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" Thirdly, Edwards took up composing and performing music for some years, until she suffered a bout of Typhus in 1849 that was followed by a frequently sore throat, which made it hard for her to sing, caused her to lose interest in music and even regret the time she had spent on opera. Other interests she pursued included pistol shooting, riding, and mathematics. |
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" Early in the 1850s, Edwards began to focus more exclusively on being a writer. Her first full-length novel was ""My Brother's Wife"" (1855). Her early novels were well received, but it was ""Barbara's History"" (1864), a novel involving bigamy, that established her reputation as a novelist. She spent much time and effort on the settings and backgrounds of her books, estimating that it took her about two years to complete the research and writing of each. This paid off when her last novel, ""Lord Brackenbury"" (1880), became a runaway success that went to 15 editions. |
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" Edwards wrote several ghost stories, including the frequently anthologised ""The Phantom Coach"" (1864). The background and characters in many of Edwards's writings are influenced by her own experiences. For example, ""Barbara's History"" (1864) uses Suffolk as the background, which she had visited for a few enjoyable summer holidays as a child. |
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" Edwards first heard about the Dolomites in 1853, through sketches which had been brought back to England from Italy. On 27 June 1872, she embarked on a trip through the mountains with her friend Lucy Renshawe. That day they left Monte Generoso for Venice, one of the three known ways to enter the Dolomites, but not before they had parted from Renshawe's maid and courtier, who disapproved such a journey. Instead the two women hired mountain guides from the region. On 1 July 1872, after a three-day stay in Venice, Edwards and Renshawe left for Longarone, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Pieve di Cadore, Auronzo di Cadore, Val Buona, Caprile, Agordo, Primiero, Predazzo, Fassa Valley, Passo Fedaia, Sasso Bianco, Forno di Zoldo, Zoppè di Cadore and Caprile, and ended their journey in Bolzano. At the time of Edwards's visit, the Dolomites were described as being terra incognita, and even educated persons had never heard of them. This journey was described in her book ""A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites (1873),"" later renamed ""Untrodden Peaks and Infrequent Valleys (1873)"". During the expedition, Edwards also searched for the works of Titian, finding a Madonna and Child in Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto) and two other paintings at a village church in Cadore. After her descent from the mountains, Edwards described civilized life as a ""dead-level World of Commonplace"". |
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" In the summer of 1873, dissatisfied by the end of their journey, Edwards and Renshawe took to a walking tour of France. However, this was interrupted by torrential rains, a factor that influenced them in looking towards Egypt. |
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" Edwards, accompanied by several friends, toured Egypt in the winter of 1873–1874, discovering a fascination with the land and its cultures, ancient and modern. Journeying southwards from Cairo in a hired dahabiyeh (manned houseboat), the party visited Philae and ultimately reached Abu Simbel, where they remained for six weeks. Renshawe remained among her travelling companions. Another party member was the English painter Andrew McCallum, who discovered an unknown sanctuary that came to bear his name for some time afterwards. Their boat joined in a flotilla with another female English traveller, Marianne Brocklehurst, also travelling with a female companion. Brocklehurst and Edwards remained friends and Brocklehurst later supported her Egypt Exploration fund. |
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" Edwards wrote a vivid description of her Nile voyage entitled ""A Thousand Miles up the Nile"" (1877). Enhanced with her own illustrations, this travelogue was an immediate best-seller. |
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" Edwards' travels in Egypt made her aware of increasing threats to ancient monuments from tourism and modern development. She set out to hinder these through public awareness and scientific endeavour, becoming a tireless advocate for research and preservation of them. In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund with Reginald Stuart Poole, Curator of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. Edwards became joint Honorary Secretary of the Fund until her death. |
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" To advance the Fund's work, Edwards largely abandoned other writing in favour of Egyptology. She contributed to the ninth edition of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"", to the American supplement of that work, and to the ""Standard Dictionary"". In addition, Edwards embarked on an strenuous lecture tour in the United States in 1889–1890. These lectures were later published as ""Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers"". |
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" After catching influenza, Edwards died on 15 April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare, having lived at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol since 1864. She was buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Henbury, Bristol, where her grave is marked by an obelisk, with a stone ankh at the foot. Alongside are the graves of her companion, Ellen Drew Braysher (9 April 1804 – 9 January 1892), with whom she had lived in Westbury-on-Trym, and of Ellen's daughter, Sarah Harriet Braysher (1832–1864). In September 2016, Historic England designated the grave as Grade II listed, celebrating it as a landmark in English LGBT history. |
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" Edwards bequeathed her collection of Egyptian antiquities and her library to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology. Edwards was also a benefactor of Somerville College Library, having left many books, papers and watercolours to Somerville College, Oxford, along with a small collection of Greek and Roman pots. |
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"= = = Karelian pasty = = = |
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" Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (South Karelian dialect of , singular ""karjalanpiirakka""; North Karelian dialect of Finnish: ""karjalanpiiraat"", singular ""karjalanpiiras""; , singular ""kalitta""; Olonets Karelian: ""šipainiekku""; ""karelskiy pirog"" or калитка ""kalitka""; ) are traditional pasties or pirogs from the region of Karelia. Today they are eaten throughout Finland as well as in adjacent areas such as Estonia and northern Russia. |
