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Strychnine
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FormulaC21H22N2O2
LD50501 mg/kg
Molecular mass334.41 g/mol
CAS number57-24-9
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Stubble
Stubble on a man's face is the unshaven beard growth that exists for one to three days, before it becomes long enough to cover the skin and be considered a full beard. In recent times, electric clippers have rendered stubble growth an easily maintained and fashionable style, as it can lend some men a rugged swarthiness and does not require daily attention.
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Stucco
Stucco is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water which is applied wet, and hardens when it dries. Also used in sidings, it is used as a coating for walls and ceilings and for decoration. In Europe the term render is more commonly used. Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials such as concrete blocks, steel, or adobe.
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Student
The word student is etymology derived through Middle English from the Latin Latin conjugation#Principal parts for the active voice Grammatical conjugation verb "studere", Meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject.
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Studio
A studio is an artist's workroom, or an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of photography, cinematography, Animation, radio or television broadcasting or the making of music.
The etymology for the word "studio" is derived from the Latin language, studere, meaning to study or zeal.
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Stuffing
In cooking, stuffing, also known as dressing, is usually a mixture of various ingredients used to fill a cavity in another food item. The term stuffing also refers to the process of filling a cavity with this mixture.
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Stunt
A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in TV, theatre or film. Stunts are a big part of many action movies.
Before computer generated imagery special effects, these effects were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects - unless the creator could find someone willing to jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper - the stunt performer.
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Stupa
A stupa is a type of Buddhist structure found across the Indian subcontinent, Asia and increasingly in the Western World. Stupas are known in many Southeast Asian countries as chedi; in some countries as dagoba; or as tope.
The stupa is the earliest Buddhist religious monument and was originally only a simple mound made up of mud or clay, or a cairn in barren areas, to cover supposed relics of the Buddha.
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Sturgeon
Sturgeon is a genus of fish, of which some twenty different species are known, from European, Asiatic and North American rivers. They are one of the oldest species of fish in existence. They pass a great part of the year in the ocean, but periodically ascend large rivers, some in spring to deposit their spawn, others later in the season for some unknown purpose; only a few of the species are exclusively confined to fresh water.
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Sturt's desert pea
Sturt's desert pea is an Australia plant in the genus Swainsona, famous for its distinctive blood-red leaf-like flowers, each with a bulbous black centre, or "boss". It is one of Australia's best known wildflowers. It is native to the arid regions of central and north-western Australia, and its range extends into all mainland Australian states with the exception of Victoria .
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart [], a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Wrttemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 in the city and around 3 million in the Stuttgart Region.
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Sty
A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising pigs. It is sometimes referred to as a pigpen or "pig parlor." Pigsties are generally fenced areas of bare dirt and/or mud. Both "sty" and "pigpen" are used as derogatory descriptions of dirty, messy areas. There are three contributing reasons that pigs, generally clean animals, create such a living environment:
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Stylophorum
Stylophorum is a genus of ornamental plants in the family Papaveraceae.
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Stylus
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A stylus is a writing utensil.Also used for computers. It usually refers to a narrow, elongated staff, similar to a modern ballpoint pen. Many styluses are heavily curved to be held more easily.
Styli were first used by the ancient Mesopotamians in order to write in Cuneiform script.
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Styracaceae
Styracaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 11-12 genera and about 150-170 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
The family is characterised by spirally arranged simple leaf with no stipules; symmetrical white flowers with a corolla of 2-5 fused petals; and the fruit usually a dry capsule, sometimes winged, less often a fleshy drupe, with 1-2 seeds.
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Styracosaurus
Styracosaurus was a herbivore dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, about 77 to 74 million years ago. It had six long horns extending from its neck frill, a smaller horn above each of its eyes and a single horn protruding from its nose, at 60 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide.
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Styrax
Styrax is a genus of about 100 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America.
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Styrene
"C8H8" redirects here. For a compound with an identical formula see cubane.
Styrene, also known as vinyl benzene as well as many other names, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C6H5CH=CH2. Under normal conditions, this aromatic hydrocarbon is an oily liquid.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
[Image:Sub-Saharan-Africa.png|thumb|249px|A polical map showing national divisions in relation to the ecological break]]Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe those country of the African continent that are not considered part of North Africa. In 19th Century Europe and the Western world, the area was sometimes referred to as Black Africa.
