• Joseph Billings (c.1758 – 1806) was an English navigator, hydrographer and explorer who spent the most of his career in Russian service. From 1790 to...
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    Billings was a preparatory school roommate of Kennedy, an usher at his wedding, and a campaigner for his successful 1960 presidential bid. Joseph P...
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    Alexandra Scott Billings (born March 28, 1962) is an American actress, singer, and teacher. Billings, a trans woman, played one of TV's first openly transgender...
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  • Joseph Edward Billings was an architect in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century. Among his business partners were his brother Hammatt Billings...
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  • arrange his baptism, and give him the name of John. Louisa later marries Joseph Billings, butler at Highmarten, the home of Jane, née Bennet, and Charles Bingley...
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    exploration and mapping of the area. Starting in 1785, an expedition led by Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev mapped the Chukchi Peninsula, the west coast of...
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    after a nearby cape, which in turn was named after British Captain Joseph Billings (1758—1806) who was at the service of the Russian Imperial Navy during...
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  • Yakutat Borough, Alaska.: 15–16  It was presumably named after the Joseph Billings ship Slava Rossii, or "Glory of Russia". The post was attacked and...
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  • Billings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Billings (born 1942), Church of England priest and South Yorkshire's Police Crime...
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  • languages (English, Russian, French and German). Sauer got to know Joseph Billings in the 1780s in Saint Petersburg. He was also acquainted with Peter...
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    (1747–1810) Astronomer: William Bayly (1737–1810), assistant astronomer Joseph Billings (1758–1806) Illustrator: John Webber (1750–1793) Crew members: George...
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    Street in the vicinity of Downtown Crossing. Architects Joseph Billings and Hammatt Billings designed it as the headquarters of the Methodist Boston Wesleyan...
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    search of the Northwest Passage 1785–1794: Russian expedition led by Joseph Billings explores Eastern Siberia, the Aleutian Islands, and the west coast...
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    trigonocheirus) inhabits the waters off Cape Billings. This cape was named after British Captain Joseph Billings (1758–1806) who was at the service of the...
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  • Rhoda Bryan Billings (born September 30, 1937) is an American lawyer and a former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Billings is a native of...
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    civilian. Other crew members included: William Bayly served as astronomer Joseph Billings was an able seaman, first on Discovery, later on Resolution James Cleveley...
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    to sail to Nootka Sound. He was referring to the 1789 expedition of Joseph Billings, but greatly exaggerating its mission. The visit to Unalaska marks...
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    (April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885), better known by the pen name Josh Billings, was a 19th-century American humorist and lecturer. Shaw was born in Lanesborough...
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    Northeast Passage took place in the 1760s (Vasiliy Chichagov), 1785–95 (Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev), the 1820s and 1830s (Baron Ferdinand Petrovich...
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    winter but then returned to Irkutsk to join a larger expedition led by Joseph Billings (of the Cook voyage). However, Ledyard was arrested under orders from...
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    2022). "Joseph Medicine Crow Center dedicated". Daily Trojan. Hoffman, Matt (August 25, 2016). "Medicine Crow opens for its 1st day". Billings Gazette...
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    USS Billings (LCS-15) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first ship in naval service named after Billings, Montana...
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    seen and named St. Makarius by Vitus Bering in 1741, was sighted by Joseph Billings in 1790, and visited by Shishmaref in 1820. In 1783, Daikokuya Kōdayū...
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    Plymouth Rock memorial. He worked for some years with his brother Joseph Edward Billings, also an architect. He was the artist of one of the well-noted portrayals...
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    Naturalist with the Russian Scientific Expedition led by Captains Joseph Billings and Gavril Sarychev. Translated by Jaensch, Fritz. Kingston, ON: Limestone...
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  • Bilibino District, Bilibinskite. Joseph Billings^ (c. 1758–1806) Royal Navy and Russian Navy officer In 1785–95 Billings, previously an English officer...
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  • 17, she moved to Billings where she met her husband, former Billings Mayor Joseph A. Leone. "Mayor William Fox April 1977". Billings Gazette. November...
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    also known as the Marsh-Billings House or Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion, is the architectural centerpiece of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical...
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    The Diocese of Great Falls–Billings (Latin: Dioecesis Magnocataractensis–Billingensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Montana...
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  • The Billings Mustangs are an independent baseball team of the Pioneer League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB) but is an MLB Partner...
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