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Subjects
Covered - General
GENERAL
The List of subjects below has been arbitrarily and drastically pruned
in order to avoid overwhelming the reader. It provides ONLY AN INDICATION
of the scope of the Biographies and the range and types of
words that could be entered in the Search facility.
Adornment beads/jewellery;
ear-piercing; garlands; necklaces; tattooing
Anecdotes
Archaeological finds China;
India; Europe; Middle East; North and South American;
Art architecture;
carving; ceramics; cleaning artwork; engraving; equipment (including blackboards;
paint/oil; pen/pencil, etc.); lacquerware; landscaping; manuscript;
mural; painting (The Absinthe Drinker; The Absinthe Drinkers; Amaryllis; Arum
lily; Arum lily with roses and gladioli; Bubbles; Flower
Girl; The Garden of Earthly Delights; The Glass and
the Bottle; The Jack-in-the-pulpit series; An
Old Apple Tree in Blossom; Ophelia; Still Life with
Absinthe; Sunflowers; Tiger Lily; Venus,
Cupid, Folly and Time; Wattle Portrait; The Worship
of the Golden Calf); sculpture
Basketry
Charcoal barbecues;
gas masks; gunpowder; smelting; steel
Chemicals Acetone;
Eugenol; Furfural; Oil of camphor; Vanillin
Cleaning abrasives;
brooms; deodorants; disinfectants; horn; metal; polish; preservatives;
rust; skin (hide); starch (stiffening)
Clothing fastening;
footwear; gloves; headgear; jeans; macintoshes; national costumes;
nightwear; ruffs; skirts/dresses
Construction buildings;
docks; engineering models; piling; poles/scaffolding; roads; roofing
sleepers; water pipes/piping; wheels
Cosmetics eyes;
ingredients (including Almond Oil; Coconut oil; Gum
Arabic; Henna; Jojoba oil; Papain; Pitch; Vetiver Oil); nails; product
names (including Kohl; Pimpernel water;);
skin (including freckles; sunburn; suntan preparations;
wrinkles)
Cultivation agriculture;
banned species; camouflage; crop failure; drought resistance; golf
courses; hedging/fencing (screening); mandatory (regulations); manure;
methods (including aquaria; bonsai; companion planting;
hanging baskets; mazes; orchards/groves; roofs; topiary); ornamental
(including Christmas trees; house/greenhouse plants);
societies/competitions; street trees; vine supports; windbreaks
Currency/barter (coinage)
Dental/oral use breath
sweeteners; cleaning; drugs (including Cassia oil;
Juniper oil; Mastic; Oil of cloves; Oil of wintergreen;); gargles/mouthwashes;
gingivitis; nosebleeds; painkilling; toothpicks
Drink adulterants;
beers/ales/stouts; chocolate; coffee; coffee substitutes; enhancing
taste; ingredients (including Bergamot oil; Groundnut
oil; Muscatel oil; Oil of nutmeg; Papain; Verjuice); liqueurs (including brandy;
Chartreuse; Génépi des Alpes; Kümmel; Ricard; Umeshu;);
milk substitutes; product names (including Carob coffee;
Coca-cola; La Fée Verte; Green tea; Sarsaparilla; Tartarian
tea; Vitasoy); quenchers; soft/fruit juice; spirits/alcohol (including cider;
Manzanita; tequila; whisky; tea; tea substitutes; wines (including Chianti; Sake;
sherry)
Dyeing/staining black;
bleach; blue; brown; fixative/mordant; green; grey; ingredients (including Henna;
Turkey red oil; umVangatsi); orange; pink; product names (including Cutch
brown; Indigo; Mauve; Orseille); Sap green; purple; red; yellow
Emblem American
Indian tribes; armed forces; bodies/groups; cities/towns English public
schools; families; French orders; Japanese emperors; London Livery
Companies; nations; personal; Royal houses; Scottish clans; societies;
states/regions/counties
Engines anti-freeze;
bearings; brake linings; hydraulics; insulation pins; lubricants (including Dende
Oil; Jatropha oil Oil of Ben; Tung oil); turbine blades
Environmental issues chemical/other
pollutants; deforestation; diseased/attacked plants etc.; economic
and political intervention; erosion control; fire risk; habitat degradation;
helicopter logging; importation restrictions; invasive plants; land
reclamation; over grazing; over harvesting; pesticides; weather damage
Equipment agricultural;
battery separators; beehives; fire extinguishers; hammers; mathematical
instruments; small items/pulleys/chopping blocks, etc.; syringes
Famous objects/substances aircraft; Hadrian’s
Wall; HMS Providence; King Arthur’s Round Table; Noah’s
ark; Philosopher’s stone; Speaker’s Chair; Tulip Notes
Fictitious/mythological figures
American
(including Brer Rabbit; Elliott, Pete’s dragon; Wicked
Witch); Chinese (including Tu Ching;); French including (D’Artagnan);
Maori (including Taukata); Nordic (including Freyja;
Land of Giants); Persian (including Mithras); Scottish (including Burry
Man); witches
Fireworks ingredients
Flooring carpets;
cork; linoleum; rugs/matting; strewing; wood
Flowers festive
decorations; fresh arrangements (Ikebana); product names (Mimosa; Wood
rose); symbolism (flower language)
Food adulterant;
baking powder; confectionery; digestive aid; flavouring/spice; ingredients
(including Arrowroot; Brazil nut oil; Carolina rice; Farinha;
Gumbo; Maple syrup; Perfumed rice; Sago; Tabasco sauce); preservation;
product names (including Celery salt; Guacamole; Hottentot
bread; Outspan; Popcorn; Soumbala; Tupelo honey; Worcestershire sauce);
puddings/ice cream; salt substitute; status symbol; sweetening (including beet
sugar honey; sugar); vegetables; vinegar
Food chain
Fuel alcohol;
diesel substitute; diesel supplement; ethanol/methane; fruit; oil;
tinder/kindling; wood
Furniture building
interiors; chairs; cradles; door handles; materials
Games/sports archery;
basketball; conkers; football; gambling; golf; horse riding; marbles;
polo; rowing; skiing; surfing; tennis; toys
Genetics insect
control; plant piracy; resource profits
Glass ingredients
Groups of like people actors;
entomologists; farmers; native plant policemen; silversmiths; Thugs
(Indian); woodwaxers; zombies
Gum adhesive
ingredients (including American elemi; Cutch; Gum
Arabic); chewing ingredients (including Chicle; Gutta
percha; Oil of anise; Paan; Wattle gum)); microscopy (Canada
balsam; Red cedar wood oil); waterproofing
Hairdressing baldness;
brushes/combs; cleaning; curling/styling; ingredients (including Bergamot
oil; Egyptian henna; Margosa oil; Patchouli oil; Sapuyucol);
perfuming (Bay Rum)
Heraldry heraldic
orders (including L’Ordre de Genest;
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle; Order of Rautenkrone;
Order of the Star of India)
Household items bedding;
blinds/awnings; cooking utensils/tools; needles; small items/shuttles/rolling
pins, etc.; soft furnishings; tableware
Hunting/fishing bait/decoys/lures;
floats; hooks; lines; nets; poison; rods; traps
Ink
Legend Elysian
Fields; Forbidden Fruit; Garden of Eden; Reinga; Tree of Life and Abundance;
Valhalla
Lighting candles;
ingredients (including Jatropha oil; Myrica wax);
gas mantles; oil (including Jatropha oil; Mastic;
Oil of Ben; Tung oil); paper lanterns; torches; wicks
Literature (anecdotes;
drama; documentaries; poetry; sayings); literary works (A Monograph
on Paulownia; A Red, Red Rose; An Account of the
Foxglove; An Address to the Daisy; The Aeneid; Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland; All’s Well that Ends Well; The
American Frugal Housewife; The American Gardener’s Calendar; Anatomy
of Plants; Antony and Cleopatra; The Arabian Nights; The
Archers; Armazindy; The Art of Cookery >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Venus
and Adonis; The Village Minstrel; Voices of the Night; Walking
with Dinosaurs; The Wallflower; Waverley; West-östlicher
Divan; The Wild Swans; William Tell; The
Willow; The Wind in the Willows; The Winter’s
Tale; Wizard of Oz; The Woodlanders; Yu
Kung
Matches
Material abrasives;
canvas/sailcloth; cotton denim fashion houses; insulation; khaki; leather;
local cloth (including Buntal; piña cloth;
Sinamy); nylon; oil cloth; ozone fibre; product names (Velcro); rayon;
sacking; silk; synthetic fibres; tapa cloth; vegetable silk; wool
Measurement distance
(cocadas); size (height; length; width); weight (carat); Rati
Medical/surgical issues addiction
(including alcohol; opium; tobacco); blackwater fever;
cancer; dysentery; epidemics; favism; gout; heart disorders; immunity;
leprosy; medical research; nervous disorders (including epilepsy;
hysteria; shingles; St. Vitus’s Dance); obesity; poisoning (including akee;
