John Peake Knight (13 December 1828 – 23 July 1886) was an English railway manager and inventor, credited with inventing the traffic light in 1868. Knight...
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two-lens, red/green traffic signal was invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight, though after a short test installation, traffic lights were not seen...
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Street, Westminster, London, in December 1868. It was the idea of John Peake Knight, a railway engineer, who thought that it would provide a means to...
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Tales of Dunk and Egg (redirect from Hedge Knight)
demands that Bloodraven reward Glendon, Duncan, and the other hedge knights. Gormon Peake is beheaded for treason. For surrendering to Bloodraven without...
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Productions. Albums of Don Peake's scores have also been issued. The intro throughout most of the episodes began with this narration: Knight Rider, a shadowy flight...
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Manager John Peake Knight (1869–1870) – Traffic Manager John Peake Knight (1870–1886) general manager Sir Allen Sarle (1886–1897) general manager John Francis...
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Street, working to the designs of the South-Eastern Railway engineer John Peake Knight. In 1875 firm brought out its first mechanical brake, which gave more...
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Street, Westminster, London, in December 1868. It was the idea of John Peake Knight, a railway engineer, who thought that it would provide a means to...
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gas-lit) installed outside London's Houses of Parliament; invented by John Peake Knight (1828–1886). c. 1870: "Ariel", a penny-farthing bicycle, developed...
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funeral, Robert Peake is called "Mr Peake the elder painter", and William Peake, "Mr Peake the younger painter". Peake's grandson Sir Robert Peake (sometimes...
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Earthquakes in London. In February and March 2011, he starred opposite Maxine Peake in The Deep Blue Sea at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. He had roles National...
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in Basing House under the command of John Paulet, 5th Marquis of Winchester. On 28 March 1645, Peake was knighted by Charles I for his military service...
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he did not officially retire until 1822. He was knighted by the Prince Regent on 25 June 1814. Peake died in 1825. He was married to Sarah Ladd. They...
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was a British painter, sculptor and writer, and the wife of author Mervyn Peake. Gilmore was born in 1917 and brought up in Brixton, south London, where...
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in suppressing the Ikhwan revolt. In 1939, Glubb succeeded Frederick G. Peake as the commander of the Arab Legion (subsequently known as the Jordan Royal...
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Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland (category Knights of the Garter)
Catherine, married as his second wife, Sir John Constable. A second portrait of Catherine by Robert Peake the Elder, dated 1590, resides at Burton Constable...
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Rider, Vol. 6 (PRD 084) by Don Peake Knight Rider, Vol. 5 (PRD 083) by Don Peake Knight Rider, Vol. 4 (PRD 082) by Don Peake Trophy Heads (PRD 081) by Richard...
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percussion John Barnes – keyboards, percussion Paulinho da Costa, Bob Zimmitti, Gary Coleman – percussion James Gadson – drums David Blumberg, Don Peake, Sam...
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Tessa Peake-Jones with whom he has two children. He subsequently married American wigmaker Amanda Miller. "Only Fools And Horses actors Tessa Peake-Jones...
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Laurence Olivier James Ottaway Indra Ové John Owen-Jones David Oxley Rachel Parris Richard Pasco Tom Payne Tessa Peake-Jones Neil Pearson Stjepan Perić Mouche...
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Hutcherson – vibes Joe Sample – organ Bill Henderson III – electric piano Don Peake – guitar Greg Poree – guitar (tracks 1 & 2) David T. Walker – guitar (track...
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Allen Peake (born February 17, 1961) is an American politician. He previously served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 141st...
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Shadow" (1999) and as Caroline Halsey in "Days of Misrule" (2008). Tessa Peake-Jones played Sarah Lawton in "Faithful unto Death" (1998), and Mary Appleton...
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Archived from the original on January 8, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2021. Peake, Eleanor (October 12, 2021). "Birds aren't real and this man wants the world...
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holiday in Cozumel, Mexico, with her sons and her boyfriend, musician James Knight. On 18 December 2000, she and her sons went diving at the Chankanaab reef...
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Judanovich (voice) (final film role) Love and Mr Lewisham (1972) – Mr Edwin Peake Baynes ITV Playhouse (1972) – Hugh Randolph Upstairs, Downstairs (1973)...
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the events of an earlier episode, "The Unlucky Winner Is...", with Rodney. John Sullivan's sister-in-law Penny was the inspiration behind the script, as...
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Stephen Fry (redirect from Stephen John Fry)
serial Gormenghast, which was adapted from the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. In the 1994 romantic comedy film I.Q., he played the...
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You") – Ivy Knight & Daye – David Michael Frank Knight Rider – Glen A. Larson and Stu Phillips (later arrangement of theme was done by Don Peake) Knots Landing...
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Michael Moorcock (redirect from Michael John Moorcock)
after a long illness. Moorcock abandoned a memoir about his friends Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore because he felt it was too personal. He wrote prose and...
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