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    Robert Ball (1 April 1802 - 30 March 1857) was an Irish naturalist. He served as the Director of the Dublin University Museum, and developed a method of...
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  • Robert Ball may refer to: Robert Ball (judoka) (born 1964), Australian judoka Robert Ball (naturalist) (1802–1857), Irish naturalist Robert James Ball...
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    Mary Ball (1812–1898) was an Irish naturalist and entomologist most noted for her studies of Odonata and for her discovery of the stridulation in aquatic...
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  • Mary Ball (1812–1892), Irish naturalist and entomologist Peter William Ball (born 1932), English-born Canadian botanist Robert Ball (naturalist) (1802–1857)...
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    Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink Observatory. He was the son of naturalist Robert Ball and Amelia Gresley Hellicar. He was born in Dublin. and was educated...
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    Ball (1808–1872) was an Irish botanist, amateur algologist, and botanical illustrator. Born in Cobh 1808, Ball was a sister of naturalist Robert Ball...
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  • The New Naturalist Library (also known as The New Naturalists) is a series of books published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural...
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    Boule de Suif (redirect from Ball of Fat)
    translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", "Ball of Lard", or "Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer...
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    Robert Hooke FRS (/hʊk/; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist...
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    Valentine Ball (14 July 1843 – 15 June 1895) was an Irish geologist, son of Robert Ball (1802–1857) and a brother of Sir Robert Ball. Ball worked in the...
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    Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/ DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely...
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    critic or textbook graphic designer. Spatial artistic skills combined with naturalist sensitivity produce a pet groomer or clothing designer, costumer. The...
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  • Koko (gorilla) (redirect from All Ball)
    upon a report of her having adopted a kitten as a pet and naming him "All Ball", which the public perceived as her ability to rhyme. Koko's instructor and...
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    Jamestown include legendary comedienne Lucille Ball, U.S. Supreme Court justice and Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, musician Natalie Merchant, musician...
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    Bindi's younger brother is Robert, a television personality and photographer, and they are the grandchildren of naturalist and herpetologist Bob Irwin...
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    American Naturalist. 136 (6): 829–846. doi:10.1086/285134. S2CID 84509821.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Ball, GF (1983)...
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    player to strike the ball cleanly. Playing from the rough is a disadvantage because the long grass may affect the flight of the ball. Grass on the putting...
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    William Thompson (2 December 1805 – 17 February 1852) was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the natural history of Ireland, especially...
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    was formed in 1777 at Regent House, Strand Street in Dublin, Ireland. Robert Ball on appointment as Director (1844–1857), donated his personal collection...
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    florets. Larger than Pompons. (e.g. 'Barbarry Ball') 'Barbarry Ball' (Ball) Dahlia "Mary's Jomanda" (Ball) Group 7 – Pompon dahlias (Pom) – Double spherical...
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    beetle rolls its ball to a suitable location, where it digs an underground chamber in which it hides the ball. It then eats the ball itself, a process...
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    (as a phonetic spelling of "grisly"). Nonetheless, after careful study, naturalist George Ord formally classified it in 1815 – not for its hair, but for...
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    flashes they observed were later determined to not be volcanic. As a naturalist, Lind collected plant specimens during voyages aboard Drake (1762-1763)...
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    the celebrated author Arthur Conan Doyle. Ball's son, John, was a Liberal politician and a noted naturalist. Another son, Anthony, was a Catholic priest...
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    A coal ball is a type of concretion, varying in shape from an imperfect sphere to a flat-lying, irregular slab. Coal balls were formed in Carboniferous...
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    validate the contract, despite Irwin's father being the world-famous naturalist Steve Irwin, whose death in 2006 had been widely covered in the news/media...
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    educating two of Cambridge's most famous alumni, the poet John Milton and the naturalist Charles Darwin, who, during the celebrations for the 800th anniversary...
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    its segments, which become conspicuous when the caterpillar rolls into a ball for defense. Like the banded woolly bear, its hairs are not urticant nor...
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  • Bloomquist, 60, late model racing driver (b. 1963) Tom Brown Jr., 74, naturalist, tracker, survivalist and author (b. 1950) Bobby Hicks, 91, Hall of Fame...
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    and incoming Lord Mayor. Couch's House in Lansallos Street was home to naturalist and physician, Jonathan Couch and before him of many generations of the...
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