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When you turn 18, you officially become an adult as you have attained the legal age and are eligible for jury duty.Turning 18 is a big milestone in a person’s life. We enter adulthood and the gates to exciting opportunities and adventures are opened wide.Being 18 means that a person is officially an adult. Many 18-year-olds look forward to the exhilarating sense of freedom that their 18th birthday brings.This is the time when most students graduate from high school....

Call her grandmother, nana, grandma, or any other grandma names; she will always love us no matter what.A grandmother does her best to make us feel better. So, why not bestow her with a few grandma nicknames to make her feel special once in a while?Grandmother names that are unique, sweet, and cute will surely put a smile across her face. Our grandparent wants to feel close to the family as much as possible and calling her cute names like Mimi, Yia Yia, Tutu, or even a southern style of ‘Gigi’ as a nickname for grandma indeed makes a grandmother feel the most loved member of the family....

Eggplant is a member of the Solanaceae family and nightshade plant family.It is considered a crucial part of the group of important crops by the researchers because of its anthocyanin antioxidant and nutritional compounds, which are quite evident from its purple color. Most people are of the opinion that eggplant (brinjal) is a vegetable, but technically, it is a fruit.Eggplant has very small seeds and in large numbers. These seeds grow from the edible part of the flower of the Solanum melongen plant....

Have you heard of the old app, Vine?If yes, then you are in for a treat as we take you down memory lane, revisiting the best and funniest quotes from the history of Vine. From the iconic ‘Staaaahp! I coulda dropped mah croissant!’ to the ever funny ‘Love ya chicken strips, you are the best strips ever!’, we simply can’t get enough of these Vine quotes.Vines are purely for entertainment and aimed to make everyone on the internet smile or laugh....

‘Empire Records’, produced in 1995, is a great and interesting teen drama that was backed by a strong cast performance and an amazing soundtrack.The story is about a group of misfits who work at a small, independent record shop to help their manager collect money to buy the enterprise. However, they discover true kinship while also trying to fight off a corporate giant.‘Empire Records’ presented great and brilliant acting by the cast Anthony LaPaglia as Joe Reaves, Rory Cochrane as Lucas Joe, Ethan Randall as Mark, Johnny Whitworth as A....

Lelouch vi Britannia, who is also called Lelouch Lamperouge, is the title character in the series.Lamperouge is a determined guy who gets what he wants, no matter what. Lelouch’s character is recognized as one of Japan’s popular anime characters of the time.He is Britannia’s former prince, who is given the power of the ‘Geass’ by a witch known as C.C. Using the Geass and his intellect, Lelouch, through his alter ego Zero, went on to lead the resistance movement known as ‘The Black Knights’ for evil to destroy and save the Holy Britannian Empire in the end....

Victor Hugo is one of the most loved French romantic writers, known to express beautiful sentiments in words.Readers love him for his contributions in poems and plays, but his novels are masterpieces. The ‘Notre-Dame De Paris’ (1831; ‘The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame’) and ‘Les Misérables’ (1862) are both gems in literature history.Hugo was born in 1802 and had a literary career of almost 60 years where he wrote about love, God, faith, religion, and life....

Captain Raymond Jacob Holt is one of the main characters of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’.“I have zero interest in food. If it were feasible, my diet would consist entirely of flavorless beige smoothies containing all the nutrients required by the human animal,” this quote from Captain Holt aptly prepares the viewers for what lies ahead in the series. If there’s something that viewers of B99 know for sure about Captain Holt, is that he prefers plain and simple pleasures in life and that he’s gay....

Atlanta is the capital city of the U.S. state of Georgia and is known to be the most populous city of Georgia.Being the 38th most populous city in the United States, Atlanta serves as the economic and cultural center of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The city was first founded as a terminus for a major state-sponsored railroad, however, the city soon grew tenfold in just a few years.Before it was named Atlanta, the city was known by four different names - Terminus, Thrasherville, Marthasville, and Atlantica-Pacifica....

