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The shallot is a cultivar group of the onion.Until 2010, the (French red) shallot was classified as a separate species, Allium ascalonicum.The taxon was synonymized with Allium cepa (the common onion) in 2010, as the difference was too small to justify a separate species.
The Lady of Shalott, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting, is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works. It depicts a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight and the predicament of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an ...
This is the second of three major paintings by Waterhouse that depicts scenes from the Tennyson poem, "The Lady of Shalott", between the first - The Lady of Shalott - in 1888 and the third - I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott - in 1915.
A Chesapeake Coastal Thanksgiving. Fourth-Generation oyster famers and cousins Travis and Ryan Croxton of the Rappahannock Oyster Co. cook a menu of simple Southern-costal fare—with lots of ...
William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, c. 1888 –1905, Wadsworth Atheneum Wood engraving by John Thompson, published in 1857, based on Hunt's drawing, 95 × 79 mm. The Lady of Shalott is an oil painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, made c. 1888 –1905, and depicting a scene from Tennyson's 1833 poem, "The Lady of Shalott".
The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2011. The onion's close relatives include garlic , scallion , leek , and chives . The genus contains several other species variously called onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion Allium fistulosum , the tree onion Allium ...
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"The Lady of Shalott" (/ ʃ ə ˈ l ɒ t /) is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text Donna di Scalotta, the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot.