An atmospheric discharge of static electricity is called lightning.
The story goes that Benjamin Franklin invented
lightning rods to
protect buildings from lightning.
<span>As of 2016, farm and ranch families made up only two percent of the total US population. The amount of farmer and ranching families has declined at a fast pace since it's peak in 1935. In the last twenty years most of the decline can be blamed on how little farmers and ranchers make from the food they grow or raise. Farmers and ranchers only receive, on average, sixteen cents for every dollar that is spent on food in both grocery stores, down from about thirty-one cents for every dollar in the 1980's.</span>
Best Answer: It's both. It's a Constitutional Monarchy (Queen is head of state, has a lot of powers, but doesn't use them often), and it's a parliamentary democracy where Parliament is the legislative body and is democratically elected (or well, the House of Commons at least anyway).<span>
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