Thanksgiving History. Thanksgiving is a particularly American holiday. The word evokes images of football, family reunions, roasted turkey with stuffing, pumpkin pie and, of course, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag, the acknowledged founders of the feast.
A forb (sometimes spelled phorb) is a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes). The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands[1] and understory.
FIELD REAGENT BLANK (FRB) - An aliquot of reagent water or other blank matrix that is shipped to the field sampling site, where it is poured into a separate FRB sample bottle and shipped back to the laboratory for analysis. The FRB is treated as a sample in all respects, including shipment to/from the sampling site, exposure to the sampling site