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Following is our almost 500 list of popular or darn near popular Holiday songs.

Now, by no means does this even come close to the total universe of holiday songs put out, and often required by musical artists of every description over the decades.

But, with the wonder of You A' Soalin'" "Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful)" "All Alone on Christmas" "All I Really Want for Christmas" "All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan" "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" "All I Want for Christmas Is You" "All My Love for Christmas" "Amen" "Angels Among Us" "Angels We Have Heard on High" "Another Lonely Christmas" "Auld Lang Syne" "Away in a Manger" "Babes in Toyland/March of the Toys" "A Baby Changes Everything" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Baby Jesus Is Born" "Baby's First Christmas" "Back Door Santa" "Barefoot Santa Claus" "Because It's Christmas (For All the Children)" "Believe" "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle" "Belleau Wood" "The Bells of St. Mary's" "Better Days" "The Blessings" "Blue Christmas" "Blue December" "Blue Holiday" "Blue Lonely Winter" "Blue Winter" "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" "Call Me Claus" "Candy Cane Children" "Candy Cane Christmas" "Carol of the Bells" "Caroling, Caroling" "Celebrate Me Home" "Cherry Cherry Christmas" "Child of God" "Child of Winter" "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" "Children's Christmas Song" "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" "Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without the One You Love)" "Christmas All Over Again" "Christmas Alphabet" "Christmas at Ground Zero" "Christmas at K-Mart" "Christmas at the Zoo" "Christmas Auld Lang Syne" "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"

Tube and Google, you should be able to take any of these titles and find at least one artist doing their version and you can find the words as well.

Of course, you'll see your favorites, along with the ones that retailers and elevators are sugar basting you with from every direction, but there are also a great many you've probably forgotten and maybe have never heard.

We hope this will help keep your holiday spirit fresh.

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"Christmas Blues" "The Christmas Blues" "Christmas Canon" "Christmas Can't Be Far Away" "Christmas Can't Be Very Far Away" "Christmas Carol" "Christmas Carols by the Old Corral" "Christmas Celebration" "Christmas C'mon" "Christmas (Comes But Once a Year)" "Christmas Cookies" "Christmas Day" "Christmas Dinner" "Christmas Dragnet (Parts I & II)" "Christmas Dream" "Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)" "Christmas Eve" "Christmas Eve in My Hometown" "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" "Christmas for Cowboys" "Christmas in America" "Christmas in Dixie" "Christmas in Hollis" "Christmas in Killarney" "Christmas in My Hometown" "Christmas in New Orleans" "Christmas in the Caribbean" "Christmas in the City" "Christmas in Your Arms" "Christmas Is" "Christmas Is for Children" "Christmas Is Going to the Dogs" "Christmas Is Just a Song for Us This Year" "Christmas Is Just Around the Corner" "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand" "Christmas is the Time to Say 'I Love You'" "Christmas Island" "Christmas Kisses" "Christmas Lights" "A Christmas Love" "Christmas Lullaby" "Christmas Medley" "Christmas Memories" "Christmas Must Be Tonight" "Christmas Night in Harlem" "Christmas Party" "Christmas Rappin'" "The Christmas Shoes" "Christmas Shopping" "Christmas Song" "The Christmas Song" "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)" "Christmas Spirit" "Christmas Tears" "Christmas This Year" "Christmas Through Your Eyes" "Christmas Time"

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"Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" "Christmas Time Is Here" "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" "Christmas Tonight" "Christmas Tree" "The Christmas Tree Angel (Sweet Angie)" "Christmas Vacation" "The Christmas Waltz" "Christmas Where You Are" "Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day" "A Christmas Wish" "Christmas with the Devil" "Christmas Without You" "Christmas Wrapping" "Christmastime" "Cold December Night" "Colorado Christmas" "Coming Home for Christmas" "Cool Yule" "Coventry Carol" "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas" "Dearest Santa" "Deck the Halls" "Dig That Crazy Santa Claus" "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

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"Dominick the Donkey (The Italian Christmas Donkey)" "¿Dónde Está Santa Claus? (Where Is Santa Claus?)"

"Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" "Don't Shoot Me Santa" "(Don't Wait 'Till) The Night Before Christmas" "Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night)" "Early Christmas Morning" "Easier Said Than Done" "8 Days of Christmas" "Elf's Lament" "Even Santa Claus Gets the Blues" "Every Year, Every Christmas" "(Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag" "Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday" "Fa La La" "Fall Softly Snow" "Far Away Blues (Xmas Blues)" "Father Christmas" "Favorite Time of Year" "Feliz Navidad" "The First Christmas" "The First Noel" "Footprints in the Snow"

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▲ On Nov. 26, 1872, the Great Diamond Hoax, one of the most notorious mining swindles of the time, is exposed. Two Kentucky cousins had salted a mine with a few diamonds, and bank financiers rushed to invest. Some of the supposed raw diamonds actually had jewelers’ cut marks. ▲ On Nov. 28, 1914, the New York Stock Exchange reopens for bond trading after being closed nearly four months because of the outbreak of World War I. Stock trading didn’t resume until Dec. 12.

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▲ On Dec. 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offers his conciliatory plan for reunification of the United States with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It allowed for a full pardon for and restoration of property to all engaged in the rebellion with the exception of the highest Confederate officials and military leaders.

▲ On Dec. 3, 1967, Lewis Washkansky, 53, receives the first human heart transplant, in Cape Town, South Africa. He was given drugs to keep his body from rejecting the heart, but died 18 days later.

▲ On Dec. 7, 1982, the first execution by lethal injection takes place in Texas, when Charles Brooks Jr. receives a fatal dose of a barbiturate by intravenous ▲ On Dec. 5, 1941, John Steinbeck’s nonfiction book injection.

“The Sea of Cortez” is published. The book reflects Steinbeck's serious study of marine biology. He would ▲ On Dec. 9, 1992, nearly 2,000 U.S. Marines arrive in later use his knowledge of the sea and its creatures in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead a multinational force creating Doc, the marine biologist in “Cannery Row” aimed at restoring order in the conflict-ridden country.

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Murano became known as the Isle of Glass, and remains so today.

• Glass tended to be colored due to mineral impurities in the silica. Around 1450, Angelo Barovier discovered that if you burn seaweed and add the ash to the molten glass, the result is glass as clear as ice. Now we know it’s because seaweed contains manganese oxide, which neutralizes iron oxide, which caused the discoloration. Barovier named it “cristallo” from the Latin “crystallum” meaning ice, and that gives us our word “crystal.” This is considered to be the birth of modern-day glass.

• Next, glassmakers discovered that if you bend clear glass, different optical effects can be achieved. This resulted in the creation of eyeglass lenses. The word “lens” comes from the Latin word for lentils “lentes” because they have a similar shape.

• When Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1440s, a domino

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• In 1590 in the Netherlands, father and son team Hans and Zacharias Janssen were making eyeglasses when they began experimenting, lining them up together.

They found this magnified things greatly.

They had invented the microscope.

• About 70 years later, British scientist Robert Hooke improved the design of the microscope and used it to discover that matter was made up of little boxes which he called “cells.” In 1673, a Dutch lens maker named VanLeeuwenhoek made further improvements and discovered bacteria and red blood cells. Because of the microscope, there was a revelation in understanding viruses, bacteria, vaccines, and antibiotics.

• Twenty years after inventing the microscope, Zacharias Janssen and a team of other Dutch lens-makers lined up lenses differently and invented the telescope. In 1610, Galileo heard about the new invention, improved the design, and used it to discover moons orbiting Jupiter, challenging the commonly held

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• Even though blown glass was mostly clear, there were plenty of cloudy imperfections in it. British glassmaker George Ravenscroft discovered that if lead was added to molten glass, the result would be glass that was perfectly clear with no cloudy spots. He had invented lead crystal glass, which he patented in 1674. Leaded glass is extremely refractive, and it improved the power of microscopes, telescopes, and spectacles.

• Charles Vernon Boys was a British physicist. In 1887 he wanted to create an extremely thin and tiny piece of glass so that he could use it to take microscopic measurements by using it as the world’s tiniest balance arm. First he had to figure out how to make an extremely thin tiny piece of glass.

• One day Charles Boys attached a thin glass rod to an arrow using a glob of wax. He attached the arrow to his crossbow. Then he heated the glass rod until it softened, and shot the arrow out of his crossbow. The arrow streaked towards the target, trailing a thin string of glass 90 feet long. Though extremely thin, it was stronger than steel. Boys had accidentally invented fiberglass.

