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Sir Francis Drake, Huckleberry Ginn Martin Luther... [Pg.88]

The Sir Francis Drake, served at Hearth, a restaurant on East 12th Street, is a shot of sherry, topped off with Clamato juice. It s delicious. [Pg.88]

The Sir Francis Drake, which is seasoned with celery salt, black pepper, Tabasco and freshly grated horseradish, tastes like a sherry and a tapa together in a glass. Mr. Mraz said he typically spent more time explaining the name than making the drink. [Pg.88]

Sir Francis. Part of the booty was sixteen thousand barrels of sherry, which is one of the reasons sherry became such a popular thing in England. ... [Pg.89]

I want to see the world, I thought as I finished my Sir Francis Drake, not leave it. [Pg.89]

Sir Francis Drake, 90 Snack Bar Pitcher, The, 23 Sour, Kumquat, 147 Soudiside, 120 Sparkling Mango, 10 Stinger, That, 128 Stone Rose, The, 224 Strawberry Basil Margarita, 38... [Pg.226]

This question, which freezes first, hot water or cold water, is a favorite of popular science magazines. This discussion is taken from the web site http //math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot water.html. Sir Francis Bacon, Descartes and even Aristotle are said to have remarked on it. There are five factors that can make the hot water freeze faster than expected. [Pg.215]

Not an ardent supporter of Democritian atomism, Sir Francis Bacon, first Viscount St. Alban, (1561-1626 CE) was also a lawyer and member of the English government. He considered atoms to be tme or useful for demonstration but he did not accept the void. The properties of bodies were explained by the size and shape of corpuscles and not the indivisible atoms. Force or motion was implanted by God in the first particles (40). [Pg.34]

Forman appealed to Lady Hertford further, this time asking her to write to Sir John Popham, the Lord Chief Justice, and his son. Sir Francis Popham. As he told Napier ... [Pg.95]

Von Lippmann also calls attention to the reference to Hollandus by Sir Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), as presumptive evidence that one of that name was still living. Bacon,... [Pg.370]

By any measure, Sir Francis H. C. Crick is a smart man. Over forty years ago, while still a graduate student at Cambridge University, Crick and James Watson used X-ray crystallographic data to deduce the double helical structure of DNA, an accomplishment for which they later received the Nobel prize. Crick went on to contribute to the elucidation of the genetic code and to pose provocative conceptual questions on the function of the brain. Well into his seventies, he is pushing science further and faster than most of us will at the pinnacle of our powers. [Pg.248]

Francis Thomas Bacon was a direct descendant of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Among others he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1973), and awarded the first Grove Medal (1991) [ii]. [Pg.37]

Potato chips are one of the popular and oldest savory-snacks sold in the United Kingdom. It is believed that Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake brought potatoes to England from Pern in 1570. Soon the crop expanded into various parts of Europe, and by the end of the eighteenth century, potatoes were available almost everywhere in Europe including the United Kingdom. [Pg.2258]

Many thanks to Sir Francis Melville, for access to his extraordinary library, to Daud Sutton and John Martineau for their editorial assistance, and to Victoria, for keeping the kitchen cooking. [Pg.6]

At the beginning of the nineteenth century (in 1805), the English admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) introduced the wind scale named after him. Beaufort numbers still... [Pg.143]


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