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Blue Blues and purples were known as vat dyes. Indigo and woad, a European flowering herb of the mustard family, were used to make blue dyes. These plants required lengthy immersion in an alkaline solution of ash, lime, or most commonly, urine, which turned them into a water-soluble salt. The fabric was then left to air-dry; oxidation made the blue color fast. Purple At the other end of the financial (if not color) spectrum was the Tyrian, or royal, purple derived from the mucous gland of the murex, a mollusk....

Signs of swine flu in pigs can include sudden onset of fever, depression, coughing (barking), discharge from the nose or eyes, sneezing, breathing difficulties, eye redness or inflammation, and going off feed. H1N1 and H3N2 swine flu viruses are endemic among pig populations in the United States and something that the industry deals with routinely. Outbreaks among pigs normally occur in colder weather months (late fall and winter) and sometimes with the introduction of new pigs into susceptible herds....

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Size: About one-half the size of Earth in diameterSurface: Canyons, dunes, volcanoes, and polar caps of water ice and carbon dioxide iceDiameter: 4,194 miles (6,794 km)Atmosphere: carbon dioxide (95%) Temperature: as low as –305°F (–187°C)Rotation of its axis: 24 Earth hours, 37 minutes, 23 seconds Rotation around the Sun: 687 Earth daysYour weight: If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.Distance from Earth: 35 million miles (56 million km) at the closest point in its orbitMean Distance from Sun:141....