allergies; fish; fungus; lead; morphine; mushrooms; nerve gas; opium);
rheumatism; skin disorders/wounds; travel sickness; vitamin deficiency;
whooping cough; yellow fever
Military associations Crusaders;
insignia
Mining/oil drilling drilling;
gemstones; pit-props; refining
Mourning (funeral) coffins;
embalming; graves/tombs; mummies; pyres; rituals
Music including Abide
with me; The Biggest Aspidistra in the World; Coffee
Cantata; folk songs; Hark, the herald angels sing; John
Barleycorn; Land of Hope and Glory; Oranges and Lemons; DerRosenkavalier; Shih
ching; Le Spectre de la Rose; La Traviata; Waltzing
Matilda
Musical instruments keyboard
(including organ; piano; virginal); percussion (including bells;
chimes; drum; rattles; xylophone); string (including guitar;
harp; koto; lute; mandolin; piano; ukelele; violin); voice; wind (including bagpipe;
clarinet; flute; oboe; pipes; recorder; trumpet; whistle)
Needlework arras;
drawnthread work; tapestry
Nine Sacred Herbs
Paints/varnishes ingredients
(including American elemi; Cambodian gamboge; Canada
balsam; Feronia gum; Tung oil; Wood turpentine); product names (including Pear-ground
lacquer)
Paper bank
notes; cardboard; legal documents/stationery; paper substitutes; product
names (including Manilla paper); tissue paper; wallpaper;
wrapping; writing tablets
Perfume enhancing
fragrance; essence/essential oil (including Birch
tar oil; Champaka oil; Essence d’amali; Gum ammoniac;
Java citronella oil; keora ; Liquid storax; Marmelle oil; Oil of Angelica;
Patchouli oil; Red cedar wood oil; Spanish verbena; Vetiver Oil; West
Indian lemongrass oil); fixative; incense; linen; product names (including Arpège;
Chypre; Fougère; Jessamy butter; L’Aimant; Wintergreen)
Pesticide (insecticide) ingredients
(including Citronella; Hellebore powder; Sesame oil);
rodent traps
Pharmaceuticals (medicine) binding/thickening/suspending
agent; colouring; drugs (including Aspirin; Brayera;
Cortisone; Diosgenin; Elaterium; Friar’s Balsam; Goa powder;
Hyoscyamine; Iodine; Jatropha oil; Kino; LSD; Morphine; Niaouli oil;
Orange flower water; Primula camphor; Quinine; Ratanhia red; Steroids;
Tulipferine; Venice turpentine; Wood turpentine); product names (including Alui;
Calamine lotion; Duke of Portland’s Powder; Eau de arquebusade;
Friar’s Balsam; German Acacia; Horehound candy; Melilot Plaister;
Oswego tea; Pemberton’s French Wine Coca; Syrup of figs; Tincture
Bryonia; Vicks’ Vapour Rub; Warburg’s Fever Tincture);
vaccines (heat-stable)
Place/object/other names including Amazon
River; Buckeye State; Cotton wool; Denim; Kailyard; Manilla envelope;
Red Indian; Saffron Walden (England); Wilkes Land (Antarctic)
Places including Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia; Badminton, English West Country; Caffé Florian,
Vienna; Delphi, Greece; Everglades, USA; Falkland Islands (Islas
Malvinas); Galapagos Islands; House of Commons, London; Île
d’Orléans, Quebec; Jamestown, United States; Kalahari
Desert, southern Africa; Leipzig, Germany; Malmaison. France; New Territories,
Hong Kong; Orangerie, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, USA; Potosi gold mines,
Bolivia; Qom, Iran; River Rhine, Europe; Strait of Magellan; Temple
of Theban Ammon, Karnak; Vatican (Italy); Wilkes Land, Antarctic; York
Minster, England
Plant absorption
(including air purification; chemicals; heavy metals;
metals; ultra-violet rays; xylene); collectors; detection (including alkali/acid;
climatic changes; fats; oxidising agents; poor soil; underground springs);
dispersion (including ants; ballast/mortar; civet
cats; fruit bats; insects; kangaroos; livestock; myna birds; opossum;
pig; rodents; ships’ bottoms; vehicles (flying boats); water-borne);
dormancy; drought resistance; famous (including Arbor
Tree, Shropshire; baobab (national monument); Courthorpe Oak, Yorkshire;
Dool Trees; The Fairy Tree; Great Vine, Hampton Court; Letter in the
Oven; Martyrs’ Tree; Newland Oak, Gloucestershire; prison trees;
Separation Tree; Washington Oak, Hudson River); harvesting/processing;
heat generation; incompatibility; living fossil; mechanisms (including drought
