http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Orchidaceae are well known for the many structural variations in their flowers. Some orchids have single flowers but most have a racemose inflorescence, sometimes with a large number of flowers. The flowering stem can be basal, that is produced from th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523863_13.html 27th April 2008 Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum-based diesel fuel consisting of short chain alkyl (methyl or ethyl) esters, typically made by transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats, which can be used (alone, or blended with conventional petrodiesel) in ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523862_13.html 27th April 2008 Specially bred rats have been kept as pets at least since the late 19th century. Rats are sociable, intelligent animals and can be trained to use a litter box, come when called, and perform a variety of tricks. Pet rats are typically of variants of the sp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523859_54.html 27th April 2008 Frozen or Freeze-Dried, comes in the form of raw or cooked (not processed). The idea is to skip the processing stage traditional dry/wet dog food goes through. This causes less destruction of the nutritional integrity. To compensate for the short shelf li... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523828_54.html 27th April 2008 Wines may be classified by their primary impression on the drinker's palate. They are made up of chemical compounds which are similar or identical to those in fruits, vegetables, and spices. The sweetness of wine is determined by the amount of residual su... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523826_13.html 27th April 2008 Organic food proponents express concern over the potential negative effects of various chemical cultivation methods and genetic modification techniques used in modern conventional agriculture. The effect of pesticide residues from crop spraying, the prese... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523823_13.html 27th April 2008 Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from plants for the purpose of affecting a person's mood or health. Essential oils differ in chemical com... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523819_17.html 27th April 2008 At common law, an estate consisted of the tangible assets of real and personal property which belong to a natural person. More recently, the concept of an estate has been expanded to encompass any thing of value to which the deceased person was or might h... http://www.articlealley.com/article_522001_13.html 25th April 2008 Speed reading is a collection of reading methods which attempt to increase rates of reading without greatly reducing comprehension or retention. Such methods include using various psychological techniques such as chunking and eliminating subvocalization. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_521997_13.html 25th April 2008 SAT consists of three major sections: Mathematics, Critical Reading, and Writing. Each section receives a score on the scale of 200–800. All scores are multiples of 10. Total scores are calculated by adding up scores of the three sections. Each major se... http://www.articlealley.com/article_521995_22.html 25th April 2008 What is a vampire? An undead being that lives off of the blood of the living? Perhaps, it depends on how you look at them. Two authors Isabella Medici and Anne Rice seem to have different views. Anne Rice introduced the world to her vampires in the ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_521993_22.html 25th April 2008 Chess originated in India, where its early form in the 6th century was chaturanga, which translates as "four divisions of the military" – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, represented respectively by pawn, knight, bishop, and rook. In Persia a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517296_32.html 15th April 2008 Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517295_13.html 15th April 2008 Vaudeville was a genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Developing from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and lite... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517294_13.html 15th April 2008 Absinthe is a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%-75% ABV), anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, also called “wormwood.” Absinthe is typically of a natural green color but is also pr... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517293_13.html 15th April 2008 iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and launched on October 23, 2001. As of 2008, the current product line-up includes the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touchscreen iPod touch, the video-capable iPod nano and... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517278_45.html 15th April 2008 The water-fueled car purports to create or extract energy from water itself, which would be the basis of a perpectual motion machine. Water-fuelled cars have been mentioned in history books, newspaper and popular science magazines, and urban legends since... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517276_45.html 15th April 2008 An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE), is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body (autoscopy). About one in ten peop... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517275_13.html 15th April 2008 First a list of haunted places: Artist House - Florida The Old Jail-Florida Baldpate Inn - Colorado Bell Witch Cave - Tennessee Castillo de san Marcos-Florida Buxton Inn - Ohio Chingle Hall - England Dudleytown - Connecticut Old Spanish Ho... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517274_13.html 15th April 2008 A pamphlet printed in London in 1698 by Mr. Ricard Chamberlain provides an account of a poltergeist-type haunting that had occurred some years before. Two copies of the pamphlet exist in the British Museum called: "Lithobolia, or stone throwing Devil. Bei... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517266_13.html 15th April 2008 Several medieval scholars were credited as magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d'Aurillac and Albertus Magnus: both men were active in scientific research of their day as well as in ecclesiastical matters, which was enough to attach to them a nim... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517264_13.html 15th April 2008 Voodoo is a religious tradition originating in West Africa, which became prominent in the New World due to the importation of African slaves. West African Vodun is the original form of the religion; Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo are its descendants i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517260_13.html 15th April 2008 Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, including Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517259_13.html 15th April 2008 Tokyo has numerous outlying islands, which extend as far as 1850 km from central Tokyo. Because of the islands' distance from the administrative headquarters of the metropolitan government in Shinjuku, local offices administer them. The Izu Islands are... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517258_29.html 15th April 2008 On April 9th, The Wall Street Journal reported that a strong possible merger could happen, but not with Microsoft, instead with Time Warner's AOL. Time Warner would hold 20% of the new company, whenwhile there is talk of a Microsoft-News Corp deal the wou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517250_81.html 15th April 2008 Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart, and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers. Dogpile is a registered trademark ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517247_81.html 15th April 2008 In 2005, Google entered into partnerships with other companies and government agencies to improve production and services. Google announced a partnership with NASA Ames Research Center to build up 1,000,000 square feet of offices and work on research proj... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517244_81.html 15th April 2008 Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517241_81.html 14th April 2008 Three Way Linking: Three way linking is a special type of reciprocal linking. The attempt of this link building method is to create more "natural" links in the eyes of search engines. The value of links by three-way linking can then be better than normal... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517240_81.html 14th April 2008 Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, and causes restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old. This set of signs distinguishes autism from milder autism spectrum dis... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517202_40.html 14th April 2008 Childhood obesity is a medical condition that affects children. It is characterized by a weight well above the mean for their height and age and a body mass index well above the norm. Childhood obesity is considered by many to be an "epidemic" in Western ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516929_40.html 13th April 2008 Psychic Card The Magic Effect: 12 cards are placed on the bar (using any red and black cards from the deck). You tell someone to secretly pick any BLACK card. After telling them to make several secret random moves, you are able to tell them ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516924_40.html 13th April 2008 Stock traders/investors usually need a stock broker such as a bank or a brokerage firm to access the stock market. Since the advent of Internet banking, an Internet connection is commonly used to manage positions. Using the Internet, specialized software,... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516502_63.html 13th April 2008 Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida and the county seat of Duval County. In 1968, Jacksonville replaced Oklahoma City as the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States; this resulted from the consolidation of the city a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516499_29.html 13th April 2008 High challenge-to-compression ratio are the crunch with feet anchored, crunch with feet free, bicycle crunch, and hanging straight leg raise. There are exercises which are not recommended. These are Low challenge-to-compression ratio and include the sup... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516491_23.html 13th April 2008 Chibi or super deformed characters feature a non-proportionally small body compared to the head. Sometimes specific body parts, like legs, are shortened or elongated for added emphasis. Mostly chibi are two to four heads tall. Some anime works like Crayo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516427_27.html 13th April 2008 One of the best-known gold rushes was that of the Klondike in 1897–99; the main goldfield was along the south flank of the Klondike River near its confluence with the Yukon River near what was to become Dawson City in Canada's Yukon Territory but it als... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516424_29.html 13th April 2008 One of the earliest known records of taking pleasure in travel, of travelling for the sake of travel and writing about it, is Petrarch's (1304–1374) ascent of Mount Ventoux in 1336. He states that he went to the mountaintop for the pleasure of seeing th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516420_50.html 13th April 2008 The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of scripts: Chinese characters called kanji, and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet, romaji, is also often use... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516416_50.html 13th April 2008 Bonaventure Cemetery, in Savannah, Georgia, is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne, whose daughter Mary married Josias Tatnall, Sr. The wife of Tatnall's son, Harriet Fenwick Tattnall, was buried on the plantation in 1802... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516413_29.html 13th April 2008 The layout of the resort placed the Magic Kingdom more than a mile away from its parking lot, on the opposite side of the man-made Seven Seas Lagoon. Upon arriving at the park, guests are taken by the parking lot trams to the Transportation and Ticket Cen... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516411_29.html 13th April 2008 Victorian had an evening style as well. Perhaps the easiest way to picture a formal Victorian wedding is to imagine the excesses of the upper-class ballrooms on the Titanic. Think of crystals and fringe dripping from every possible source, from chandelie... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516391_41.html 13th April 2008 Dachshunds come in two sizes recognized by most kennel clubs in English speaking countries and all of them in North America, the standard and the miniature.[1] However, many non-English speaking countries recognize a third size which is smaller than the m... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516361_54.html 13th April 2008 New Zealand is a beautiful country, where the New Zealanders are referred to as Kiwis and the kiwi is the kiwifruit. Unlike Austrailia, which has too many poisionous creatures to count, New Zealand has relatively few harmful insects and animals. The sce... http://www.articlealley.com/article_516355_29.html 13th April 2008 The Geisha is often misunderstood in the United States. Unlike some may believe she is not a prostitute, but rather, a female entertainer that performs classical music and dance. Visiting a Geisha house in Tokyo can be quite a memorable experience. M... http://www.articlealley.com/article_515681_29.html 11th April 2008 Pain in the abdomen can come from conditions affecting a variety of organs. The abdomen is an anatomical area that is bounded by the lower margin of the ribs above, the pelvic bone (pubic ramus) below, and the flanks on each side. Although abdominal pain ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_515675_23.html 11th April 2008 There is so much to see and do in Las Vegas, especially when it comes to picking a hotel/restaurant/casino. It can be overwhelming. Las Vegas is full of fun and adventures and each hotel has a different theme. The Venetian plays on the theme of Venic... http://www.articlealley.com/article_515657_29.html 11th April 2008 The Dia de los Muertos or "Day of the Dead", which occures the first and second days of November is not as morbid as many people would think. It is not a celebration of death itself, but rather a celebration to loved ones which have passed away. A holid... http://www.articlealley.com/article_515621_29.html 11th April 2008 Sushi might conjure up images of raw fish, but not all sushi contains raw fish. The word sushi refers to "vinegared rice." Some varieties, such as the California Roll, contain only vegetables. Others do contain fish, but the fish has been smoked or coo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_515611_26.html 11th April 2008 Staying in St. Augustine can be a lot of fun. It's not only the oldest US city, but the most haunted as well. But all that history can come at a price, especially if you want to stay in the heart of downtown St. Augustine. If you would like to save mon... http://www.articlealley.com/article_514790_29.html 10th April 2008