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unusual facts about corn


Kedra Holland-Corn

In Italy, with La Spezia team, won the Italian league's MVP title in the 2005-06 season.


2008 German Beekill Incident

Though the normal corn seed treatment formulation of clothianidin was authorized for use against fruit flies and wireworms at 25 grams of the chemical per 50,000 seeds, the seed batches associated with this incident received a special authorization at a much higher concentration, 62 grams per 50,000 seeds, to protect against an infestation of western corn rootworm.

Al Mahwit

The area and surrounding governorate depends on agriculture, mainly the production of coffee, tobacco, corn, sorghum and qat.

Battle of Shepherdstown

However, the colonel of the inexperienced 118th Pennsylvania (the "Corn Exchange" Regiment) refused to retire until orders were received through the proper chain of command.

Chané people

They developed an agrarian culture, built densely populated villages, cultivated corn, peanuts, cotton and squash, and are famous for their ceramics and graphics which have been found mainly in the pampas surrounding the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Fuerte in Samaipata, and in Portachuelo, Valle Abajo, Okinawa, Cotoca, El Pari, Mataral and Warnes.

Chicago Great Western Railroad

Nicknamed the "Corn Belt Route" because of its operating area in the midwestern United States, the railroad was sometimes called the "Lucky Strike Road", due to the similarity in design between the herald of the CGW and the logo used for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Christopher Nesham

He was at Vernon, in Normandy, in October 1789, when a furious mob fell upon a corn merchant, Planter by name, who had been charitable to the poor, but who, having sent flour to Paris, was accused of wishing to starve the town.

Coke 2

Coca-Cola C2, a low-calorie version of Coca-Cola introduced in 2004 using high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners

Corn Products Refining Co. v. Commissioner

The company bought corn futures to protect their future corn supply and pricing and would sell the futures if it had excess inventory corn for its processes.

Corn Uí Mhuirí

Corn Uí Mhuirí is the cup presented to the winners of the Munster colleges senior football "A" championship, the top level Gaelic football championship for secondary schools in Munster.

Country Yumkins

The initial 9 Yumkin dolls (Sweetie Pea, Lushie Peach, Reddie Tomato, Cobbie Corn, Snappy Bean, Juicy Pineapple, Cocky Crow, Shoo-Shoo Scarecrow, and Fluffy Lamb) were made by a company called Trudy based in Norwalk, CT.

Cuchuco

Cuchuco is a soup made with corn, barley or wheat and mashed beans to make Colombian cuisine soup, especially altiplano of the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments of Colombia.

David Corn

In the Washington Post, Roger Warner called it "an impressive feat of research"; but, in the New York Times, Joseph Finder claimed Corn was seriously distorting history to blame Shackley for a series of CIA failings.

Dr Charles James Fox

Afterwards he became a corn merchant (for miss Flynn (Bridget, née Burke, married to Daniel Flynn?)) remained three years at home and then joined another company (His ship on fire at Hamburg) He got a sunstroke fell from a balcony and died at the Catholic Hospital 11 Feb 1881 and was buried by the Jesuits at Singapore

Duponchelia fovealis

Hosts include a wide range of mostly herbaceous ornamental plants and field crops, such as Anemone, Anthurium, Begonia, Cyclamen, Euphorbia, Gerbera, Kalanchoe, Limonium, Rosa, certain aquatic plants, corn, cucumbers, peppers, pomegranate, tomatoes, and certain herbs.

Economic history of Nicaragua

The rich volcanic soils produced a wide array of products, including beans, peppers, corn, cocoa, and cassava (manioc).

Enchilada

Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented a feast enjoyed by Europeans hosted by Hernán Cortés in Coyoacán, which included foods served in corn tortillas.

False Face Society

Before the introduction of horses by the Europeans, corn husks and buffalo hair were used.

George Tahdooahnippah

On September 12, 2008, Tahdooahnippah defeated Jonathan Corn with a seventh round TKO to win the vacant Native American Boxing Council Super Middleweight Championship.

Greta Pratt

She is the author of two books of photographs, Using History (Steidl, 2005) and In Search of the Corn Queen (National Museum of American Art, 1994), and her works are represented in major public and private collections, including the National Museum of American Art: Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Ground Zero Gallery

These shows included many other notable artists including: Stephen Lack, Manuel De Landa, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiki Smith, Walter Robinson, Julius Klein, Nick Zedd, Thom Corn, Mark and Matt Enger, Conrad Vogel, Phoebe Legere, Cheryl Dyer, Selwyn Garaway.

Heyfield, Victoria

In 1841 an early settler, James McFarlane, described the district as resembling "a field of waving corn", and called it "Hayfield".

Issues relating to biofuels

Steven Rattner, former "auto czar" for U.S. President Barack Obama, wrote an Op-ed for The New York Times in June, 2011, entitled "The Great Corn Con," characterizing ethanol as "an example of government policy run amok."

