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  History of Vegetarianism
The Vegetarian Society was formed as a result of a meeting held at the hospital, Northwood Villa, on 30 September 1847.
In 1889 the Vegetarian Federal Union was established with the aim of bringing together all vegetarian societies, local, national and overseas.
Elderly vegetarians are catered for by the homes established in various parts of the country and run by Homes for Elderly Vegetarians and by the home in Edinburgh run by the Abbeyfield Society.
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  The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel was a vegetarian hotel that opened in 1898 in Birmingham, England, as an expansion of a vegetarian restaurant on the same site.
According to his daughter, Kathleen Keleny, it was named after Sir Isaac Pitman, then vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.
The same proprietor ran the Pitman Health Food Co. (also called Pitman Reform Food Stores) at Aston Brook Street, Birmingham, advertising in 1909 as "The Largest Health Food Dealers in the World".
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 International Vegetarian Union - Arnold Hills
The London Vegetarian Society had broken away from the original Vegetarian Society, based in Manchester, but the relationship was very amicable and Mr Hills remained an Honorary Vice-President of the older society.
The Vegetarian Federal Union was an early attempt to co-ordinate vegetarians internationally, it didn't work out the way it was set up, but there were some successes and the later founders of IVU learned a lot from it.
In the summer of 1898 the first Vegetarian hotel in England, called 'The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel', was opened and I was made manager of that too.
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The hotel's Café Victoria and the Consort Bar (serving a light lunch menu) are favorites among the city's elite.
A good-value, few-frills, modern hotel, the Novotel is in the heart of the ultrachic Esplanade area, near the St. Lawrence Market, the Air Canada Centre, Union Station, and the Entertainment District.
As befits a hotel named after the legendary Pantages theater (now the Canon Theatre), there is a sense of drama in the lobby, although room views are unspectacular.
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 Vegetarian Meals
The idea for IVU came from the French Vegetarian Society, the first Congress was organised internationally by the British Society and locally by the Dresden Society with support from the Deutsche Vegetarier-Bund.
The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel - The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel was a vegetarian hotel that opened in 1898 in the County Buildings (now Grade II* listed), Corporation Street, Birmingham, England, as an expansion of a vegetarian restaurant on the same site.
Vegetarian Hall of Fame - The Vegetarian Hall of Fame is an award presented by the North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS), in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the vegetarian movement.
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 International Vegetarian Union - London Vegetarian Association 1888-1969
But I thought that it was quite improper to exclude a man from a vegetarian society simply because he refused to regard puritan morals as as one of the objects of the society.
The hotel was named after Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman Short-hand, who had been a Vegetarian for 60 years, and at the time was the best known vegetarian in England.
Vegetarians were allowed an extra ration of cheese and the committee was very concerned about ensuring the preferential distribution of nuts to vegetarians.
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Min Y Gaer Hotel is a ten bedroomed family run hotel which is conveniently situated close to the amenities within the town of Criccieth.
This elegant Victorian Country House Hotel stands in 12 acres of beautiful grounds in a sunny, elevated position overlooking the magnificent Conwy River valley and with spectacular views of the Snowdonia mountains beyond.
Facilities: The hotel has 28 different sized bedrooms on three floors, for individuals, couples, families, those who have difficulty or are disabled and even tour groups.
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 Vegetarian World, a collection of recipes from a green planet - www.dharmaseva.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The pytagorean philosophical school was strictly vegetarian and hygienist, and many great philosophers of the greek-roman period have clearly affirmed the superiority of vegetarian diet for bodily health and mental lucidity.
And of course buddhists, jainists and hindus, who have been vegetarian for thousands of years and represent the majority of ethical vegetarians on the planet, so much that in the last thirty years the new hinduism movement has played an important role to spread ethical vegetarianism in the western countries.
Vegetarian foods are a source of pleasure in every phase of their preparation, from cultivation to harvesting, to transportation, to the moment of purchasing, cooking and eating...
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 The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel at AllExperts
The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel was a vegetarian hotel that opened in 1898 in the County Buildings (now Grade II* listed), Corporation Street, Birmingham, England, as an expansion of a vegetarian restaurant on the same site.
According to his daughter, Kathleen Keleny, it was named after Sir Isaac Pitman, then vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.
The same proprietor ran the Pitman Health Food Co. (also called Pitman Reform Food Stores) at Aston Brook Street, Birmingham, advertising in 1909 as "The Largest Health Food Dealers in the World".
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 European Vegetarian Union News - Issue 3/98
I was born on the Isle of Wight in 1869 and came to Wolverhampton in 1885 where I was lucky enough to meet a keen elderly Vegetarian, Mr George Snape, who lived mainly on wholemeal biscuits and raisins and every weekend walked long distances with the energy of youth.
Vegetarian meals were an immediate success hundreds of people lunched with us daily, and many of the hotel visitors became Vegetarians.
At Christmas we made Vegetarian Christmas puddings in various sizes, and hundreds of small ones were distributed free to the crowds of children who queued out-side the gates of the factory.
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 Birmingham Mi Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Redmont Hotel - The Redmont Hotel and Residences is a 14 story (160 foot, 60 meter) tall, 114-room hotel, residence and conference center located on the corner of 5th Avenue North and 21st Street in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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 Food & Drink In Birmingham Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ AlienArtifacts.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He also wanted to prove that free labour could be made profitable (the Sturge family were instrumental in the anti-slavery movement).
In 1896, a new building was built in Corporation Street to house James Henry Cook's vegetarian restaurant, one of the first in England.
