• John Chadwick, FBA (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar who was most notable for the decipherment, with Michael...
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    Mycenaean Greek inscription on a tablet found at Pylos dated 1400–1200 BC, John Chadwick reconstructed the name of a goddess, *Preswa, who could be identified...
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    John Chadwick Stirratt is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist for Wilco and The Autumn Defense. Stirratt grew up in Mandeville, Louisiana. He...
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  • 20th century" by The Guardian. Chadwick was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1916, the third of six children of John Chadwick, a barrister, and his wife Edith...
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  • Chadwick is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin meaning “town or village of Chad”, and the surname originates in the parish of Rochdale where the...
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    remains very problematic to pick out a place of worship with certainty. John Chadwick points out that at least six centuries lie between the earliest presence...
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  • Sir John Murray Chadwick, ED, PC (born 20 January 1941) is a retired English Lord Justice of Appeal. He also served as the President of the Court of Appeal...
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    Chadwick Aaron Boseman (/ˈboʊzmən/; November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor, known for portraying African-American historical figures...
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    from safflowers were found in the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. John Chadwick reports that the Greek name for safflower (kárthamos, κάρθαμος) occurs...
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    meaning Mistress as a feminine to Heros, Master", with uncertain origin. John Chadwick, a decipherer of Linear B, remarks "her name may be connected with hērōs...
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  • before the publication of Documents in Mycenaean Greek, written with John Chadwick. Ventris was born into a traditional army family. His grandfather, Francis...
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    values. The grid developed during decipherment by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick of phonetic values for syllabic signs is shown below. (Note that "q"...
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    Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery...
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    found in the Linear B inscription E-ne-si-da-o-ne, "earth-shaker". John Chadwick also argues that the dā element in the name of Demeter is not so simply...
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  • back to 1400–1200 BC. John Chadwick reconstructed the name of a goddess, *Preswa who could be identified with Perse. Chadwick found speculative the further...
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    deep ravines and near salt-lakes and streams. Historian of Mycenae John Chadwick believes that the terebinth is the plant called ki-ta-no in some of...
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    Chadwick is the sister of painter Dick Frizzell. She attended Karamu High School, then did nursing training in Wellington. She married lawyer John Te...
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  • Morrill, had been bought from a Viewpoint DataLabs listing. Team member John Chadwick, by using the Physique software, made the baby model perform the skeleton's...
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    2022. Beech, John; Chadwick, Simon (2006). The Marketing of Sport. Financial Times International. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-273-68826-6. "John David Group makes...
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  • in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form of Greek, now known...
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  • he had a child or was married. Bagot asked his associates in London, John Chadwick and Thomas Docksie, to investigate. They found a woman called Mary Bagaley...
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    and Chadwick: Gods found in Mycenaean Greece Archived 1 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine: a table drawn up from Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents...
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  • June Chadwick (born 30 November 1951, Warwickshire) is an English film and television actress. Her best-known television roles are as Lydia in the science...
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  • the Government issued their response and appointed retired judge Sir John Chadwick as an independent advisor to design an ex-gratia scheme for some policyholders...
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    Householder, F. (1959). Review of The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick, The Classical Journal, 54(8), 379–83. Retrieved 30 September 2020....
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    basically a syllabary, which was finally deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s (its precursor, Linear A, has not been deciphered and most...
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    ISBN 3-8253-1435-9. Chadwick, John (1958). The decipherment of Linear B. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chadwick, John (1990) [1958]. The Decipherment...
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  • attests the name as referring to an individual Mycenaean deity. See John Chadwick, The Mycenaean World [Cambridge University Press] 1976, p. 88). R. S...
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    contributions to the field were made by Richard Bentley and Richard Porson. John Chadwick was associated with Michael Ventris in the decipherment of Linear B...
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    concentrating high-grade cryptanalysis at Bletchley was maintained. John Chadwick started cryptanalysis work in 1942 on Italian signals at the naval base...
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