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NB1100X - CHB Now everyone can get in the NBA action! The Chicago Bulls NBA Hoops Basketball Game is an official Licensed Product of the NBA. Show your true colors and select your favorite NBA team to be the centerpiece of your game room. This Basketball game comes fully equipped with an official NBA sized hoop and a large scoreboard so you will feel the pressure of a real game. Get off the bench and get in the game, with the Chicago Bulls NBA Hoops Basketball Game. Features: -Licensed by the NBA. -Comes with official Detroit Pistons Logo emblazoned on sides of machine. -Suitable for residential or commercial use. -Can be set to freeplay or coin operated. -All metal front cabinet. -Backboard made of 3/8 thick polycarbonate. -Commercial grade net sensor. -Height with bonus marquee is 160 degrees. -Adjustable front cabinet for all ages. -Large 40 sec. scoring clock located behind the backboard for a more intense experience. -Games can be linked together for competition and/or space saving. Game Features: -Radius top cage for better arc shots. -Official NBA sized hoop for high scores. -40 second game clock with 4 tall 7 segment display behind backboard. -Hardwood floor angled for faster ball return. -Accessories Included: 9'' Basketballs. -Dimensions: 116'' H x 30'' W x 120'' D.
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Who Invented Ice Cream?
Unlike pottery, arrow heads and metal tools, traces of ancient ice creams are not really something that archaeologists can unravel. The ice cream history is therefore elusive and not very well known. People living in climates where ice and snow formed naturally are believed to have enjoyed a form of sorbet since prehistoric time by flavouring snow with fruit, berries and honey. This was probably especially popular in warm regions with high mountains, since snow could be gathered from the high altitudes and brought down to regions where it provided much sought after relief from the heat.
Even though ice cream itself leaves no visible mark in ancient history, items and buildings used for its creation can. Icehouses are for instance known to have existed as early as 2,000 years B.C. in Mesopotamia. Wealthy Mesopotamians had them built along the River Euphrates and used them to store food. We also know from historical sources that several Egyptian pharaohs ordered ice to be shipped to them in the hot and sunny regions in which they lived.
Once of the earliest known instances of true sorbet - not only ice and ice houses - are the honey and fruit flavoured snow cones that you could buy in Athenian markets during the 5th century BC. Later on, the Romans adopted a lot of Greek traditions, ice cream eating included. The Roman emperor Nero who reigned from 54 to 68 AD did for instance have ice transported to Rome from the mountains and mixed with fruit and toppings.
In 400 B.C. the Persians invented a cool pudding made from vermicelli and rosewater. This chilled treat tastes a bit like a blend of sorbet and rice pudding, and was often mixed with fruits and saffron. Ice was quite readily available to wealthy Persians since they owned so called yakhchals; naturally cooled refrigerators in which ice collected from the mountains could be stored for longer periods of time.
The Arabs play an important role in the history of ice cream since they began using sugar and syrup instead of honey. In the 10th century B.C., sweet ice cream flavoured with fruits and nuts could be purchased in all major Arab cities. The Arabs also began adding milk to the ice-cream, making it more similar to the type of diary based ice-cream that is most widespread today.
It has been hard to determine when the Chinese began enjoy Chinese ice cream, but the first type of Chinese ice cream is believed to have been flavoured with sugar and sold during the warm summer season. Most historians agree that the upper class enjoyed ice-creamed flavoured with fruit juices during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 B.C.) According to "History of food" by Toussaint-Samat the Chinese may even have created a special ice-cream creation method earlier than the Song Dynasty. This method involved pouring snow and saltpetre over containers filled with syrup. Salt will lower the freezing point of water to subzero. Diary products are still rare in Chinese food, but according to legend Mongols introduced the custom of drinking milk to the Chinese during the Yuan Dynasty and this eventually led to the invention of milky ice-cream.
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