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Rotherham
Rotherham , city (1991 pop. 122,374) and metropolitan district, N England, at the confluence of the Don and Rother rivers. Situated in a principal coal district, the city manufactures steel, brass, clothing, electrical equipment, chemicals, glass, and beer. On an old bridge over the Don is a... Read more |
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South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Sheffield conurbation and comprised four metropolitan districts: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield. South Yorkshire was abolished in 1986, and the... Read more |
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William Jefferson Hague
William Jefferson Hague hāg , 1961-, British politician, leader (1997-2001) of the Conservative party , b. Rotherham, Yorkshire. After graduating from Oxford, he worked briefly in industry, then (1989) won election to Parliament. In 1995, Conservative prime minister John Major named Hague... Read more |
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
MOSELEY, HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS (b. Weymouth. Dorsetshire, England, 23 November 1887; d. Gelibolu, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 10 August 1915) physics. Like his friends Julian Huxley and Charles Galton Darwin. Harry Moseley came from a family long distinguished for its contributions to science. His... Read more |
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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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periodic table
periodic table chart of the elements arranged according to the periodic law discovered by Dmitri I. Mendeleev and revised by Henry G. J. Moseley . In the periodic table the elements are arranged in columns and rows according to increasing atomic number (see the table entitled Periodic Table... Read more |
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage , 1792-1871, English mathematician and inventor. He devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune and a government subsidy in an attempt to perfect a mechanical calculating machine that foreshadowed present-day machines. He was a founder of the Royal Astronomical... Read more |
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atomic number
atomic number often represented by the symbol Z, the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom , as well as the number of electrons in the neutral atom. Atoms with the same atomic number make up a chemical element . Atomic numbers were first assigned to the elements c.1913 by H. G. J.... Read more |
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Carol Moseley-Braun
Carol Moseley Braun 1947– Politician, lawyer Entered Illinois State Politics Thomas Appointment Sparked Senate Run Candidacy Helped by Opponents’ Fighting Primary Victory Seen as Powerful Symbol Won Election Despite Controversy Reelection Thwarted By Mistakes Became Educator and... Read more |
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Walter Garstang
GARSTANG, WALTER(b. Blackburn, England, 9 February 1868; d. Oxford, England, 23 February 1949)zoology.Garstang, the son of Walter Garstang, a doctor, intended to read medicine when he entered Oxford in 1884. Influenced by Henry N. Moseley, professor of zoology, he soon changed his mind and took his... Read more |
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Rugby Union: Moseley aiming for treble tops
...treble tomorrow as Moseley bid to win at Old...same way,' said Moseley playing director...last weekend, Moseley took advantage...suffering a 47-3 mauling against Rotherham a fortnight ago...White. 'It has ... |
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Moseley aiming for treble tops.(Rugby Union)
...treble tomorrow as Moseley bid to win at Old...same way,' said Moseley playing director...last weekend, Moseley took advantage...suffering a 47-3 mauling against Rotherham a fortnight ago...White. 'It has ... |