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Grahamite

Grahamite, also known as Pyrobitumen or Anthraxolite, is a bitumen-impregnated rock (asphaltite). It is a naturally occurring solid hydrocarbon bitumen

Grahamite

Sylvester Graham

American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer (1794–1851)

and John Harvey Kellogg, the founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Grahamite boarding houses were established in the 1830s to promote and practice

Sylvester Graham

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Graham cracker

Confectionery

the midst of the 1826–1837 cholera pandemic. His followers were called Grahamites and formed one of the first vegetarian movements in America; graham flour

Graham cracker

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History of vegetarianism

Church, preached vegetarianism. He and Sylvester Graham, the mentor of the Grahamites and inventor of the Graham crackers, were among the founders of the American

History of vegetarianism

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Impsonite

Bituminous substance

Impson Valley was later reclassified as grahamite, based on solubility and chemical similarities with the type grahamite of West Virginia. Impsonite: Definition

Impsonite

Fad diet

Diet with unscientific claims

women to his precepts. After his death in 1851, his followers, dubbed "Grahamites", most of them being women but also including famous men such as John

Fad diet

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Joel Shew

Historian Stephen Nissenbaum noted that "it is clear that Shew was a Grahamite before he discovered the water-cure". Both Shew and his wife were vegetarians

Joel Shew

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Pyrobitumen

Type of solid, amorphous organic matter

Venezuelan heavy oils, La Brea tar pits) to solid (e.g. gilsonite, ozocerite, grahamite, impsonite). Pyrobitumen is formed by thermal decomposition and molecular

Pyrobitumen

William Alcott

American physician (1798–1859)

Physiological Society (ASP) in 1837, with the purpose of “integrating a Grahamite lifestyle into a larger physiologically focused ideology.” The ASP sought

William Alcott

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William W. Averell

American general and diplomat (1832–1900)

was convinced of the potential of asphalt paving. As president of the Grahamite Asphalt Pavement Company, he began studying the existing product and procedures

William W. Averell

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Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site

US National Historic Site in Washington, D.C.

1877 they were replaced with rock from 1st to 6th Streets NW, and with grahamite asphalt from 6th to 15th Streets NW. The avenue was repaved in 1890 and

Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site