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    Henry Dircks FRSE FCS (26 August 1806– 17 September 1873) was an English engineer who is considered to have been the main designer of the projection technique...
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    3 Dircks, p. 6 Dircks, p. 7 Dircks, pp. 1–23 & 71–102 Dircks, pp. 10–11 & 17–20 'The Patent Ghost', The Mercury, 21 July 1863 Pepper, p. 35 Dircks, p...
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    patent with Dircks. Pepper debuted his creation with a Christmas Eve production of the Charles Dickens play The Haunted Man in 1862 and Dircks signed over...
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    Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1927) In the mid-19th-century Henry Dircks investigated the history of perpetual motion experiments, writing a vitriolic...
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  • (1901–1991), German political commentator, theologian and journalist Dircks Henry Dircks (1806–1873), English engineer Dirksz Germain Dirksz (born 1976),...
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    Calendar of State Papers, Domestic: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth". Henry Dircks (2021). Inventors and Inventions: In Three Parts. BoD – Books on Demand...
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    nothing' gizmo fails jury vetting". The Irish Times. June 6, 2009. Dircks, Henry. (1870). Perpetuum Mobile: Or, A History of the Search For Self-Motive...
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    (b. 1984), Major League Baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals Henry Dircks (1806–1873) (Honorary degree, 1868), English engineer who is considered...
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    Elizabeth". Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2022-11-26. Henry Dircks (2021). Inventors and Inventions: In Three Parts. BoD – Books on Demand...
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    (Routledge, 1989) Dircks, Richard J., Henry Fielding. Twayne's English Authors (Twayne, 1983) Hunter, J. Paul, Occasional Form: Henry Fielding and the...
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  • theatre. In 1862, inventor Henry Dircks developed the Dircksian Phantasmagoria, where it was seen by Pepper in a booth set up by Dircks at the Polytechnic. Pepper...
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    Johnston as Eloisa. Dircks p.82 Burwick p.209 Burwick, Frederick. A History of Romantic Literature. John Wiley & Sons, 2019. Dircks, Richard J. Richard...
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    actors. A provisional patent had been lodged in England by John Henry Pepper and Henry Dircks in February 1863, and this may have been why it was possible...
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    in Dirck's Life of the Marquis of Worcester, p. 233, under the wrong date 1660. Seccombe 1898, p. 243. History of Parliament Online - Somerset, Henry, Lord...
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    Dirck van Os (Antwerp, March 1556 – Amsterdam, May 1615) was an Amsterdam merchant, insurer, financier and shipping magnate. He is among the founders...
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    Dirk Hartog (redirect from Dirck Hartog)
    his visit, the Hartog Plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochszch. Ernest Giles referred to him as Theodoric...
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    Henry (Hendrik), Lord of Bréderode (December 1531 – 15 February 1568), also styled Count of Brederode, was a member of the Dutch noble family Van Brederode...
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    University Press, 2003, accessed 21 October 2011 (subscription required) Dircks, Phyllis T. "Rich, John (1692–1761)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    London. He was twice married; his first marriage, in 1917, to the poet Helen Dircks, ended in divorce. In 1924 he married Mary Dorothy Bennett, with whom he...
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    advanced the abolitionist cause, as fast as politically possible. Brian Dirck stated that few Civil War scholars take Bennett (or Thomas DiLorenzo) seriously...
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    landowner among the Amsterdam patriciate. Dircks tomb chapel is located in the Oude Kerk at Amsterdam. Dirck Jansz Graeff play a rol in the historic roman...
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    Henry Frank Leslie Burrows (29 May 1926 – 10 February 1971), known as Larry Burrows, was an English photojournalist. He spent 9 years covering the Vietnam...
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    Staats, a surgeon of Dutch origins who resided in New York City. He and Dirck Vanderburgh bought it for 130 pounds from Pawling's widow. As a result of...
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    Smooth: Adventures on Manitoba's Historic Hayes River. Toronto: Dundurn. Dircks, Henry. (1867) Inventors and Inventions. Endsor, Richard. (2009) Restoration...
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  • Browne, Governor (1782–1788) Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant governor (1788–1794) James Crawford, Governor (1794–1796) Henry Tucker, Governor (1796) William...
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  • Winslow Henry A. Wise Henry Wisner 1777–1782 Middle 1720–1790 Frank L. Wiswall George H. Witter Stephen J. Wojtkowiak John J. Wolcott Henry Wolfert Joseph...
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    Galyon Hone (category Court of Henry VIII)
    the manner of Dirck Vellert, an artist who worked in Antwerp. He lived in the parish of St Mary Magdalene and then in Southwark, where Henry VIII allowed...
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    Broeck (1718–1801) (daughter of Dirck Ten Broeck) Philip Philip Livingston (1741–1787) ∞ Sara Johnson (1749–1802) Philip Henry Livingston (1769–1831) ∞ Maria...
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    Dirck Ten Broeck (November 3, 1765 – January 30, 1833) was an American lawyer and politician. The first name is sometimes given as Derick. He was the...
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  • says that total rate of growth took place over 15 years. Historian Brian Dirck said that few Civil War scholars take DiLorenzo seriously, pointing to his...
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