‘Newsies’ is Walt Disney Picture’s musical comedy-drama film from the year 1992.The film was directed by Kenny Ortega. It starred now-famous faces like Christian Bale, Ann Margret, Bill Pullman, David Moscow, Michael Lerner, and many more.Newsie is a word that means a person who sells or delivers news-papers. The Disney ‘Newsies’ movie focuses on a group of 14 such newsies from New York City, Manhattan. While working for the New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the newsboys go on a strike due to a hike in prices....

‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ created some of the most notable trends in fashion and jewelry.Tiffany’s was a known brand of jewelry then too, but ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ gave it the cult status, that it enjoys to date. It is based on a novella by Truman Capote by the same name.‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ is a light-hearted romantic comedy based on a small-town girl who runs away to New York in search of a better life....

Chlamydomonas is a genus of unicellular green algae.It is home to approximately 325 species, all of which are unicellular flagellates. They are found in a variety of environments, including stagnant water, fresh water, moist soil, the sea, and even snow as ‘snow algae.‘Genus Chlamydomonas is a model organism for molecular biology research, including research of chloroplast dynamics and flagellar motility, as well as genetics and biogenesis. One of Chlamydomonas’ numerous unique characteristics is the presence of ion channels (channelrhodopsins) that are directly triggered by light....

Here are some of the best philosophical quotes by famous people from ancient times.Lots of great sayings about wisdom have been passed onto generations since ancient times. Some of them are as memorable as they can get.The word ‘philosophy’ comes from two Greek words, ‘Philos’ meaning ’love of wisdom’ and ‘Sophos’ meaning ‘wisdom’. Philosophy is defined as a way of thinking about things like the universe, the world, and society. Asking basic questions about human nature and the ideas of finding connections between human thought and the way the universe works....

Born in Austria, Ferdinand Porsche was an automotive engineer and the founder of Porsche AG.He is very well known for creating Lohner-Porsche, which is the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, Auto Union, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, the perfect racing car, and several other significant developments in Porsche automobiles. Ferdinand Porsche also designed trucks and tractors for agricultural and military purposes.His highly developed racing cars have become an integral part of automotive history....

Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Jewish-Dutch philosopher.He developed a novel way to think about the relationship between God, nature, and ethics. He also suggested that they are all interconnected in a single animating force.Spinoza is thought to be one the most important Dutch philosopher to have lived. He grew up in Amsterdam in a Sephardic Jewish family. He is most popularly know for ‘Ethics’, his work in which he discusses how humans find happiness only through a rational understanding of this system and their place within it....

Before you buy any faucet parts, you need to consider multiple factors like the handle clearance, metal washer requirements, price of fixtures, water flowing speed, installation-related costs, and the cost to replace the valve.Kitchen faucet parts like head, valves, metal washers, nuts, and bolts are extremely important in the plumbing world. The assembly of the kitchen faucet parts will vary slightly if you require both hot and cold water.A faucet is nothing but the tap fitted in the washrooms or kitchens or anywhere for water....

Birds are vertebrates that belong to the Animalia kingdom and the Chordata phylum.Birds can be carnivores, herbivores, or even omnivores. A carnivorous bird is often referred to as a raptor or bird of prey.Birds use their legs and feathers for locomotion. They have claws and talons on their feet, which are used for catching and holding their prey, or any other food item. They are tools that help keep predators at bay....

The sweet potato is a dicotyledonous plant in the Convolvulaceae family, which includes bindweed and morning glory.Its thick, sweet-tasting, tuberous bulbs have been used as a vegetable crop. Young leaves and petals are occasionally consumed as salads.Both the sweet potato and the ordinary potato are members of the Solanales order. Although deeper sweet potatoes are sometimes marketed as yams in some parts of North America, the species is not related to actual yams....

All of us have watched cartoons as students in high school, where the main character would jump in a pond of water in the middle of the desert, only to realize that it was a pile of sand.This is what a desert mirage is; they are events of an illusion of water or water bodies in places with very high temperatures. A desert mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon caused by refraction....

We will look at several species of spiders like the black widow, jumping spider, the lynx spider, orb spider, house spider, and more.Spiders are arachnids, but not all arachnid are spiders. All spiders have eight legs and eight eyes.Webs are the main way by which spiders catch their meals. They spin their own web to trap flying creepy crawlies, insects, and anything else that gets trapped in them that they can eat....