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Hello and welcome to my userpage!Hello, editors. I like quotes. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" Albert EinsteinHeptanitrocubane is my nickname. Quotes"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limit." Albert Einstein "Believe you can and you're halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." George Woodberry "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." David Brinkley "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Today's Featured ArticleAnna Blackburne (1726–1793) was an English botanist and collector. She was born at Orford Hall in Lancashire into a family of landowners and after her mother's death she remained there with her father, John Blackburne, who had hothouses for exotic plants and an extensive library. Blackburne taught herself Latin so she could read the Systema Naturae of Carl Linnaeus, and created a natural history museum where she collected insects, shells, minerals and birds. She knew the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, who instructed her in entomology, and corresponded with other naturalists including Linnaeus. Her brother Ashton, who lived in New York, sent her specimens of North American birds, which were described by the naturalist Thomas Pennant in his Arctic Zoology. After her father's death, Blackburne and her museum moved to nearby Fairfield Hall. After her death, her nephew John Blackburne inherited her collection. Several species are named for her, including the Blackburnian warbler. (Full article...)
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