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Amiens is getting back to its roots Only the city of Jules Verne would have the imagination necessary to turn its vegetables into a tourist attraction, says John Graham-Hart
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Rene Nowak pulls a generous handful of radishes from the soil,
knocks off the earth and holds them up for inspection. They glow
like rubies in the early sun. "Look at the colour," he says. "You
can see the difference even before you taste."
Rene is one of the few remaining hortillons of Amiens, carrying
on a market gardening tradition that goes back thousands of years.
The Hortillonnages, in the heart of the city, are former marshes
drained by the Romans to cultivate produce to feed their army. Today
they extend over 740 acres and comprise some 450 islands encircled
and nourished by the ...
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Alan P. Barr, ed., Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary Essays.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; Alan P. Barr, ed., Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary...Georgia P, 1997), 353 PP., $50 cloth; Thomas Henry Huxley, The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley, ed. Alan P. Barr (U of Georgia P...
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J. Vernon Jensen, Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; J. Vernon Jensen, Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science...Atlantis of works and mind. Thomas Henry Huxley, preeminent among Victorian...itself. J. Vernon Jensen's Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science...
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Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist.(Review)
Magazine article from: Ecology
; Lyons, Sherrie L. 1999. Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist...interested in a biography of T. H. Huxley? Surely the ideas expressed so...philosophers of sciences. In fact, Huxley's popular legacy may well have...
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The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
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; The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley, edited by Alan P. Barr. Thomas Henry Huxley, eminent Victorian, man of letters, and early defender of Darwinian principle, has all...
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The evolution of a myth. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
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; ...scrutiny of modern historians. And Thomas Henry Huxley did not, by mighty rhetoric and...story. Wilberforce did ask whether Huxley was content to acknowledge his...conceal scientific truth. But Huxley's remarks did not make much of...
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Great Geographers: Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley.
Magazine article from: Focus on Geography
; ...scientists of the Nineteenth Century, Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, who are best known as biologists but also qualify...biogeography, rests strongly on the foundations Darwin and Huxley helped lay. Charles Darwin Charles Darwin (1809...
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Reading the fossils of faith: Thomas Henry Huxley and the evolutionary subtext of the synoptic problem.
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; In a book loaded with metaphors of assault and retaliation, Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom saved one of the best for Darwin. "Darwin's Origin of Species," we are told, came "into the theological world like a plough into an ant-hill.
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Sir Julian Huxley bridged biology and humanity.(NATURAL SCIENCE)
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Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest.
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Mr. Huxley Takes a Trip
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