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"eiderdown" Definitions
  1. a thick, warm cover for a bed, filled with feathers or other soft material, and usually placed on top of a sheet and blankets

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Today, we're supposed to be thinking of EIDERdown, the noun.
Eiderdown is a common material used in bedding and winter clothing.
BOCE already trades a variety of textile products including cotton, cashmere, goose feathers and eiderdown.
The bedding is made of Eiderdown feathers harvested from the abandoned nests mother Eider ducks use to keep their eggs warm.
On loan from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, these include a fluffy eiderdown nest; a swift's nest of sticks, held together with saliva; a hummingbird's nest, just an inch and a half in diameter; and a common yellowthroat's nest, nestled in an old shoe.
The eider's nest is built close to the sea and is lined with eiderdown, plucked from the female's breast. This soft and warm lining has long been harvested for filling pillows and quilts, but in more recent years has been largely replaced by down from domestic farm-geese and synthetic alternatives. Although eiderdown pillows or quilts are now a rarity, eiderdown harvesting continues and is sustainable, as it can be done after the ducklings leave the nest with no harm to the birds. The scientific name of the duck is derived from Ancient Greek sōma "body" and erion "wool", and Latin mollissimus "very soft", all referring to its down feathers.
She is remembered as one of the first women polar explorers. There has been renewed interest in the 21st century in her work on eiderdown production.
Eiders () are large seaducks in the genus Somateria. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek sōma "body" and erion "wool", referring to eiderdown. The three extant species all breed in the cooler latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The down feathers of eider ducks, and some other ducks and geese, are used to fill pillows and quilts--they have given the name to the type of quilt known as an eiderdown.
An eponymous album by Augenmusik, an offshoot project of Metabolismus, was released on cassette by Eiderdown in 2015. A solo record,The Gilded Raid, was released by Drawing Room Records in 2016.
At home in Hamburg again, they enjoy great acclaim; Professor Lidenbrock is hailed as one of the great scientists of the day, Axel marries his sweetheart Grauben, and Hans returns to his peaceful, eiderdown-hunting life in Iceland.
By setting up nesting shelters and killing the predators of the birds, locals under her leadership were able to collect of eiderdown over a five year period. Demme completed her dissertation, Гнездовые колонии гаги обыкновенной на Новой Земле и организация гагачьего хозяйства (Nesting Colonies of the Common Eider on Novaya Zemlya and the Organization of the Eiderdown Economy) in 1946, earning her Candidate's Degree in biology. Demme was made an associate professor in 1949, but did not like the confinement of the classroom. She continued to hire small commercial vessels to allow her to study wildlife in the Arctic into the 1950s.
This song is one of three known Pink Floyd songs to refer to an eiderdown, (better known to Americans as a comforter). The other two songs are "Julia Dream", the B-side to a 1968 single, and "A Pillow of Winds" from the Meddle album.
Dunøyane and Dunøysundet. Dunøyane is a group of islands north of Hornsund, outside Wedel Jarlsberg Land at the western coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The island group is a nesting site for barnacle goose, common eider and Arctic tern. Hunters used to collect eiderdown at the islands.
Worried about his wife, the husband inquired with the neighbours, including Cyppek. While there, he noticed Irena's dress, and through the window he saw his eiderdown. He reported the matter to the militia. When officers arrived, they did not find the culprit, who was at the cinema.
Written by bassist Roger Waters, "Julia Dream" is characterised by the slow tempo, the airy, ambient Mellotron sounds from keyboardist Richard Wright and lush chorus vocals. The song's lyrics include reference to an eiderdown, an item also mentioned in two other known Pink Floyd songs – Syd Barrett's "Flaming" and Gilmour/Waters's "A Pillow of Winds".
Cassin began designing and producing mountaineering equipment in Lecco in 1947 when he produced his first rock pitons. In 1948 he produced his first hammers; his first ice axes appeared in 1949; and 1950 saw the introduction of his carabiners. That same year he produced the "first eiderdown duvet jackets for non-European mountaineering expeditions",The story of the Cassin company. cassin.it these going into production two years later.
The first down jacket, then known as an "eiderdown coat", was designed by Australian chemist George Finch for the 1922 Everest expedition and made by SW Silver and Co. It was bright green, composed of hot-air balloon fabric. Finch's jacket was initially mocked by other members of the party, but later won respect for its effectiveness in the windy mountain environment. Since this time many fashion designers have adapted and commercialized the concept of the puffer jacket.
He has been Bley's romantic partner since the 1980s. He toured extensively with John Scofield in the early 1980s, and has returned to this collaboration several times over the years. Swallow has consistently won the electric bass category in Down Beat yearly polls, both Critics' and Readers', since the mid-80s. His compositions have been covered by, among others, Jim Hall (who recorded his very first tune, "Eiderdown"), Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Stan Getz and Gary Burton.
Wiessner and Wolfe purchased mountaineering equipment in Europe where, in those days, there was a much wider choice than in America. They bought the best available – Wolfe was paying most of the bills which were over and above the official expenses. They obtained strong but heavy tents, inflatable mattresses, Primus stoves, nailed boots and eiderdown sleeping bags. They obtained the best ropes of the time made of Italian hemp which, being water absorbent, become heavy and almost impossible to manipulate when frozen.
