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George William Septimus Piesse (30 May 1820 – 23 October 1882), known as Septimus Piesse, was an English chemist and perfumer.Piesse was a leading author and innovator of modern perfume ideas, inventing the concept of notes in perfumery that are still used universally today.
Pages in category "Books by Charles Murray" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Bell Curve; C.
Charles Murray (27 September 1864 – 12 April 1941) was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. He was one of three rural poets from the north-east of Scotland, the others being Flora Garry and John C. Milne , who did much to validate the literary use of Scots.
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is a 2003 book by the political scientist Charles Murray.Surveying outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, Murray attempts to quantify and explain human accomplishment worldwide in the fields of arts and sciences by calculating the amount of ...
A perfumist is an expert on creating perfume compositions, sometimes referred to affectionately as a nose (French: nez) due to their fine sense of smell and skill in producing olfactory compositions. The perfumer is effectively an artist [ 1 ] [ 2 ] who is trained in depth on the concepts of fragrance aesthetics and who is capable of conveying ...
Sir Charles Murray in later years. Murray then became a diplomat, serving first as Secretary of the Legation in Naples. He was consul-general in Egypt from 1846 to 1853, [7] on good terms with the Ottoman Viceroy, Mehmet Ali Pasha. [6] While stationed there, he arranged the transport of Obaysch the hippopotamus to England in 1850. Obaysch was ...
Joshua Charles Armitage (26 September 1913 – 29 January 1998) was an English illustrator under the pen name Ionicus. [1] [2]Ionicus may be known best for illustrating the covers of Penguin paperback editions of books by P. G. Wodehouse, though he contributed cartoons and drawings to Punch for more than 40 years, and provided cover designs and text illustrations for nearly 400 books in total.
Charles Alan Murray (/ ˈ m ɜːr i /; born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ]