Flowers that rely on bees for cross-pollination tend to be blue or yellow, hues to which the bee is most sensitive. Diving is a competitive sport in which the winner cannot be determined by such objective measures as time, distance, mass, and so forth. Instead, each member of a panel of judges assigns a numerical rating on the skill of the diver. In England, Samuel Crompton invented a way of spinning in 1779 that yielded stronger thread than any other method available up to that time. The thread was so good and strong that the weavers wanted to buy Crompton's thread rather than that of any other spinner.
News weeklies are popular and financially successful.
These magazines that sum up the history of the week in twenty minutes' reading time are preferred by some to those that take forty. The coco palm tree is found on practically all the islands of the Pacific. The natives eat its fruit and drink the milk from the fruit. Its husk is woven into baskets, huts, ropes, and fishing nets. Its dried kernel is often used for money, and its leaves are used as roofs on the natives' huts.