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Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the Edinburgh Review , lecturing at the Royal Institution and remembered for his rhyming recipe for salad dressing.
Anne Christine Innis Dagg CM (25 January 1933 – 1 April 2024) was a Canadian zoologist, feminist, and author of numerous books.A pioneer in the study of animal behaviour in the wild, Dagg is credited with being the first person to study wild giraffes. [1]
Smith's first important forensic case was the 1913 trial of Patrick Higgins for the murder of his two sons in Winchburgh, Scotland, known as the Hopetoun Quarry murders.. Because of the build-up of adipocere in the bodies, a result of their being immersed in a cold flooded quarry, Littlejohn and Smith were able to provide important evidence in the trial, leading to the conviction and execution ...
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A family's close encounter with a giraffe at a Texas drive-thru safari park was captured on camera, showing the animal plucking a toddler out of the bed of their truck and several feet into the air.
Sydney Smith (composer) (1839–1889), English composer; Sydney Wigham Smith (c. 1866–1933), Australian architect; Sydney Ure Smith (1887–1949), Australian arts publisher and promoter; Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), New Zealand-born Scottish poet and artist; Sydney Bernard Smith (1936–2008), Scots-Irish poet, dramatist, actor and ...
Sydney Sweeney candidly shared her belief that women’s empowerment often feels more like an idea than a reality in practice. In Vanity Fair’s 2024 Hollywood issue published on Wednesday ...
The book is a memoir about the most notorious crimes Smith solved in his career, [3] which extended across the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt and Sri Lanka. [4] The book has run through many British [5] and American [6] editions and has been translated into several languages. [7] [8]