dubdobdee ([info]dubdobdee) wrote,
@ 2008-01-24 13:55:00
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wiki-illiam q14!
14. Who or what:
i: began as Crocetti?
ii: shared his cloak with a beggar at Amiens?
iii: device is used to limit equine cervical extension?
iv: is a female calf, rendered infertile by its twin male calf?
v: island witnessed the most lethal volcanic eruption of the twentieth century?
vi: was produced by Wallace, Walter, Edwin and Charles in a disused soap factory in Southall?
vii: shares the same choice of accommodation as Merops and Alcedo?
viii: built a palace inspired by Garnier, next to Sandeman’s?
ix: might be regarded as the pharmacist’s bible?
x: travelled to America with Mark Tapley?</lj>

the rules:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes where possible!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions
d: other fora in = (unpoliceably) Out of Bounds till next set is up

i is dean martin ii is possibly st martin iii or iv is a martingale v is martinique x is maybe martin chuzzlewit -- the theme is martins

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[info]marnameow
2008-01-24 02:25 pm UTC (link)
iv Freemartin? (thinking of that usage in Brave New World here)

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[info]katstevens
2008-01-24 02:31 pm UTC (link)
iii. Ooo this was in an episode of CSI! They were smuggling diamonds in a horse's w0mb, and they got found out because normally they sew it up to stop it getting infected. Or something.

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[info]boyofbadgers
2008-01-24 02:32 pm UTC (link)
I know that martingale is the double your stake until you win gambling system, but it might also be something else.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-25 04:23 pm UTC (link)
the other meaning I found in google for martingale = "check-rein holding a horse's head down"

I think this must be the answer, as 'cervical' per Wiki "in anatomy, is an adjective that has two meanings:

of or pertaining to any neck;
of or pertaining to the female cervix: i.e., the neck of the uterus".

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[info]freakytigger
2008-01-24 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Merops and Alcedo are I think parts of latinate bird names, so vii could be Housemartin. (or some other kind of birdy martin).

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-25 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Alcedo => kingfisher, who make nests in sandy banks or often appropriate an old hole of a Sand Martin or Water Vole (according to this page)

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-24 05:10 pm UTC (link)
viii is something to do with Spanish wines & spirits producers I think.

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con el Google
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-25 02:27 pm UTC (link)
answer seems to be: the Pemartín family, who are indeed sherry makers from Jerez (as were Sandeman)

Palacio del Recreo de las Cadenas*, bello ejemplo de la arquitectura del siglo XIX, proyectado por Charles Garnier (Ópera de Paris, Casino de Montecarlo, entre otros). Desde este punto nos iremos introduciendo en el marco del siglo XIX a través de la historia de la familia Pemartín, primeros propietarios del Recreo de las Cadenas.

*now the “Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre” (Royal School of Andalucian Equestrian Art)

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-24 05:50 pm UTC (link)
ix - Culpeper? Tho that's more the HERBALIST's bible, I think his name was Martin tho *goes to Google*

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-24 05:51 pm UTC (link)
Bvms, Google tells me he was a Nicholas. OH WELL.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-25 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Answer seems to be Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences written by Alfred Martin and now in its 5th edition per Amazon.com

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[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-27 02:42 am UTC (link)
My mother = pharmacist, and a grebt reference work we had around the house was the Martindale -- I suspect this is the actual answer.

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[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-27 02:44 am UTC (link)
quote from wp linked above:

"Martindale: The complete drug reference is a pharmacopoeia listing some 6,000 drugs and medicines throughout the world, including details of 128,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes 667 disease treatment reviews. It was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia. Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides."

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vi (post Google)
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-24 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Martinware pottery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Brothers

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[info]agincourtgirl
2008-01-25 01:28 pm UTC (link)
I just googled for x and it is indeed Martin Chuzzlewit!

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confirmation/amplification of ii
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-25 02:35 pm UTC (link)
"By tradition, it was at the gates of Amiens that Saint Martin of Tours, at the time still a Roman soldier, shared his cloak with a naked beggar."

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