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" The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also contained wheat to improve the baking characteristics. The common fillings were barley and talkkuna. In the 19th century, first potato and buckwheat were introduced as fillings, and later also rice and millet. |
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" Today, the most familiar and common version has a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Mashed potato and rice-and-carrot fillings are also commonly available. Butter, often mixed with chopped-up boiled egg (egg butter or ""munavoi""), is spread over the hot pasties before eating. |
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" Karjalanpiirakka has Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) status in Europe. This means that any product outside of specific regions and bakeries that make a similar product cannot call them ""karjalanpiirakka"" and instead call them ""riisipiirakka"" (""rice pasties""), ""perunapiirakka"" (""potato pasties"") etc., depending on the filling. |
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"= = = Amido black 10B = = = |
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" Amido black 10B is an amino acid staining azo dye used in biochemical research to stain for total protein on transferred membrane blots, such as the western blot. It is also used in criminal investigations to detect blood present with latent fingerprints. It stains the proteins in blood a blue-black color. Amido Black can be either methanol or water based as it readily dissolves in both. With picric acid, in a van Gieson procedure, it can be used to stain collagen and reticulin. |
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"= = = Para District = = = |
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" Para is a district of northern Suriname. Para's capital city is Onverwacht, with other towns including Paranam, Sabana and Zanderij. |
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" Para has a population of 24,700 and an area of 5,393 km². The district is the mining and forestry centre of Suriname, with many large bauxite mining operations operating. The ruins of the city of Jodensavanne are in Para district. Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition established Jodensavanne in the 17th century, but it was destroyed in 1832 by a fire. Jodensavanne was an internment camp for suspected Nazi supporters in Suriname during the Second World War. Para is also home to a spring that supposedly has medicinal properties. |
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" Para is divided into 5 resorts (""ressorten""): |
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" In the 2004 census, Para had 18,749 inhabitants. This rose in the 2012 census to 24,700 inhabitants, a 31.1% increase. |
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"= = = Yellow-crowned gonolek = = = |
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" The yellow-crowned gonolek (""Laniarius barbarus""), also known as the common gonolek, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the bushshrike family. It is a common resident breeding bird in equatorial Africa from Senegal and Democratic Republic of Congo east to Ethiopia. It is a skulking bird and frequents dense undergrowth in forests and other wooded habitats. The nest is a cup structure in a bush or tree in which two eggs are laid. |
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" In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-crowned gonolek in his ""Ornithologie"" based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name ""La pie-griesche rouge du Sénégal"" and the Latin ""Lanius Senegalensis ruber"". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ""Systema Naturae"" for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the yellow-crowned gonolek. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name ""Lanius barbarus"" and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus ""Laniarius"" that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816. Two subspecies are recognised. |
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" The yellow-crowned gonolek is long with a long tail and short wings. The adult is a vividly-coloured bird, although easily overlooked as it lurks in undergrowth. It has solidly black upper parts apart from its golden crown, and scarlet underparts other than a buff-yellow undertail. The legs are dark. Sexes are similar, but juveniles are paler and duller. |
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" This species is seldom seen because it inhabits thick undergrowth from which its calls can be heard. These include whistles and rattles, often sung in duet, with a fluted ""too-lioo"" overlapped by a rattling ""ch-chacha"". The yellow-crowned gonolek feeds mainly on insects located in bushes or on the ground. The diet consists mostly of beetles and caterpillars, but birds eggs and nestlings are sometimes taken. |
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" It is monogamous and territorial. Some courtship behaviours have been observed with a pair chasing each other through a bush, leaping from branch to branch and emitting metallic twanging sounds. The deep cup-shaped nest is often flimsy and is built in a bush, from rootlets and tendrils. Two, or occasionally three, greyish-green or bluish-green eggs with dark spots are laid. |
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"= = = Eastover = = = |
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" Eastover is the name of the following places in the United States of America: |
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" They may have taken their name from Eastover now in Taunton within the English county of Somerset. |
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"= = = Lewis Booth = = = |
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" Lewis William Killcross Booth CBE (born 7 November 1948) is a British accountant and business executive. He is currently on the board of directors for Rolls Royce, for Mondelez International, Inc, and Gentherm Inc. He previously had a 34-year career at Ford Motor Company where he rose to the rank of Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for Ford's financial operations, including the Controller's Office, Treasury and Investor Relations, a position he held from November 2008 until April 2012. |
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" Booth was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to the UK automotive and manufacturing industries. |
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" Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, the son of a Ford, Austin and Morris dealer, Booth has always had a passion for cars and the automotive industry. |
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" Graduating in 1970 from the University of Liverpool with a bachelor of engineering degree with honours in mechanical engineering, he subsequently qualified as a chartered management accountant. |