• Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the...
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    cycle. It was discovered by the English astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington around 1861. Carrington's work was refined by the German astronomer Gustav...
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    Maunder Minimum. Spörer was a contemporary of Richard Christopher Carrington, an English astronomer. Carrington is generally credited with discovering Spörer's...
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  • railway station in Carrington, Nottingham Carrington Event, or Solar storm of 1859, named for astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington All pages with titles...
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  • Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932)...
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  • an imagined rigid rotation, as defined originally by Richard Christopher Carrington. Carrington determined the solar rotation rate from low latitude sunspots...
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    observed and recorded independently by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson—the first records of a solar flare. A geomagnetic storm...
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    London to a contaminated water pump. Solar flares discovered by Richard Christopher Carrington. Distinction between coats and jackets begins to blur Production...
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    international women's rights activist, pacifist (d. 1899) May 26 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (d. 1875) May 28 – Benjamin Gratz Brown...
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    Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in...
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  • 1989. The series, created by Richard and Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, revolves around the Carringtons, a wealthy family residing in...
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  • Blake Alexander Carrington is a fictional character on the ABC television series Dynasty, created by Richard and Esther Shapiro. The role of Blake was...
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    Earth on 9 November 1853, which is when the English astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington started his observations of sunspots. The second is the Stonyhurst...
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  • given name. Alan Carrington (1934–2013), British chemist Benjamin Carrington (1827–1893), British botanist Richard Christopher Carrington (1826–1875), British...
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  • English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1815) 1875 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (b. 1826) 1881 – Theobald Boehm...
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  • people who try their damnedest to keep them clean?" Carrington chauffeur Michael Culhane (Robert Christopher Riley) is also Fallon's lover and unofficial henchman...
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    British Royal Navy officer and test pilot died here in 2016. Richard Christopher Carrington, a self-taught astronomer, lived in Redhill from 1852 to 1865...
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    Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician...
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    drama series The Duchess of Duke Street, and in 1986 he appeared as Ben Carrington in the US soap opera Dynasty, which he played until the following year...
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  • Alexis Carrington Colby (Née Morell, formerly Dexter and Rowan) is a fictional character on the American TV series Dynasty. She is the ex-wife of Blake...
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  • Fallon Carrington is a fictional character from the ABC television series Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys. Created by Richard and Esther Shapiro, the...
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    supported an observatory built by 19th century British astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington. Stony Jump, the easternmost of the jumps, has an elevation...
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  • Carrington (seasons 1–2; guest season 5), Fallon's gay environmentalist half-brother Robert Christopher Riley as Michael Culhane, former Carrington chauffeur...
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  • Steven Daniel Carrington is a fictional character on the American prime time soap opera Dynasty. Steven is noteworthy as one of the earliest gay main characters...
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  • Backhouse Astor, Sr., American businessman (b. 1792) November 27 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (b. 1826) November 29 – Maximilian Piotrowski...
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  • States, 1898–1963) James Carpenter (United Kingdom, 1840–1899) Richard Christopher Carrington (United Kingdom, 1826–1875) Sir John Carroll (United Kingdom...
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  • Gresham Professor of Geometry (2008–2011); Templeton Prize (2006) Richard Christopher Carrington FRS – "Observer" at Durham University Observatory (1849–1852)...
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    1856 Robert Grant 1857 Heinrich Schwabe 1858 Robert Main 1859 Richard Christopher Carrington 1860 Peter Andreas Hansen 1861 Hermann Goldschmidt 1862 Warren...
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    Intrigue at RAS and Cambridge Observatory from the biography of Richard Christopher Carrington  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from...
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  • traveller, writer and Egyptologist (born 1797) 27 November – Richard Christopher Carrington, astronomer (born 1826) 23 December – Charles Frederick, admiral...
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