• Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described...
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  • New York politician Gregg Wager (born 1958), American composer Harold Wager (1862–1929), British botanist Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist...
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    16 August 1935 by Augustine Courtauld, Jack Longland, Ebbe Munck and Lawrence Wager. It is named after Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, the first European to have sighted...
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    1933 expedition was unsuccessful, although in two separate attempts Lawrence Wager and Percy Wyn-Harris, and then F. S. Smythe, set an altitude record...
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  • Urvantsev Georgy Ushakov Merkury Vagin Boris Vilkitsky Vladimir Vize Lawrence Wager Paul Walker Carl Frederick Wandel Gino Watkins Richard Weber James Weddell...
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  • Thorarinsson Medal, in honor of Sigurdur Thorarinsson (1912–1983) Wager Medal, in honor of Lawrence Wager (1904–1965) Fisher Medal, in honor of Richard V. Fisher...
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  • conserved to the south. The Skaergaard intrusion was first discovered by Lawrence Wager on his Arctic Air-Route Expedition in 1930. In 1933, the first aerial...
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    during the 1933 British Mount Everest expedition, Percy Wyn-Harris and Lawrence Wager commenced their summit attempt from Camp VI, at 27,490 ft (8,380.4 m)...
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    the Gunnbjørnsfjeld, the actual highest summit in Greenland. In 1935 Lawrence Wager, who had been earlier with Watkins' 1930 expedition returned to East...
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    1508 1568 Physician P. K. van der Byl 1923 1999 Rhodesian politician Lawrence Wager 1904 1965 Geologist, explorer and mountaineer Wavell Wakefield, 1st...
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  • Antarctic Survey; Lead Author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Lawrence Wager FRS – Professor of Geology at Durham University Philip Woodworth (Hatfield)...
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  • 1939), British marine geologist, geophysicist, plate tectonics pioneer Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist and explorer, discovered the Skaergaard...
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    Julian Pearce David Pugh Ros Rickaby FRS Adam Sedgwick Fred Vine FRS Lawrence Wager FRS Gino Watkins Kathryn Whaler OBE Leonard Wills Sir James Wordie CBE...
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    assault camp was placed than in 1924. On the first summit attempt, Lawrence Wager and Percy Wyn-Harris intended to follow the Northeastern ridge, but...
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  • demonstrated the viability of ascending without oxygen. In the 1960s, Lawrence Wager concluded that the 25 May photos were taken above the Second Step by...
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  • Compurgation (redirect from Wager of law)
    Compurgation, also called trial by oath, wager of law, and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his...
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  • climbing parties reached approximately the same point as Norton; first Lawrence Wager and Percy Wyn-Harris, and later Frank Smythe, but there was no advance...
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  • Ann Wager (1716 – August 20, 1774) was a teacher and schoolmistress in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. She married William Wager, but was widowed in...
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  • 1954 obtaining the position as a reader in mineralogy and assisted Lawrence Wager to improve the university's geochemical and geochronological research...
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  • Deputy Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire and Tour de Yorkshire promoter Lawrence Wager (1904–65) – geologist, explorer and mountaineer David Warburton (1919–1941)...
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  • academics and amateur geologists. The first president of the Group was Lawrence Wager, a professor of geology at the university. OGG holds two regular lecture...
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    performance on the large-scale 1933 British Mount Everest expedition, he and Lawrence Wager trekked back to Darjeeling separately from the rest of the party and...
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  • Lauge Koch British East Greenland Expedition 1935–1936 East Greenland Lawrence Wager Cartographic Air Expedition 1938 North Greenland Lauge Koch Mørkefjord...
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    the unofficial later work of Noel Odell on the 1924 expedition and Lawrence Wager on the 1933 expedition. They also knew it as the Khumbu Pass. It is...
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  • The Atheist's wager, coined by the philosopher Michael Martin and published in his 1990 book Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, is an atheistic response...
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  • Dunbar (St Anne's) Charles Lyell (Exeter) Hugh Edwin Strickland (Oriel) Lawrence Wager Joanna Haigh (Somerville) Patrick McTaggart-Cowan (Corpus Christi) Dictionary...
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  • graduating with First Class Honours in 1950. The Professor of Geology, Lawrence Wager, recognised Brown's abilities, and took him with him as a research student...
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    highest summit in Greenland. An attempt to climb Mont Forel was made by Lawrence Wager and Alfred Stephenson in 1931 but the mountaineers were stopped by the...
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    Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was...
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  • best known for his geological and petrological work in Greenland with Lawrence Wager; and later, for his extensive contributions as editor, along with Robert...
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