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Cavendish

(kăv`əndĭsh), pseud. of

Henry Jones,

1831–99, English card game expert. Jones studied medicine, practiced in London, and retired in 1868. He became a leading authority on card games and was the first person to formulate a system of playing whistwhist,
card game for four players, those on opposite sides of the table being partners. The full pack of 52 cards is dealt. The dealer's last card is turned up to indicate trump, and after he draws this card in hand, the player on the left of the dealer leads.
..... Click the link for more information. . He was the author of Principles of Whist: Stated and Explained by "Cavendish" (1862) and later wrote books on piquet, écarté, billiards, lawn tennis, and croquet.

Cavendish

Henry. 1731--1810, British physicist and chemist: recognized hydrogen, determined the composition of water, and calculated the density of the earth by an experiment named after him

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Until recently, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was regarded as a bizarre eccentric, churning out unactable plays and other self-contradictory, unstructured, and uneducated literary and scientific works in blissful ignorance of literary conventions and the laws of science.

Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish

Cavendish, 19, only made his World Championship debut in Saturday's scratch race and had never previously raced competitively with Hayles in the Madison.

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It serves as a wide-ranging introduction to Cavendish and her writings, but it should also appeal to specialists working on early modern genres, women writers, or scientific and philosophical discourses, including utopian ones.

Line Cottegnies and Nancy Weitz, eds. Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish

Paper Bodies is organized into three clusters of texts, each one focused on a topic that helps to situate Cavendish within a specific critical and historical context.

Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson, eds. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

The acquisition makes Cavendish Farms the fourth largest processor of such products in North America.

Canada's Cavendish Farms buys Aviko Plant in USA

Axed sprint legend Mark Cavendish's wife has branded Team Dimension Data boss Doug Ryder a "coward" after leaving him out of the Tour de France.

Mark Cavendish's wife slams "coward" Team Dimension Data chief in bitter Tour de France row; Sprint legend's wife has blasted Dimension Data boss after Cavendish was excluded from Tour de France squad

MARK CAVENDISH has been left devastated after missing out on selection for the Tour de France.

CAVENDISH LEFT OUT OF TEAM FOR TOUR DE FRANCE; CYCLING: TOUR DE FRANCE

The decision has come as a shock for the 34-year-old Cavendish, who has been plagued by the Epstein-Barr virus in recent years but felt he was in the sort of form which saw him win four stages in 2016.

Cavendish left 'devastated' by surprise snub; Tour de France: Cyclist is left out of team

The group of small Cavendish banana growers is raising awareness on the commodity as it has a higher value in the international market that where it is being sourced.

Group raises awareness on Cavendish banana

Here Henry Cavendish Primary School, Hydethorpe Road, London, SW12 0JA, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.

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MARK Cavendish will take an enforced break from cycling after being diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, commonly known as glandular fever, for a second time in 18 months.

Cavendish forced to take break

If it reaches South America, the Cavendish banana - the species most commonly sold and consumed worldwide - could be killed off.