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Subalpine
The subalpine biome is a geographic and altitudinal region found below tree-line and above the montane.
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Subalpine Fir
The Subalpine Fir or Rocky Mountain Fir is a western North American fir, native to the mountains of Yukon, British Columbia and western Alberta in Canada; southeastern Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, northeastern Nevada, and the Trinity Alps in northwestern California in the United States.
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Subalpine Larch
Subalpine Larch, or simply Alpine Larch, is a coniferous tree native to northwestern North America. It lives at very high altitudes in the Rocky Mountains of Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, and Alberta. There is a disjunct population in the Cascade Range of Washington.
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Subatomic particle
A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom: it may be elementary particle or composite particle. Particle physics and nuclear physics concern themselves with the study of these particles, their interactions, and QCD matter made up of them which do not aggregate into atoms.
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Subcompact car
A subcompact car is an automobile in a vehicle size class smaller than a compact car but larger than a city car. Such cars usually have four or more seats and in North America, subcompacts are usually considered to be those cars that have a wheelbase of 2.54 metres or less or between 85 ft³ and 99 ft³ of interior volume.
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Subcontinent
A subcontinent is a large part of a continent. There is no agreement on what constitutes a subcontinent. Generally, however, a subcontinent is split from the rest of a continent by something like a mountain range or by tectonic plates. The phrase the Subcontinent, used on its own in English, commonly means the Indian subcontinent i.e.
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Subduction
In geology, a subduction zone is an area on Earth where two plate tectonicss meet and move towards one another, with one sliding underneath the other and moving down into the Earth's mantle, at a speed of several inches per year. Typically, an oceanic plate slides underneath a continental plate, and this often creates a zone with many volcanoes and earthquakes.
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Suberic acid
Suberic acid, also octanedioic acid, is a dicarboxylic acid, with formula C6H12(COOH)2.
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Submachine gun
A submachine gun is a firearm that combines the automatic_firearm of a machine gun with the ammunition of a pistol, and is usually between the two in weight and size. They were first experimented with in the form of a Stock pistol being converted from Semi-automatic to fully-automatic, in the early 1900s.
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Submarine
A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. Submarines, first widely used in World War I, are used by all major navy today, especially the United States Navy, Russian Navy and Royal Navy navies. Civilian submarines and submersibles are used for Marine science and freshwater science and for work at depths too great for human divers.
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Submarine sandwich
A submarine sandwich is any of various sandwiches made on a long roll or baguette , so called because of its shape. The contents typically include meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and various condiments, sauces or dressings.
According to legend, the submarine sandwich was brought to the US by Dominic Conte, an Italian people immigrant who came to New York in the early 1900s.
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Submersed
Submersed is a four-piece alternative metal band from Stephenville, Texas. They are currently signed to Wind-Up Records, and currently are residing in Orlando writing and doing pre-production for their upcoming second major label release.
Members
* Donald Carpenter - Vocals
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Submersible
A submersible is a type of underwater vessel with limited mobility which is typically transported to its area of operation by a surface vessel or large submarine. Apart from size, the technical difference between a 'submersible' and a 'submarine' is that submersibles are not totally autonomous.
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Submit
Submit is an album by the United Kingdom band Pitchshifter, released in 1992. Fitting somewhere between an Extended play and a full-length album, it was the last album to feature Stuart Toolin in the band. The original CD release did not have the two live tracks and Silo was a hidden track.
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Submucosa
In the gastrointestinal tract. The layer of loose connective tissue [comprised of: collagen type I fibers, "reticular" or collagen type III fibers, elastic fibers, and adipose tissue] that supports the mucosa [epithelium, lamina propria, and muscularis mucosae] as well as joins the mucosa to the bulk of underlying smooth muscle.
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Subset
In mathematics, especially in set theory, the terms, subset, superset and proper subset or superset are used to describe the relation, called inclusion, of one set being contained inside another set. Informally, every Element belonging to subset A also belongs to superset B, but there may be elements belonging to B that do not belong to A .
