Stories
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Tesla, quacks and violet rays
Imagine a device that can treat everything from baldness to gout. Too good to be true? Yes, and it was banned – but not before hundreds were hoodwinked.
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Fashion for an unruly body
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
Catalogue
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No. 1 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Blue Violets (1954) : contemporary treatment.
Date: [between 1955 and 1960?]- Books
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The young lady's companion in cookery, And Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, &c. Containing The newest and best Receipts for making all Sorts of Broths, Gravies, Soups, Ragoo's, Hashes, &c. Dressing several Sorts of Meats, Collering, Potting, and making Force-Meats, &c. Also Making of Cakes, Creams, Marmalades, Tarts, Puddings, Pies, Pasties, Biscuits, Custards, &c. Likewise Preserving and Candying Angelico, Apples, Cherries, Currants, Figs, Goosberries, Grapes, Oranges, Peaches, Nectarines, &c. Violets, Roses, Couslips, and other Flowers. And The best Method of Pickling Melons, Cucumbers, Barberries, Mushrooms, Purslane, &c.
Date: 1734- Books
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The art of confectionary. Shewing the various methods of preserving all sorts of fruits, dry and liquid; viz. Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Golden Pippins, Wardens, Apricots Green, Almonds, Goosberries, Cherries, Currants, Plumbs, Rasprerries, Peaches, Walnuts, Nectarines, Figs, Grapes, &c. Flowers and Herbs; As Violets, Angelica, Orange Flowers, &c. also how to make all Sorts of Biscakes, Maspins, Sugar-Works, and Candies. With the best Methods of Clarifying, and the different Ways of Boiling Sugar. By the late ingenious Mr. Edward Lambert, Confectioner, in Pall-Mall.
Lambert, Edward.Date: [1761]
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British violets, a monograph / Mrs. E.S. Gregory ; with an introduction by G. Claridge Druce.
Gregory, Eliza S.Date: 1912- Books
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Sweet violets. Tune-Blue bell of Scotland.
Date: [1800?]