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Sir Hugh Plat

Sir Hugh Plat (1552–1608) was an English writer on agriculture and inventor, known from his works The Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594) and his major work on gardening Floraes Paradise (1608).

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Hugh Plat

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Sir Hugh Plat (1552–1608) was an English writer on agriculture and inventor, known from his works The Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594) and his major...

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Portable soup

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wrapped in paper and stored in boxes. In the late sixteenth century, Sir Hugh Plat wrote, in his unpublished notes, of portable soup as a potential military...

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Toy block

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Hugh Plat (his 1594 book The Jewel House of Art and Nature) and English philosopher John Locke (his 1693 essay Thoughts Concerning Education). Plat described...

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Delightes for Ladies

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Ladies is a book of recipes and household hints for women, written by Sir Hugh Plat (perhaps best remembered for Floreas Paradise) and published in London...

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Central heating

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heating small buildings for the rest of the century. The English writer Hugh Plat proposed a steam-based central heating system for a greenhouse in 1594...

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Hair bleaching

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laying out in the sun with hair covered in lye a century later. In Sir Hugh Plat's 1602 work Delightes for Ladies the use of oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid)...

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1602 in literature

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Valera (rev.) – 'Reina-Valera' (Spanish translation of the Bible) Sir Hugh Plat – Delightes for Ladies (book of recipes and household hints) Anonymous...

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Alexander Dicsone

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Cosma Rosselli. The memory technique taught by Dicsone was questioned by Hugh Plat in 1594. It has been suggested that Dicsone was led to Bruno's memory...

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Michel Lullin de Chateauvieux

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mentioned in this context were Carl Linnaeus, Louis François Henri de Menon, Hugh Plat, John Evelyn, John Worlidge, John Mortimer, Jethro Tull, William Ellis...

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John Worlidge

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Sir Richard Weston, Robert Child, Walter Blith, Gabriel Plattes, Sir Hugh Plat, and the anonymous writers whose works were published by Samuel Hartlib...

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Isabella Whitney

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generally, not just as lovers. As she freely admits, she was inspired by Hugh Plat's Floures of Philosophie (1572), reworking some of his aphorisms on the...

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Trovillion Press

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1942. This book of 120 pages is a reprint of the 1609 edition of Sir Hugh Plat's original collection of various 17th century cooking, preserving and distilling...

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John Lowther du Plat Taylor

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John Lowther du Plat Taylor CB VD (1829 – 5 March 1904) was the founder of the Army Post Office Corps and the Post Office Rifles. Du Plat Taylor trained...

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Hazelnut

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growing season. The traditional term for an area of cultivated hazelnuts is a plat. The many cultivars of the hazel include 'Atababa', 'Barcelona', 'Butler'...

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Cockaigne

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Beautiful Place mentions "You are what I call Cockaign". Jacques Brel's song Le Plat Pays mentions "Et de noirs clochers comme mâts de cocagne" (and black steeples...

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Hestercombe Gardens

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south terrace, is situated in front of the manor house and above the Great Plat. The first Viscount Portman likely commissioned the layout of this garden...

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List of pop and rock pianists

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Buddy Holly) Tom Petty Liz Phair Greg Phillinganes Dave Pirner Pierre-Yves Plat Morris Pleasure Steve Porcaro Billy Powell (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Daniel Powter...

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Oak Cliff

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needed] The farm was subdivided into 20-acre (81,000 m2) blocks, and the plat of the new town made. Armstrong and Marsalis began to develop the land into...

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Richard Henry Lee

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Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2016. Plat of Township 2, Range 7 in the Ohio Seven Ranges ca. 1786 Richard Henry Lee...

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Hugh Blair Grigsby

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Hugh Blair Grigsby (November 22, 1806 – April 28, 1881) was an American lawyer, journalist, politician, planter and historian. In addition to representing...

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