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    HMS Eminent (W 116) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II. Eminent was laid down on 22 May 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding...
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  • organ manufacturer HMS Eminent (W 116), a Royal Navy tugboat All pages with titles containing Eminent Eminence (disambiguation) Eminent domain, the power...
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    Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections...
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  • Research (BIR), composed of a three-man central committee supported by an eminent consulting panel. The remits of Section II of the panel, the members of...
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    Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he commanded the destroyer HMS Kelly and the 5th Destroyer Flotilla. He saw considerable action in Norway...
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    However, it was his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 that truly established Darwin as an eminent geologist. The observations and theories...
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    tons (1,600 t). An Admiralty hopper barge named W.24 was converted to carry a Conundrum, and named HMS Persephone. It was a twin-screw vessel 200-foot...
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  • South African Universities". "Home". sggs.co.za. Naval History: HMS Venetia (D 53) – V & W-class Destroyer Additional references Adeleye, Gabriel G. (1999)...
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    together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent scientist who had accompanied Lieutenant James Cook on his 1770 voyage...
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    Fay (2000) p. 252 Fay (2000) pp. 288, 289 Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "Index" . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing...
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    Commander-in-Chief (1902–1909) of the Army in India saw him quarrel with another eminent proconsul, the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who eventually resigned. Kitchener...
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    maps of the globe were available by the 1890s. Liberalism became the pre-eminent reform movement in Europe. Slavery was greatly reduced around the world...
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    would safeguard freedom and prosperity. He warned the nation of three eminent dangers: regionalism, partisanship, and foreign entanglements, and said...
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    St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, W. p. 453: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909. Smith, Gordon, ed. (23 September 2009). "HMS Jervis (F.00) – J-class Flotilla...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-822152-4. Figes 2010, p. 11. Lincoln, W. Bruce (1981). The Romanovs. New York: Dial Press. pp. 114–116. ISBN 978-0-385-27187-5. Bell, James Stanislaus...
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    India, 10 October 1921 GCIE: Extra Knight Grand Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, 10 October 1921 Recipient of the Royal Victorian...
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    Retrieved 22 September 2021. "HMS - ViewItem". www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 22 September 2021. "HMS - ViewItem". www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved...
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    Penn FRS (1805–1878) was an English marine engineer whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the 19th century due to his innovations in engine and...
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    Retrieved 25 July 2023. "Faster satellite detection of extreme wildfires eminent". Mirage News. Retrieved 14 August 2023. "Wildfire startup puts AI-powered...
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    Caird Society. Retrieved 19 August 2008. Huntford 1985, pp. 689–690. "Eminent Old Alleynians: Sir Ernest Shackleton". Dulwich College. Archived from...
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    Prime Minister in 2021. Other women in politics include Samoan scholar and eminent professor Aiono Fanaafi Le Tagaloa, orator-chief Matatumua Maimoana and...
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    unsystematized, knowledge gathered at first-hand through talking to all sorts of eminent men. His tastes were not particularly elevated, but they were thoroughly...
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    of HMS 'Resolution'". Cambridge Digital Library. Archived from the original on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2013. William, Bayly. "Log book of HMS Adventure"...
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    civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them...
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    it was "not in the public interest" for this fact to be revealed. The eminent barrister Sir Hartley Shawcross finally persuaded him to withdraw his lawsuit...
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    Avoidance of the American Revolution", What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley (New York: Berkley...
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    the vessels included on this list are distinguished by: Being of pre-eminent national or regional significance Spanning the spectrum of UK maritime...
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    and martyrdom, and inspiration from English poets. Pearse equated his eminent execution, and that of Robert Emmet, with the death of Jesus Christ; patriotism...
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    dispatched HMS Repulse and diverted HMS Emerald to Haifa, which arrived the same day and landed five platoons, one to each police district. HMS Repulse relieved...
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    leadership of Charles Masterman in September 1914. The Bureau enlisted eminent writers such as H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling as well...
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