• Edwin Norris (24 October 1795 – 10 December 1872) was a British philologist, linguist and intrepid orientalist who wrote or compiled numerous works on...
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    His breakthroughs built on the epigraphic work of Christian Lassen, Edwin Norris, H. H. Wilson and Alexander Cunningham, among others. The origin of the...
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    Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 – August 20, 1997), was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years...
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    letters of reference from Rawlinson, Layard, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Edwin Norris, Smith was appointed Senior Assistant in the Assyriology Department early...
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    Edwin Lee Norris (August 15, 1865 – April 25, 1924) was a Democratic politician from Montana. He served as the fifth Governor of Montana. Norris was born...
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    to have been left behind in Nimrud. However, a squeeze was taken by Edwin Norris, which allowed the text to be published by Rawlinson. Excavations by...
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    from the beginnings of both fields in the early nineteenth century. Edwin Norris was the first to publish an article in support of the hypothesis in 1853...
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    in a famous experiment to test the accuracy of their decipherments. Edwin Norris, the secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, gave each of them a copy...
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    transition from oral to written literature in Igbo land. Missionaries like Edwin Norris and John Clarke translated and published Igbo vocabularies and grammatical...
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    entering the line of fire. Thornton, Norris and the three Vietnamese were alone and nearly surrounded. Near dawn, Norris ordered the group to extract towards...
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    April 1, 1908 Lieutenant Frank G. Higgins Edwin L. Norris Preceded by Robert Smith Succeeded by Edwin Norris Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives...
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    His breakthroughs built on the epigraphic work of Christian Lassen, Edwin Norris, H. H. Wilson and Alexander Cunningham, among others. The edicts in Brahmi...
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    counting fish) and the Lord's Prayer were noted by W. D. Watson in 1925, Edwin Norris collected the Creed in 1860, and J. H. Nankivel also recorded numerals...
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    Palästina. Hamburg 1837. Band 2. (dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de, Digitalisat) Edwin Norris: Memoir on the Scythic [today called Elamite] Version of the Behistun...
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    cuneiform" – Hincks, Rawlinson and Oppert – were in London in 1857. Edwin Norris, secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, gave each of them a copy of...
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    which it was thought might have been Cornish. In 1859 the linguist Edwin Norris reported that an old man had recited for him the Lord's Prayer and part...
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  • time of her birth, the family lived in Manhattan. Her grandfather, Edwin Earl Norris, was a cabinetmaker and musician, playing horn and viola in the Newark...
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  • was born at Uxbridge, and studied Eastern languages under his uncle Edwin Norris, whom he assisted for some years at the Royal Asiatic Society. He subsequently...
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  • Senator Norris may refer to: Edwin L. Norris (1865–1924), Montana State Senate George W. Norris (1861–1944), Nebraska State Senate Mark Norris (judge)...
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  • 1870) 13 September – Julius Hare, theologian (died 1855) 24 October – Edwin Norris, philologist, linguist and orientalist (died 1872) 31 October – John...
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    under it sixteen lion weights. The artefacts were first deciphered by Edwin Norris, who confirmed that they had originally been used as weights. The set...
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  • of Assyriology at Harvard University, expert on the Akkadian language Edwin Norris (British, 1795–1872), philologist who deciphered the Assyrian lion weights...
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    which Dr Edwin Norris edited the plays in 1859. Bodleian MSS 28556-28557, another Oxford manuscript, presented to the Bodleian Library by Edwin Ley of Bosahan...
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    Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has...
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  • and sentenced Norris to death. Norris took the news stoically. Leibowitz's prompt appeal stayed the execution date, so Patterson and Norris were both returned...
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  • the final season for writer Pam Norris, who left the show after four seasons. Not counting Murphy or Piscopo, Norris was the last writer from the Jean...
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    ISSN 1865-889X. S2CID 161927698. Norris, Edwin (1859). The ancient Cornish drama, edited and translated by Mr. Edwin Norris, etc. Oxford. p. 315. OCLC 562944948...
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    Kathleen Norris Stark Caruso, professionally known as Kathi Norris (June 1, 1919 – June 15, 2005) was an American writer and television presenter. Norris's father...
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    Edwin Washington Edwards (August 7, 1927 – July 12, 2021) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional...
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  • November – Mary Somerville, mathematician (born 1780) 10 December – Edwin Norris, philologist, linguist and orientalist (born 1795) 15 December – Mary...
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