For Coward, the staff made history by taking the first photographs of a hotel guest's toilet articles so that they could lay them out in his bathroom exactly as he liked them. They made sure to provide a fireproof eiderdown quilt to Barrymore, as he always smoked while reading in bed. Bob Dylan stayed in the hotel in 1965 and filmed the video clip "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in an adjacent alley. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh met at the hotel.
Vigur, pictured in September 2009 Vigur windmill, pictured in July 2011 Vigur is the second largest island of the Ísafjarðardjúp fjord in Westfjords, Iceland. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, the island is around in length and in width. The island is most noted for its thriving seabird colonies - particularly Atlantic Puffins - traditional eiderdown production and historical buildings. The two story Viktoriuhús, built in 1860, is one of the oldest timber buildings in Iceland and is part of The Historical Buildings Collection of Þjóðminjasafn Íslands.
A special edition of the album was subsequently released in America, with the following track list: #"Aeropause" – 5:04 #"Goshen's Remains" – 5:45 #"Apprentice of the Universe" – 4:16 #"The Bright Ambassadors of Morning" – 11:56 #"Nimos & Tambos" – 3:44 #"Voices in Winter / In the Realms of the Divine" – 6:35 #"Bullitts Dominæ" – 5:22 #"Arrival / The Intention Craft" – 8:53 #"He Tried to Show Them Magic! / Ambassadors Return" – 5:17 #"Asleep Under Eiderdown" – 3:00 The last song appears as a hidden track after about 5 minutes of silence.
Two brothers rode together, a poor one on a mare, a rich one on a stallion. The mare gave birth in the night, and the foal went under the rich brother's cart, so he claimed the cart had given birth to it. The emperor heard of their dispute at law and summoned them to ask them riddles: what were the swiftest, fattest, softest, and loveliest things in the world? The rich man went to his godmother and got answers: her husband's bay mare, a pig that they had been fattening, eiderdown, and her baby nephew.
On the night of 2–3 January 1929, the artist Frederick (Fred) Atkinson, aged 20, killed himself by coal gas poisoning at his studio at Blomfield Road, Maida Hill, London. He was found on the floor with a tube near his mouth and his head covered in an eiderdown. At the inquest into Atkinson's death, it was explained that he was the son of a Rotherham coal miner. He had been dining with Mrs Mabel Fredericke, an art dealer of the King's Galleries, when he spotted Dolores and expressed a wish to paint her.
She did not return to the Kandalaksha Reserve, though others continued to study eider chicks there. Though she was not involved, her experimental eiderdown farms operated until 1954, when they were closed and the native inhabitants of Novaya Zemlya were removed in preparation for nuclear tests. In 1959, she retired and wrote her autobiography. She was allowed to buy a summer house on the Black Sea coast and chose a place between Sochi and Tuapse near Volkonskaya, where she built a home and an extensive garden, which had various kinds of flowers and trees.
When the BX was completed, she had three decks, with stateroom accommodation for 70 passengers and could also carry another 60 deck passengers. The staterooms featured steam heat, hot and cold running water, fine quality bedding and attractive wall and floor coverings. Her dining room could seat 50 and was lavishly furnished, right down to the plates, which were specially ordered from England and monogrammed in the BX Company's colors: red, yellow and white. Off the ladies cabin above the covered paddlewheel a bridal chamber was built, which contained, among other luxuries, a double brass bed and a silk eiderdown worth $150.
Premier Richard McBride traveled on the BX in her sumptuous bridal suite, which featured, among other luxuries, a double brass bed with a silk eiderdown. She was the only steamer that could advertise a bi-weekly service from Soda Creek to Fort George. On Sunday and Wednesday mornings, she would leave Soda Creek at the break of dawn, usually 3am, and would reach Quesnel around noon. After unloading the mail and supplies for that town she would continue upriver until dark, tying up at a woodpile where her crew would have an opportunity to load more fuel aboard.
In an interview in 2000, shortly after Reggie's death, Freddie Foreman revealed that McVitie had a reputation for leaving carnage behind him due to his habitual consumption of drugs and heavy drinking, and his having threatened to harm the twins and their family.The Murders of the Black Museum: 1980-1970 pp. 546-547 Tony and Chris Lambrianou and Ronnie Bender helped clear up the evidence of this crime, and attempted to assist in the disposal of the body. With McVitie's body being too big to fit in the boot of the car, the body was wrapped in an eiderdown and put in the back seat of a car.
Daisy had her own house, a fold-up country cottage with one room divided by a split level floor for the bedroom area, and a sloped roof, printed inside with windows and wallpaper and outside with stone walls, windows and greenery. Furniture included round 1970s-style kitchen table and chairs, white with pedestal bases which were based on the Eero Saarinen "Tulip" chairs and table, it had a complete set of crockery and cutlery, plus a bowl of flowers, napkins and two paper table cloths. Daisy also had a kitchen sink with orange doors a 'tiled' white back splash and hot water boiler, a stove, again white with orange bottom drawer and set of pans. In the bedroom there is a 'Victorian' range of furniture: a bed made of brass look plastic with two sheets, a pillow and eiderdown in white nylon with pink roses all over, a dressing table with swivel mirror and working (battery) oil lamp, and a wardrobe.

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