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Carl S. English, Jr., Botanical Gardens

The Carl S. English, Jr., Botanical Garden (7 acres) are botanical gardens located on the grounds of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks at 3015 NW 54th Street, Seattle, Washington. They are open daily 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. without charge.

After the locks were built in 1911, landscape architect Carl English of the United States Army Corps of Engineers transformed the construction site into garden in an English landscape style. All told, he spent 43 years planting and tending the gardens. Today they contain more than 500 species and 1,500 varieties of plants from around the world, including fan palms, oaks, Mexican pines, rhododendrons, and a fine display of roses.


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  • List of botanical gardens in the United States

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Your Computer (British magazine)

For the Australian magazine, see Your Computer (Australian magazine).

Your Computer was a British computer magazine published monthly from 1981 to 1988, and aimed at the burgeoning home computer market. At one stage it was, in its own words, “Britain’s biggest selling home computer magazine”. It offered support across a wide range of computer formats, and included news, type-in program listings, and reviews of both software and hardware. Hardware reviews were notable for including coverage of the large number of home microcomputers released during the early 1980s.


External link

  • Archive of some issues at World of Spectrum

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Liberal-Conservative Party

The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Conservative candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 election and others ran as simple Conservatives prior to 1873. In many of Canada’s early elections, there were both “Liberal-Conservative” and “Conservative” candidates; however, these were simply different labels used by candidates of the same party, both were part of Sir John A. Macdonald’s government and official Conservative and Liberal-Conservative candidates would not, generally, run against each other. It was also not uncommon for a candidate to run on one label in one election and the other in a subsequent election.

The roots of the name are in the Great Coalition of 1864 in which various Tories and Reformers united in pursuit of Canadian Confederation which was accomplished three years later. Thus, some who used the label Liberal-Conservative, were former Liberals (or Reformers) who had joined Macdonald before or shortly after Confederation. On October 12, 1916, the last Liberal-Conservative cabinet minister, Sam Hughes, was dismissed, making the executive all officially Conservative Party members.

Prominent Liberal-Conservative Members of Parliament and Senators in Canadian history include:

  • Sir John A. Macdonald
  • Sir George-Étienne Cartier
  • Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt
  • John Carling
  • Sir John Rose
  • Thomas D’Arcy McGee
  • Joseph Howe
  • Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
  • Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
  • John Henry Pope
  • Joseph Aldéric Ouimet (Liberal-Conservative MP 1873-1896, ran as Conservative and defeated in 1908)
  • Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
  • Sir Samuel Hughes
  • Sir Hugh John Macdonald
  • Archibald Woodbury McLelan (Liberal-Conservative Senator, resigned and elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative after 1881)
  • Joseph Godéric Blanchet (Liberal-Conservative from 1867-1875, Conservative 1875-1878, Liberal-Conservative 1878-1883)
  • John Costigan (Liberal-Conservative 1867-1900, crossed the floor to join the Liberals in 1901)


Liberal Conservative coalition

In the 1957 election, George Rolland, a watchmaker, sought election as a Liberal Conservative Coalition candidate in the Toronto riding of Eglinton. He placed last, winning only 252 votes, or 0.7% of the total. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties nominated candidates in the riding, so Rolland did not have the endorsement of either party.

Source: Parliament of Canada History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1867


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  • Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
  • List of political parties in Canada

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Sisai block

Sisai block , one of the eleven administrative blocks of Gumla district, Jharkhand state, India, has a population (1991 census) of 75,738. The block comprises eighty-eight villages.

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