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100 grams of boiled locusts can provide 26.3 grams of protein and the species is listed in Japan's standard food composition table.

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The 1915 locust plague stripped areas of Palestine of almost all its vegetation and caused huge increases in the price of food.

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The daguerreotype is one of the earliest photographic processes and was invented by Louis Daguerre. His patent was acquired by the French government and a life-long pension granted in exchange for the free use of the process world-wide. One week before, Daguerre registered his patent in Fox Talbot's native Britain, restricting the taking of daguerreotypes to a select few. It was the only country where such a patent was enforced.

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Print from the earliest known surviving photographic negative made by William Henry Fox Talbot. He spent considerable amounts of his own money in developing his process.

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The Coney Island fire of 1911 is reputedly referred to as 'Topsy's revenge'.

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Coney Island's Topsy the elephant is electrocuted in front of 1500 people by Thomas Edison. His aim was to demonstrate the dangers of Tesla's AC current and promote instead his own DC system. These demonstrations led in turn to the invention of the electric chair.

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Nikola Tesla's laboratory in Colorado Springs. Without him we would not have the AC power system used today.

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The same view 13 years later.

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Dubai.

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