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3 unusual facts about Grain


Grant Kenny

He also became a household name in Australia due to his sponsorship deals with Kelloggs Nutri-Grain, and appeared in television commercials for the cereal.

Nutri-Grain

The brand was first introduced in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, in 1981 for a breakfast cereal consisting of flakes without added sugar.

Single-grain

Single-grain experiment, an experiment carried out at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from May 1907 to 1911


A. hystrix

Abacarus hystrix, the cereal rust mite or grain rust mite, a mite species

Alnmouth

Located at the mouth of the River Aln, the village has been an important trading port in Northumberland's past, mainly involved in the export of grain, and smuggling.

And Take It with a Grain of Salt

...And Take It with a Grain of Salt is the first full length album by An Angle.

Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth

He was also chairman of the Anglo-Burma Rice Company and of the Wilmer Grain Company, and was also on the board of Lloyds Bank.

Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell

On arrival in India, MacDonnell served initially in various districts of Bihar and Bengal, and on the basis of his experiences in the Bengal Famine of 1873–4, he wrote his first book, Food-Grain Supply and Famine Relief in Bihar and Bengal, published in 1876.

Baraily

Recent development of interest for Rice Grain between farmers led to ample production of the product in the area.

Bergmagazin

Johanngeorgenstadt: built 1806-1812, used as a grain store until 1847.

Cameron Bridge

In 1989 Cameronbridge also changed from being solely a large-scale grain whisky distillery into a ‘dual-purpose’ site, when United Distillers’ Grain Neutral Spirit operation was transferred to Fife from Wandsworth in London.

Capitol Lake

In 2009, the New Zealand mud snail, an invasive species the size of a grain of rice, was discovered in Capital Lake.

Chocapic

Chocapic is a chocolate-flavoured whole-grain breakfast cereal distributed by Nestlé in most of Europe, the Middle-East and Latin America.

Chris Iijima

He, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and "Charlie" Chin, were the members of the group Yellow Pearl; their 1973 album, A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, (originally recorded on Paredon Records now Smithsonian Folkways was an important part of the development of Asian American identity in the early 1970s.

Christian Allhusen

In 1827 in Newcastle, a businessman in the grain trade, he went into partnership with Henry Bolckow.

Economic history of Somalia

In Galole near Hargeysa, for example, a government team established a cooperative in 1973, and government funds helped purchase a tractor, a cooperative center, and a grain storage tank.

Edina Mill

This was a direct result of the fact that prior to these mills, farmers had to haul their grain in horse-drawn wagons over long distances to the mills at Saint Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River.

Eyeless in Gaza

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

Fiddleback

Fiddleback, a particular grain of maple wood used for musical instruments

Friedrich Berentzen

He is credited with marketing apple flavor grain liquors (Apfelkorn) and establishing his company as the market leader in this product segment.

Frow

Froe, tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain

Gina Grain

Upon returning to Webcor Builders Cycling Team for another season in 2009, Grain started her stint by edging out New Zealand rider and 2008 Olympian Catherine Cheatley on a blazing sprint road race to score a second stage triumph at the Tour of the Gila in southwestern United States.

Grain race

The Last Grain Race, a 1956 book by Eric Newby on the last (1939) voyage in the Australian grain trade by Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still transporting grain at the time

Harrington Mansion and Events Center

Shortly after, Harrington switched to the grain business and later partnered with George Van Dusen in 1889 to establish the Van Dusen-Harrington Company, a grain processing and distribution firm.

Hopper car

Covered hopper cars are used for bulk cargo such as grain, sugar, and fertilizer that must be protected from exposure to the weather.

Howard Gimbel

The son of Jacob and Ruth Gimbel, he grew up along with five siblings on a grain and dairy farm east of Calgary near the small town of Beiseker.

Iman Xin Chemjong

In a gesture that went against the grain of prevailing state ideology, King Tribhuvan invited Chemjong to join Nepal's Tribhuvan University in the capacity of "Limbu expert" in 1961.

Izetta Jewel

The following season she played opposite Skinner in Charles Frohman’s production of Sire at the Criterion Theatre and in 1912 with James K. Hackett in The Grain of Dust also staged at the Criterion.

Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana

The grain grown was either fed to livestock or hauled by wagon to elevators at Ambia, West Lebanon, or Rossville, Illinois.

Kashin–Beck disease

Studies of the pathogenesis and risk factors of KBD have proposed selenium deficiency, inorganic (manganese, phosphate...) and organic matter (humic acids and fulvic acids) in drinking water, fungi on self-produced storage grain (Alternaria sp., Fusarium sp.), producing trichotecene (T2) mycotoxins.

Keglevich

A vodka from the long tradition of Eastern Europe, Keglevich Classic is distilled entirely from pure grain with the original 1884 recipe invented during the crisis after the Panic of 1873 by the Hungarian Count of Croatian origin, Stephan Keglevich.

Lacombe, Alberta

In 1907, the federal government set up an experimental farm to research grain and livestock production.

Lake of the Woods Milling Company

Krause Milling Co. - 1929 grain elevator and flour mill site in Radway, Alberta.

Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger

From 1793, Emeriau captained the Embuscade, taking part in, under Pierre Jean Van Stabel, in the escort of the grain convoy that was the background for the Glorious First of June.

Michel Emmanuel Rodocanachi

Recognising the importance of having a presence on the London market, in 1830 they sent their son Michael there to cover their interests and work with other family members who traded grain in Odessa, St Petersburg, Italy & Marseille.

Modern competitive archery

Most targets in competitive archery use some kind of stalks of grain or grass and may be constructed of marsh grass woven into a rope then wrapped around into a target.

Mooterdine, Western Australia

In 2012 the CBH Group name its second CBH class locomotive, after this locality - which was a part of the older extended system of grain lines in the Wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia.

Mosquito Fleet

They also played a role in lightering grain to load larger vessels offshore in deeper waters, the most famous example being to windjammers off Port Victoria, Spencer Gulf, which until 1949 marked the start of the Great Grain Race.

Orzo

Caffè d'orzo ("coffee of barley"), a roasted grain beverage often simply called "orzo" in Europe

Port Victoria Grain Griffin

The Grain Griffin was a British carrier based reconnaissance aircraft developed and built by the RNAS Marine Experimental Depot, Port Victoria during the First World War.

Proso millet

Proso millet appears to have reached Europe not long after its appearance in Georgia, first appearing in east and central Europe; however, the grain needed a few thousand more years to cross into Italy, Greece, and Iran, and the earliest evidence for its cultivation in the Near East is a find in the ruins of Nimrud, Iraq dated to about 700 BC.

Rain follows the plow

Today, however, grain crops still do not grow further north than Quorn, as advised by Goyder's original report.

Robin Hood Flour

Eventually the company became International Multifoods Corp The Moose Jaw mill eventually closed in 1966 due to over capacity; the mill was torn down but the grain bins and elevator are still in use as an inland terminal.

Stotts City, Missouri

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Farmers Exchange Co-op provided feed grain and seed for most of western Lawrence County.

The Secret of the Grain

The French title of the film refers to a "grain of couscous" and to mullet, a type of small fish, both popular in Tunisian cuisine.

Three Day Threshold

In March 2007, Hi-n-Dry, a record label run by former members of Morphine, signed Three Day Threshold to release their 3rd full length album, Against the Grain.

Tobermory distillery

Distilling had been banned in the UK since 1795 in order to save grain for the War of the First Coalition with France.

Toepfer International

The company does most of the grain trading for the global food and agribusiness corporation ADM, whom it belong to for 80% and the rest to the french InVivo.

Tolton

Edwin Tolton (1856-1917), a farmer, grain merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada

Upma

A huge number of variations of Upma are made with whole or refined ground wheat and rice of varied grain size, vermicelli, Durum wheat semolina or pearl sago.

White-Pool House

Lucy had a perceived health need to live in a dry climate like that of West Texas, and Charles’ grain business in Indiana had failed in the economic stress of the decades following the American Civil War.

Winchester measure

In 1836, the United States Department of the Treasury formally adopted the Winchester bushel as the standard for dealing in grain and, defined as 2,150.42 cubic inches, it remains so today.

Wuliangye

It specializes in manufacturing baijiu, and is best known for Wuliangye, made from five organic grains: Proso millet, corn, glutinous rice, long grain rice and wheat.


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