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Subsidence
In geology, engineering, and surveying, subsidence is the motion of a surface as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea-level. The opposite of subsidence is Tectonic_uplift, which results in an increase in elevation. In meteorology, subsidence refers to the downward movement of air.
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Subsistence farming
Subsistence farming is a mode of horticulture in which a plot of land produces only enough food to feed the family working it. Depending on climate, soil conditions, agricultural practices and the crop grown, it generally requires between 1,000 and 40,000 m per person.
Subsistence farming, by definition, produces enough food to sustain the farmers through their normal daily activities, and often enough of a surplus to take to market or store for later.
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Subthalamic nucleus
The subthalamic nucleus is a small lens-shaped Nucleus in the brain where it is a part of the basal ganglia system. As suggested by its name, the subthalamic nucleus is located Anatomical terms of location to the thalamus. It is also dorsal to the substantia nigra and medial to the internal capsule.
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Subtitle
A subtitle can refer to one of two things: an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play or film, in addition to its main title, or textual versions of a film or television program's dialogue that appear onscreen.
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Subtraction
Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is essentially the opposite of addition. Subtraction is denoted by a plus and minus signs in infix notation.
The traditional names for the parts of the formulaare minuend − subtrahend = difference.
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Suburb
Suburbs are inhabited districts located either inside a town or city's outer rim or just outside its city limits , or the outer elements of a conurbation.
The presence of certain elements identifies a suburb as a peripheral populated area with a certain autonomy, where the density of habitation is usually lower than in an inner city area, though state or municipal house building will often cause departures from that organic gradation.
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Subvention
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Subversion
Subversion is an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to svn in reference to the name of its command line interface. Subversion is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for Concurrent Versions System and shares a number of the same key developers.
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Succinic acid
Succinic acid is a dicarboxylic acid with the formula:
At room temperature, pure succinic acid is a solid that forms colorless, odorless Prisms. It has a melting point of 185 C and a boiling point of 235 C. The anion, succinate, is a component of the citric acid cycle and is capable of donating electrons to the electron transfer chain via the following reaction:
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Succubus
n Middle Ages legend, a succubus is a demon which takes the form of a female to seduce men in dreams to have sexual intercourse. They draw energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim. From mythology and fantasy, Lilith and the Lilin , Lilith and Slavic fairies#Rusalka are, in redactive Christian fables , considered succubi.
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Succumbs
Succumbs was R.E.M.'s first commercially-available full-length Film. Released in October 1987 by UNI/A&M, it contains video footage shot by R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe dating back to the mid-1980s, while the band was still recording under the I.R.S. Records label.
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Sucralfate
Sucralfate is an oral gastrointestinal medication primarily indicated for the treatment of active duodenal. It is also used for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease and stress ulcers. Unlike the other classes of medications used for treatment of peptic ulcers, sucralfate is a sucrose sulfate-aluminum complex that binds to the hydrochloric acid in the stomach and acts like an buffering agent with cytoprotectant
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Sucre
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Sucre is the constitutional capital of Bolivia, seat of the Supreme Court , and capital of the Chuquisaca department. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an altitude of 2,800m . Historically the city has also been known as Charcas, La Plata and Chuquisaca, resulting in the nickname of "the City of Four Names" or "la Ciudad de Cuatro Nombres." As most of the colonial buildings in the city center are whitewashed, the city also enjoys the nickname of "the white city" or "la c
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Sucrose
Sucrose is a disaccharide with the molecular formula C12H22O11. Its systematic name is -D-fructofuranosyl a-D-glucopyranoside. It is best known for its role in human nutrition.
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Sudan
Sudan is the largest country by area in Africa, situated in Northern Africa. The capital is Khartoum. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest.
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Suez
Suez is a seaport in Egypt, located on the Gulf of Suez, near the mouth of the Suez Canal. The town was completely destroyed and deserted following the Suez Crisis in 1967. It was rebuilt after the reopening of the Suez Canal in 1975, which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
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SUEZ
SUEZ is a leading France-based multinational corporation, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management. It is the result of a 1997 merger between the Compagnie de Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux, a leading French water company.
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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal , west of the Sinai Peninsula, is a 163-km-long and, at its narrowest point, 300-m-wide ship canal in Egypt between Port Said, Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez, Egypt on the Red Sea.