• Subsequent experimentation by other people showed that fiberglass on its own is extremely versatile and useful, and when combined with plastics and other resins, it can be used for thousands more

applications. By the time Charles Boys died in 1944, fiberglass was everywhere: insulation, clothing, helmets, circuit boards, sporting goods, soundproofing, vehicles, and more. Today it’s made by using high-pressure air to force molten glass through tiny holes.

• In the 1970s, Corning Glass Works, located in Corning, New York, created glass that was so clear that a chunk of it half mile long was as transparent as a single glass pane. Intrigued, scientists at Bell Labs used fibers of this ultratransparent glass in experiments with laser beams, shooting the laser light down the middle of the fibers.

• The combination of superconcentrated light beams and ultraclear glass resulted in the fiber optic revolution. Whereas the drinking glass in your kitchen is 70% silica, the glass in fiber optic cables is 100% silica. The internet age would not have been possible without fiber optics, and our information age revolves around glass.

• Today you take a selfie through the glass lens on your cell phone; store that data on circuit boards made of quartz crystals and fiberglass; transmit it to friends via glass cables; and view it on computer screens made of glass, all thanks to many people working over the course of many centuries.

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"Let It Be Christmas" "Let It Snow" "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"

"Let's Light the Christmas Tree" "Let's Make a Baby King" "Frosty the Snowman" "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This "Gabriel's Message" Year" "Gee Whiz, It's Christmas" "Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby" "Ghost of My Christmas Past" "Let's Start the New Year Right" "The Gift" "Let the Season Take Wing" "The Gift of Giving" "Light of the Stable" "Give Love on Christmas Day" "Li'l Elfy" "Go Tell It on the Mountain" "Little Altar Boy" "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" "Little Becky's Christmas Wish" "Goin' Home (Sing a Song of Christmas "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" Cheer)" "The Little Drummer Boy (Carol of the "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" Drum)" "A Great Big Sled" "Little Saint Nick" "The Greatest Gift of All" "Little Sandy Sleighfoot" "Greatest Time of Year" "Lonesome Christmas" "Green Chri$tma$" "Love For Christmas" "Grown-Up Christmas List" "Love Is" "Hangin' Round the Mistletoe" "Love on Layaway" "Happy Birthday, Jesus" "Macarena Christmas" "Happy Christmas, Little Friend" "The Man with All the Toys" "The Happy Elf" "Marshmallow World" "Happy Holiday" "The Marvelous Toy" "Happy New Year" "Mary, Did You Know" "The Happy Reindeer" "Mary's Boy Child" "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" "May Christmas Bring You Happiness" "Hard Candy Christmas" "May You Always" "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" "Mele Kalikimaka" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "Merry Christmas" "The Heart of Christmas" "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight "Hello, Mr. Kringle" Tonight)" "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down "Merry Christmas, Baby" Santa Claus Lane)" "Here It Is Christmas/Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Merry Christmas Darling" "Merry Christmas Everybody" "Here's Your Sign Christmas" "Merry Christmas from the Family" "Hey America" "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" "Hey Santa!"

"Merry Christmas in the NFL" "Hitch a Ride with Santa" "Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're a "Holiday Hootenanny" Lovely Guy)" "Holiday in Cambodia" "Merry Christmas Strait to You" "A Holly Jolly Christmas" "Merry Merry Christmas Baby" "The Holly and the Ivy" "Merry Merry Merry Frickin' Christmas" "Home for Christmas" "Merry Twistmas" "Honky Tonk Christmas" "Mistletoe" (1) "Hooray for Santa Claus" "Mistletoe" (2) "How Lovely Is Christmas" "Mistletoe and Holly" "Hurry Home for Christmas" "The Mistletoe and Me" "I Believe in Father Christmas" "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without "Money in a Card (On This Christmas Day)" "Monsters' Holiday" You" "I Don't Wanna Spend One More Christmas "The More You Give (The More You'll Have)" "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo" Without You" "I Farted on Santa's Lap (Now Christmas Is "Must Be Santa" "My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Gonna Stink for Me)" Christmas" "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" "My Christmas Card to You" "I Only Want You for Christmas" "My Favorite Things" "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" "My Mom and Santa Claus" "I Saw Three Ships" "My Only Wish (This Year)" "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" "Natividad (Nativity)" "I Want Eddie Fisher for Christmas" "I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas" "New Year's Eve 1999" "A New York Christmas" "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" "The Night Before Christmas" (1) "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" "The Night Before Christmas" (2) "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas" "The Night Before Christmas Song" "I'll Be Home" "The Night Santa Went Crazy" "I'll Be Home for Christmas" "Nina-Non" "I'll Make Every Day Christmas (For My "A Not So Merry Christmas" Woman)" "The Nutcracker Suite" "I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter" "Nuttin' for Christmas" "I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus" "O Bambino (One Cold and Blessed Winter)" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "O Come All Ye Faithful" "If Every Day Was Like Christmas" "O Holy Night" "If We Make It Through December" "O Little Town Of Bethlehem" "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" "Oh Santa!"

