The Wedgwood pottery firm

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Vicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero better known as Vicente Riva Palacio was a Mexican liberal politician, novelist, journalist, intellectual, historian, and military leader.

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Thomas Byerley was an English businessman, a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm. He was successful whilst his uncle oversaw the finances. Cousin uncle of naturalist Charles Robert Darwin.

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State Route 108 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from the Central Valley and across the Sierra Nevada via the Sonora Pass. It generally runs northeast from downtown Modesto near the SR 99/SR 132 interchange, to U.S. Route 395 near the Nevada state line. The route was once recommended to continue south of Modesto to Interstate 5, although today that portion exists as a county road. Parts of SR 108 are closed annually during the winter due to inclement weather along the summit.

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Herrad of Landsberg was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum.

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