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  Cigar
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of tobacco leaves that have already been dried and fermented, which is lit for the purpose of inhaling (or merely drawing into the mouth rather than into the lungs) its smoke (see tobacco smoking).
Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in such nations as Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, and the United States of America.
The cigar was smoked throughout the islands of the Caribbean Sea and in Mesoamerica for centuries before the Europeans discovered the Americas in the late 15th century.
www.askfactmaster.com /Cigar   (1754 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Cigar Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried, then fermented tobacco leaves which is lit for the purpose of inhaling its smoke.
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried, then fermented tobacco leaves which is lit for the purpose of inhaling (or merely drawing into the mouth rather than into the lungs) its smoke (see tobacco smoking).
Chopped up tobacco leaves are used for the filling of a low-grade cigar, and long leaves or even a type of "paper" made from tobacco pulp is used for the wrapper which binds the cigar together.
www.ipedia.com /cigar.html   (1363 words)

  
 Cigar (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Corona cigar A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of tobacco leaves that have already been dried and fermented, which is lit for the purpose of inhaling (or merely drawing into the mouth rather than into the lungs) its smoke (see tobacco smoking).
Cigars in culture, from a Cigar box label at the [[Lightner Museum.]] Cigars are presented as an accessory to indicate the rich man's stereotype.
Cigar bars were where retrograde political opinions could be expressed and put on trial, as it were in hopes of a return to the 19th century, with the Cigar smoker invited not to join the proletariat but instead the plutocracy.
cigar.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (2557 words)

  
 Sitemap - | Give UP & Quit Smoking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cigar brands - In those cases where two or more brands from different countries bear the same name, the one mentioned is the original one (e.g., Montecristo is listed under Cuba, although there exists a Dominican and a Mexican brand with the same name).
Cigars - A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of tobacco leaves that have already been dried and fermented, which is lit for the purpose of inhaling (or merely drawing into the mouth rather than into the lungs) its smoke (see tobacco smoking).
Cigars of the pharaoh - Cigars of the Pharaoh (originally Les Cigares du Pharaon) is a one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.
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 Early Cigar History | From The Cigar Savvy Directory
From the mid 1700's onwards, cigars were all the rage with Spain and Portugal, and when European countries rallied to fight off Napolean during the Peninsular War (1806-1812), soldiers from England, France and Germany quickly adopted the practice of smoking cigars from the Spanish.
Cigars remained the vehicle of choice for tobacco until the industrial revolution innovated cigarette-making machines and allowed cigarettes to be sold at rock bottom prices.
Arguably, Cuba is the birthplace of the cigar.
www.whatsknottolove.com /cigarsavvy/subcat.php/3   (1615 words)

  
 Alibris: Cigars
Cigar terms are covered, and readers will learn how to clip, light, and smoke their favorite stogies.
Each cigar is rated on a 100-point scale and listed along with its price, country of origin, type of tobacco, and description of strength and flavor.
The top-selling cigar reference has been newly revised to include updated entries for all 70 cigars listed, with an additional 20 brand profiles.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Cigars   (1116 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cigars of the Pharoah (The Adventures of Tintin): Books: Herge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Herge wrote Cigars in 1932 then revised it in 1955, which is why the art has the more polished look of later stories as well as the anachronistic glimpse of a copy of Destination: Moon.
A wonderfully memorable scene in Cigars of the Pharaoh is that in which Tintin learns to converse with elephants.
Cigars of the Pharaoh is an early volume in a series of graphic novel adventures starring the fictional international reporter Tintin, a young man who ends up solving mysteries rather than reporting news.
www.amazon.com /Cigars-Pharoah-Adventures-Tintin-Herge/dp/0316358363   (1963 words)

  
 Cigar (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
During the mid to late 1990's in America, numerous cultural phenomena caused the popularity of cigar smoking to skyrocket.
Today, cigar prices have descended to reasonable levels, and supply of the best brands is abundant for those who continue to enjoy cigar smoking – even in the face of public scrutiny and disapproval.
Cigars are often smoked to celebrate good fortune, especially things like the conception of a child.
cigar.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (1996 words)

  
 cigars - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 6 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word cigars:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "cigars" is defined.
Phrases that include cigars: cigars of the pharaoh, havana cigars, list of fictional cigars, little cigars, little cigars mob, more...
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 I am Jack's Brain driven by good food, travel, and cigars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cigars such as Camacho Diploma and Opus X are very full flavored and have very thick wrapper leaves.
However, if you were to take a cigar with shade grown tobacco from the volado or seco primings and keep them at lower RH levels, you may find that the combustion will be very high resulting in a cigar that could burn too fast or become hot as you smoke it.
I think their answer helps explain why some cigars are better at different relative humidities, but I don't think it accounts for all the things that affect the optimal humidity.
iamjacksbrain.com   (17679 words)

