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  2. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    The imperial gallon was originally defined as 10 pounds (4.5359 kg) of water in 1824, and refined as exactly 4.54609 litres in 1985. Traditionally, when describing volumes, recipes commonly give measurements in the following units: Tumbler (10 fluid ounces; [29] [30] named after a typical drinknig glass)

  3. Evaporative cooler - Wikipedia

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    An evaporative cooler (also known as evaporative air conditioner, swamp cooler, swamp box, desert cooler and wet air cooler) is a device that cools air through the evaporation of water. Evaporative cooling differs from other air conditioning systems, which use vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycles.

  4. Pig slaughter - Wikipedia

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    The smoke house is essential for the preservation and long-term storage of hams, shoulders, bacon sides, and pork bellies. The meat is hung on racks and hooks in the smokehouse; and later smoked. Fragrant hardwood, such as hickory, beech, or cherry is allowed to smolder slowly in a pit below the hanging meat. This gives added flavor and color ...

  5. Wikipedia:Requested articles/Arts and entertainment

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    Also one of only a few companies that sell Scottish style back bacon, Scottish style meat pies, smoked haddock and other Scottish specialty items in the U.S. Recently in the news for haggis sales, relocation to N.C. from N.J. and for sales related to Scottish holidays like St. Andrew's Day, Burns Night and Tartan Day.

  6. Emu - Wikipedia

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    Most of the usable portions (the best cuts come from the thigh and the larger muscles of the drum or lower leg) are, like other poultry, dark meat; emu meat is considered for cooking purposes by the US Food and Drug Administration to be a red meat because its red colour and pH value approximate that of beef, [83] but for inspection purposes it ...

  7. Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon was born on 28 October 1909 in 63 Lower Baggot Street in Dublin. [4] At that time, all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom.His father, Army Captain Anthony Edward "Eddy" Mortimer Bacon, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to an English father and an Australian mother. [5]

  8. Refrigerator car - Wikipedia

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    The compound was readily available and seemed like an ideal replacement for frozen water. Dry ice melts at −109 °F or −78.33 °C (versus 32 °F or 0 °C for conventional ice) and was twice as effective thermodynamically. Overall weight was reduced as the need for brine and water was eliminated.

  9. Francis Bacon - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.