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First Federal Obesity Guidelines:

More than Half of All Americans are Too Fat Source: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Related Links Guidelines for Healthful EatingExercise GuidelinesDietary Guidelines for AmericansHealth…

Brewer's: Penny

(in the sense of pound). Sixpenny, eightpenny, and tenpenny nails are nails of three sizes. A thousand of the first will weigh six pounds; of the second, eight pounds; of the third, ten…

Women's Boxing

First Olympic Appearance: 2012 by Jennie Wood Did You Know? Women's boxing first appeared at the 1902 Olympics as a demonstration bout, but for most of the twentieth century the sport was…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 20, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 19, 1806April 21, 1806April 20, 1806 Sunday April 20th 1806. some frost this morning. The Enesher an Skillutes are much better clad than…

Amy Lowell: Paris, March, 1814

Paris, March, 1814Fine yellow sunlight down the rue du Mont Thabor. Ten o'clock striking from all the clock-towers of Paris. Over the door of a shop, in gilt letters: "Martin — Parfumeur",…

Meteorites from Mars

Thirty-four meteorites, almost certainly from Mars, have been discovered as of May 2006. They are known as SNCs1 (named for the towns where the original 12 meteorites were found: Shergotty,…

Conversion Factors

Below are instructions for converting factors, including changing acres to hectares, Btu/hour to horsepower, centimeters to inches, degrees to radians, feet to miles, furlongs to feet, liters to…