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Churchill - rather to the surprise of many - had been given the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Salisbury's administration

Botanical study of Nepenthes melamphora [Nepenthes gymnamphora] a pitcher plant native to Java

he proposed that it should also be made a criminal offence to bribe voters

A collector of second-hand satin

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-code 42-18022994 Churchill - rather to theFerdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1875. De Lesseps (1805 1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope, completing the project in 1869. In 1880 he then went on to make the first attempt at building a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. A combination of the difficult terrain, a