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rugby football
rugby football. William Webb Ellis is credited with inventing rugby in 1823 by picking up the ball while playing football at Rugby School and running with it. The claim is much disputed but there is little doubt that rugby developed at public schools out of a large-scale, few-rules, mauling scrum... Read more |
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William Ramsay
RAMSAY, WILLIAM (b. Glasgow, Scotland, 2 October 1852; d. Hazlemere [near High Wycombe], Buckinghamshire, England, 23 July 1916) physical chemistry. Ramsay is best known for his discovery and isolation of the family of inert gases of the atmosphere. For this experimental work, along with the... Read more |
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Auctions
AUCTIONS A sale open to the general public and conducted by an auctioneer, a person empowered to conduct such a sale, at which property is sold to the highest bidder. A bid is an offer by a bidder, a prospective purchaser, to pay a designated amount for the property on sale. A Dutch auction is a... Read more |
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David Ramsay
David Ramsay David Ramsay (1749-1815) was a second-line political figure of the American Revolution but a first-rate and most important contemporary historian of that epoch. David Ramsay was born in Pennsylvania on April 2, 1749, of substantial landowning parents. He graduated from the... Read more |
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Ramsay Youth Services Inc
Ramsay Youth Services, Inc. Columbus Center1 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 750Coral Gables, Florida 33134U.S.A.Telephone: (305)569-6993Fax: (305)569-4647Web site: http://www.ramsay.com http://www.ramsay.com Public Company Incorporated: 1983 as Healthcare Services of America, Inc.Employees:... Read more |
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Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay 1685?-1758, Scottish poet. An Edinburgh bookseller, he opened one of the first circulating libraries in Great Britain. The Gentle Shepherd (1725), a pastoral comedy, is his most famous poetic work. He compiled several collections of old Scottish poems and songs and is considered an... Read more |
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Sir Bertram Home Ramsay
Sir Bertram Home Ramsay 1883-1945, British admiral. A career naval officer who retired in 1938, he returned to the service in World War II to command British and Allied naval units in some of the most spectacular operations of the war. He directed the evacuation of Dunkirk (1940), led the Allied... Read more |
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James Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald, James Ramsay (1866–1937). Prime minister. Between 1900 and 1929 Ramsay MacDonald contributed more than any other individual to building the Labour Party into a credible, national party of government. Throughout his career he retained a consistent vision of a democratic socialist... Read more |
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Dalhousie
Dalhousie, Canada, India 1. Canada (New Brunswick): named after James Ramsay's father, George (1770–1838), 9th Earl of Dalhousie, and governor‐general of Canada (1819–28).2. India (Himachal Pradesh): named after James Ramsay (1812–60), 1st Marquess and 10th Earl of... Read more |
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Sothebys
Sotheby's. The oldest and largest firm of auctioneers in the world. It was founded by the London bookseller Samuel Baker, whose first recorded auction was in 1744. On his death in 1778, his estate was divided between his partner George Leigh and his nephew John Sotheby. The last of the... Read more |
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