Thomas Wright Blakiston (27 December 1832 – 15 October 1891) was an English explorer and naturalist. Born in Lymington, Hampshire, Blakiston was the son...
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the English naturalist Thomas Blakiston, who collected the original specimen in Hakodate on Hokkaidō, Japan in 1883. Blakiston's fish owl was formally...
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The Blakiston Line or Blakiston's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn between two of the four largest islands of Japan: Hokkaidō in the north and Honshū...
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Blakiston may refer to: Blakiston (surname) Blakiston baronets Blakiston, South Australia, a small town in South Australia, Australia Mount Blakiston...
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There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Blakiston family of Blakiston, County Durham, two in the Baronetage of England and one in...
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that his ancestor, Sir William Blakiston had owned. Robert Surtees wrote in February 1810 that although Sir Thomas Conyers had a number of "patrons"...
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branch of the Blakison family would eventually wind its way down to Sir Thomas Blakiston Conyers, himself a descendent of King Edward IV, and the great-great-grandfather...
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1954, 1,172 people died when the ferry Tōya Maru sank in the strait. Thomas Blakiston, an English explorer and naturalist, noticed that animals in Hokkaido...
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friend, and eventually brother-in-law, of the explorer and naturalist Thomas Blakiston. After a visit to the United States in 1883–84, Dun was appointed the...
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branch of the Blakison family would eventually wind its way down to Sir Thomas Blakiston Conyers, himself a descendent of King Edward IV, and the great-great-grandfather...
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and poet Thomas Blakiston (1832-1891), English explorer and naturalist Blakiston baronets This page lists people with the surname Blakiston. If an internal...
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728 m (8,950 ft) to the south. The mountain was named in 1858 for Thomas Blakiston, a member of the Palliser Expedition. The Lineham Creek hiking trail...
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1271 AD, iron horseshoes became more common in northern China. When Thomas Blakiston travelled up the Yangtze, he noted that in Sichuan "cattle wore straw...
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accompanied by a party of four other men: James Hector, Eugène Bourgeau, Thomas Blakiston and John W. Sullivan. With the support of the British government and...
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Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse (1869) British merchant, naturalist and spy, Thomas Blakiston, took up residence in Hakodate in the summer of 1861 to establish a...
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Takeaki Edward and Henry Schnell Prince Sawara Sugawara no Michizane Thomas Blakiston Kōda Rohan Satō Nobuhiro Joseph Needham Mori Ōgai Torahiko Terada Hantaro...
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English japanologist Cambridge lecturer Thomas Blakiston - English naturalist noted for Blakiston's Line and Blakiston's Fish Owl Reginald Horace Blyth - helped...
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Geography Moose Mountain Alberta, Canada Topo map NTS 82J15 Bragg Creek Climbing First ascent August 12, 1858 Thomas Blakiston Easiest route Strenuous hike...
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21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906) December 27 – Thomas Blakiston, English explorer, zoologist, and naturalist. (d. 1891) Margaret Morton...
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research on Jimsonweed and the sexuality of fungi Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891), English naturalist. "Blakiston's Line" separates animal species of Hokkaidō and...
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Thomas Johnson (November 4, 1732 – October 26, 1819) was an 18th-century American lawyer, politician, and patriot. He was a delegate to the First Continental...
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Lakes in Alberta, Canada, now a national park, was named after him by Thomas Blakiston in 1858. A road and school in Wakefield, Yorkshire, are also named...
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Major Frank Astley Cubitt and his wife Bertha, daughter of Captain Thomas Blakiston of the Royal Navy. The family resided at Thorpe Hall in Norwich, with...
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coast of the Pacific Ocean. He was assisted by astronomer Lieutenant Thomas Blakiston of the Royal Artillery, botanist Eugène Bourgeau and geologist Dr James...
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Nehemiah Blakiston was Governor of the Maryland colony from 1691 to 1692. He became Governor as the 2nd Leader of the Protestant Associators, succeeding...
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Institute Otto Beatty Jr., attorney, politician, Civil Rights leader Thomas Blakiston, English explorer and naturalist John W. Bricker, Ohio Governor, U...
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was born in Havant John Blake, cricketer, was born in Portsmouth Thomas Blakiston, naturalist, was born in Lymington Helena Blackman, actor, was born...
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Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (5 September 1862 – 29 July 1942) was an English academic and clergyman who served as president of Trinity College, Oxford...
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Philip Francis Thomas (September 12, 1810 – October 2, 1890) was an American lawyer, mathematician and politician. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates...
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enclosure, the smell of 'bad fish' was very strong. In 1878, with Thomas Blakiston, Pryer published a catalogue of the birds of Japan. The paper contains...
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