• William Pole FRS FRSE MICE (22 April 1814 – 30 December 1900) was an English engineer, astronomer, musician and an authority on Whist. He was born in Birmingham...
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    William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845), known as Lord Maryborough between 1821 and 1842, was...
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  • William Pole (1814–1900) was an English engineer, astronomer, musician and authority on whist. William Pole may also refer to: Sir William Pole (antiquary)...
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  • William de la Pole may refer to: Sir William de la Pole (of Mawddwy) (died bef. 1319) Sir William de la Pole of Hull (died 1366) William de la Pole, 1st...
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    Sir William Pole (1561–1635) of Colcombe House in the parish of Colyton, and formerly of Shute House in the parish of Shute (adjoining Colcombe), both...
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  • place Welshpool. The link between the knightly de la Poles of Wales (pre-1300), and William de la Pole (Chief Baron of the Exchequer), of Hull and his descendants...
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  • William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley may refer to: William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl...
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    William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk KG (16 October 1396 – 2 May 1450), nicknamed Jackanapes, was an English magnate, statesman and military commander...
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    90°N 0°E / 90°N 0°E / 90; 0 The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in...
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  • William Henry Pole-Carew (30 July 1811 – 20 January 1888) was a Cornish politician. Pole-Carew was born in Eaton Place, Marylebone in 1811, the son of...
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    A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph...
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    Born William Wesley, he assumed by Royal licence in 1781 the additional surname of Pole on succeeding to the estates of his cousin, William Pole. In 1798...
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    Sir William de la Pole (died 21 June 1366) was a wealthy wool merchant from Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, England, who became a royal moneylender and...
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    William Pole (1515–1587), Esquire, was a lawyer and speculator in church lands following the Dissolution of the Monasteries who served as MP for Lyme Regis...
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    barber poles in the United States. In 1950, William Marvy of St. Paul, Minnesota, started manufacturing barber poles. Marvy made his 50,000th barber pole in...
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    William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (22 June 1788 – 1 July 1857) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated style...
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    Totem poles (Haida: gyáaʼaang) are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast...
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  • William Pole Thornhill (1807 – 12 February 1876) was a British Whig and then Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1853 to 1865...
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  • Sir William de la Pole (1478 – sometime between October and November 1539), was an English nobleman, and Knight of Wingfield Castle in Wingfield, Suffolk...
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    (John Cochrane) Mins of Ev p. 467 (Dr William Pole) Mins of Ev p. 256 (Henry Law) Mins of Ev p. 483 (Dr William Pole) Mins of Ev pp. 303–304 (Henry Law)...
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    Counter-Reformation. Pole was born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, on 12 March 1500, the third son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of...
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    February 1458, Elizabeth was married to John de la Pole. John was the eldest son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. His maternal...
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    the celestial poles. On Earth, a pole star would lie directly overhead when viewed from the North or the South Pole. Currently, Earth's pole stars are Polaris...
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    John Pole (died 1658), Member of Parliament for Devon. It was created during the lifetime of his father, the historian of Devon, Sir William Pole (d.1635)...
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    Pole sitting is the practice of sitting on top of a pole (such as a flagpole) as a test of endurance. A small platform is typically placed at the top of...
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    An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the goddess Asherah. The relation of the literary references...
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    William Richard Arthur Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington (7 October 1813 – 25 July 1863) was a British nobleman. Long-Wellesley, the...
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    In 1581 at Shute in Devon, he married Dorothy Pole, a daughter of his father's near neighbour William Pole (1515–1587), Esquire, MP, of Shute House in the...
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    The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic...
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  • Harold Edward William Pole (25 March 1922 — 13 December 2010) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. In 1946, Pole signed for Ipswich...
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