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Wool was probably the first fiber to be made successfully into fabric around 7000 years ago. In Egypt, mummies from 3400 BC have been found wrapped in linen shrouds a 1000 yards long (900m) made from flax. Cotton was used in India in 3000 BC.
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Before 105 AD, most documents had been written on parchment made from the skin of sheep or goats, or vellum, made from the skin of a calf. It has been estimated that a single book 200 pages long would have needed the skins of 12 sheep.
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The technique for making thin, flat window glass was perfected in Normandy, France, in the 14th century. Known as crown glass, each piece was blown by a craftsman. An accomplished glass-blower could make only about a dozen windows in a day, making medieval window glass an expensive luxury.
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In 1856 a 500 ton lump of pure copper was dug up from a mine Michigan, USA, and in 1869 a nugget of pure gold weighing 154 pounds (69.92kg) was found in Victoria, Australia.
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In 1988 a Nigerian was caught at the Hanover, Germany, airport trying to smuggle heroin under the fist-size shells of agate snails.
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The comparison of fingerprints for catching criminals was first developed in the 1890s by Edward Henry, the British Inspector General of the Indian police in Bengal.
There are four children in my family. Tim is the oldest, then me, Debbie, and my younger brother, Terry.
Tim and I are twenty-three months apart and as kids, we constantly fought. Now, we’re best friends – probably because we live in different parts of the country! I call him every Friday night and we talk for hours about politics, religion, the stock market, and everything in between. We usually end up reminiscing about our childhood.
“Why did we fight so much when we were younger?” I asked Tim last Friday.
“Cause you wanted to follow me around and do whatever I did. Like the time you climbed into the tree house after me, even though I said you couldn’t.” He grunted. “You’ve always been stubborn.”
“Even back then, you should’ve known not to tell me I can’t do something. Besides, as soon as I sat on the planks, you pushed me out. It’s a good thing I fell into the sand box below.”
“Yeah, and Mom gave me the whipping of my life.”
The next day, Dad built sides on the tree house.
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Connie Taxdal
Romance Writers of America, 2014 Golden Heart® Finalist
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The color Khaki, Urdu word for ‘dust’, was adopted during the Afghan War in 1880 to camouflage soldier’s movements.
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When Samuel Johnson wrote his influential English dictionary in the 18th century, it took him seven years to write the meanings of 40,000 words.
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Stainless steel was discovered by accident in 1913 by Harry Brearley while he experimented with combinations of metals suitable for making gun barrels. Later, he noticed most of his specimens had rusted except for the one containing 14 percent chromium.
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