happy chinese new year fellow chinamen, devonshire creedy carver crispy aromatic duck with egg fried rice, kimchi, pancake roll & stir fried vegetables

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In Devonshire carrying a potato in your pocket was considered a reliable cure for toothache.

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William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 6 June 1874

He was a British landowner, benefactor, nobleman, and politician.

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'Atlantic Packet - The Devonshire, 1859' by Montague Dawson.

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"HMS Devonshire" ,Ink illustration ✍️
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1876
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On May 6, 1876, Thomas Gainsborough’s painting, Duchess of Devonshire, causes a stir when it goes up for auction at Christie's in London. It sells to a London art dealer, William Agnew, for $51,540, the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.

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Day 31.

For our FINAL(!) day, here is Maria Cosway’s (1760-1838) The Duchess of Devonshire as Cynthia from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, . When Cosway exhibited this piece in 1782, it caused a SENSATION, as it /

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From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - her final days' https://t.co/fG24wVHqJm

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When I plot a novel, I feel like one of Macbeth’s witches stirring a bubbling cauldron as I determine my characters’ fates. I’m plotting today, so my is Gardner’s 1775 “The Three Witches” featuring the D of Devonshire, Lady Melbourne, & Anne Damer.

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In the mid-1950s, two holly trees were cut down in a Devonshire parish, leading to violent protests from the locals, who feared that this would produce havoc from poltergeists. New trees were promptly replanted by the council and no hauntings were ever reported.

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