• Captain Sir Thomas Staines KCB (1776 – 13 July 1830) was an officer in the Royal Navy. Staines joined Peterel on 3 July 1796 on his promotion to Lieutenant...
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    Neolithic, there was a causewayed enclosure on Staines Moor. The first bridge across the Thames at Staines is thought to have been built by the Romans and...
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    130.000°W / -25.033; -130.000. However, this was not known to Sir Thomas Staines, who commanded a Royal Navy flotilla of two ships, HMS Briton and HMS...
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  • Staines is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alberto Campbell-Staines (born 1993), Jamaican-born Australian athlete Alfred Staines (1838–1910)...
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    Christian and George Young (Edward Young's son). The captains, Sir Thomas Staines and Philip Pipon, reported that Christian's son displayed "in his benevolent...
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    Columbine and was renamed Cyane on 6 December of that year. Under Captain Thomas Staines she captured the Spanish privateer Medusa in 1808 which was the last...
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    keel laid down at Chatham Dockyard in February 1810. Navy veteran Sir Thomas Staines was appointed her first captain on 7 May 1812 but did not join the ship...
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    stain (or haematoxylin and eosin stain or hematoxylin-eosin stain; often abbreviated as H&E stain or HE stain) is one of the principal tissue stains used...
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    postnominal letters KC. Horatio Nelson, Knight, 1799, by Selim III Thomas Staines, c. 1801, by Selim III Charles Marsh Schomberg, Knight, 1801, by Selim...
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    Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, and historically in the county of Middlesex. 3000 BC — Neolithic settlement at Yeoveney Manor Farm by Staines...
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    Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations...
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    Christian and George Young (Edward Young's son). The captains, Sir Thomas Staines and Philip Pipon, reported that Christian's son displayed "in his benevolent...
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    the natives destroyed after his ship had left. Before his departure, Thomas Staines, with the consent of the local tribes excepting the "Typees" from the...
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    queues since at least the 1930s. Staines Bridge is a road and pedestrian bridge across the River Thames at Staines-upon-Thames in northeast Surrey. It...
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    Ona Judge (redirect from Ona Judge Staines)
    Ona "Oney" Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was an enslaved woman owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount...
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  • Thomas Denny may refer to: T. A. Denny (1818–1909), Irish businessman Thomas Denny (artist) (born 1956), British painter and stained glass artist This...
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    Staines–Windsor line is a 6 mi 46 ch (10.6 km) railway line in Berkshire and Surrey, England. It branches from the Waterloo–Reading line at Staines-upon-Thames...
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    Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher...
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    Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/, ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and...
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    Michael Joseph Staines (1 May 1885 – 26 October 1955) was an Irish republican, politician and police commissioner. Staines was born in Newport, County...
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    A port-wine stain (nevus flammeus) is a discoloration of the human skin caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary malformation in the skin). They are...
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  • Stained Class is the fourth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 10 February 1978 by Columbia Records. It is the first of...
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    was built with 16 windows and 34 stained glass panels, with a main stained glass over the altar representing Thomas the Apostle touching the wound of...
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    Captain Thomas Staines commissioned her in March 1807. At his request the Navy Board exchanged her 9-pounders for 32-pounder carronades. Staines added a...
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    and craft of stained-glass window manufacture took place in early 19th-century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in...
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    Australian pastoralists. The lease passed to John Allan Fennell in 1938 and Thomas Staines Bernard Terry in 1939. A new residence was constructed adjacent to the...
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    Earl of Surrey, with whom she had a son, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk; she married second Thomas Stainings. Aubrey de Vere married Margaret Spring...
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    Trains from Weybridge typically reach Virginia Water in around 21 minutes, Staines in around 30 minutes and London Waterloo in one hour and twenty five minutes...
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    entitled "Death in Venice" and refers to Thomas Mann by name in that chapter. Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain (2000). Rufus Wainwright's 2001 song "Grey...
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    rescuing the crew of Cambrian off Carabusa (Gramvousa) on Candia. Sir Thomas Staines had taken a small squadron to the island off Cape Busa (Vouxa) to deal...
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