  
 Lawyer Fiction
The fiction often amounted to 250 stories and 20 to 25 serials in a single year.
Train used the anecdote, and Ephraim Tutt became a fictional tribune for the poor, the weak and the outcast.
Rather, there was a dialectical relationship between the fictional lawyer images and stories on the one hand and American attitudes and values on the other.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/papke.htm   (4999 words)

  
 Cigars .com - Cigars, Humidors, Cuban Cigars, Cigar Books, Cigar News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.
Even fictional detectives are being forced to change their ways in the new healthy Scotland.
"It goes against one of the signs of civilisation, which is enjoying a brandy and cigar after a meal," he said.
www.cigars.com /article.php?sid=294   (614 words)

  
 different strings
The list is apparently "held" (though not "managed") by the Transportation Security Adminostration, and many agencies, including the FBI, CIA and NSA are able to add names to it as they see fit -- though none of them have been particularly willing to acknowledge if they have.
Five months ago, a group of anti-war protesters from Wisconsin were delayed because the name of one member of the group was either on the list or resembled a name on the list.
Do it out in such a way that if someone is on a list they can find out why and how; give them the ability to challenge their inclusion; and establish some guidelines as to what qualifies someone to be considered a potential terrorist or criminal.
blogs.salon.com /0001542/categories/politicalStrings   (3644 words)

  
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Characteristic of these mysteries is a detective who solely through the use of logic and reason, and his superior intelligence, intuition, or imagination can and does solve a given crime before the police or indeed the reader himself can hope to solve it.
List his characteristics just as you did yesterday and finish up with a paragraph describing him mentally and physically.
This is not a complete list of favorites, but the list is intended to offer other mysteries suitable for use in this course.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/1/80.01.09.x.html   (5643 words)

  
 HUMANITIES MIDDLE SCHOOL LITERATURE LIST DATABASE
This is a fictionalized account of how Pierce Butler hosted the largest auction of enslaved people in American history, which came to be known as "the weeping time." Told from several characters' perspectives, it helps to dispel some of the misconceptions readers might have about enslavement and freedom.
Akin to this area's story of Mary Jemison, Keehn's novel relates another fictionalized true story of a young woman captured by Indians in Pennsylvania, whose father and brother are killed while her mother is away at town.
From 1755-1762, Regina struggled to keep her identity alive by remembering the language, stories and hymns of her home, an identity that faded as she was assimilated into the lifestyle of the tribe of which she was a member and with which she forged a new identity.
www.greece.k12.ny.us /ath/library/mssbrc/title.asp   (6836 words)

  
 List of fictional brands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The fictional may be designed to imitate a real brand satirize a real corporate brand or itself from real corporate brands.
However practice is so widespread in the entertainment industry that it gives authors another reason avoid the use of real brands: any reference would be suspected by the public being paid advertising and could diminish the or intellectual merit of the work.
Yet another reason to use a fictional is that sometimes a product is itself major "character" in the plot and using real brand would limit creativity as the would be constrained by the actual attributes that brand.
www.freeglossary.com /Red_Apple_Cigarettes   (1786 words)

  
 What's that, no unicorn? - errors on federal list of endangered species Insight on the News - Find Articles
If nothing else, the list indicates that Charles Dickens is alive and well and now specializes in taxonomy.
The NWI says the costs of maintaining fictional or plentiful species on Interior's list range from thousands of dollars in some cases to millions in others.
Castro favored the top-of-the-line Cohibas until he quit smoking a few years ago -- for health reasons, he says, and not because the CIA was plotting to plant an explosive stogie on him.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n10_v13/ai_19201683   (852 words)

  
 Humor List Digest Thu Dec 19 03:00:57 EST 1996
DNRC Enemies List ------------------- Recently, Martha Stewart was put on the DNRC Enemies "Watch List" until she provided us with a festive way to dispose of little Poppin' Fresh, who, as you know, is a mortal enemy of the DNRC.
There were too many creative suggestions to list, involving everything from cordless screwdrivers to catnip, but none of them struck me as particularly festive.
The fictional spreadsheet showed he averaged 35.6 hours a week (although he's required to work 40).
www.scumpa.com /pipermail/humor/1996-December/001125.html   (14481 words)

  
 List of fictional United States Presidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the office of President of the United States is somewhat hallowed, fiction writers often choose to 'invent' a president in their stories to prevent a real one from being possibly insulted, to avoid having their stories become 'outdated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.
Was Vice President under Jack Ryan (fictional character), and became the first fl President when Jack resigned solely for the purpose of allowing him to be the first fl President.
Although he appears in the novel, he is not technically a character, as he is a fictional character in a science fiction novel penned by a Harvard professor named Leary.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_U.S._Presidents   (9014 words)

