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    SALT questions Essay

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    1. What importance have the following groups attached to salt? i. Romans: Romans considered “common salt” a right and used it for cooking in both plebian and patrician cuisine. Salt trade was a prominent way of making money and soldiers were often paid in salt. A tightly controlled monopoly on salt contributed to military funds. ii. Greek Philosophers: Plato describes salt as dear to the gods, and we can even see the importance attached to it in religious ceremonies, covenants, and magical charms

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    Bream notes http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recreational/saltwater/sw-species/yellowfin-bream Yellowfin bream Distribution - Yellowfin bream are found along the NSW coast, as well as in Queensland and Victoria. Bream inhabit estuaries up to the brackish water limit (the change from salt to freshwater) and inshore rocky reef habitats near ocean beaches and rocky headlands Size - Maximum weight of 4kg and a length of 60 cm. Characteristics - Yellowfin bream have a silver to olive-green body

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    are also on the PBA list. Building others also builds yourself. Sean gave the example of the “two seas in Palestine.” It’s an excerpt from Bruce Barton’s The Man Nobody Knows. This excerpt describes how full of life and joy the Sea of Galilee is compared to the poisoned Dead Sea. Both of these seas are fed by the River Jordan, but the Sea of Galilee is also as an outlet; it gives whereas the Dead sea only receives. Barton compares this to people and how giving will benefit others as well as yourself

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    others were doing in the process of being “helped”. It felt like an eternity, filled with the exchanging of uncomfortable stares and the tapping of many feet. I stopped to look and notice a whole family of Large-Knife-Men, all grabbing large chunks of dead animal and slicing them into conveniently thin, sandwich-style slices. I became uneasy, glancing over every now and then at the spinning cylindrical, blindingly silver deli slicers the Men were using. Finally, like a wounded soldier crawling desperately

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    shrimp are naturally found in mass numbers in the Great Salt Lake of Salt Lake City, Utah (The Brine Shrimp Life Cycle, 2015). Brine shrimp are also found in inland salt water bodies such as on the rocky coast south of San Francisco, and in the Caspian Sea (Descriptions and Articles About the Brine Shrimp, 2015). They also occur in many other bodies of water with any salt content, including the intermountain desert region of the western United States, salt swamps near any coast, and many man-made saltpans

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    impact Israel’s economy the most is the tourists. Tourists come from all over to visit Israel. Most of the attractions include religious places, archeological items, and the almost unlimited sunshine aspects such as the various seas including the Galilee, Mediterranean, Dead Sea, and many more. In the years of 2000 Israel was topped as one of the top 3 most visited cities. They opened their doors to over 3 million travelers a year. Travelers enhanced the foreign currency earnings of $2.8 billion in 2006

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    temperature, light, pH levels, water levels and predatory presence play a large role in the hatching rate of the crustacean. The brine shrimp are an extremely versatile micro-crustacean as they can survive up to 10x salt concentration of ordinary sea water (Eol.org, 2016) and are able to protect themselves during drought or when conditions are not ideal for survival. This is called highly resistant encysted gastrula embryo (cyst) that is easily able to hatch under conditions that can be replicated

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    The Unknown What don't people know? People don’t know or understand many things. People first make a judgment about someone or something. They then decide whether they like or not like someone or something. People judge, people stare, people are rude, people are mean. You wish that everyone in the world was nice and that the world was a safe place with no “bad guys”. Soon you will wake up and realize the truth, the truth about the world and the people. The Fascinating Town My grandparents live

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    Introduction Introduction Did you know that the Dead Sea Scrolls also known as the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century were discovered in 1946? The Dead Sea Scrolls are Hebrew and are very interesting to study because of the vest history included. The Scrolls are important because you can see what the Hebrews were writing about around 100 BC and possibly why the Scrolls were being written. Did you know that the Dead Sea Scrolls also known as the greatest archaeological discovery

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    Qumran Essene Hypothesis

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    It is evident that the Qumran Essene Hypothesis fits most accurately as the Essenes being the primary writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although, I also think that there were some secondary writers of the scrolls. This thought came to me from the third video (How were the Dead Sea Scrolls Written?) when it mentioned that the scrolls were often written by different scholars and were edited by each other. And connected to this thought is the how it possible “that the Essenes possessed monasteries…in

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