The canal allows two-way north to south water transport between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa.
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Suffragette
The title of suffragette was given to members of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. The word was originally coined to describe a more radical faction of the suffrage movement in the UK, mainly members of the WSPU , headed by Emmeline Pankhurst. Suffragist is a more general term for members of the movement, whether radical or conservative, male or female.
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Sufism
Sufism or Irfan is a Mysticism tradition of Islam.
Sufism encompasses a diverse range of beliefs and practices. Tariqas may be associated with Shi'a Islam, Sunni Islam, other currents of Islam, or a combination of multiple traditions. Sufi thought emerged from the Middle East in the eighth century, but adherents are now found around the world.
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Sugar
In general use, non-scientists take "sugar" to mean sucrose, also called "table sugar" or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. Humans most commonly use sucrose as their sugar of choice for altering the flavor and properties of beverages and food. Commercially-produced table sugar comes either from sugar cane or from sugar beet.
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Sugar beet
Sugar beet , a member of the Chenopodiaceae subfamily and the Amaranthaceae family, is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar.
The sugar beet is directly related to the beetroot, chard and fodder beet, all descended by cultivation from the sea beet.
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Sugar Bowl
The Allstate Insurance Sugar Bowl is an annual United States of America college football game traditionally played in New Orleans, Louisiana on New Year's Day. The bowl is one of the original members of the Bowl Championship Series and as such is part of the BCS title game rotation which affects the date the game is played.
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Sugar Maple
The Sugar Maple Acer saccharum is a prominent tree in the hardwood forests of eastern North America. It is the largest American maple, reaching heights of 30-37 m tall.
The leaf are deciduous, 8-15 cm long and equally wide with five palmate lobes. The basal lobes are relatively small, while the upper lobes are larger and deeply notched.
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Sugar spoon
A sugar spoon is a piece of cutlery used for serving granulated sugar. This type of spoon resembles a teaspoon except the bowl is deeper and often the shape of a sea shell. Sometimes sugar spoons are called sugar shells. Sterling silver sugar spoons are used with formal silver coffee or tea services.
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Sugarcane
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Sugarcane or Sugar cane is a genus of 6 to 37 species of tall Poaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World. They have stout, jointed fibrous stalks 2 to 6 meters tall and Sap rich in sugar.
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Sui Generis
Sui Generis is one of the more important rock and roll bands in Argentina history, enjoying enormous success and popularity during the first half of the 1970s and a following that has lasted to the present. Although long since disbanded, Sui Generis reunited in 2000 for a concert in Boca Juniors stadium in Buenos Aires.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of willfully ending one's own life. Suicide is sometimes used as a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.
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Suidae
Suidae is the biological family to which pigs and their relatives belong. Up to sixteen species are currently recognised, including the domestic pig Sus scrofa or S. domesticus. They are classified into between four and eight genus. In addition to numerous species of wild pig, the family includes the babirusa Babyrousa babyrussa and the warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus.
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Suillus
The suilloid boletes comprise a family of the sub-order Boletales. They are distinguishable from other boletes, by growth under conifers, slimy caps, partial veil in immature forms and annulus thereafter, glandular dots on the stem, and large pore openings that are often arranged radially.
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Suitcase
The French variation of the word is Portmanteau.
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Sukarno
Sukarno was the first President of Indonesia. He helped the country win its independence from Netherlands and was President from 1945 to 1967, presiding with mixed success over the country's turbulent transition to independence. Sukarno was forced from power by one of his generals, Suharto, who formally became President in March 1967.
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Sukiyaki
Sukiyaki is a Japanese cuisine in the nabemono style. It consists of thinly-sliced beef, tofu, ito konnyaku, negi, Chinese cabbage, and enoki mushrooms among other ingredients. Generally sukiyaki is a dish for the colder days of the year and it is commonly found on the menu of bonenkai, a Japanese year-end party.
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Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda islands of Indonesia.
The first Europeans to visit the island were Portuguese sailors, in 1512. From the Seventeenth Century the island was part of the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia, until Indonesian independence in 1945.
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Sulfacetamide
Sulfacetamide is a sulfonamide antibiotic.
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