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''Maize'' is also the name for a color, an orange-yellow. According to a custom formalized in 1895, in university graduation ceremonies, graduates of a school of agriculture usually wear maize-colored tassels on their caps.<ref>University of Idaho web page about [http://www.nacua.org/lrs/Policies/docs/UniversityofIdaho-AcademicRegalia.html academic regalia]</ref>
 
''Maize'' is also the name for a color, an orange-yellow. According to a custom formalized in 1895, in university graduation ceremonies, graduates of a school of agriculture usually wear maize-colored tassels on their caps.<ref>University of Idaho web page about [http://www.nacua.org/lrs/Policies/docs/UniversityofIdaho-AcademicRegalia.html academic regalia]</ref>
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== Corn in the Bible ==
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Corn appears many times throughout the Holy Book:
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[[Genesis]] 45:23 - ''And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with '''corn''' and bread and meat for his father by the way.''
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[[Genesis]] 47:14 - ''And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the '''corn''' which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.''
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[[Exodus]] 22:6 - ''If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.''
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[[Chronicals]] II 31:5 - ''And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of '''corn''', wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.''
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[[Nehemiah]] 5:2 - ''For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up '''corn''' for them, that we may eat, and live.''
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[[Job]] 24:6  - ''They raped every one his '''corn''' in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.''
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[[Job]] 24:24 - ''They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of '''corn'''.''
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==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
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