The farmland descends to the Stoke Saltings – a maze of intricate channels and small islands beloved by wading birds.
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It was under his directorship that the museum acquired the Salting collection, the Rodin sculptures (now transferred to the Tate Gallery), the Talbot Hughes collection of costumes, the Alma Tadema library, the Le Blon Korean pottery and the Pierpoint Morgan stained glass.
Salting was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Severin Knud Salting (in English 'Severin Kanute Salting'), a Dane who had large interests in New South Wales, and in 1858 made a gift of £500 to the University of Sydney to found scholarships to be awarded to students proceeding from Sydney Grammar School.
To this early period belong the St John of the Richard von Kaufmann collection in Berlin and the Salting's St Jerome.
He was educated at Choate, graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, and also graduated from Oxford University, but spent his summers working for the Heinz Company in the pickling and salting stations, as bookkeeper and as handyman.
Columella's De Re Rustica (circa 65 CE) details a cheesemaking process involving rennet coagulation, pressing of the curd, salting, and aging.
Security experts criticized LinkedIn for not salting their password file, and instead using a single iteration of SHA-1.