Sir Benjamin Baker
Sir Benjamin Baker 1840-1907, English civil engineer. He helped build London's underground railway, Tower Bridge, and the Blackwall Tunnel, and with Sir John Fowler he designed and built the bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. In Egypt he assisted with the first Aswan dam. Baker also designed the cylindrical ship used to carry the obelisk Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to London.
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Analysis: Annotated guide to Cole Porter's song "You're the Top"
Transcript from: NPR Special; 6/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...You're an old Dutch master, you're Mrs. Astor, you're... (Soundbite of a needle scratching a vinyl record) NOAH: Mrs. Astor is the viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, who became the first woman to serve in the...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/19/1997; 359 words
; ...Prevost, soldier and statesman, 1767; Dame Nellie Melba, singer, 1861; William Waldorf Astor, second Viscount Astor, 1879; Viscountess Astor (Nancy Witcher), 1879; Ho Chi-Minh, Vietnamese leader, 1890. Deaths: Alcuin, poet and scholar...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/15/1999; 337 words
; ...of the woman who later became Britain's Lady Astor. Were they related? What can you tell me about...Robert Gould Shaw II, born in 1872 -- who married Viscountess Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House...
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The legend that was nancy
Newspaper article from: Plymouth Evening Herald, The; 6/13/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...parents she was Nancy Witcher Langhorne. But...knows her as Lady Astor, the first woman...classes. But Nancy Astor was also a pioneering...book, Nancy, Lady Astor - Sunshine of Plymouth...was shaped by the viscountess. Vicky, an orphan...
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Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor Astor, Viscountess
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor Astor, Viscountess 1879-1964, British politician, b. Virginia. She was...went to England. There she was married (1906) to Waldorf Astor (see under Astor, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount...
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Astor, Nancy Witcher (Langhorne), Viscountess
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Astor, Nancy Witcher (Langhorne), Viscountess (1879–1964) British politician, b. USA, the...In the 1930s she and her husband Viscount William Waldorf Astor headed a group of influential proponents of appeasement toward...
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Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne, Viscountess
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne, Viscountess (1879–1964) US-born British Conservative politician. She became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons...
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