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    John Axon GC (4 December 1900 – 9 February 1957) was an English train driver from Stockport (Edgeley Depot) who died while trying to stop a runaway freight...
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  • John Axon (10 September 1960 – 25 October 2008) was an English television and stage actor. Axon trained at the Guildhall school of music and drama after...
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  • astrophysicist John Axon (1900–1957), English engine driver awarded the George Cross John Axon (actor) (1960–2008), English actor; grandson of John Axon the engine...
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  • made eight radio ballads between 1958 and 1964. They were: The Ballad of John Axon (1958), about an engine driver who died trying to stop a runaway freight...
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  • David John Axon (1951 – 5 April 2012) was a British astrophysicist specialising in observations of active galactic nuclei. He was a professor at the University...
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    Axon terminals (also called synaptic boutons, or presynaptic terminals) are distal terminations of the branches of an axon. An axon, also called a nerve...
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    the axon. At the majority of synapses, signals cross from the axon of one neuron to a dendrite of another. However, synapses can connect an axon to another...
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  • creation of a feature programme about the heroic death of train driver John Axon. Normal procedure would have been to use the recorded field interviews...
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    The squid giant axon is the very large (up to 1.5 mm in diameter; typically around 0.5 mm) axon that controls part of the water jet propulsion system...
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  • following completion of the large railway viaduct just to its north. John Axon (1900–1957), English train driver (Edgeley Depot) who died while trying...
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    and continues into the late-20s. During the pruning of a synapse, both the axon and the dendrite decay and die off. Synaptic pruning was traditionally considered...
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  • Second World War decided that she was "toffee-nosed" (snobbish/stuck up). John Axon as Nigel Harper (series 1–4), unpopular administrator for the district...
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    William Edward Armytage Axon FRSL (13 January 1846 – 27 December 1913) was an English librarian, antiquary and journalist for the Manchester Guardian....
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  • Axon guidance (also called axon pathfinding) is a subfield of neural development concerning the process by which neurons send out axons to reach their...
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    The axon reflex (or the flare response) is the response stimulated by peripheral nerves of the body that travels away from the nerve cell body and branches...
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    collision. Driver John Axon had remained with the runaway freight and was killed, as was guard Creamer of the preceding freight train. Axon was awarded a...
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    assisting—the propagation of signals along the neuron's axon toward synaptic boutons situated at the ends of an axon; these signals can then connect with other neurons...
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    of which have an axon. An axon is the long stem-like part of the cell that sends action potentials to the next cell. Bundles of axons make up the nerves...
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    Archived from the original on 5 July 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021. Turner, John Frayn (2010). Royal Ulster Constabulary (2 ed.). Pen & Sword Books Ltd. p...
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  • Florence Nightingale (2008 film) (category Cultural depictions of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston)
    as Nurse interviewees Olwen May as Mother Mary Clare John Axon as Orderly Jon Croft as Sir John Hall Tim Beasley as Fitzgerald Sam McKenzie as Dr Farr...
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    Hank Uniff, Carmel Howard as Mavis Uniff, Chrissy Rock as Annie Greave, John Axon as Spinx, Jon Strickland as DCI Baldestone and Susannah Corbett as Ellie...
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    on 27 February 1979 at Edinburgh. 86229 was named Sir John Betjeman on 24 June 1983 by Sir John Betjeman, himself, at St Pancras. Named on 3 April 1979...
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  • HCL AXON is a UK-based consultancy which sells its services to customers using SAP and Oracle as their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system modeling...
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  • Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. Two men are killed, including driver John Axon, who is awarded a posthumous George Cross for his actions in staying with...
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    Axon, Rachel (April 10, 2016). "Simone Biles wins all-around, leads USA to team gold at Pacific Rim". USA Today. Retrieved May 28, 2024. Powers, John...
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    regenerating neurite seeking its synaptic target. It is the growth cone that drives axon growth. Their existence was originally proposed by Spanish histologist Santiago...
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  • trigger a signal. Once this threshold is reached, a signal is passed along the axon of the neuron into the spinal cord. Nociceptive threshold testing deliberately...
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    1957 there was a serious accident at Chapel-en-le-Frith in which driver John Axon, who died at his post attempting to control a runaway goods train, received...
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  • Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger's "Radio Ballads", entitled The Ballad of John Axon (1959), Song of a Road (1959) and The Big Hewer (1961), later released...
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  • black eye, which she tells Diane is her ex-boyfriend, Eugene Brown's (John Axon) fault. When Eugene arrives, he reveals that Val persuaded him to pay...
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