Cowhorn Hot Pepper is an open-pollinated pepper variety with medium, but not overwhelming heat. It has a Scoville heat rating of 2,500 to 5,000 which makes it a perfect pepper to add a slight bit of heat to your favorite dish. They get their name because the fruits are elongated…
Cooked bones can splinter and cause severe internal damage to dogs. Rib bones from table scraps are absolutely off-limits, along with any other cooked bones. Raw bones pose potential risks, and should only be consumed under careful observation. Dogs may enjoy chewing on, and even consuming, rib bones from pork…
Are All Cows Female? Technically speaking, all cows are female. Though colloquially “cow” is used to describe any domesticated bovine, it technically only refers to female bovine that has reproduced. All cows are females, so if you are eating a cow, it must be a female. A certain proportion of…
Contrary to the name, Cookie Crisp does not actually contain mini chocolate chip cookies. It does however, have many of the same ingredients that go into a cookie. On the ingredient list, you’ll find corn flour, corn meal, canola oil, brown sugar syrup, cocoa processed with alkali, and baking soda.…
Cockroaches feed on dead animals, but they also eat plants, paper, and other material. Sea creatures such as crabs and lobsters will eat carrion and most anything else they find. Eels eat dead fish. In addition to hunting, great white sharks feast on dead whales, fish, and pinnipeds such as…
As the federal capital, the District of Columbia is a special federal district, not a state, and therefore does not have voting representation in Congress. The Constitution grants Congress exclusive jurisdiction over the District in “all cases whatsoever”. In the House of Representatives, the District is represented by a delegate,…
It could be a Trojan or other serious case of malware — or just spyware and adware. Either way, you don’t want that garbage on your system. Never agree to download this junk — better yet, if you see a message like this one, leave the website. They may masquerade…
A caesura is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. It usually comes in the form of punctuation, and the most common ones are full stops and commas. It may be expressed by a comma (, ), a tick ( ✓ ), or two lines, either slashed…
On Tuesday, May 11, at its Regular Meeting, the School Board of the City of Manassas approved staff’s recommendation to return to five (5) days a week in-person instruction for the 2021-2022 school year. Families who do not want to send their child to the school building will have the…
Protostomes versus Deuterostomes. The majority of coelomate invertebrates develop as protostomes (“first mouth”) in which the oral end of the animal develops from the first developmental opening, the blastopore. Protostomes such as annelids, mollusks, and arthropods are coelomates. Deuterostomes such as Chordata, Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Ectoprocta, and Phoronida are coelomates. Acoelomates,…