In addition to water that irrigated the crops, water supply was raised from the Nile and its waterways by means of the shaduf, a levering device with a long pole, until after the pharaonic period when the Persian Wheel or saqia arrived, typically turned by a pair of oxen.
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Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
Pascua Yaqui tribal leaders started work on a water pipeline that will irrigate ballfields and save drinking water for homes.
With its high content of natural electrolytes, coconut water has become popular as a low-sugar rehydrating alternative to sports drinks such as PepsiCo’s Gatorade.
Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler remembered Hinch’s texts — and those from other players who began responding — as a helpful step in flushing all that had gone wrong over several weeks.
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Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Small things, like individual eyelashes or grains of sand, often get flushed out on their own through a combination of tearing up and blinking, per Mount Sinai.
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