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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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hemp, the fibres of Cannabis sativa, originally native to central Asia. Its cultivation, first recorded in China around 2800 bc, had spread to the Mediterranean by early Christian times. Also known as white rope when new, it makes a hard, smooth rope, pale straw in colour, which has a good ability to stretch. In the days of sail it was usually tarred to preserve it against deterioration when it got wet, and was originally used for
hawsers, running
rigging, etc., but has now been replaced by synthetic rope.
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Hemp hoopla: hemp has been used for thousands of years, for everything from clothing to construction.
Magazine article from: What Magazine; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Hemp has been used for thousands of years, for...clothing to construction. For six decades hemp production was illegal in Canada. But today...Canadians are once again growing it legally and hemp shops are cropping up across the country...
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HEMP ITS REPUTATION WENT UP IN SMOKE.(Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 4/9/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...this vision of a future Earth, where salvation lies in lush fields of hemp, like an obsessed pothead's reverie: You arise and shower with hemp-oil soap, dress in a hemp-fiber suit, drive to work on hemp fuel. Newspapers and cement blocks...
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Hemp Food Sales Grow 50 Percent Over Last Year; Canadian Farmers Triple Hemp Acreage to 24,000 in 2005, Says Vote Hemp
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 11/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...consumer and manufacturing components made from hemp seed, oil and fiber meet in San Francisco November...are experiencing strong growth in sales. The hemp retail sales figures to be presented at the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) annual meeting...
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Hemp Oil Shows Huge Gains In Food and Personal Care.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter; 3/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...small and developing market, demand for hemp oil in North America has been steadily...higher prices are, so far, preventing hemp oil from entering the industrial oil mainstream. "Demand for hemp oil nowadays is very strong, and most...
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Hemp: the new, old fiber makes a comeback for clothes, fabrics and home furnishings.
Magazine article from: Natural Life; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hemp fiber is a very old fiber that is making...construction materials, auto parts and paper. Hemp seed, an oilseed, likewise has many...cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food. Hemp is among the oldest industries on the...
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Hemp.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 7/1/2000; 700+ words
; Can you smoke your (hemp) T-shirt? Hemp is a distant cousin of the cannabis plant. But you can't smoke your T-shirt because hemp and marijuana or dope are biochemically different. The chemical...
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Hemp Food Markets Continue Growth in United States
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 9/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Tom Murphy for The Hemp Industries Association, +1-207- 542...thehia.org, or Adam Eidinger for Vote Hemp, +1-202-744- 2671, adam@votehemp.com Canadian Hemp Acreage Declines in 2007 as Expected OCCIDENTAL...
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hemp does a body good
Magazine article from: Better Nutrition; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...NUTRITION AND HEALTH When most people think of hemp, they associate it with Woodstock or a...movie. But what you may not know is that hemp food products are full of ingredients that...Enforcement Admin istration finally cleared hemp seeds for use in food production. However...
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Hemp is high fashion.(products made from hemp)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 1/20/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...music still sounds about the same. No, this hemp is different. It's called industrial hemp, and though it looks a lot like its leafy cousin...sweet, short ear or animal feed--so too does hemp, which grows with various amounts of THC (delta...
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Hemp shaking its shady image
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 11/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...exterior of long-haul buses. The Canadian hemp industry is booming as farmers, food processors...for the annual convention of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance on Friday. "It's the...director. "We're now making things like hemp burgers, hemp bars and hemp waffles...
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Industrial Hemp
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Industrial Hemp Background Hemp is a distinct variety of the plant species Cannabis sativa L. that...assortment of building materials. Due to the similar leaf shape, hemp is frequently confused with marijuana, another cannabis plant. The...
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Hemp
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Hemp Hemp, or Cannabis sativa , is a tall, annual plant that thrives in temperate...Asia, and is one of the oldest cultivated plants. The word “ hemp ” is derived from the old English word “ henep...
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hemp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hemp common name for a tall annual herb ( Cannabis...cultivation for the bast fiber (also called hemp) and for the drugs it yields. Known and...also the source of marijuana and hashish . Hemp seed is used as bird food, and the oil from...
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Manila hemp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Manila hemp the most important of the cordage fibers. It is obtained chiefly from the Manila hemp plant ( Musa textilis ) of the family Musaceae...aacute; is in no way related to the true hemp; it is of the same genus as the common banana...
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sisal hemp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sisal hemp [from Sisal, former chief port of Yucatan...fiber obtained from the leaves of the sisal hemp plant, an extensively cultivated tropical...Liliaceae). It is considered second to Manila hemp in strength and value and is used chiefly...
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