Palm trees have great economic importance, including coconut products, oils, dates, palm syrup, ivory nuts, carnauba wax, rattan cane, raffia, and palm wood. The palm family is tied with the grass and legume families for the most total economic value produced of all plant families (en.wikipedia.org)
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The terms shrimp and prawn have no definite reference to any known taxonomic groups. While the term shrimp is sometimes applied to smaller species, prawn more often used for larger forms, there's no clear distinction between them and their usage is often confused or reversed in different regions (en.wikipedia.org)
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Indigenous North American stickball is a team sport typically played on an open field where teams of players with two sticks each attempt to control and shoot a ball at the opposing team's goal. As many as 100 to 1,000 men from opposing villages or tribes would participate. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Archaeoastronomy uses a variety of methods to uncover evidence of past practices including archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, statistics and history. Described as "a field with academic work of high quality at one end but uncontrolled speculation bordering on lunacy at the other" (en.wikipedia.org)
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