The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
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'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering...
Vanilla: Cooking with the King of Spices
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Brought to Europe by Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes in the 16th century, vanilla became something of...
Coimbra
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In the 15th and 16th century, Portugal is thriving under its leading role during the Age of...
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Herterton House and a New Country Garden
Frank Lawley, Val Corbett and Charles Quest-Ritson
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Frank and Marjorie Lawley have spent almost 40 years at Herterton House, a 16th century farmhouse on...
A Slip Under the Microscope
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'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome...
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
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'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well,...
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
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Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings...
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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology: Fiscal Year 2011
Panel on Nanoscale Science and Technology, Laboratory Assessments Board and Division on Engineering a
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Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of...
An Anthology of Decorated Papers: A Sourcebook for Designers
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This remarkable and beautiful book brings together a collection of decorated papers dating from the...
Woman Much Missed
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'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a...