Word: food
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...abandoned. The retreat to land was full of hardship. The men were weighted down with baggage, and progress over the uneven surface of the ice was slow and laborious. Two miles a day was all that could be made during the first part of the retreat. Food and water were scarce and gave out five days before the men reached land. The retreat was carried on in three divisions, of which the one under Engineer Melville's charge alone survived. He made the land at the delta of the Lena river in northern Siberia. For the last five days...
...common colors of nature are green and brown, and hence most insects are of one or the other of these two colors. It has been a question whether the color of insects was derived directly from the coloring matter of their vegetable food, or whether it was due to some peculiar process which had nothing to do with the color of food. Experiments made upon larvae with food material of different colors has shown conclusively that the color of the insect is affected by the color of its food...
...Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found, such as deer, tortoise, elk, rabbit and many others. It is probable that the human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones that were scattered about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman's cave, and of teeth of the tapir. The nature of the human remains and the fact that they are found...
...mouth is the main entrance for these diseases. The germs are picked up by the hands from various places of deposit, from infected hands, etc., and carried to the mouth with food. The simple precaution of washing the hands before conveying anything to the mouth is a fairly efficient preventative...
...seeds of the rata germinate in the forks of lofty trees, sending down aerial roots which reach the earth and draw therefrom an increased supply of mineral matter, while the young plant above sends out branches with foliage to appropriate from the air the other requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until this intruder actually crowds out of existence the tree upon which it first began to grow. These roots, thus growing in the air, attain sometimes great size; logs from twenty to fifty feet in length and four feet square...