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Hace 4 días · A summary of the career stats for John Turner, a rugby league player who played for the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls.
Hace 5 días · John Turner spent an exciting seven years putting up new routes and becoming an important part of climbing communities in Quebec, Ontario, and the northeastern U.S., and earned recognition in other areas of North America; for example, as Chic Scott notes, “In 1958, the classic northeast ridge of Bugaboo Spire was climbed in only ...
Hace 4 días · John Napier is best known as the inventor of logarithms and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics.
Hace 4 días · Designer John Napier would mastermind the set: it featured race tracks going all the way into the audience (including the upper tiers) at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, and a six-tonne steel...
Hace 2 días · Napier Affair. In late 1834, to accommodate the revocation of the East India Company's monopoly, the British sent Lord William John Napier to Macau along with John Francis Davis and Sir George Best Robinson, 2nd Baronet, as British superintendents of trade in China.
Hace 1 día · John Richetti, ‘Poetic Performances: Pope’s An Essay on Man and Swift’s “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”’ (pp. 153–68), considers those two poems as ‘performances’ in verse, following Johnson’s remark in the Life of Pope that the Essay on Man was a ‘work of great labour and long consideration, but certainly not the happiest of Pope’s performances’ (p. 153).
Hace 2 días · Lieutenant-General Sir William Babtie (1859—1920), Royal Army Medical Corps; Major-General Anthony Bacon (1796—1864); General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock (1844—1907), quartermaster-general, Indian Army; Major-General John Michael Watson Badcock (1922—2020), Royal Corps of Signals Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857—1941), GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division
