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    Dame Flora Louise Shaw, Lady Lugard DBE (born 19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929), was a British journalist and writer. She is credited with having coined...
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    Moberly Bell (1947:124–126) recounts a chance meeting between Tyson and Flora Shaw on a long train journey: although vastly different in background, they...
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    name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Baron Frederick Lugard, a British colonial administrator...
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  • Flora Shaw Stewart (1886–1979), better known as 'Ma' Stewart, was a popular pioneering hotel owner in the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea...
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  • Flora Madeline Shaw (January 15, 1864 – August 27, 1927) was a Canadian nurse and nursing teacher. She began her career as second and later first assistant...
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    Ogori Magongo, and Idoma. The name Nigeria, was coined in Lokoja by Flora Shaw in the hill of Mount Patti, the future wife of Baron Lugard, a British...
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    country. This name was coined on 8 January 1897, by the British journalist Flora Shaw. The neighboring Republic of Niger takes its name from the same river...
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    journalist and writer Flora Louise Shaw (later Flora Lugard) gave Nigeria its name. The name (Nigeria) was coined by Flora Shaw in 1914 when looking at...
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    Lugard married, on 10 June 1902, Flora Shaw, daughter of Major-General George Shaw, and granddaughter of Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet. She was a foreign...
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  • Engineering. 144 (3): 121–127. doi:10.1680/cien.2001.144.3.121. John Witherow; Flora Shaw; Robert Barrington-Ward; Tony Gallagher; James Harding (eds.), The Times...
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    Flora Fountain is a Fountain located at the Hutatma Chowk is an ornamentally sculpted architectural heritage monument located at the southern end of the...
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    Press and Ombudsman of Ireland. Flora Shaw — Writer who coined the name "Nigeria" for the African country. Sir Frederick Shaw — Recorder of Dublin 1830–76...
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  • I". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. I. pp. 71–75. Retrieved 8 August 2023. Flora Shaw (23 December 2010). A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History...
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    holdings. Shaw also purchased the strip now occupied by Flora Place as an entrance way to his Botanical Garden. Most of the northern part of the Shaw area...
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     11. Retrieved 9 February 2014. Sinclair, James. "Flora Shaw Stewart (1886–1979)". Stewart, Flora Shaw (1886–1979). Australian Dictionary of Biography....
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    community. Some newspapers, such as The Times under pro-imperialist editor Flora Shaw, refused to publish reviews of her works. Though some have argued that...
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  • army were unable to return to Persia and so journeyed through Africa. Flora Shaw in contrast argued that Kisra was a mistranslation of "Christ" and that...
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  • of Art from 1932 to 1946. Born in Dexter to Arthur Preston Abbott and Flora Shaw Parkman, Abbott graduated from Dexter Regional High School. He then received...
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  • Francis William Reitz Lewis Brody : Lobenguela Flockina von Platen : Flora Shaw Karl Haubenreißer : Dr. Leander Jameson Alfred Bernau : Edward, Prince...
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    lway-tunnels/thames-tunnel-plumstead-to-north-woolwich John Witherow; Flora Shaw; Robert Barrington-Ward; Tony Gallagher; James Harding (eds.), The Times...
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    Reta Shaw (September 13, 1912 – January 8, 1982) was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many...
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    "Flora". The De Morgan Foundation. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2020. Sparrow, Walter Shaw (1905). Women Painters of the World, by Walter Shaw Sparrow...
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    Dame Flora McKenzie Robson DBE (28 March 1902 – 7 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned...
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  • Benin. January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the...
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    Shaw starts with small drawings on paper, featuring characters, flora and fauna. These are then transferred to acetate as individual elements. Shaw begins...
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  • was the second largest competition in Papua New Guinea. In 1962, Mrs. Flora Shaw Stewart (1886–1979) established Morobe Theatres Ltd and constructed a...
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  • London Fireman. Fiona Shaw (born 1958), Irish actress who plays Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films Flora Madeline Shaw (1864–1927), Canadian nurse...
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    Flora Sandes (Serbian Cyrillic: Флора Сендс, 22 January 1876 – 24 November 1956) was a British woman who served as a member of the Royal Serbian Army...
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  • the province made it unwise to have a large gathering of people. Mrs. Flora Shaw Stewart (1886–1979) was a founding member of the Morobe Agricultural Society...
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    career, including The Echo, Fraser's Magazine and The Woman's World. Flora Shaw was a foreign correspondent whose interview with the exiled former Sudanese...
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