The History of Hot Sauce

A list of famous dates in hot sauce history 1807 - 1994. From the Austin Chronicle here

1807 The first bottled cayenne sauces appear in Massachusetts.
1860 J. McCollick & Company of New York City produces Bird Pepper Sauce in large cathedral bottles.
1849 The first recorded crop of tabasco chiles is grown by a prominent Louisiana banker and legislator, Colonel Maunsell White
1859 Colonel White manufactures the first hot sauce from the "Tobasco" chiles and advertises bottles of it for sale. Edmund McIlhenny plants some of Colonel White's seeds on his plantation on Avery Island.
1863 McIlhenny and his family abandon Avery Island to take refuge in San Antonio, Texas during the Civil War.
1868 McIlhenny packages his aged sauce in 350 used cologne bottles and sends them as samples to likely wholesalers. The sauce is so popular that orders pour in for thousands of bottles.
1870 McIlhenny obtains a patent on his Tabasco® Brand hot pepper sauce.
1898 another Louisiana entrepreneur (and former McIlhenny employee) founds B.F. Trappey and Sons and begins producing his own sauce, which is also called "Tabasco."
1906 The McIlhenny family trademarks the Tabasco brand
1916 Charles E. Erath of New Orleans begins manufacturing Extract of Louisiana Pepper, Red Hot Creole Peppersauce.
1918 La Victoria Foods begins manufacturing Salsa Brava in Los Angeles, California.
1923 Baumer Foods of Louisiana introduces Crystal Hot Sauce.
1928 Bruce Foods starts making Original Louisiana Hot Sauce.
1941 Henry Tanklage forms La Victoria Sales Company and introduces red taco sauce, green taco sauce, and enchilada sauce -- the first of their kind in the United States.
1947 David Pace begins to sell picante sauce in Texas. "In '47, my sauce bottles exploded all over the grocery shelves because I couldn't get the darned formula right," the founder of Pace Picante Sauce remembers.
1955 La Preferida begins manufacting a line of salsas.
1975 Patti Swidler of Tucson, Arizona launches Desert Rose Salsa, a line designed to be sold in gourmet shops.
1979 Dan Jardine begins production of Jardine's commercial salsa, launching Austin's reputation (disputed by San Antonio) as the hot sauce capital of America.
1990 Austin beats San Antonio in the first Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest. Several contest winners go on to bottle their winning sauces, setting off a hot sauce explosion in Austin.
1992 Salsa replaces ketchup as America's number one condiment in dollar sales.
1993 Kitty Crider of the Austin American-Statesman counts 48 commercial salsas being made in Austin.
1994 With over 350 hot sauces entered, The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest claims the title of the largest hot sauce contest in the world.

British Potato Seeds

From the British Potato Council's British Seed Variety Online Handbook. You can search for seeds using various criteria like flower colour, number of flowers, stalk length and shape of tuber. This is a list of seeds that produce plants with purple flowers.

Accord (New Variety)
Adora
Arran Pilot
Atlantic
Avalanche
Celine
Charlotte
Claret
Colmo
Courage
Desiree
Hermes
King Edward
Lady Christl
Lady Rosetta
Maris Bard
Maris Peer
Maris Piper
Merlin
Midas
Morene
Nadine
Navan
Nieta
Osprey
Red Pontiac
Redgem
Rioja
Robinta
Romano
Rooster
Shannon
Shepody
Spey
Valor
Winston

A World of Beauty Pageants

From Missosology.org, "Analyzing Beauty Pageants".

Major Pageants

Miss Universe
Miss World
Miss Earth
Miss International
Miss Asia Pacific Int'l
Miss Intercontinental
Miss Tourism Queen Int'l
Manhunt International
Miss Ambar Mundial
Miss America Latina
Miss Antilles International
Miss Asia International
Miss Atlantico International
Miss Africa International
Miss Caribbean Hibiscus
Miss Europe
Miss Globe International
Miss India Worldwide
Miss International Queen
Miss Italia Nel Mondo
Miss Latina World
Miss Malaika International
Miss Mesoamerica
Miss Mundo Latino
Miss Silverbird International
Miss South Pacific
Miss World University
Miss Tourism International
Miss Tourism World
Mrs. Globe
Model of Models
Queen of the World
Reina Internacional del Cafe
Reina Sudamericana
Top Model of the World
World Coffee Queen

National Beauty Pageants

Asia

Miss World Australia
Miss Earth Australia
Miss Earth China
Miss Hong Kong
Femina Miss India
Puteri Indonesia
Miss Israel
Miss Universe Japan
Miss World Japan
Miss Korea
Miss Lebanon
Miss Malaysia
Miss Malaysia Earth
Miss Nepal
Miss New Zealand
Miss Earth New Zealand
Miss Pakistan World
Binibining Pilipinas
Miss Philippines
Miss Singapore Universe
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Miss Earth World
Miss Tahiti
Miss Thailand Universe
Miss Thailand World
Miss Tibet
Miss Earth Turkey
Miss Turkey
Miss Vietnam

Africa

Miss Algerie
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Miss Egypt
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Miss Mauritius
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Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria
Miss Earth Nigeria
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Miss Tanzania
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Miss Uganda
Miss Universe Zambia

Europe

Miss Belarus
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Miss BiH
Miss Bulgaria
Miss Universe Croatia
Star Cyprus
Miss Czech Republic
Czech Miss
Pretty Danish
Miss England
Estonia Eesti
Miss Suomi
Miss France
Comite Miss France
Miss Georgia
Miss Deutschland
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Miss Gibraltar
Star Hellas
Miss Universe Hungary
Miss World Hungary
Ungfru Island
Miss Ireland
Miss Universo Italia
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Miss Universe Latvia
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Miss Macedonia
Miss World Malta
Miss Moldova
Miss Nederland Universe
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Miss Netherlands Earth
Froken Norge
Miss Norway
Miss Northern Ireland
Miss Polonia
Miss Portugal
Miss Lusitania
Miss World Romania
Miss Universe Russia
Miss SCG
Miss Slovak Republic
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Miss España
Miss Sweden Universe
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Miss Wales

Americas

Belleza Argentina
Miss Earth Argentina
Miss Aruba
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Beleza Brasil
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Miss Cayman Islands
Miss Universo Chile
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Miss Earth Chile
Señorita Colombia
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Miss Costa Rica
Miss Int'l Curaçao
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Miss RD Tierra
Miss Ecuador
Bellezas Ecuatorianas
Reinas de El Salvador
Miss Guyana Universe
Miss Guyana
Belleza Honduras
Miss Jamaica World
Miss Martinique
Nuestra Belleza Mexico
Miss Nicaragua
Señorita Panamá
Miss Int'l Panama
Belleza Paraguaya
Corp. de la Belleza
Reinas del Peru
Expo Miss Peru
Miss PR Universe
Miss Mundo Puerto Rico
Bellezas del Turismo
Miss SVG
Miss Turks & Caicos
Miss USA
US Miss World
Miss USA International
Miss Earth USA
Miss Am. Virgin Islands
Miss Venezuela

Male Pageants

Mr. Intercontinental
Mr. International
Mr. World
Mr. Tourism World
Zeus Of The World

Grand Slam Male Pageants

Mister World
Manhunt International
Mister International