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provenance - The geographical and/or genetic origin of an individual. [FAO]

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New Research Reveals Opportunities for Dairy with Provenance  -  21 Aug 2007
Stackyard,A new report from the MDC looking into the market opportunities for dairy products with ‘provenance’ has pinpointed a number of key product areas ripe for

Canadians won't give up Taylor's van Gogh painting  -  21 Aug 2007
Globe and Mail,...and 1945 in Germany was deemed to have been confiscated by the Nazis, and that any art works from Germany in that period could be of dubious provenance.

The best of British  -  21 Aug 2007
The Publican,...“With provenance a key trend, we offer a range of highly sought-after products including English pork and Gressingham duck, Lincolnshire sausages and Red

Russian agency seeking state monopoly on sturgeon, caviar  -  21 Aug 2007
Interfax Russia,About 7 tonnes of caviar is produced in Russia legally but 95% of caviar in the retail network has illicit provenance, he said. "Speaking about sturgeon

How the world grew a taste for sushi  -  21 Aug 2007
Asia Times Online,Fish do not travel with any documents about their provenance, and even many attentive, well-meaning chefs don't know which ocean the seafood they serve came

Farmers market cost comparison draws criticism - Crea  -  21 Aug 2007
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,But as anyone who cares about the quality and provenance of the foods they buy and eat recognizes, food shopping is far more than a dollars-and-cents issue.

Re-defining the Ijaw agenda  -  21 Aug 2007
Vanguard,...though seemingly ambiguous was intended to ensure that no Nigerian is excluded from any aspect of national life simply because of ethnic provenance.

The First Art Newspaper on the Net  -  21 Aug 2007
Art Daily...the negative spaces of his two-dimensional sheet with expressive calligraphic line, cartoon-like cells of sushi menu images, and faux provenance seals.

Global Bidding Drives Sale At Noel Barrett To $1.2 Million  -  21 Aug 2007
Antiques and Arts Weekly,A bit of provenance could be found in the Stevens sample book's flyleaf, a notation reading: "If this book should be lost The Finder will please return it

Barridoff Galleries’ Sale Of American And European Art Tops $4 Million  -  21 Aug 2007
Antiques and Arts Weekly,...the high end seemed to be running on all cylinders when it came to paintings by well-known and -regarded artists or works with extraordinary provenance.

New Orleans Still Being Rebuilt Two Years After Katrina  -  21 Aug 2007
PBSWhat was that line from the movie "JFK," which owes its provenance to Winston Churchill? "It's a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, inside an enigma.

Minutemen sick, sly and never boring  -  21 Aug 2007
OCRegister,As for the provenance of these videos, Courtney just doesn't know. "We think it was theatrical. We hopeit was theatrical." Even if it is theatrical,

Jan B. Luehn Track Day at Spa  -  21 Aug 2007
Classic Driver,The main criterion for acceptance was the provenance of the vehicles… …hence the cars taking part were quite exceptional. Comprising race and sports cars of

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Unveils Rarely Seen Horticultural Treasures  -  21 Aug 2007
HULIQ,In the same way that fine art is enhanced by knowledge of its provenance, so too are the plants displayed in this season's collection.

Letters Give New View of Artist  -  21 Aug 2007
New York Sun,The exact provenance of the letters is not clear. Bernard appears to have sold them at some point in the 1920s, because in 1929, Count Harry Kessler noted

Lindt & Sprüngli AG SEMI  -  21 Aug 2007
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung),...high cocoa content following the introduction of EXCELLENCE specialties and various products showing the provenance of cocoa beans from single origins.

Proving provenance is key to value of Hollywood star's tennis racket  -  Aug 18, 2007
Tulsa World,Pennsylvania dealer Ken Benner of Fine Tennis Antiquities told us that, "if there is strong provenance," the racquet could be worth $3000 to $5000.

A new Provenance  -  Aug 14, 2007
Time Out Chicago,We write a fair bit about Provenance in these parts, and we do it completely unapologetically—the store has good stuff, good classes and a nice staff.

Scottish Pride is the big cheese for this summer of provenance  -  Jul 28, 2007
Sunday Herald,The marketing team decided on the patriotic name because of the growing importance to consumers of regional provenance, the new buzz word in food retailing.

Guitarist's instrument has uncommon provenance  -  Jul 31, 2007
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription),Segovia never owned Mueller's guitar, but it does have an impressive provenance. The original owner was Artie Shaw (1910-2004) the famous clarinetist,

A New Logo For Fine Food  -  Aug 16, 2007
Easier,Provenance, traceability, trustworthiness, excellence in food and above all, great taste. At last a logo you can trust! It stands for ‘Proven Fine Food’.

