John Pounds (17 June 1766 – 1 January 1839) was a teacher and altruist born in Portsmouth, and the man most responsible for the creation of the concept...

commercial use. Multiple pounds based on the same ounce were quite common. In much of Europe, the apothecaries' and commercial pounds were different numbers...

ISBN 9780195418163. Pound:2. (in full pound sterling) (pl. same or pounds) the chief monetary unit of the UK and several other countries. "Pounds, shillings and...

that London branches included Peter Jones, John Barnes (now a branch of Waitrose & Partners), John Pound and Bon Marche. The "provincial branches" were...

Norman John Greville Pounds (23 February 1912 – 24 March 2006) was an English geographer and historian. He wrote over 30 books, primarily on the history...

The British five pound (£5) coin is a commemorative denomination of sterling coinage. As of October 2022, the obverse of new coins feature the profile...

the Parish Minister of St. John's Church in Edinburgh. On a visit to Anstruther in Fife, he saw a picture of John Pounds in Portsmouth and felt inspired...

The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Egyptian and Syrian pounds. The sign may be drawn with one or two bars depending...

Sir John Pound, 1st Baronet (27 June 1829 – 18 September 1915), was an English businessman, the owner of luggage manufacturer and retailer John Pound &...

twine is added to the ball. By 2006, the twine ball had reached 17,886 pounds (8,111 kg, 8.9 US tons), a circumference of 40 feet (12 m), and a length...

the history of technological achievement, accompanied by the words TWO POUNDS above, and the year of minting below. This was the first bi-metallic coin...

"Pia Pounds Tupaate features in show Young, Famous & African on Netflix". Pulse Uganda. Retrieved 11 April 2024. Benjie (20 March 2024). "Pia Pounds shares...

John Pound Store is a historic commercial building located in Plain Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana. It was built in 1838, and is a two-story, rectangular...

Published by John Rodker's The Ovid Press in June 1920, Pound's poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley marked his farewell to London, and by December the Pounds were subletting...

introduced which, for the first time, bore the words "pounds sterling" rather than just "pounds". The government of Gibraltar introduced a new series...

Pound Baronetcy, of Stanmore in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 August 1905 for John...

available. Adult migrants were charged only ten pounds sterling for the fare (hence the name; in 1945 pounds, equivalent to £545 in 2023), and migrant scheme...

John Haack is an American powerlifter. Haack is considered one of the greatest powerlifters of all time along with being the greatest pound-for-pound...

buildings including: Portsmouth Cathedral, Royal Garrison Church, The John Pounds Memorial Church (Unitarian), the Square Tower and Round Tower and Point...

Adam Pounds (born (1954-11-25)November 25, 1954) is a British composer and conductor, mostly active in Cambridge. Adam Pounds was born in Walthamstow,...

Manchester. He is best known for his memoir of the ragged schools originator John Pounds (1766—1839), to whom he was introduced in 1833, soon after arriving in...

the tallest person ever at the time. He weighed between 175 pounds (79 kg) and 205 pounds (93 kg), often billed in newspapers as the "negro giant" and...

John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

the son of Alfred John Pound, an Eton-educated barrister, by his marriage to Elizabeth Pickman Rogers, an American from Boston, Pound's maternal grandfather...

"30,000 Pounds of Bananas", sometimes spelled "Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas", is a folk rock song by Harry Chapin from his 1974 album, Verities &...

binge eat in response to professional struggles and weighed more than 300 pounds (140 kg) at some points in his life. Candy had a number of risk factors...

of a pounder." John was inspired by keyboardists in the 1960s such as Zoot Money, Graham Bond, Georgie Fame, Rod Argent and Gary Brooker. John has also...

system of one pound divided into twenty shillings, each of twelve silver pence.[citation needed] Parity with sterling was established by King John around 1210...

high-explosive warhead weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kg). Developed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, the Honest John was a large but simple fin-stabilized,...

original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2011. "The Current Best Pound-for-Pound MMA Fighters". Tapology MMA Rankings. Archived from the original on...