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  2. Borzoi - Wikipedia

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    The Borzoi [a] or Russian Hunting Sighthound [b] is a Russian breed of hunting dog of sighthound type. It was formerly used for wolf hunting , [ 1 ] : 125 and until 1936 was known as the Russian Wolfhound.

  3. Kathleen Pelham-Clinton, Duchess of Newcastle - Wikipedia

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    The Duchess was involved in the breeding of several different dog breeds, including Borzois, Fox Terriers (both Smooth and Wire), Whippets, Scottish Deerhounds and Clumber Spaniels; the breed named after the ancestral home of the Dukes of Newcastle. [3] She was a well-known conformation show judge of the breeds she was involved with. [5]

  4. Wolf hunting with dogs - Wikipedia

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    Wolves were hunted in both Czarist and Soviet Russia with borzoi by landowners and Cossacks. [7] Covers were drawn by sending mounted men through a wood with a number of dogs of various breeds, [8] including deerhounds, staghounds and Siberian wolfhounds, as well as smaller greyhounds and foxhounds, [2] as they made more noise than borzoi. [8]

  5. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    Water fowl were captured on moonless nights using strategic flares. The managed grasslands not only provided game habitat, but vegetable sprouts, roots, bulbs, berries, and nuts were foraged from them as well as found wild. The most important were probably bracken and camas, and wapato especially for the Duwamish. Many, many varieties of ...

  6. History of bread - Wikipedia

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    For generations, white bread was the preferred bread of the rich while the poor ate dark (whole grain) bread. However, in most Western societies, the connotations reversed in the late 20th century, with whole-grain bread becoming preferred as having superior nutritional value while Chorleywood bread became associated with lower-class ignorance ...

  7. Bread in culture - Wikipedia

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    Wheat flour was not available to the average North American family until the early 1900s when a new breed of wheat termed Marquis was produced. This was a hybrid of Red Fife and Hard red winter wheat. Marquis grew well and soon average Americans were able to have homemade wheat bread on the table. [26]

  8. List of American breads - Wikipedia

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    Anadama bread. This is a list of American breads.Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking.Throughout recorded history it has been popular around the world and is one of humanity's oldest foods, having been of importance since the dawn of agriculture.

  9. American Staghound - Wikipedia

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    American staghounds have been known by various names including the "Longdog of the Prairie" and the "American lurcher"; one version is referred to as the "Cold-Blooded Greyhound", these dogs tend to be smooth-coated animals that resemble large Greyhounds, with Greyhounds being the predominant breed in their ancestry and other sighthound blood ...