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Edward Whittall (botanist)
Edward Whittall (born İzmir, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, 9 September 1851; died 15 July 1917) was an Anglo-Ottoman merchant and amateur botanist best known today for sending many species of bulbs to Europe. Family Whittall's grandfather Charlton Whittall (1791-1867) and his brother James moved to Smyrna (now İzmir) starting in 1817, setting up a trading firm named C. Whittall & Co. This initially became a part of the British Levant Company until its dissolution in 1825. The Whittalls exported a variety of products to England including dyes, valonea (an oak product used in tanning), dried fruits, and cotton. Edward Whittall was the son of James Whittall (1819-1883), second son of Charlton Whittall, and Magdelaine Giraud (1823-1912), a member of a merchant family of Venetian origin which intermarried multiple times with the Whittalls. James Whittall was a coin collector; he contributed to a collection now in the British Museum. Edward Whittall married Mary Maltass (1851-1938) in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Whittall
Edward Whittall may refer to: *Edward Whittall (botanist) Edward Whittall (born İzmir, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, 9 September 1851; died 15 July 1917) was an Anglo-Ottoman merchant and amateur botanist best known today for sending many species of bulbs to Europe. Family Whittall's grandfather Charlton W ... (1851-1917), Ottoman botanist and merchant * Edward Whittall (footballer) (1888-1947), Turkish footballer and son of above {{DEFAULTSORT:Whittall, Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens is a botanical garden, botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botany, botanical and mycology, mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1759, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site. Kew Gardens, together with the botanic gardens at Wakehurst Place, Wakehurst in Sussex, are managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an internationally important botany, botanical research and education institution that employs over 1,100 staff and is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Envir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moda, Kadıköy
Moda is a quarter in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on a peninsula between the center of Kadıköy and the Kurbağalıdere creek on the Anatolian part of Istanbul. The place became an outstanding residential area only after the 1870s, when wealthy non-Muslims settled down there by building their own mansions. It is a multi-cultural place with Armenian, Greek and Anglican church buildings, Georgian art house, theatres, French Lycée Saint-Joseph (1870) Kadıköy Anatolian High School (1955), old curiosity shops, fish and international food restaurants. Moda is served by the 2003-established Kadıköy-Moda Nostalgia Tram line. Notable buildings and structures in Moda are: * Süreyya Opera House, 1927-opened opera house, * Moda Marine Club (1935), * Moda Pier, 1917-built, 2022-restored passenger ferry pier. ;Historic mansions * Agah Bey Mansion, * Antipa Mansion, * Bursalı Riza Bey Mansion, * Dowson Mansion, * Mahmut Ata Bey Mansion, * Cemil Cem Mansion, * Fredric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whittall Mansion, Moda
Whittall Mansion () is an Ottoman-era mansion in Istanbul, Turkey, built in 1900. Today, it is a historic house museum dedicated to rock musician Barış Manço (1943–1999). Background James William Whittall, later Sir William Whittall, was a British businessman, whose ancestors settled in Smyrna, today İzmir, in 1809. He married fellow Anglo-Ottoman Edith Anne Barker in Buca, Smyrna on 9 April 1862. His wife gave birth to four children, Edith Mary, Ethel Marianne, Frederick Edwin and Linda Frances. After working with his two brothers in the family-owned firm C. Whittall and Co. in Smyrna, he founded his own company in Constantinople, today Istanbul, in 1873. Mansion The Whittall Mansion is located on Yusuf Kamil Paşa St. in the Moda quarter of Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1870, J.W. Whittall purchased a large property in Moda, Kadıköy stretching on a hillside between Moda Avenue and the sea shore of the Marmara Sea. He built a mansion for his grown-up famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bornova
Bornova is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 220 km2, and its population is 454,470 (2022). It is the third largest district in İzmir's metropolitan area and is almost fully urbanized at the rate of 98.6 percent, with correspondingly high levels of development in terms of industries and services. Bornova's center is situated at a distance of to the northeast of the traditional center of İzmir (Konak Square in Konak, İzmir) and from the coastline at the tip of the Gulf of İzmir to the west. Bornova district area is surrounded by the district areas of Yunusemre (Manisa Province) and Menemen to the north, Kemalpaşa to the east, Buca to the south, and Konak and Karşıyaka to the west, where the larger part of İzmir's urban area extends. Bornova is home to Ege University's main campus and associated hospital, one of the largest and foremost medical centers in western Turkey. Name and origins During the Ottoman Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bornova Anglican Cemetery
Bornova Anglican Cemetery () also known as ''The English Churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene'' is a historic English Protestant cemetery in İzmir, Turkey. The cemetery is approximately 6 kilometres north of the city centre in a district called Bornova. History and description The cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of Gibraltar on May 3, 1875. It is in a built up area with apartment blocks overlooking. The red painted front wall and white cross should easily be viewed from the main road. This civil cemetery contains three Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. The burial ground is still used as cemetery and accepting new burials, there are however criteria concerning burial here, linking the person to Bornova usually. Unlike virtually all other cemeteries of any denomination, this burial ground is still under private ownership allowing the management to be affected by its own cemetery council with the council only being in charge of tree pruning. Unfortunately the gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EWG Bottom Pond , a German airline
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EWG may refer to: * Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad, an American railroad * East-West Gateway Council of Governments, a planning organization in Greater St. Louis, United States * Election Working Group, a Bangladeshi civic organization * Electron withdrawing group * Energy Watch Group, an international energy think tank * English Whisky Guild, an organization * Environmental Working Group, an American environmental organization * Eurogroup Working Group, an advisory body to the Eurogroup of the European Union * Eurowings Eurowings GmbH is a Germany, German low-cost carrier headquartered in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. Founded in 1996, it serves a network of domestic and European destinations and main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scilla
''Scilla'' () is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Sometimes called the squills in English, they are native to woodlands, subalpine zone, subalpine meadows, and seashores throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A few species are also naturalized in Australasia and North America. Their flowers are usually blue, but white, pink, and purple types are known; most flower in early spring, but a few are autumn-flowering. Several ''Scilla'' species are valued as Ornamental plant, ornamental garden plants. Taxonomy Species of ''Scilla'' have been known since classical antiquity, being described by both Greek (Theophrastus (371–287 BC) and Dioscorides, Discorides (40–90 AD)) and Roman (Pliny the Elder, Pliny (23–79 AD)) writers. Theophrastus described ''Scilla hyacinthoides'' (''skilla''), and more briefly ''Scilla autumnalis, S. autumnalis'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scilla Sardensis
''Scilla sardensis'', the lesser glory-of-the-snow, is a bulbous perennial from west Turkey flowering in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. It belongs to a group of ''Scilla'' species that were formerly put in a separate genus, ''Chionodoxa'', and may now be treated as ''Scilla'' sect. ''Chionodoxa''. Description Like all members of the former genus ''Chionodoxa'', the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower. In other species of ''Scilla'', the stamens are not flattened or clustered together. ''Scilla sardensis'' resembles '' S. forbesii'', but has a less distinct white 'eye'. Each bulb produces two-three leaves, up to 13.6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, and at most one flowering stem, up to 14 cm long. The flowers are produced in a loose pyramidal to one-sided raceme, with up to 22 flowers per stem. Each flower is up to 2.5 cm across, with individual tepals 1.5 cm long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
