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    John Gilpin was featured as the subject in a well-known comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper, entitled The Diverting History of John Gilpin. Cowper...
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    after takeoff from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport. Amateur photographer John Gilpin was testing his new camera lens by taking pictures of planes taking off...
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  • Gilpin is an English surname, and may refer to: Betty Gilpin (born 1986), American actress Bernard Gilpin (1517–1583), English theologian influential...
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    John Brian Gilpin (10 February 1930 – 5 September 1983) was a leading English ballet dancer and actor. John Brian Gilpin was the son of William John Gilpin...
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  • John Mitchell Gilpin (born May 31, 1951) is an American actor. He currently portrays Church the Butler in HBO's historical drama series The Gilded Age...
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    The Diverting History of John Gilpin Shewing how he went Farther than he intended, and came safe Home again is a comic ballad by William Cowper written...
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    In his 1782 poem, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, William Cowper relates the comic tale of John Gilpin a linen draper of Cheapside London, who was...
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    John Gilpin was an 1852 clipper in the California trade, named after the literary character John Gilpin. The ship was known for its 1852 race against...
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  • Look up Gilpin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gilpin may refer to: Gilpin (surname), including a list of people with the surname Gilpin, Kentucky...
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  • Marc Gilpin (September 26, 1966 – July 29, 2023) was an American actor. Gilpin was born on September 26, 1966, to Wes Gilpin and Barbara Bushway. He had...
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    John Gilpin Heyburn II (November 12, 1948 – April 29, 2015) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District...
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    customary in toy books of the period. In 1878 The Diverting History of John Gilpin was published, illustrated by Caldecott and printed by Evans. Evans supplied...
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  • John Gilpin, Raz Shamshad, Tony Powell, Trevor Russell) Jake Slazenger Jamie Lidell Jeremiah Jae Jimi Tenor Jimmy Edgar Jockstrap Joey Beltram John Callaghan...
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    split into three with the help of John Gilpin, Esq., and Bethel, Gilpin and Parks Townships were incorporated. Gilpin Township is home to many small villages...
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    Diverting History of John Gilpin", a notable piece of comic verse. G. K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy, later credited the writing of "John Gilpin" with saving Cowper...
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  • Sally Gilpin (19 September 1938, Marylebone, London, England – 28 September 2008, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) was an English ballet dancer and choreographer...
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    house of his cousin the Reverend John Gilpin, and is buried nearby in the churchyard at Gilling West. In the 1780s, Gilpin taught himself the relatively...
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    Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman...
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  • The Diverting History of John Gilpin (Routledge, 1878, an edition of the 1782 poem by William Cowper), which depicts John Gilpin astride a runaway horse...
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  • 13 1880 Edith Troop 25 1875 Vicksburg 42 1861 Canadian 35 1857 John Gilpin 0 1856 John Rutledge 118 1856 Pacific 186 (all) 1849 Hannah 49 1849 Maria 109...
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    "Train": train-band, i.e. train'd band, a band of trained men, Cowper, John Gilpin, st. I, and used by Dryden and Clarendon (Todd) — Skeat's Etymological...
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  • Robert Gilpin (/ˈɡɪlpɪn/; July 2, 1930 – June 20, 2018) was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at...
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  • Jean Gilpin (born c. 1950) is an English actress. Gilpin was born c. 1950 in London. Her father worked for the United Nations and she thus lived in various...
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    Academician. Gilpin was born in Carlisle in Cumbria, Kingdom of Great Britain. He was the seventh child of Captain John Bernard Gilpin, a soldier and...
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    results were The House that Jack Built and The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published in 1878. They were an immediate success; so much so that Caldecott...
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    Retrieved 23 July 2011. "John Gilpin". Thurb.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011. "Glynis Johns". The Powell & Pressburger...
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    originated the idea of the picturesque. Gilpin was born in Cumberland, the son of Captain John Bernard Gilpin, a soldier and amateur artist. From an early...
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    William Gilpin (October 4, 1813 – January 20, 1894) was a 19th-century American explorer, politician, land speculator, and futurist writer about the American...
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    knots (41 km/h), made while running her easting down to Australia in 1854. (John Griffiths' first clipper, the Rainbow, had a top speed of 14 knots.) Eleven...
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    secured an important prize from the Society of Arts for a drawing of John Gilpin, he abandoned engraving in the following year and began other artistic...
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