• William Weston, a 15th-century merchant from Bristol, was probably the first Englishman to lead an expedition to North America, the voyage taking place...
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  • William Weston (engineer) (1763–1833), canal engineer William Weston (explorer) (circa 1445 – 1504/5), English merchant and explorer William Weston (footballer)...
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    [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of...
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    patients from October 1864 until May 1994. The new hospital in Weston has been named for William R. Sharpe, Jr. who was a member of the West Virginia Senate...
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    The name was coined by English archaeologist William Gowland, and later popularized by Reverend Walter Weston (1861–1940), an English missionary for whom...
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    nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital. Jackson's Mill, a childhood home of Stonewall Jackson, is approximately four miles (6 km) north of Weston; it has...
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  • Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is...
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    the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2024. Weston 2019, p. 138. "Nonprofit Explorer: Centre College of Kentucky". ProPublica. May 9, 2013....
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    Staffordshire. "Weston with Gayton Community online" (.). Weston with Gayton Parish and village information. Retrieved 17 April 2013. OS Explorer Map 244: Cannock...
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    William Henry Cosby Jr. (/ˈkɒzbi/ KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, spokesman, and media personality. Cosby gained a...
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    in the genus Lasjia P.H.Weston & A.R.Mast, formerly Macadamia until 2008 Lasjia claudiensis (C.L.Gross & B.Hyland) P.H.Weston & A.R.Mast; synonym, base...
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    relating to Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding area from 400 million years ago to the present day. Weston Museum was founded in 1861 by William Mable. A...
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    1872) was an Irish-born British soldier who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the sole survivor of the four men from the ill-fated Burke and...
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  • the explorer Sir John Franklin. Namesake of West Cracroft Island, East Cracroft Island, and the Sophia Islets. Weston Cracroft Amcotts (born William Cracroft;...
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    Graham Gore (category 19th-century English explorers)
    and 25 April 1848) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in two expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline...
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    Joseph Tyrrell (category People from Weston, Toronto)
    born in Weston, Ontario, the fifth child of William and Elizabeth Tyrrell. He was the brother of Canadian explorer and author James William Tyrrell....
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  • Wessagusset Colony (sometimes called the Weston Colony or Weymouth Colony) was a short-lived English trading colony in New England located in Weymouth...
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    Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee. Born in Weston-super-Mare and one of four children, A. V. Alexander was the son of Albert...
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    reason. The Weston and the Woodhouse families see each other almost daily. Near the end of the story, the Westons' baby Anna is born. Mr Weston is a widower...
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    Breasts (1919) by Alfred Stieglitz "Nude" (1925) by Edward Weston Nude study (c. 1935) by William Mortensen As fine art photography first embraced and then...
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    Salah Foundation Broward Health Children's Hospital, and Broward Health Weston. In the land boom of the 1920s, the Wallace Apartments were converted into...
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    Hugh Glass (category American explorers)
    – 1833) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being...
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  • massacre the orderlies and doctors. Twenty-nine years later, in 2003, nine Weston University students – Kenia, Jenna, Vincent, Sara, Bridget, Kyle, Claire...
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    Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, (March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known...
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    highly romanticized, 20th-century reconstructed versions. The work of Jessie Weston, in particular From Ritual to Romance, traced Arthurian imagery through...
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     1550 – 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer. Barentsz went on three expeditions...
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    Anthony Weston is an American writer, teacher, and philosopher. He is an author of widely used primers in critical thinking and ethical practice and of...
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    darkroom in Yosemite caught fire. With the help of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson (Weston's future wife), Adams put out the fire, but thousands of negatives...
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  • Will Hobhouse (category Weston family)
    married to Kate Hobhouse, daughter of Garry Weston, and chair of Fortnum & Mason and a trustee of the Garfield Weston charitable foundation. They have five...
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    (1919) An Explorer-Scientist's Pilgrimage: the Autobiography of William Herbert Hobbs (1952). Encyclopedia Arctica 15: Biographies William Herbert Hobbs:...
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