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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The 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...
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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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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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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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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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Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World (first published 1935; reprinted by Eland in 2010) is a travel book, written by Ralph A. Bagnold, the founder of the...
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Prendergast was one of a group of British Saharan explorers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which included Ralph Alger Bagnold, Pat Clayton and Bill...
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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 \mathrm {Ba}...
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extensively with Ralph Bagnold in the preparation and mapping associated with Bagnold's pre-war exploration trips. At the start of the war Clayton was a government...
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Prince Kamal al-Dine Hussein (son of Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt) Ralph Alger Bagnold—Founder of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and desert explorer...
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about the geology of the Qattara Depression was greatly extended by Ralph Alger Bagnold, a British military commander and explorer, through numerous journeys...
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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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Sudan Notes and Records. In October 1930 Kennedy-Shaw accompanied Ralph Alger Bagnold on a trip from Cairo to Ain Dalla, into the Sand Sea, past Ammonite...
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more easily suspended in a gas. The soldier/physicist Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold was an early pioneer of the physics of granular matter and whose...
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Aeolian processes (category Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback via Module:Annotated link)
landforms were performed by Ralph Alger Bagnold, a British army engineer who worked in Egypt prior to World War II. Bagnold investigated the physics of...
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plateau. In 1930 an expedition headed by Ralph Alger Bagnold followed the same route. In the winter of 1930-1, P. A. Clayton surveyed some of the areas. The...
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Reed. Richardson began the 1960s with a failure. Enid Bagnold's play The Last Joke was savaged by the critics ("a meaningless jumble of pretentious whimsy"...
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Service (SAS), where, with Ralph A. Bagnold, he developed ways of driving vehicles over the Libyan sand "seas". Maclean was a practitioner in the T. E....
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itself, in the modern era it is recognized as starting with Major Ralph Alger Bagnold with his 1940 Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in the Western Desert...
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Cecil Moore 1969 William Maurice Ewing 1970 Philip Henry Kuenen 1971 Ralph Alger Bagnold 1972 Hans Ramberg 1973 Alfred Sherwood Romer 1974 Francis J. Pettijohn...
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1973 M. King Hubbert 1972 Wilmot H. Bradley 1971 Marshall Kay 1970 Ralph Alger Bagnold 1969 Francis Birch 1968 J. Tuzo Wilson 1967 Herbert Harold Read 1966...
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Arrowsmith Peninsula (redirect from Bagnold Point)
divides Shumskiy Cove from Gunnel Channel. It was named in 1960 for Ralph A. Bagnold, English explorer and geologist. Inland to the east lies Mount St....
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Singaporean economist Richard Stone – Nobel Prize-winning economist Ralph Alger Bagnold – explorer and geologist John Brereton – chronicler of the first...
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Coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI, was born in Edenbridge. Ralph Alger Bagnold, (1896–1990), desert explorer, lived in Edenbridge in his final years...
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operating out of a British section of a UN camp in Gao, named Camp Bagnold in honour of the desert explorer and soldier Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold. As part...
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such as Ralph Bagnold and László Almásy also travelled in south-eastern Libya and southern Egypt, searching for the lost oasis of Zerzura. Bagnold also travelled...
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Devonport, Plymouth (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from EB9)
Hore-Belisha, of Devonport in the County of Devon. Ralph Alger Bagnold (1896–1990) was born here. He was a pioneer of desert exploration, and was the founder...
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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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