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Patrick Matthew

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Patrick Matthew (20 October 1790 – 8 June 1874) was a Scottish grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner, who contributed to the understanding of horticulture, silviculture, and agriculture in general, with a focus on maintaining the British navy and feeding new colonies. [1]

90 relations: Aberdeen, Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Addendum, Agriculture, Alfred Russel Wallace, Begging the question, Biostratigraphy, Blog, British Society of Criminology, Caledonian Railway, Carse of Gowrie, Catastrophism, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Chartism, Conway Hall Ethical Society, Craigiebuckler, Cryptomnesia, Determinism, Dundee, Dundee and Perth Railway, E-book, Edinburgh and Northern Railway, Edward Blyth, Epistemological anarchism, Era (geology), Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Franco-Prussian War, German Empire, Gillies Hill, History of evolutionary thought, History of science, Horticulture, Human overpopulation, Hundred Days, James Hutton, James Hutton Institute, James Moore (biographer), John Claudius Loudon, John van Wyhe, Linnaean taxonomy, Macroevolution, Mass migration, Middlesbrough, Mike Sutton (criminologist), Napoleon, Natural selection, Natural theology, ..., New Zealand, Newburgh, Fife, Niles Eldredge, North British Railway, Nottingham Trent University, On Naval Timber and Arboriculture, On the Origin of Species, Otto von Bismarck, Peer review, Perth, Scotland, Peter J. Bowler, Radicalism (historical), Richard Dawkins, River Almond, Perth and Kinross, River Tay, Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802), Ronald W. Clark, Schleswig-Holstein, Scone Palace, Scotland, Second French Empire, Sensu, Silviculture, Skeptics in the Pub, Speciation, Stephen Jay Gould, Struggle for existence, TalkOrigins Archive, Tay Bridge disaster, The Daily Telegraph, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Gardeners' Chronicle, The Scotsman, The Times, Thomas Henry Huxley, Thomas Robert Malthus, Twitter, University of Edinburgh, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, William Charles Wells. Expand index (40 more) »

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

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Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan

Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1 July 17314 August 1804) was a British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown (north of Haarlem) on 11 October 1797.

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Addendum

An addendum, in general, is an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.

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Begging the question

Begging the question is a logical fallacy which occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.

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Biostratigraphy

Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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British Society of Criminology

British Society of Criminology is an international organization that aims to further the interests and knowledge of both academic and professional people who engage in any aspect of teaching, research or public education about crime, criminal behaviour and criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom and abroad.

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Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company.

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Carse of Gowrie

The Carse of Gowrie is a stretch of low-lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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Catastrophism

Catastrophism was the theory that the Earth had largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.

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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Charles Lyell

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who popularised the revolutionary work of James Hutton.

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.

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Conway Hall Ethical Society

The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining ethical society in the United Kingdom.

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Craigiebuckler

Craigiebuckler is a residential area of Aberdeen city, Scotland.

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Cryptomnesia

Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dùn Dè) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.

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Dundee and Perth Railway

The Dundee and Perth Railway was a Scottish Railway company.

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E-book

An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Edinburgh and Northern Railway

The Edinburgh and Northern Railway was a railway company authorised in 1845 to connect Edinburgh to both Perth and Dundee.

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Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta.

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Epistemological anarchism

Epistemological anarchism is an epistemological theory advanced by Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend which holds that there are no useful and exception-free methodological rules governing the progress of science or the growth of knowledge.

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Era (geology)

A geologic era is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an eon into smaller units of time.

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Ernst Mayr

Ernst Walter Mayr (5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, Guerre franco-allemande), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871) or in Germany as 70/71, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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Gillies Hill

Gillies Hill is located west of Stirling and the M9, south of Cambusbarron, and north of the Bannock Burn in Central Scotland.

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History of evolutionary thought

Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity – in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science.

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History of science

The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

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Hundred Days

The Hundred Days (les Cent-Jours) marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).

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James Hutton

James Hutton (3 June 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist.

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James Hutton Institute

The James Hutton Institute is an interdisciplinary scientific research institute in Scotland established in 2011, through the merger of Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.

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James Moore (biographer)

James Moore, historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin.

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John Claudius Loudon

John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1783 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author.

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John van Wyhe

John van Wyhe (born 1971) is a historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, at the National University of Singapore.

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Linnaean taxonomy

Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts.

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Macroevolution

Macroevolution is evolution on a scale at or above the level of species, in contrast with microevolution, which refers to smaller evolutionary changes of allele frequencies within a species or population.

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Mass migration

Mass migration refers to the migration of large groups of people from one geographical area to another.

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Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough is a large post-industrial town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, north-east England, founded in 1830.

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Mike Sutton (criminologist)

Michael Robert Sutton (born September 1959, Orpington) is a Reader in Criminology, in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, where he established the Centre for Study and Reduction of Bias, Prejudice and Hate Crime and is co-founder and Chief Editor of the Internet Journal of Criminology.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.

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Natural theology

Natural theology, once also termed physico-theology, is a type of theology that provides arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newburgh, Fife

Newburgh is a royal burgh and parish of Fife, Scotland, having a population of 2,171 (est 2011).

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Niles Eldredge

Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is a U.S. biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.

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North British Railway

The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university in Nottingham, England.

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On Naval Timber and Arboriculture

On Naval Timber and Arboriculture: With Critical Notes on Authors who Have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting is a book by Patrick Matthew published in 1831.

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On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

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Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).

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Perth, Scotland

Perth (Peairt) is a city in central Scotland, located on the banks of the River Tay.

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Peter J. Bowler

Peter J. Bowler (born 8 October 1944) is a historian of biology who has written extensively on the history of evolutionary thought, the history of the environmental sciences, and on the history of genetics.

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Radicalism (historical)

The term "Radical" (from the Latin radix meaning root) during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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River Almond, Perth and Kinross

The River Almond (Uisge Amain) is a tributary of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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River Tay

The River Tay (Tatha) is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)

Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th century scientific and political circles.

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Ronald W. Clark

Ronald William Clark (2 November 1916 – 9 March 1987) was a British author of biography, fiction and non-fiction.

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Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.

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Scone Palace

Scone Palace is a Category A listed historic house and 5 star tourism attraction near the village of Scone and the city of Perth, Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Second French Empire

The French Second Empire (Second Empire) was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.

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Sensu

Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".

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Silviculture

Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values.

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Skeptics in the Pub

Skeptics in the Pub (abbreviated SITP) is an informal social event designed to promote fellowship and social networking among skeptics, critical-thinkers, freethinkers, rationalists and other like-minded individuals.

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Speciation

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Struggle for existence

The concept of the struggle for existence concerns the competition or battle for resources needed to live.

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TalkOrigins Archive

The TalkOrigins Archive is a website that presents mainstream science perspectives on the antievolution claims of young-earth, old-earth, and "intelligent design" creationists.

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Tay Bridge disaster

The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879 when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed while a train was passing over it from Wormit to Dundee, killing all aboard.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection.

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The Gardeners' Chronicle

The Gardeners' Chronicle was a British horticulture periodical.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.

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William Charles Wells

William Charles Wells FRS FRSEd (1757–1817), was a Scottish-American physician and printer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew

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