resistance; extreme temperature; flood resistance; growth rate; hazardous;
plant plumbing; suffocation/crushing; migration; origins; promotion;
protected/endangered; radioactivity; safeguarding; symbiosis; unusual
qualities (including attractive to animals/birds;
combustible; fibre length; growth rate; nectar production; resonant
properties; strange shape; water repellent); vine support; weather
forecasting
Plastics celluloid
Pollination Animal/bird,
etc.; water; wind
Product names balsam/pitch
(including American elemi; Bordeaux turpentine; Cedar
Gum; Greek turpentine; Hungarian turpentine; Indian gutta perch; Kelon-ka-tel;
Oregon balsam; Pitch; Rosin; Sandarac; Turpentine; Venice turpentine;
White pine tar); Cellulose; fibre (including Algerian
fibre; China jute; French cotton; Jute; Kapok; Pinguin; Rosella hemp;
Savindal); gum (including Australian Gum; Balm; Cape
Gum; Gum tragacanth; Indian Gum; Kami; Ladanum; Mogadore Gum; Senegal
Gum; Wattle gum); miscellaneous (including bezoar
stones; Copra; Dragon’s blood; Glycerine; Iceland; Jamaican kino;
Litmus paper; Oil of marmot; Papain; Shellac; Tortoise-shell bamboo);
wood (including African mahogany; Bird’s eye
maple; Cypress wood; French walnut; Green ebony; Harewood; Jindai-sugi; Lacewood;
Para chestnut; Satinwood; White deal; Yellow poplar)
Repellent ingredients
(including Cadjii gum; Citronella; Niaouli oil; Red
cedar wood oil; West Indian lemongrass oil); water
Rope cord;
string/twine
Rosaries
Rubber adulterant;
processing; product names (including Palay rubber);
tyres
Sayings
Settlers America;
Australia; Hawaii; India; Mexico; New Zealand; South Africa
Sex anaphrodisiac;
aphrodisiac; contraception; impotence; medical/surgical applications;
sterility
Slavery
Smoking addiction
treatment; cigarettes; cigars; pipes, etc.; snuff; tobacco; tobacco
substitutes
Soap detergent;
product names (including Castile Soap)
Society commerce;
economics; exploration; export commodities; national economies (including one-crop
economy; sugar standard); offerings (tributes/payments); politics;
social custom (including peppercorn rent); speculation;
status symbol; trade conflicts; tradition (including King’s
Herb-strewer); trial by ordeal; vocabulary
Stoppers (corks)
Storage barrels/casks;
bottles/containers; boxes; crates/packing cases; insectproof containers;
lining; packaging; snuff-boxes
Stuffing cushions/pillows;
mattresses/bedding; saddles; upholstery
Superstition dreams;
love divination; product names (including corn dollies;
Piney beads; Sally rod; St. John’s Hand)
Symbolism
Tanning
Taxidermy
Toiletries bath
preparations; deodorant; depilatories; ingredients (including Almond
Oil; Balm; Citronella; Dende Oil; Eau d’Anges; Eucalyptus
oil; Geranium oil; Hongay oil; Jojoba oil; Lavender oil; Myrica wax;
Oil of Pimento; Petit grain; Red cedar wood oil; Sapuyucol; Tea
seed oil; Vetiver Oil; Wood turpentine); mouthwash
Tourism souvenirs
Traders Chinese-Russian
tea route; Incense Road; public houses; saffron grocers; signs; Silk
Road; spice sellers; street sellers
Transport aircraft
(including airships; Deperdussin racer; Mosquito);
caravans; carriages; cars (including Bentley; Ford;
Morris Minor; Rolls Royce); carts/wagons; railways (including coaches;
Paris Metro); road signs; spacecraft; toboggans/sledges
Treaties/Projects/Schemes including Birkenhead
Act of 1922; ; GATT; Navigation Act, 1651 (Britain); Prickly Pear Destruction
Act, 1866; Ribbon of Gold (Australia); Silent Valley hydro-electric
project; Treaty of Paris; Vanilla alliance; Wildlife and Countryside
Act, 1981 (Britain)
Walking sticks/umbrellas, etc.
Waterfaring bailers,
etc.; caulking; clothing; cultivation; decking; equipment; food/drink;
legend; masts; medical/surgical issues; navy; oars/paddles; paint/varnish;
sails/ropes; vessels (including canoes/rafts; flying
boats; oars/paddles; sampans; tea clippers; triremes)
Weapons including arrows,
boomerangs, lances, etc.blowpipes, etc.; explosives; firearms; knives/daggers/swords;
missiles; poison; torture
Weddings adornment;
clothing; food/drink; garlands/wreaths, etc.; material; perfume; rituals;
symbolism
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