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Fortune, Robert

Fortune, Robert, 1813–80, British botanist. He traveled in Asia for the Royal Horticultural Society and later for the East India Company and brought back to England a number of chrysanthemums, the Japanese anemone, tree peonies, the kumquat, and other plants. Fortune introduced the tea plant into India from China.

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Financier of freedom: when Robert Morris pledged his fortune as he signed the Declaration of Independence, he meant it. His resources and financial skills helped win America's freedom. (History - Greatness of the Founders). (The New American)

A Matter of Values; Thompson quietly gives away a fortune.(Robert Thompson, Thompson-McCully Foundation) (Crain's Detroit Business)

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From the nineteenth century to the present, in countries as various as Russia, China, Cambodia, and Cuba, as well as sundry movements in the West, Robert Service judiciously recounts the fortunes of communism that a little more than twenty years ago controlled more than a fifth of the world's population and appeared to be on a victorious march of unstoppable conquest.(While We're At It)(Brief article) (First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life)

Internet. (People: Fates & Fortunes).(Robert W. Ramsdell, senior director, PBS TeacherLine, Alexandria, Va)(Brief Article) (Broadcasting & Cable)

Chateaux of ill fortune: Robert Knecht visits two of France's most remarkable chateaux, which stand as monuments to the ambitions of their upwardly mobile creators Thomas Bohier and Nicolas Fouquet. (History Today)

Chase unit showing early signs of a turnaround. (Robert S. Strong plans to revive fortunes of Chase Manhattan Corp.'s real estate finance division) (American Banker)

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. Fortune-teller needed.(Finance)(Robert L. Parkinson Jr. )(Brief Article) (Crain's Chicago Business)

Charting the imports: analyst Robert Weinberg uses astronomical precision to delineate the fortunes of the import segment. (Modern Brewery Age)

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