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Foxglove

Foxglove is a flowering shrub most commonly purple, pink, white or yellow. They contain an antiarrhythmic agent that is an ingredient in heart medicine.

Applejack

While Apple Jacks may be a common breakfast cereal, Applejack is also a name to refer to the mixed drink containing Jack Daniels and Apple Cider.

Pull-a-hose-a-phobia

Pull-a-hose-a-phobia is the fear that you will forget you are pumping fuel at a gas station and drive away with a disconnected hose still in the tank.

European Garden Spider

Araneus diadematus is known by many names including the common garden spider, European garden spider, cross orb-weaver, diadem spider, and cross spider.

Sleep

Sleep is a naturally occurring cycle where sensory input is diminished and the body quiets down. Consciousness is reduced, but dreaming occurs.

Baseball Fans

The uncontrollable urge to support a local baseball team. This urge often consumes the individual, making him or her purchase clothing that sponsors the team.

Flores, Azore Island

Flores, one of the remote Azore Islands, and a part of Portugal, is 1000 miles west of the European mainland in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. Flores means flowers.

Cornmeal Waffle Recipe

Cornmeal Waffles: Dry ingredients: cornmeal, wheat, baking power, salt, brown sugar. Wet ingredients: milk, oil, eggs yokes & whites. Combine dry & wet & cook!

Mariana Trench Depth

The explored depth of the Mariana Trench is over 6.8 miles deep! At this depth the pressure is 15,750 psi, more than 1000 times the pressure at sea level.

Pinacocyte

Pinacocytes are the flattened contractile cells in which the outer layer of most sponges (Poriferans) are composed. These cells form the pinacoderm.