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    Sir William Gell FRS (29 March 1777 – 4 February 1836), pron. "Jell", was a British classical archaeologist and illustrator. He published topographical...
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    Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development...
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  • weather presenter William Gell (1777–1836), English archaeologist and illustrator Gell baronets Gel This page lists people with the surname Gell. If an internal...
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    Air Vice-Marshal William Charles Coleman Gell, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, TD, DL (10 July 1888 – 16 May 1969) was an officer of the British Army and then of the...
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    Philip Eyre Gell (1723–1795) of Hopton Hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, was a wealthy lead-mining aristocrat. Philip Eyre Gell was the son of Isabella...
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    C., on September 14, 2006. In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles...
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    Classical Library ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. William Gell—writing in 1807—he believed Homer's "Ithaca" was on the Aetos isthmus...
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    London, 1846.] William Gell. Analisi storico-topografico-antiquaria della carta de' dintorni di Roma secondo le osservazione di Sir W. Gell e del professore...
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    their study on the walls of Rome, the archaeologists Antonio Nibby and William Gell placed the site on the location of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside...
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    Greek and Roman Geography (1854) William Smith "Antium"; The Topography of Rome and Its Vicinity By Sir William Gell, 1846, "Antium"; Handbook for Travellers...
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    World: Design Museum Fifty. Octopus. p. 1913–5. ISBN 978-1-84091-649-2. Gell, William (1810). The Itinerary of Greece. London. Retrieved 8 March 2019. Mosley...
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    the Greek War of Independence, there are the detailed drawings of William Gell. Gell's period of study in 1800–1801 coincided with the activity of Lord...
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    Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel, François Pouqueville, William Gell, Charles Robert Cockerell and William Martin Leake. The first excavation was not carried...
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    Admiral John Gell (1740–1806) was from the Gell and Eyre families of Hopton Hall in Derbyshire. He served with the Royal Navy, fighting in India and taking...
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    the Elder. Martin relied on the recently published Pompeiana (1819) by William Gell and John Peter Gandy for background information on the Roman town, and...
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    Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet (22 June 1593 – 26 October 1671) was an English landowner from Derbyshire, who acted as local Parliamentarian commander for...
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  • Cyril William Gell ARCO LRAM FGSM (1909 – 1994) was an English musician, conductor of the BBC Singers and former professor at the Guildhall School of Music...
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    The Gell Baronetcy of Hopton in the County of Derby, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 January 1642 for John Gell, Hopton...
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  • V. Sydenham, DSO, was appointed CO, with Maj W.C.C. Gell, DSO, MC, as second-in-command; Maj Gell succeeded to the command on 16 February 1924. Two companies...
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  • any children, the Gell family estate passed to William's brother, John Eyre, who assumed the surname Gell. After his brother's death in 1739, the lands...
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  • Sir John Gell, 2nd Baronet (1613 – 8 February 1689) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1689. He...
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    Greek and Roman Geography (1854) William Smith "Antium"; The Topography of Rome and Its Vicinity By Sir William Gell, 1846, "Antium"; Handbook for Travellers...
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    the Gell family include the religious patron Katherine Gell, Philip Gell's younger brother, Admiral John Gell and Philip's son Sir William Gell. Philip...
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  • many years in the closest bonds of friendship, namely, Sir William Drummond, Sir William Gell, and the Hon. K. R. Craven. He was buried in the English Cemetery...
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    and there is no cast on display in the Acropolis Museum. The painter William Pars appointed by the Society of Dilettanti to accompany Richard Chandler...
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  • American; US West; archaeological fiction William Gell (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome...
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    John Varley, a watercolour painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake. He was educated by his uncle, a scientific instrument maker, and...
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    Gell (Jnr) and Captain Phillip Gell (1827-1898). Gell was educated at King William's College, Castletown, Isle of Man. Following his schooling, Gell was...
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    the first in 1764 under Richard Chandler, the second in 1812 under William Gell. The French "Rothschild Expedition" of 1873 sent a certain amount of...
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    Glenbervie, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, Lord Landaff, The Hon. Keppel Craven, Sir William Gell, Henry Holland, Colonel Alessandro Olivieri, and Carlo Vassalli, all...
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