In 1898, 'The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel', named after the famous vegetarian Sir Isaac Pitman, was opened on the same site, and the proprietors subsequently opened a long-running health food store.
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 EZGeography - Birmingham
In 1896, a new building was built in Corporation Street by the supervision of a pioneering vegetarian by the name of James Henry Cook, this was to become the first ever Vegetarian Hotel and Restaurant in England and possibly the world.
Subsequently in 1898 'The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel' was opened, named after Sir Isaac Pitman, who was a famous Vegetarian.
Birmingham is home to a wide variety of Asian eateries which have served the people of Birmingham since the 1950's, the Wing Yip food empire first began in the city and now has its headquarters in the Chinese Quarter along with many other fine oriental restaurants.
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 European Vegetarian Union News - 1847-1997 Vegetariarism
This organisation merged with The Vegetarian Society in 1885 and became its London Branch, but there was some friction and in 1888, the London Branch broke away and became a second national society, The London Vegetarian Society, with its own magazine, The Vegetarian.
National Vegetarian Day was first organised in 1991 and proved to be so popular, that it grew into National Vegetarian Week and has been held every year since, culminating this year in our first ever VegFest, held at Castlefields, Manchester.
On September 30th a party will be held in the Mayfair InterContinental Hotel in London and on Saturday 4th October a Gala Dinner will be taking place in Salford, a joint event with Salford City Council because of their early involvement in the movement, and part of the Society’s AGM and social weekend.
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 William Dailey Rare Books, Ltd. - Medicine
Cocchi cites this lack of vegetables as the primary cause of the plague at Athens in 430 B.C. and as a participating cause in all subsequent plagues.
He was a fervent vegetarian, and his work on Pythagoras quotes the firm opinion of Bachstrom (1734) that scurvy is caused by insufficient eating of vegetables.
He also addresses vegetarianism, which he considers natural for some but viable only when adopted from youth.
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 Deluxe Hotel England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Guns and Butter Blog: February 2006
Joanna Pitman estimates in On Blondes that only one in 20 white adult Americans is a genuine blond, yet one in three adult American females has the look.
Hotels could also set aside no more than 25 percent of their rooms for smokers.
The idea of a vegetarian hunter is, most will admit, a rather odd one; after all, hunting, in its primal form, is supposed to be about putting food on the table.
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 Home Fresh:Category Top/Home/Cooking/Vegetarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Flexitarianism is the practice of being flexible about the degree one practices vegetarianism or veganism.
In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word, and defined it as "a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat."Why FlexitarianismEthically, flexitarians tend not to lean towards vegetarianism due to animal rights concerns, as there would be a stringent moral rule involved.
Other members of their household are vegetarian and flexitarian diet is more convenient.
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 Books and Links about Pitman Shorthand
on Pitman shorthand, with explanatory audio clips.  They claim they can cover the basics with 15 days of study.  I have not yet reviewed the course to see how well they have organized practice and the finer points of Pitman, but all the features of Pitman seem to be there.
Books on Pitman are not easy to find: these are what I found.  Each book may exist in several editions from different countries and years.  When you find one, here are some things to keep in mind.
Readers are cautioned that my presentation of a Web-site does not confirm that the stenography method discussed is the dominant or most-used one for that language.  I can't read most of these languages.  The opinions of advocates of a stenography method, or their ideas of stenography philosophy, are strictly their own.
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 Kansas City - Best Of - Food (2006) - pitch.com
Benton's, on top of the Westin Crown Center Hotel, is the exception to this rule....
A lifetime confined to eating at ethnic restaurants that share parking lots with nail salons would be a life spent pretty well.
If the Vietnam Café's nondescript brick building looks like an old roadhouse, that's because it was a raucous saloon for many years before owner Brian Lam lightened up the interior and put Saigon souvenir-shop dolls on the bar shelves.
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 CPF Headline News
He said that the industry had been "profoundly hurt and disrupted," and that "a completely unjustified sort of total panic" was developing.
Pitman Farms seeks plant manager - -Pitman Farms is seeking a qualified Plant Manager.
"Their goal is for everyone to be a vegetarian." The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco Superior Court against the California State Board of Equalization, which oversees the sales tax, and state Controller Steve Westly, who serves on the board.
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 Department of Geology, University at Buffalo
Vegetarian plates will be available by special order only.
Speakers have been allotted 40 minutes (25 minutes of presentation followed by 15 minutes of lively discussion), giving everyone a unique opportunity to share important details and subtleties of their work - the sort of thing that there is never time for at standard conferences.
The technical conference will be held at the Ramada's The University Inn and Conference Center (Phone: 716-636-7500, and Fax: 716-636-8296), adjacent to the University at Buffalo 's North Campus, where we currently have a block of rooms on hold.
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 WCSA
- The George Hotel is ideal for fishing parties, with deep freeze facilities and early breakfasts available also on request.
Prices include a full English Breakfast, although a vegetarian breakfast is available on request (please give 24 hours notice).
Hotel guests receive a 10% discount off any evening meal in Georgio’s restaurant.
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 Birmingham Heart Diet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Also included is a special chapter on vegetarian eating.
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 OnMilwaukee.com - Dining
Performance is in the Pitman Theater of Alverno College.
In celebration of our ongoing relationship, Alverno Presents is co-commissioning two new works from Ben that promise to define that singular moment in an artist’s career when early promise blossoms into mature artistry.
Her own compositions, notably songs set to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Pablo Neruda, confidently extend these influences beyond the boundaries of bossa nova, offering solid roots in jazz, world music, and classical repertoire.
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