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    James Silk Buckingham (25 August 1786 – 30 June 1855) was a British author, journalist and traveller, known for his contributions to Indian journalism...
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  • being produced in London between 1860 and 1867. Buckingham, the youngest son of James Silk Buckingham, the oriental traveller, and Elizabeth Jennings...
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  • Attorney General James Silk Buckingham, oriental traveller Jane Buckingham (born 1968), American author and businesswoman John Buckingham (chemist), British...
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  • was published on a weekly basis on Fridays. British journalist James Silk Buckingham was also closely involved in the operation of the newspaper. The...
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  • required) "Sir James R Lumley" in C. E. Buckland, ed., Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1906) James Silk Buckingham, Oriental...
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    described by his contemporary, the English traveler and author, James Silk Buckingham, as "the most successful and the most generally tolerated pirate...
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  • its owner James Silk Buckingham. The Asiatic Journal, the unofficial organ of the East India Company published from London took Buckingham to task for...
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    the lowest class: 3 guns). In 1829, English author and traveler James Silk Buckingham described Sharjah as such: "In the course of the night, we had passed...
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  • of the packet ships (mail-boats) that docked in nearby Falmouth. James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) spent his childhood here and writes that most of the...
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    He famously painted author James Silk Buckingham and his wife Elizabeth in Arab costume in 1816, reflecting Buckingham's own travels in the East as well...
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    romanized: al-Muṭallah, lit. 'the lookout'. In 1816 the notable traveller James Silk Buckingham visited "a large village, called Metully, altogether inhabited by...
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  • of the Bajalan Pashas was Zohab which they founded according to James Silk Buckingham. SARPUL-I ZOHAB ("bridgehead of Zohab"), a place on the way to Zagros...
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    "lover" of King James VI and I. Buckingham remained at the height of royal favour for the first three years of the reign of James's son, King Charles...
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    William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the...
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    Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 288 James Silk Buckingham Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, Oxford University Press,...
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    needed] Hood was associated with the Athenaeum, started in 1828 by James Silk Buckingham, and was a regular contributor to it for the rest of his life. Prolonged...
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    the Greek name "Orrha", meaning "beautiful flowing water".: 136  James Silk Buckingham claimed that in earlier times, the city was known as Ruha, and with...
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  • Athenæum: a journal of literature, science, the fine arts Page 214 James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1882 "Portraits of Kossuth...
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    inhabited by common people and used Kuphars to cross the Tigris River. James Silk Buckingham had also visited the area during his visit to Baghdad, he visited...
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    "distinctly yellow and not very bright". In 1841, British author James Silk Buckingham observed that New York City's street lights were inadequate: “The...
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    Niebuhr, who was in Mosul in March 1760. Niebuhr In 1830, traveller James Silk Buckingham wrote of "two heaps called Nimrod-Tuppé and Shah-Tuppé... The Nimrod-Tuppé...
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    Petersen, 2002, p. 166 Archived 11 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine James Silk Buckingham, Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead...
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    greater social good. In 1835, and against government opposition, James Silk Buckingham, MP for Sheffield and a supporter of the temperance movement, was...
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    greater social good. In 1835, and against government opposition, James Silk Buckingham, MP for Sheffield and a supporter of the temperance movement, was...
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    the servants of travelers were shut up at night." When Reverend Thomas James, a missionary and freedman from New York, was granted permission by the...
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    Majdil, situated on the bank of the lake." The English traveler James Silk Buckingham observed in 1816 that a few Muslim families resided there, and in...
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    the annual income. In 1835, and against government opposition, James Silk Buckingham, MP for Sheffield and a supporter of the temperance movement, was...
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    1846. He launched it at Pershore, and it was supported by Sturge, James Silk Buckingham, and John Jefferson of the London Peace Society. The Quaker Edmund...
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  • 25 July 1812 Hebe left Malta for Smyrna in company with Scipio, James Silk Buckingham, master. The next day, while in they were in the Archipelago, they...
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  • of the Calcutta Gazette in favor of a new newspaper founded by James Silk Buckingham called the Calcutta Journal. Das Gupta, Anil Chandra.; Sandeman...
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