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Bovril is a thick and salty meat extract paste, similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston. It is sold in a distinctive bulbous jar and as cubes and granules. It is sold in a distinctive bulbous jar and as cubes and granules.
John Lawson Johnston (1839 – 24 November 1900) was a Scottish entrepreneur and the creator of Bovril.He was born in 29 Main Street, Roslin, Midlothian.A memorial plaque is on the property and can be seen above the door.
Bovril is a village and municipality in La Paz Department in the north-west of Entre Ríos Province in north-eastern Argentina. [2] The locality is connected by 6 km of paved road with National Route 127. It was formerly served by a railway station, Estación Bovril , on the General Urquiza Railway network.
Called "Bovril pemmican" or simply "dog pemmican", it was a beef product consisting, by volume, of 2 ⁄ 3 protein and 1 ⁄ 3 fat (i.e., a 2:1 ratio of protein to fat), without carbohydrate. It was later ascertained that although the dogs survived on it, this was not a nutritious and healthy diet for them, being too high in protein. [ 28 ]
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Bovril boats, also known formally as sludge vessels, [1] were specially designed sewage dumping vessels that operated on the River Thames from 1887 [2] to 1998. Their task was to remove London's human solid waste from Beckton and Crossness for disposal on the ebb tide at sea, at Black Deep, an extremely deep part of the North Sea fifteen miles off Foulness, on one of the main approaches to the ...
The Magyar or Hungarian tribes (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑːr / MAG-yar, Hungarian: magyar törzsek) or Hungarian clans were the fundamental political units within whose framework the Hungarians (Magyars) lived, before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin and the subsequent establishment of the Principality of Hungary.
[4] [6] [7] Other sources only mention a fighting force of 25 000 Magyar warriors used in the attack, [8] [9] while declining to estimate the total population including women and children and warriors not participating in the invasion. In the historical demographics the largest earlier shock was the Mongol Invasion of Hungary, several plagues ...