Robert Fortune (16 September 1812 – 13 April 1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental...
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Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City. It is published by Fortune Media Group Holdings...
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Robert Fortune Sanchez (20 March 1934 – 20 January 2012) was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the United States...
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Asia, and Southeast Asia. They were introduced into Europe in 1846 by Robert Fortune, collector for the London Horticultural Society, and are now found across...
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Robert James LaFortune (January 24, 1927 – March 27, 2024) was an American philanthropist and politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. LaFortune was...
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The Fortune is a 1975 American black comedy film starring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, and directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Adrien Joyce...
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the founder, Robert K. Brown. Soldier of Fortune magazine was founded in 1975, by Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, (Ret.) Robert K. Brown, who...
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Fortune telling is the unproven spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune telling is in principle identical...
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Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show has aired continuously since January...
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Outrageous Fortune is a 1987 American comedy film written by Leslie Dixon, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Shelley Long and Bette Midler. The title...
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Robert Sanchez is the name of: Robert M. Sanchez, American train engineer involved in the 2008 Chatsworth train collision Robert Fortune Sanchez (1934–2012)...
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florida, distributed in North China, Korea and Manchuria, was found by Robert Fortune and imported to England in 1845. Following the opening of Japan to Westerners...
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football player Robert Fortune (1812–1880), Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India Rose Fortune (1774–1864)...
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meanwhile, had overtaken it in European gardens. The Scottish plant-hunter Robert Fortune "discovered" it—in a mandarin garden of the coastal city of Chusan (Zhoushan)—before...
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Euonymus fortunei (redirect from Fortune's spindle)
who named it in honour of the Scottish botanist and plant explorer Robert Fortune. It was transferred to the genus, Euonymus, in 1933 by Heinrich von...
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Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 American black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Patricia Neal, Charles...
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raised in Salt Springs, Pictou County, Nova Scotia to Robert Bennison and Sandra (née Fortune). He also has a younger sister, Sarah-Jane, and a dog named...
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Soldier of Fortune is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It was...
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Chusan Island (now Zhoushan Island), where Robert Fortune first saw cultivated specimens. In 1849, Fortune smuggled plants from China to the Kew Horticultural...
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The Fortunes are an English harmony beat group. Formed in Birmingham, the Fortunes first came to prominence and international acclaim in 1965, when "You've...
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Agents of Fortune is the fourth studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on May 21, 1976 by Columbia Records. The Platinum-selling...
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Gelsomino di San Giuseppe in Italiano. It was collected in China by Robert Fortune. It was first published and described by Lindl. in the Journal of the...
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revolution in the mobility of commercially important plants. In the 1840s, Robert Fortune used Wardian cases to ship 20,000 tea plants to British India, smuggling...
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cultivar, Wisteria sinensis 'Alba', was discovered in a garden by botanist Robert Fortune in 1844, from which he took cuttings for the Royal Horticultural Society...
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Fortune de France (Fortunes of France) is a sequence of 13 historical novels by French author Robert Merle, published between 1977 and 2003. The series...
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introduced to gardens of the New World through collections sent by Robert Fortune. In Japan, kurogane holly is one of the hibakujumoku trees. It is also...
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nutty aroma and was apparently tasted by Robert Fortune on his trip to China. Baihao Yinzhen Robert Fortune Shou Mei tea Silver Needle tea White tea 陳宗懋...
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Kritical – "Are You Ready for This" Pre-Fight Hype – "It's Goin Down" Robert Fortune – "Cadillac" The Resistors – "UTA" For The Taking – "Takedown" Rular...
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Wheel of Fortune is one of 78 cards in a tarot deck and is the tenth trump or Major Arcana card in most tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well...
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plants, different from Indian tea, to India is commonly credited to Robert Fortune, who spent about two and a half years, from 1848 to 1851, in China working...
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