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    The Seckel pear (or sugar pear) is a small, very sweet cultivar of pear believed to have originated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Seckel is said...
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    Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in late summer into mid-autumn. The pear tree and shrub are a...
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    side-grained for larger. Callery pear has been used as rootstock for grafting such pear cultivars as Comice, Bosc, or Seckel, and especially for Nashi. Pyrus...
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    Pyrus communis, the common pear, is a species of pear native to central and eastern Europe, and western Asia. It is one of the most important fruits of...
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  • pudding. Seckel pear – although little is known about the origin of this American pear, it is generally believed that a Pennsylvania farmer named Seckel discovered...
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  • Over 3000 cultivars of the pear are known. The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where...
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  • : Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. ISBN 0-300-08177-4. OCLC 41834269. Seckel, Al (2004). Masters of deception : Escher, Dalí & the artists of optical...
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    1846). In 1530 an edition was published entitled Fortunatus von seinem Seckel und Wunschhütlein. Innumerable versions occur in French, Italian, Dutch...
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     United States John Taylor Arms  United States Józef Korolkiewicz  Poland Jos Seckel  Netherlands Julius Bloch  United States Julius Paulsen  Denmark Junpei...
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  • player, Chicago Cubs Renata Scotto, Italian soprano and opera director Al Seckel, author, authority on visual and sensory illusions Chaka Seisay, actor Lorenzo...
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    AC Nicolaas Pieneman  Netherlands AC David Schulman  Netherlands AC Jos Seckel  Netherlands AC Jan Sluijters  Netherlands AC Coba Surie  Netherlands AC...
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    Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Glynnis O'Connor (1973): actress Al Seckel (1976): writer, specialist on illusions, creator of Darwin fish design Jane...
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