"It Doesn't Have to Be That Way" "It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart "O Tannenbaum" "Oi to the World" It's Spring)" "Oíche Chiún (Silent Night)" "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe" "An Old Christmas Card" "It Wasn't His Child" "The Old Man's Back in Town" "It Won't Be Christmas Without You" "Old Time Christmas" "It Won't Be the Same This Year" "Old Toy Trains" "It Wouldn't Be Christmas (Without You)" "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" "One Wish (for Christmas)" "Our Winter Love" "It's Christmas" "Paper Angels" "It's Christmas (All Over the World)" "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" "It's Christmas Time All Over the World" "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" "(It's Gonna Be a) Lonely Christmas" "Please Come Home for Christmas" "It's Just Another New Year's Eve" "It's So Close to Christmas (And I'm So Far "Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" From Home)" "Please Uncle Sam (Send Back My Man)" "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" "Po' Folks' Christmas" "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" "Presents for Christmas" "Jingle Bell Rock" "Pretty Paper" "Jingle Bells" "Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart" "Jingo Jango" "Put Christ Back Into Christmas" "Joy to the World" "The Real Meaning of Christmas" "A Joyful Noise" "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" "Just Put A Ribbon In Your Hair" "Reindeer Boogie" "The Kid" "Remember Bethlehem" "The Kid in Me" "Ring Out, Solstice Bells" "A Kiss for Christmas (O Tannenbaum)" "River" "Kissin' by the Mistletoe" "Rock and Roll Christmas" "Last Christmas" "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer" "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"

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for more information go to discoveranoka.com or call 763-421-7130 "Rockin' Little Christmas" "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" "RunRudolph Run" "Same Old Lang Syne" "Santa Baby" "Santa Baby (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme)" "Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)" "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" "The Santa Claus Boogie" "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto" "Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney" "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" "Santa Claus Is Comin' (In a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train)" "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here to Stay" "Santa Claus Is Watching You" "Santa Claus Lane" "Santa Got Lost In Texas" "Santa, I'm Right Here" "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" "Santa Tell Me" "Santa's a Fat Bitch" "Santa's Coming for Us" "Santa's Gonna Come in a Pickup Truck" "Santa's Got A Semi" "Save the Best for Last(Christmas version)" "Season of Love" "The Secret of Christmas" "Sending You a Little Christmas" "Shake Hands with Santa Claus" "Shake Up Christmas" "Silent Night" "Silver and Gold" "Silver Bells" "Six Tons of Toys" "Sleigh Ride" "Slipping Into Christmas" "Snoopy's Christmas" "Snow" "Snowbound for Christmas" "Snowfall" "Snow Flake"

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by Matilda Charles

Medicare for 2019 We have until Dec. 7 to make final decisions about our Medicare plans. Many of us will decide to stay with what we have.

By now you should have received your Medicare & You book for 2019. Have you thumbed through it yet? There are a few changes. Some of those changes include charts and lists to help us in making decisions.

For those who’ve had a stroke or who have end stage renal disease, we can talk to our medical staff via telehealth.

The doughnut hole -- that period in our Medicare Part D prescription plan when we have to cover drug costs -- was due to expire in 2020, but now there’s an important change. For 2019 the hole will end for brand name prescriptions drugs.

