• Major Alexander Rolls (18 July 1818 – 22 April 1882) was a native of Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. A member of the renowned Rolls family of The Hendre...
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  • Rolls-Royce brand by Rolls-Royce Limited and Rolls-Royce Motors. The Rolls-Royce Motor Cars subsidiary of BMW AG has no direct relationship to Rolls-Royce-branded...
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    in comedy, drama and Victorian burlesque and remarried in 1877 to Alexander Rolls, the former Mayor of Monmouth, briefly moving to Wales. But she was...
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  • separation of Bentley and Rolls-Royce followed a series of mergers and acquisitions, beginning with the 1931 purchase by Rolls-Royce of Bentley, then in...
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    The Rolls family were substantial landowners and benefactors in and around Monmouth in south-east Wales. The ascent of the family to the aristocracy was...
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    John Rolls married Martha Barnet, only daughter and heiress of Jacob Barnet. They had five children: John Etherington Welch Rolls, Alexander Rolls, Martha...
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    The Rolls-Royce Trent XWB is a high-bypass turbofan produced by Rolls-Royce Holdings. In July 2006, the Trent XWB was selected to power exclusively the...
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    The Pipe rolls, sometimes called the Great rolls or the Great Rolls of the Pipe, are a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer...
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  • Neckam, Alexander (1863). Wright, Thomas (ed.). De naturis rerum libri duo. With the poem of the same author, De laudibus divinæ sapientiæ. Rolls Series...
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  • Imbach Jonas Ohlin Lothar Blumhagen (voice only) Alexander Blazzoni Jane, Ian (29 May 2014). "Rolls-Royce Baby". Rock! Shock! Pop!. Retrieved 7 December...
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    Piano roll (redirect from Piano rolls)
    piano, piano player or reproducing piano. Piano rolls, like other music rolls, are continuous rolls of paper with holes punched into them. These perforations...
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    mergers that formed the British merchant bank Hill Samuel, and also chaired Rolls-Royce after the company's receivership and subsequent nationalisation in...
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    Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first...
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  • convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her...
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    (1949) as Phyllis McKinley "Katherine Alexander". Fort Smith Historical Society. Retrieved January 24, 2023. "Dawes Rolls". Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved...
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  • for services to publishing. Alexander's numerous directorships included Huawei Technologies, Esure Group Holdings, Rolls-Royce Group, Incisive Media,...
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  • John Rolls (27 February 1735 – 8 September 1801) was a native of Bermondsey, Southwark, London, Surrey, England. A member of the Rolls family of The Grange...
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    Institute) Piano Rolls (The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation) Scriabin's Étude, Op. 8 No. 12 Portals: Biography Classical music Russia Alexander Scriabin at...
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    son, John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock. Rolls' brother Alexander Rolls married the actress Helen Barry. Rolls was responsible for extending the size of...
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    Toilet paper (redirect from Toilet rolls)
    wipes. More than seven billion rolls of toilet paper are sold yearly in the United States where an average of 23.6 rolls per capita per year is used. In...
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    1865 – James Pearce King 1870 – Alexander Rolls 1871 – Alexander Rolls 1872 – Alexander Rolls 1873 – Alexander Rolls 1874 – Thomas Jones Baker 1875 –...
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    followup, Harlem-Kingston Express, Vol. 2: The River Rolls On, both released on Motéma Records 2017 Alexander was conferred with the Order of Griffin-Distinguished...
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  • Drum roll (redirect from Drum rolls)
    also be rolls. These rolls can be single stroke rolls, double stroke rolls, triple stroke rolls, or any multiple bounce roll variation. Rolls that don't...
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    Henry Royce (category Rolls-Royce people)
    reliability and longevity. With Charles Rolls (1877–1910) and Claude Johnson (1864–1926), he founded Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce initially focused on large 40–50...
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    and Alexander, and two sisters, Martha Sarah and Jessy. Her grandnephew, Charles Stewart Rolls, a motoring and aviation pioneer co-founded the Rolls-Royce...
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    mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls. Modern versions use MIDI. The player piano gained popularity as mass-produced...
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    Wendy Alexander (born 27 June 1963) is a retired Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. She held...
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  • to provide streaming television service to colleges and universities – rolls out a national over-the-top MVPD service, becoming the third service to...
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  • of Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Knt., who died at Haltoun House, Ratho, Midlothian in July 1507. The Exchequer Rolls mention this Alexander Lauder...
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    century. Later, it was the location of a pump donated in 1873 by Major Alexander Rolls, Mayor of Monmouth. The site of the original cross is marked on Speed's...
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