Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| The History of Peanut Butter |
| George Washington Carver was an agricultural chemist who discovered over 300 uses for peanuts. He made the first peanut butter in 1880, but believing that food was a gift from God, he never applied for a patent. |
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| The Founding of Rhode Island |
| England, in the 1600s, was not a place of religious freedom. In fact, it was not unusual for those who held beliefs deemed contrary to the official church to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, and often all three. Many of those who came to the American colonies did so in order to escape persecution |
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| Mysteries of History |
| * Mountain gorilla researcher, Dian Fossey, was hacked to death at her research station in 1985. Was her murder committed by poachers, or was she the victim of a more sinister plot? Who could have hated this woman, whose goal in life was to study and preserve the silver-backs. |
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| Facts about Gold |
| Gold may have been the first metal to be used by humans, probably in ceremony and for decoration. The Latin word for gold, aurum means “shining dawn.” An Egyptian king from 2600 bce described gold as “common as dust.” |
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