps, cover about one-tenth of Earth's land area.



 
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The earliest known inhabitants of North America were a people of whose culture was highly oriented toward music and dance.


 
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In terms of its size, influence, and visible, the corporation has become the dominant business form in industrial countries.

 

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The United States is a giant in the production and consumption of fast food, given that 200 hamburgers eaten every second in the United States.


 
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Photography disseminates information about humanity and nature, records the visible world, and extension human knowledge into areas the eye cannot penetrate.



 
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Carbon dioxide is used by green plants in making of their food and tissues by a process known as photosynthesis.

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The illness known as croup can be prevented by immunizing against diphtheria and by obtaining medical treatment for sore throat and upper infections respiratory.

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