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    Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE, FRS, (3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier. Bagnold served...
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  • Bagnold may refer to: Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), author and playwright Millicent Bagnold, a character in the Harry Potter books Ralph Bagnold (1896–1990)...
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    (née Alger), and brought up mostly in Jamaica. Her younger brother was Ralph Bagnold. She attended art school in London, and then worked as assistant editor...
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    deception hierarchy in Middle East Command had become muddled. Colonel Ralph Bagnold had taken over deception planning, pushing 'A' Force aside. Clarke was...
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    Ottoman Tripolitania became known as Libya.) In his book Libyan Sands, Ralph Bagnold went as far as to suggest that the Libyan Desert was a separate geographical...
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    exploration and mapping expeditions by British Army officers, such as Ralph Bagnold and Pat Clayton, laying the basis for war-time operations by such forces...
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  • The Bagnold formula, named after Ralph Alger Bagnold, relates the amount of sand moved by the wind to wind speed by saltation. It states that the mass...
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  • distributions. The origin of the distribution is the observation by Ralph Bagnold, published in his book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (1941)...
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    founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph Alger Bagnold, acting under the direction of General Archibald Wavell. Bagnold was assisted by Captain Patrick Clayton...
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  • never succeeded in finding it. Notable twentieth-century explorers Ralph Bagnold of Britain, and the Hungarian László (Ladislaus) Almásy led an expedition...
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    (PDF), Brochures, Beijing: China National Petroleum Corporation, p. 9. Ralph Bagnold, 1939.[where?] Farouk El-Baz, in an entry for "Yardangs of the Western...
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  • Clayton had collaborated extensively with Ralph Bagnold in the preparation and mapping associated with Bagnold's pre-war exploration trips. At the start...
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  • flow with interstitial Newtonian fluid, first identified by Ralph Alger Bagnold. The Bagnold number is defined by B a = ρ d 2 λ 1 / 2 γ ˙ μ {\displaystyle...
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    dunes merge to form Y-shaped compound dunes. Formation is debated. Ralph Bagnold, in The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, suggested that some...
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  • Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes is a scientific book written by Ralph A. Bagnold. The book laid the foundations of the scientific investigation of the...
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    Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier Sir Douglas Bader (1910–1982), fighter pilot Ralph Bagnold (1896–1990), founder of the Long Range Desert Group; explorer Sir Alexander...
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    Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, with John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, was one of the trinity...
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    Sir Nigel Bagnall (1927—2002), Chief of the General Staff Brigadier Ralph Bagnold (1896—1990), Deputy Signal Officer-in-Chief Middle East Major-General...
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  • The Bagnold Dunes is a 35-kilometre-long (22 mi) group of dark grey dunes in the Gale Crater on Mars. They are named after Ralph Alger Bagnold, who crossed...
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  • mathematician (1937–2010) Amedeo Avogadro – Italian scientist (1776–1856) Ralph Bagnold – British Army officer Boris Bakhmeteff – Russian diplomat (1880–1951)...
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  • Egyptian deserts in the 1920s and 30s with other Europeans such as Ralph Bagnold (founder of the Long Range Desert Group) and Patrick Clayton who were...
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  • Bagnold's fluid refers to a suspension of neutrally buoyant particles in a Newtonian fluid such as water or air. The term is named after Ralph Alger Bagnold...
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  • 1925) 27 May – Jessie MacWilliams, mathematician (born 1917) 28 May – Ralph Bagnold, geologist (born 1896) 30 May – Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere...
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    monitoring and anticipating the moves of the British expedition led by Ralph Bagnold, on 17 October 1932 he made a daring flight over the lakes of Unianga...
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  • published 1935; reprinted by Eland in 2010) is a travel book, written by Ralph A. Bagnold, the founder of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group in the Second...
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    the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for work on mass spectrometry. Ralph Bagnold, geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder & commander of...
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  • volunteered to join the Long Range Desert Group and was interviewed by Major Ralph Bagnold and Captain Bill Shaw in Cairo. He joined the LRDG and became its chief...
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  • other relevant subjects. In this, he was influenced by the work of Ralph Bagnold. He also documented previously unknown Paleolithic sites and the historic...
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    west coast, the headland Bagnold Point divides Shumskiy Cove from Gunnel Channel. It was named in 1960 for Ralph A. Bagnold, English explorer and geologist...
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  • at Amsterdam (Royal Shell Laboratory Amsterdam) and Rijswijk. 1947 Ralph Bagnold FRS 1948, CG Williams. Dr C.B. Davies 1958 R G Larsen, US citizen 3...
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