In 1751, Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovered nickel while trying to extract copper from the ore kupfernickel. He named the white metal substance nickel after the spirit that had given its name to the ore.

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Heaven is here when time is not. To live without time means to live without friction, with no wear and tear. That is the space of non-engagement, non-interference.

Tilak Fernando

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Imperfection impermancy and unpredictability are the three gateways of opening in our reality.

Tilak Fernando

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Silence is not something you do. Silence is something that comes to you and that silence is a space of wonder.

Tilak Fernando

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The most amazing part of life is yet to come.

Tilak Fernando

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We inhale trust and we exhale fearlessness.

Tilak Fernando

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Your biggest strength is your ability to appreciate the imperfection of your life.

Tilak Fernando

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Discipline is doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time

Tilak Fernando

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Discipline is doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time.

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Giant water lilies in the Amazon can grow over 6 feet in diameter.

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Fertilizers are chemicals added to plants to help them grow. Important elements in fertilizers include nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Manure (animal waste) is also used as a fertilizer.

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Poison ivy produces a skin irritant called urushiol. Touching poison ivy will cause an allergic reaction, usually in the form of an itchy rash on the skin.

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There are over 200,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.

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Plant matter found at the bottom of areas with water such as swamps can eventually turn into coal due to a process called metamorphosis (changing form).

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In the agricultural industry, to ensure crops of food grow well water is often added to soil in the form of irrigation.

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Onions might taste good but they can be painful to chop. A gas is released when you cut onions that irritates you eyes, the tears you produce while this happens are your body's way of washing it from your eyes.

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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

Lena Dunham

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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Martha Beck

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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

James Buchan

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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

James Buchan

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With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

Chris Brown

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown

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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Gary Oldman

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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

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No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Christopher Walken

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There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Walken

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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

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One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Colin Firth

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In 1751, Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovered nickel while trying to extract copper from the ore kupfernickel. He named the white metal substance nickel after the spirit that had given its name to the ore.

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