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    Adair Crawford FRS FRSE (1748 – 29 July 1795), a chemist and physician, was a pioneer in the development of calorimetric methods for measuring the specific...
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  • James Adair Crawford was a civil servant of the British Empire, in 1893 he served as the Chief political resident of the Persian Gulf (which included Bahrain...
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    village in Scotland near which the mineral was discovered in 1790 by Adair Crawford and William Cruickshank; it was identified as a new element the next...
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  • composer Adair Crawford (1748–1795), Scots-Irish chemist Adair Dyer, Attorney, international law Adair Ferguson (born 1955), Australian rower Adair Bushyhead...
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    of England on 5 October 1780. In March 1788 he became assistant to Adair Crawford at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, at a salary of £30 a year....
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    made up of captured forces from Napoleon's imperial army. In 1790, Adair Crawford, a doctor, recognised that the Strontian ores exhibited different properties...
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    mathematical assistant in 1806 and professor of mathematics, 1838–1854 Adair Crawford, professor of chemistry in the late 18th century Morgan Crofton, an...
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  • R S T V W Y Aaron Crawford (disambiguation), multiple people Adair Crawford (1748–1795), English chemist and physician Alan Crawford (disambiguation),...
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    Godfrey (acting) 1893 : James Hayes Sadler (1st time)(acting) 1893: James Adair Crawford (acting) 1893 – 1894 : James Hayes Sadler (2nd time)(acting) 1894 –...
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  • Down, 1874–1878 James W. Crawford Jr. (born 1937), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly James Adair Crawford, civil servant of the British...
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    amalgam from the electrolysis of lime in mercury. In 1790, physician Adair Crawford discovered ores with distinctive properties, which were named strontites...
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  • Strontium 1787 W. Cruikshank 1808 H. Davy W. Cruikshank in 1787 and Adair Crawford in 1790 concluded that strontianite contained a new earth. It was eventually...
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    Adair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,495. Its county seat is Stilwell. Adair County...
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    metal be named "tellus", Latin for 'earth'.: 1067 : 12–16  In 1790 Adair Crawford and William Cruickshank determined that the mineral strontianite, found...
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  • Élémens de chimie, in which he coins the word nitrogen (nitrogène). Adair Crawford, working with William Cruickshank, proposes the existence of the alkaline...
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    Crell, editor of the journal Chemische Annalen in Germany, and with Adair Crawford and Richard Kirwan in Ireland. Gadolin was elected a member of the Royal...
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  • 1892: Hugh Barnes (acting) 1892–1896: Sir James Browne 1896: James Adair Crawford (acting) 1896–1899: Hugh Barnes 1899: Henry Wylie (acting) 1899–1900:...
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    Examination of Dr. Crawford's theory of Heat and Combustion. London. 1781. OCLC 759116654. (Discusses the work of Adair Crawford) Esame della teoria...
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  • Balochistan (acting) 1892 Succeeded by Sir James Browne Preceded by James Adair Crawford Chief Commissioner of Balochistan 1896–1899 Succeeded by Henry Wylie...
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    Watson (drums), Adam Morrow (guitar, vocals) and Hayden Crawford (bass guitar). Belle Adair opened select shows for Alabama Shakes in 2015 and 2016....
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    Crawford County is a county located in the Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,133. The county seat...
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    major. In 1898, Crawford was appointed governor of Campbell College, Belfast. Two of his children, Stuart Wright Knox and Malcolm Adair Alexander, both...
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  • – 1804 John Crawford-Lindsay 1663-05-20 1596–1678 Original member Adair Crawford 1786-05-11 1748 – 29 July 1795 Andrew Charles Crawford 1990-03-15 12...
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  • does not arise from an affinity increasing with ligand concentration. G.S. Adair found that the Hill plot for hemoglobin was not a straight line, and hypothesized...
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  • mineral element strontium is discovered near Strontian by chemists Adair Crawford and William Cruickshank. Approximate date – Whaligoe steps cut. 3 March...
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    MacLachlan (1999), p. 182. Adair (1997), p. 143. Curtis (1896), p. 41. Royle (2004), pp. 275–276. Adair (1997), p. 142. Godwin (1882). Adair (1997), p. 144. Curtis...
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  • by the BBC in 1952 featuring John Robinson, John Byron, Andrew Crawford and Robert Adair. A crime thriller series, the plot concerns a public-spirited...
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    Michael Crawford Kerr (March 15, 1827 – August 19, 1876) of Indiana was an attorney, an American legislator, and the first Democratic speaker of the United...
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    about 4 points more Democratic. Adair Andrew Atchison Bates Benton Butler Caldwell Callaway Carroll Carter Clay Crawford Dallas Daviess Dent Franklin Grundy...
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    commonly used nickname. Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair—West Belfast (1990–2002) An active figure in the UDA/UFF, Adair rose to notoriety in the early 1990s when...
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