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    Charles Alton (24 December 1891 – 22 September 1969) was an English footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Rotherham County and...
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  • Charles Alton Ellis (1876 – 1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the...
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    David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, KCSG, KCMCO (born 15 March 1951) is a British-Irish politician, formerly a Member of Parliament for...
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    Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages...
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    Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man. He is the tallest...
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    Charles Alton "Chuck" Forsberg (May 6, 1944 – September 24, 2015) developed two data transmission protocols popular in the 1990s, for uploading and downloading...
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  • Charles Ellis may refer to: Charles Alton Ellis (1876–1949), senior engineer for the design of the Golden Gate Bridge Charles Ellis (soccer) (1890–1954)...
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    yellow stripes to ensure visibility by passing ships. Senior engineer Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Moisseiff, was the principal engineer...
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    West Alton is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 359 at the 2020 census. It is located at the tip of the peninsula...
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  • Alton Towers Resort (UK: /ˈɒltən/ OL-tən) (often shortened to Alton Towers) is a theme park and resort complex in Staffordshire, England, near the village...
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    Alton is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the adjacent villages of Alton Barnes and Alton Priors, and the nearby hamlet of Honeystreet...
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  • held that the longer bridges were, the more flexible they could be. Charles Alton Ellis elaborated on Moisseiff's theories, and applied them in the design...
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    evidence against him. On 30 April 1694 Shrewsbury was created Marquess of Alton and Duke of Shrewsbury, and he acted as one of the regents during the King's...
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    community event to determine the community's name. Charles R. Pugh, who had been reading about the Alton Fjord in Norway, suggested the name, and it was...
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    Strauss is credited as the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, but Charles Alton Ellis is responsible for most of the structural design. Because of a...
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    Alton (/ˈɔːltən/ AWL-tən) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri...
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    Earl Talbot (1860–1921) Charles John Alton Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount of Ingestre (1882–1915) John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd-Talbot...
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    notable faculty of the past have included Golden Gate Bridge designer Charles Alton Ellis, efficiency expert Lillian Gilbreth, food safety advocate Harvey...
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    banker, merchant, and politician Chet Chadbourne, baseball player Charles Alton Ellis, professor, mathematician, and structural engineer of the Golden...
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  • John Alton (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann Jacob Altmann, in Sopron, Kingdom of Hungary, was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-German...
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    Alton Baker Park is located in Eugene, Oregon, United States, near Autzen Stadium. In June 1967, it was dedicated to Alton F. Baker Sr., the eleventh owner...
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    Alton Towers is located near the village of Alton in Staffordshire, England. The former country estate was a former seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury. It...
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    Alton Farnham Basing The Battle of Alton (also Storm of Alton), of the First English Civil War, took place on 13 December 1643 in the town of Alton, Hampshire...
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    and Strauss was appointed chief engineer for the project. Engineers Charles Alton Ellis and Irving Morrow also joined the project, with Ellis being appointed...
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    Alton Brooks Parker (May 14, 1852 – May 10, 1926) was an American judge. He was the Democratic nominee in the 1904 United States presidential election...
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    Alton Asa Lennon (August 17, 1906 – December 28, 1986) was an American Democratic politician who represented North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives...
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  • Books. Reinhardt, James Melvin (June 17, 1958). Baker, Alton F.; Frazier, Robert B.; Baker Jr., Alton F.; Currey, A.H.; Strommer, Arne; Fugle, Jari E.; Johnston...
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    Consists of West Alton, Portage Des Sioux, and parts of Cottleville, St. Charles, and St. Peters. District 69 – Adam Schnelting (R-St. Charles, since 2019)...
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    Alton Abbey is an Anglican Benedictine monastery (founded in 1895) in the village of Beech, near Alton, Hampshire, England. The abbey is not far from one...
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  • Director, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (1990–94) Charles Alton Ellis – mathematician, structural engineer; chiefly responsible for...
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