Kerre Woodham: Changes to labelling is a start  -  Aug 11, 2007
New Zealand Herald,There appears to be a belief New Zealanders are only interested in price, not provenance, and I guess the choice offered by Sanitarium and Foodstuffs will

Pre-owned Rolls-Royce scheme offers new car  -  Aug 7, 2007
Maktoob Business (press release),The Rolls Royce Provenance programme offers new car peace of mind and ensures that only the finest examples of the marque gain the Provenance seal of

Germany issues catalogue of missing art works  -  Aug 1, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Able to prove its provenance, Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts is now celebrating its return. The missing art has been a long-running issue of contention

Lennon glasses expected to fetch £1m  -  Jul 31, 2007
Times Online,Lennon wore the gold-rimmed glasses, pictured here with a provenance note, during the Beatles’ tour of Japan in 1966. He gave them to his interpreter,

Verdict on Van Gogh painting left hanging  -  Jul 31, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,Last August, the NGV responded swiftly to the claims, saying it welcomed discussion of provenance and would conduct examinations of the painting on its

Recalls herald return of old-fashioned toys  -  Aug 20, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution,But MiYim representatives, like other natural toy manufacturers, said they are being bombarded with inquiries from customers about the provenance of their

Saharan Shakedown  -  Aug 7, 2007
Washington Post,...tens of millions of dollars in debt write-offs from Bulgaria and hundreds of millions in health and development aid of murky provenance.

Historic Bussell diaries now a WA treasure  -  Aug 20, 2007
ABC Online,Without a for precedent for such documents, he turned to books and paper objects from the east coast that would have colonial provenance.

Worried about Putin's Russia?: Read on  -  Aug 20, 2007
International Herald Tribune,..."Top-down" policies from the Kremlin have a thousand-year provenance. If they seem more noticeable at this moment in time, it may simply be because of two

'The Hand Of Allah' Weapon?  -  Aug 2, 2007
Wired NewsMultiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) is being called the "Hand of Allah" by the enemy (the provenance of the colonel's information is a bit unclear).

Dealing with ‘Wicked Problems’  -  Aug 13, 2007
RUSI,...incidentally, a central part of one of the courses taught at the National Defence University in Washington,1 and so it has some provenance.

Sturdy Prices For Delicate Baskets At Osona’s Nantucket Auction  -  Aug 7, 2007
Antiques and Arts Weekly,Listing a provenance of the early and historically important Coffin family, an unusual covered 12-inch-tall basket that had been constructed so that the

Art & Craft  -  Jul 29, 2007
Mumbai Newsline,Bonhams withdrew two FN Souza works from their London auction, in May and April, because the provenance was suspect. In March, Christie’s withdrew three

On sorting through global detritus and discovering former earths  -  Jul 26, 2007
EurekAlert (press release),Boulder, CO, USA – More than 200 years ago, James Hutton gave birth to the field of sedimentary provenance when he theorized that the earth on which we live

NGA takes the biscuit, for surreal  -  Aug 20, 2007
The Canberra Times,..."I went to see it, did a conservation check and a provenance check because anything from Europe between 1933 and 1945 has to be checked that it has not been

Nudging merlot into the limelight  -  Aug 20, 2007
St. Helena Star,Kirk Venge of Venge Vineyards and Tom Rinaldi of Provenance, as well as Rubicon general manager Larry Stone and winegrape grower Andy Beckstoffer of

Finally, a contender from GM  -  Aug 20, 2007
Peninsula On-line,This is where the Vue’s European provenance really makes itself felt. Five years ago, GM’s chassis wonks would have dumbed down the suspension to the point

Jacked Quietly Lands $6.7M  -  Aug 9, 2007
socalTech.com,The firm previously received seed funding from Los Angeles-based Provenance Ventures. Jacked's investors say that the company's first product is a

Focus On: E-mail management and archiving  -  Aug 20, 2007
Infostor magazine,IT must ensure the business clearly specifies the requirements for e-mail archiving, including the needs for provenance, permanence, comprehensiveness,

EurotaxGlass’s launches new web portal for dealers  -  Jul 31, 2007
Auto Industry,...members can create bespoke point-of-sale marketing material, access used car pricing data to maximise profitability, complete vehicle provenance checks,

At The Elks Club, 1945 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04102  -  Aug 17, 2007
Antiques and Arts Weekly,20" x 30 ½"; Three half hulls with provenance from the collection of Rear Admiral CA Ferriter w/family provenance include: Antique half-hull builder's

Southeast Shreveport To Get New Fire Station  -  Aug 7, 2007
KSLA-TV,The station is being built from money dedicated in the 2001 bond election and will cost $1.9 million. Land for the project was donated by the Provenance

ANALYSIS: British produce  -  Jul 27, 2007
Talking Retail,It would appear that provenance is becoming increasingly important to the British consumer. Seductive advertising campaigns highlighting provenance

IS AEI Questioning Iran Sanctions?  -  Aug 6, 2007
Free Market News Network,Judging from its provenance at what must be considered Neo-Con Central, it certainly couldn’t be common sense. -antiwar.

Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit viewed from England  -  Aug 20, 2007
LAVoice.org,Meanwhile the provenance of the documents themselves was being independently questioned on textual and paleographic grounds. Far from being produced by a

Bolognese to that  -  Aug 18, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Yet we think of most of these as having a peasant provenance. These are among several contradictions presented to the student of the history of Italian

Planes, paranoia and vegan curry  -  Aug 18, 2007
Times Online,What was the provenance of the Lewisham wheelie bins? One cheery character with long blond dreadlocks reckoned they had been “borrowed�?. I quite liked that.

Bill on Will  -  Aug 18, 2007
Times Online,...“Without documentation of its provenance we’ll never know, and it’s unlikely now, after such a passage of time, that such documentation will ever turn up.

Woodward Dream Cruise 2007: A full plate  -  Aug 20, 2007
Autoblog,Some plates give homage to the cars' provenance, others are there so you know what year the car rolled off the line. Others warn would-be challengers what

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