  
 Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He is a bookdoctor in fiction and a senior news editor with a major publishing company.
Through his editorial services company Mockingbird Press he has critiqued hundreds of novels and scripts and line-edited many fictional works; he has ghosted novels, novelizations, scripts, treatments and stories.
He likes books, music, good food, brandy and cigars, leisurely walks and lively conversation.
www.jimstallings.com /biography.htm   (261 words)

  
 American Hegemony - A Timeline
This is a list of the generally disasterous human terms of the practice.
CIA veteran Ralph McGee has compiled a list of non-classified reports of CIA activities in Guatemala, with the CIA Seal of Approval.
These operations continue up until the present, with the FBI arresting Cuban infiltrators of US-based exile groups that engage in anti-Cuban terrorism: after being told about their presence by Cuban counter-terrorism officials in an effort to cooperate in anti-terror campaigns, such as those instigated by Bay of Pigs veteran Luis Posada Carriles.
www.flagrancy.net /timeline.html   (12731 words)

  
 01-4027 -- Jacobsen v. Deseret Book Co. -- 04/19/2002
The series is a fictional work written primarily for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Suffice it to say the similarity goes beyond the bare facts that both works describe a World War II Army Air Corps Supply Sergeant who was captured by the Japanese, forced to march across the Bataan Peninsula, and imprisoned in various work camps.
He took from the seat of the truck a box of cigars that he had scrounged from somewhere.
www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2002/04/01-4027.htm   (7932 words)

  
 84.05.01: Dress Rehearsal
On the contrary, they are much more likely to contribute feelings of guilt that may remain with the individual for the remainder of her life, Teenagers need to be exposed to both fiction and non-fiction on this universal theme of coming of age.
Some of the pages where phony is listed are: 6, 14, 19, 23, 34, 65, 70, 72, 77, 113, 138, 152, 164, 166, 170, 181, 184, 217, 218, 219, 224, and 226.
Authentic description of the female experience in fiction and its serious critical appraisal are only recent developments offering an illuminating exploration of this previously uncharted area of literature.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/5/84.05.01.x.html   (8812 words)

  
 etc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Its list of potential steps includes making changes to expand the payroll tax -- for example, by making it harder for self-employed people to avoid payroll taxes on their income.
2042 is the fictional date for the fictional bankruptcy of a fictional trust fund.
These pieces of paper might be useful for rolling cigars.
www.tnr.com /etc.mhtml?week=2005-02-20   (958 words)

  
 Noah? real person or fictional? - Sean Hannity Discussion
Jesus said: "as it was in the day of Noah, so will the coming of the Son of Man also be" proving it was a real event; otherwise the Second coming becomes fictional also.
A worldwide flood that covered the entire planet with water and an ark that carried two (or seven) of every living creature on earth - as well as a good bit of the plant life - are fiction.
I'm convinced that anyone who denies Noah as a real person with a real flood account is not a Christian and has never met GOD.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8496   (723 words)

  
 Movie-List Forums - Concussions kept Tintin forever young
This could explain his delayed statural growth, delayed onset of puberty and lack of libido," Cyr wrote.
His article was in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, which has a tradition of publishing studies into the ailments of fictional characters in its Christmas edition.
The first one I've read as a kid was "The Blue Lotos" episode and after that I found and bought "Cigars of the Pharoah", "Tintin in Tibet" and "Flight 714" -- all in serbo-croatian language.
www.movie-list.com /forum/printthread.php?t=10712   (1076 words)

  
 Otoao Cigars 770-841-7774
Otoao Cigars currently has associates cigar rollers in the following States: Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
If you are a professional cigar roller contact us and we will add you to our network.
"The Last Von Ritz" is a short historical fictional novel that describes a fictional family tree (the Von Ritz's) from the 1400's to 1950's.
otoaocigars.com   (336 words)

  
 Reich Redux - By Jonathan Rauch - Slate Magazine
For anyone who knows Washington, the idea that a roomful of slick corporate lobbyists would treat a sitting labor secretary this way is preposterous.
In his revision, Reich gets rid of the cigar shtick and again substitutes actual words, while trying to preserve what he can of a sense of hostility.
John's pedantic speech is quoted accurately but characterized as a "tirade," and Reich's answer is given as the mumbling equivocation that it actually was ("John, I will get back to you with all the information on it.
www.slate.com /?id=2488   (1733 words)

  
 Area 51 Mailing List Digest v096.n019, 4 Nov 1996
This fictional version had a radio station in the bar, and the characters, even the loons, were lifeless cliches.
Let's make a list of the strong points which support this idea: (1)Both Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 are solar, or Sun-like stars.
Dressed in army fatigues and wearing a pistol, Pizzuti lives in a tiny shack with his collection of pet desert lizards, boxes of the cigars he loves to smoke and a picture of his mother on a shelf.
www.ufomind.com /area51/list/arc/1996/v096n019.html   (6385 words)

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