Baring Head (Māori: Ōrua-pouanui, officially gazetted as Baring Head / Ōrua-pouanui) is a headland, located between Wellington Harbour and Palliser Bay...
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Baring Head Lighthouse is a concrete lighthouse at Baring Head in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, with an LED beacon powered...
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Singapore. Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, with his older brother John Baring as a...
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Management, Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, and Baring Asset Management to form Barings. 2010 – Baring Asset Management wins the Queen’s Award for Enterprise...
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Baron Revelstoke (category Baring family)
businessman Edward Baring, head of the family firm of Barings Bank and a member of the Baring family. Baring was the son of Henry Baring, third son of Sir...
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Zealand atmospheric scientist who was instrumental in setting up the Baring Head atmospheric CO2 programme in 1972. A researcher and educator, Lowe was...
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the aristocracy. The family's earliest known ancestor is Peter Baring (or Petrus Baring), who was a burgher of the city of Groningen, then a semi-independent...
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Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 1774 – 12 May 1848), was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family. Baring was...
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hotel. Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter, on 28 January 1834. He was the eldest son and heir of Edward Baring-Gould (1804–1872)...
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school system). Baring was the ninth son of Henry Baring and his second wife, Cecilia Anne (née Windham). The English branch of the Baring family descends...
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Picathartes (redirect from Bare-headed Rockfowl)
MIT Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-262-19430-3. Images and movies of the bare-headed rockfowl - ARKive Images and movies of the grey-necked rockfowl - ARKive...
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Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (18 April 1740 – 11 September 1810) was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first...
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The bare-headed laughingthrush (Melanocichla calva) is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. It is endemic to highland forests...
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southeast of the entrance to the harbour, between Pencarrow Head (to the north) and Baring Head (to the south). Lake Kohangatera drains into the bay through...
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Bare-knuckle boxing (also known as bare-knuckle or bare-knuckle fighting) is a full-contact combat sport based on punching without any form of padding...
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continuous atmospheric measurements at a New Zealand site. The south-facing Baring Head, on the eastern entrance to Wellington Harbour, was chosen as being representative...
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Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (13 April 1828 – 17 July 1897), was a British banker. A member of the Baring banking family, "Ned" Baring was born...
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Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke (12 April 1864 – 26 January 1934) was an English banker and aristocrat. Baring was born on 12 April 1864. He was the...
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to 1959. Baring played an integral role in the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion. Together with Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, Baring played a...
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East Harbour Regional Park is a regional park stretching from Baring Head along the east side of the Wellington Harbour along the east side of Eastbourne...
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Manukau Heads Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated on the Āwhitu Peninsula, at the Manukau Heads, the entrance to the Manukau Harbour in Auckland, New...
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Zealand. The light was decommissioned in 1935 when it was replaced by the Baring Head Lighthouse. The lighthouse is registered as a Category 1 Historic Place...
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history. The light was decommissioned in 1935 when it was replaced by the Baring Head Lighthouse. A number of ships have been wrecked with significant loss...
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clotted with blood and other substances when the bird's head was inside a large corpse, and the bare head is easier to keep clean.[citation needed] This large...
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Rock climbing in New Zealand (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
local tramping club members Dick Corin and Jim Finch make a trip to Baring Head, establishing one of NZ's first bouldering locations 1968 - The Canterbury...
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plumage stays visibly cleaner than that of a lighter-colored bird, the bare head is designed for easily digging inside animal carcasses, and the hooked...
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Maude Louise Baring (née Lorillard, formerly Tailer; August 22, 1876 – April 2, 1922) was an American heiress who married into the British Baring banking family...
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Thomas Baring (21 March 1839 – 4 June 1923) was a British banker. Baring was born on 21 March 1839 at Cromer Hall, Cromer, Norfolk into the Baring family...
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atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere, measured at Baring Head, near Wellington, since the 1970s. Along with equivalent measurements...
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blood and other substances when a scavenging bird's head was inside a large corpse, and the bare head is easier to keep clean. Most storks fly with neck...
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