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Vor einem Tag · The department would go on to produce such luminaries as William John Macquorn Rankine, one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics. The university was also home to pioneering advancements in the humanities. The appointment of the Reverend John Stuart Blackie as Professor of Greek in 1852 helped revitalize the teaching of the classics ...
Vor 4 Tagen · In 1921 it was estimated that construction of St John the Divine would take 700 YEARS. A look at the plans that never came to be in this NYC That Never Was.
Vor 5 Tagen · William Francis Spicer, Esq., sold it, about the year 1804, to the late gallant Sir John Duckworth, K. B. and Bart., who greatly improved the house, and died there in 1817. It is now the residence of his widow: the property is vested in her son, Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Bart., a minor. The ruins of the old seat of the Hollands are to be seen about a mile from the present mansion, on the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In 1748 the buildings of the garden were put into a thorough state of repair. Dr. John Wilmer was appointed Demonstrator of Botany in the place of Joseph Miller, who had succeeded Isaac Rand in 1743. We shall see that Dr. Wilmer occupied Sir Francis Windham's house in Paradise Row (No. 3A) from 1758 to 1765.
Vor 5 Tagen · Sir John Johnson, elected in 1696. Sir William Withers, elected in 1698; served the office of sheriff in 1702, and that of lord-mayor in 1708. Sir Richard Brocas, elected in 1720; served the office of sheriff in 1729, and that of lord-mayor in 1730.
Vor 4 Tagen · Уильям Джон Макуорн Ранкин (англ. William John Macquorn Rankine) родился 5 июля 1820 года в Эдинбурге, в семье инженера. С 1836 года по 1838 год Уильям учился в Эдинбургском институте. За эти годы он ...
Vor 3 Tagen · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
