The Essex is a breed of domestic pig originating in the United Kingdom. The Essex, in its traditional form, was a smallish pig with 'pricked' ears and...
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Jimmy Doherty (category People from Clavering, Essex)
operation of the Essex Pig Company that he and his wife Michaela Furney own in Suffolk. Born in Ilford, Doherty moved to Clavering in Essex at the age of...
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after it. Essex (surname) Earl of Essex, the English Earls of Essex Essex, Ontario Essex County, Ontario Essex (federal electoral district) Essex (provincial...
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Productions and first broadcast on BBC in 2004. Owner Jimmy Doherty set up the Essex Pig Company, a rare breeds piggery on the outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk...
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oldest recorded guinea pig remains in England, which are a partial cavy skeleton found at Hill Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in Essex, and dated to around...
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Herd Book. The Essex Pig Society is building up the numbers of the Essex Pig, formerly thought to be an extinct breed of the domestic pig. The American...
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Guinea Hog (redirect from Yard pig)
small black pig. Since 2006 it has officially been named the American Guinea Hog. Its origins are unknown; a connection to the Essex pigs of eastern England...
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Wessex Saddleback (redirect from Wessex Pig)
black, with white forequarters. In Britain it was amalgamated with the Essex pig to form the British Saddleback, and it is extinct as a separate breed...
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been created through crosses of the Essex pig with foreign breeds in efforts to 'improve' it. A herd of Neapolitan pigs belonging to Lord Western may have...
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British Saddleback (redirect from British Saddleback Pig)
breed of domestic pig. It was created in 1967 by merging the surviving populations of two traditional saddleback breeds, the Essex and Wessex Saddleback...
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Large Black (redirect from Large Black pig)
black pigs from two geographically separate areas, Devon and Cornwall in the south-west of England, and Essex, Suffolk and Kent in the east. The pigs from...
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pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges or gadgets, devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform...
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Shoeburyness (redirect from Pig's Bay, Essex)
coastal town in the City of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England; it lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the city centre. It was formerly...
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USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She...
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the Cold War heated up, the Essex carriers were often involved, including Quemoy and the Matsu Islands, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile...
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The Large White is a British breed of domestic pig. It derives from the old Large Yorkshire breed from the county of Yorkshire, in northern England. The...
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The Tamworth is a British breed of domestic pig. It is the only red-coloured British pig.: 700 Its origins are unknown, but it appears to have developed...
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The Berkshire is a British breed of pig. It originated in the English county of Berkshire, for which it is named. It is normally black, with some white...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón)...
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There are hundreds of breeds of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus). Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References...
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slogan, Essex had painted the words: "My destiny lies in the bloody death of racist pigs." Another inscription read: "The Third World – Kill Pig Nixon and...
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Oxford Sandy and Black (category Pig breeds)
Black Pig. Braintree, Essex: Oxford Sandy & Black Pig Society. Accessed 5 December 2023. A History of the OSB. Lewdown, Devon: Oxford Sandy & Black Pig Group...
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as a dancer when she was three. Aged 11, she portrayed Amanda Thripp, a pig-tailed schoolgirl in the West End version of Matilda the Musical since the...
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Middle White (redirect from Middle White pig)
The Middle White is a British breed of domestic pig. It originated in Yorkshire, and derived from the Large White and the now-extinct Small White.: 144 ...
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MoD Shoeburyness is a military installation at Pig's Bay near Shoeburyness in Essex. In 1849, the Board of Ordnance purchased land at South Shoebury with...
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Mo Hayder (category Writers from Essex)
Her novels have sold more than 6.5 million copies, as of 2021. Born in Essex on 2 January 1962, Hayder grew up in Loughton as the daughter of John Bastin...
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series The Only Way Is Essex. Wicks was born on 1 November 1988 in Harlow, Essex. In 2015, Wicks joined the cast of The Only Way Is Essex for its fifteenth...
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Grice (redirect from Grice (extinct pig))
or Irish pig. "Grice" is a Scots and northern English dialect word originally meaning "young pig" (compare the Scandinavian gris, meaning "pig"). Accounts...
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Human cannibalism (redirect from Long pig)
cannibalism is otherwise clearly rejected. The survivors of the shipwrecks of the Essex and Méduse in the 19th century are said to have engaged in cannibalism,...
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The Cumberland was a breed of domestic pig that originated in the North of England; it was used to produce local delicacies like the Cumberland sausage...
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