"Snowflakes of Love" "SnowTime" "Someday at Christmas" "Someone Is Missing At Christmas" "Song for a Winter's Night" "The Sound of Christmas" "The Star" "Step Into Christmas" "Suzy Snowflake" "Sweet Little Baby Boy" "A Swingin' Little Christmas" "Take Me Back to Toyland" "Tennessee Christmas" "Thank God for Kids" "Thank God It's Christmas" "That Holiday Feeling" "That's Christmas to Me" "That's What I Want for Christmas" "There Is No Christmas Like a Home Christmas" "There Won't Be Any Snow (Christmas in the Jungle)" "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" "Thirty-Two Feet – Eight Little Tails" "This Christmas" "This Gift" "This Is Your Gift" "This One's for the Children" "This Time of the Year" "'Til Santa's Gone (Milk and Cookies)" "Toyland" "Trains and Winter Rains" "'Twas the Night After Christmas" "'Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from St. Nicholas)" "The Twelve Days of Christmas" "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" "25th of Last December" "2000 Miles" "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me" "Twistin' Bells" "Underneath the Mistletoe"

"Underneath the Tree" "Up on the House Top" "Warm & Fuzzy" "We Need a Little Christmas" "We Three Kings (Star of Wonder)" "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" "Welcome Christmas" "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" "What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?)"

"What Child Is This?"

"What Christmas Means to Me" "What Does Christmas Mean?"

"What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin'?)"

"What Will the New Year Bring?"

"Whatever Happened to Christmas?"

"When a Child Is Born" "When Winter Comes" "Where Are You Christmas?"

"White Christmas" "White Is in the Winter Night" "The White World of Winter" "Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas" "Why Couldn't It Be Christmas Every Day?" "Will Santy Come to Shanty Town" "Winter" "Winter Weather" "Winter Wonderland" "Winter World of Love" "Wistful Willie" "Wizards in Winter" "Wonderful Christmastime" "The Working Elf Blues" "Wrapped in Red" "Yes, Patricia, There Is a Santa Claus" "Yingle Bells" "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" "You're All I Want for Christmas" "'Zat You, Santa Claus?"

The rest, generic drugs, will follow in 2020. We won’t have to pay for all of our therapy now.

If you have a Medicare Supplement policy, do you know what changes, if any, are being made to it? Remember that supplement plans generally don’t include Part D drug plans. With a supplement plan, you’ll have access to any doctor who takes Medicare. With an Advantage plan, you might face restrictions and networks.

However, a new law says that we can try out an Advantage plan for three months. If we don’t like it, we can change to another or go back to the original Medicare.

Medicare Advantage plans will, in many cases, go down slightly in cost while benefits actually increase. Those added benefits can now pay for help with activities for daily living, such as personal care and eating. If we need meals brought to us, or a ride to the doctor, or a ramp built outside, plans are now allowed to cover those things.

If you make changes, those start Jan. 1, 2019.

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● It was beloved British author (and, of course, creator of Sherlock Holmes), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who introduced the sport of skiing to Switzerland, thereby transforming that snowy country into a premier tourist destination. (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

● If you’re like most parents, at some point you’ve been shocked by how quickly your kids outgrow things -- especially shoes. What may be an annoyance in a developed country is a major problem in undeveloped areas of the world; Kenton Lee is working on changing that. As a volunteer in an orphanage in Kenya, he noticed that many children had the toes cut out of their shoes just so they could fit in their growing feet. After returning home, Lee developed an adjustable sandal that can grow with a child, increasing up to five sizes using a system of snaps. Although the shoe is only available to nonprofits that send them to organizations in need, domestic demand is increasing. If you’re a parent sick of buying seemingly endless pairs of new shoes, you’ll be glad to hear that Lee and his team are working on a commercial version.

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● At one time the Catholic Church considered it sinful to eat a hot dog.

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• Glass is made by melting silicon dioxide. Silicon dioxide is most commonly found in the form of quartz, and quartz is most commonly found in the form of sand. Also known as silica, it’s one of the most abundant materials on Earth, and one of the most useful.

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• A typical drinking glass is made of 70% silica. Another 18% is sodium carbonate, also called soda ash, which comes from the ashes of plants and is used because it lowers the melting point. The remaining 12% is limestone which prevents weathering. If you make glass from just silica and soda ash, the resulting product is soluble in water. Adding limestone prevents this.

• The earliest glass vessels were made in Mesopotamia around 1500 B.C. Glassblowing was invented in Syria around the 1st century B.C. The Romans picked up the innovation and spread glass throughout their vast trade routes.

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