Jamie Thompson

Thompson and fellow Unicorns member Nick Thorburn founded the indie-pop/hip-hop band Th' Corn Gangg several months prior to The Unicorns' break-up in December 2004.

John A. Kelly

In 1952, the family settled in Brighton, Massachusetts and his father continued to work for Corn Products in South Boston.

Joseph Horrocks

Joseph Lucas Horrocks (1803-1865) was born in Anderton, Lancashire, near Bolton, on 18 November 1803, the first son of William Horrocks, a corn merchant, and Jane Smith.

Kent, British Columbia

However, this disaster unexpectedly benefited Kent as corn became the new primary agricultural product of the region, leading to Agassiz's claim as the "Corn Capital of BC"; this claim is still used today.

Kettle corn

These formulations can have the sweet-salty flavor of kettle corn but not the same texture, which normally comes from the crunchy sugar crust of kettle corn made from scratch.

M. arvensis

Mentha arvensis, the field mint, the wild mint or the corn mint, a plant species with a circumboreal distribution

MCPA

In 1936 investigations began at ICIs Jealott's Hill research centre into the effects of synthetic hormones on plant growth looking specifically for a way to kill weeds without harming crops such as corn.

Mérida, Mérida

Popular drinks include corn liquor, mistella, and "donkey's milk", which is known as "Andean punch."

Migas

They are usually made with leftover bread, either wheat bread traditionally associated with the Alentejo region in Southern Portugal, or corn bread as used in Beira.

Mischief Night

Also the eve has been known in Yorkshire as "Mischievous Night", "Miggy Night", "Tick-Tack Night", "Corn Night", "Trick Night" and "Micky Night" but is celebrated on November 4 on the eve of Bonfire Night.

Mount Sterling, Iowa

Mount Sterling was first settled in the late 1830s when George and Horace Wood established a sawmill and corn-cracker to serve the small farms of southern Van Buren County and the northern portion of nearby Scotland County, Missouri.

Municipal Borough of Wimbledon

A black double headed eagle refers to the legend that Julius Caesar once made camp on the common, a sheaf of corn is borrowed from the arms of the Cecil family and the two Cornish Choughs above the crown are taken from the arms of Thomas Cromwell.

Nadec

Other crops such as wheat, clover, shami corn and Rhodes grass are grown on thousands of acres of land across four major projects in Haradh, Wadi Al-Dawasser, Hail and Al Jouf.

Orville Redenbacher

In an episode of the game show, To Tell the Truth, he stumped the panelists (Kitty Carlisle Hart, Bill Cullen, Joe Garagiola, and Peggy Cass), all of whom were shown enjoying samples of Redenbacher's then-new novelty popping corn flavors, including chili and curry.

Pyanopsia

The semi-personification of eiresin will be noticed; and, according to Mannhardt, the branch embodies the tree spirit conceived as the spirit of vegetation in general, whose vivifying and fructifying influence is thus brought to bear upon the corn in particular.

Recombinant DNA

;Herbicide-resistant crops : commercial varieties of important agricultural crops (including soy, maize/corn, sorghum, canola, alfalfa and cotton) have been developed that incorporate a recombinant gene that results in resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (trade name Roundup), and simplifies weed control by glyphosate application.

Saccharin

In a clash that had career consequences, Wiley told President Theodore Roosevelt that "Everyone who ate that sweet corn was deceived. He thought he was eating sugar, when in point of fact he was eating a coal tar product totally devoid of food value and extremely injurious to health."

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

There is another variant on the story, recorded by Syntipas (Perry Index 58) and appearing in Roger L'Estrange's 1692 telling as "A Woman and a Fat Hen" (Fable 87): A good Woman had a Hen that laid her every day an Egg. Now she fansy’d to her self, that upon a larger Allowance of Corn, this Hen might be brought in time to lay twice a day. She try’d the Experiment; but the Hen grew fat upon’t, and gave quite over laying.

The Motor Bus

The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse

Most notably, a giant rocking chair in Austinburg, Ohio, a field of giant corn cobs in Dublin, Ohio and Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The song has been covered by many artists including The Chieftains, Loreena McKennitt, The Dubliners, Dolores Keane, Dead Can Dance (sung by Lisa Gerrard), Altan, Solas, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Dick Gaughan, Orthodox Celts, Amanda Palmer, Fire + Ice, The Irish Rovers (as "The Wind That Shakes the Corn"), Sarah Jezebel Deva, Martin Carthy, Declan de Barra and Belfast Food.

The Wise Little Hen

There was an adaptation story to the cartoon called "Mrs. Cackles's Corn" from Walt Disney's Story Land: 55 Favorite Stories.

William Rathbone Greg

He entered the struggle for free trade, and obtained in 1842 the prize offered by the Anti-Corn Law League for the best essay on Agriculture and the Corn Laws. He was too busy with political, economical and theological speculations to give undivided attention to his business, which he gave up in 1850 to devote himself to writing.

Wood County, Wisconsin

The north of the county is in the Northern Highlands, mostly rich cropland with heavy clay soil, used for corn, soybeans, hay and dairy.

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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