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3 hours ago · Thomson was the second successor of Maxwell in the Cavendish chair at Cambridge, after John William Strutt Rayleigh (Langford Grove, 1842–Terling Place, 1919), and the longest-serving president in the laboratory’s history, having directed it from 1884 to 1919.
3 hours ago · Major-General John Michael Watson Badcock (1922—2020), Royal Corps of Signals; Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857—1941), GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division; Brigadier John Stanhope Badley (1923—2007), Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Artillery
3 hours ago · May 29. In 1950, Lee, along with her lover, Robert Clayton, and an accomplice, Norman Andrews, were convicted of the murder of SP bookie Pop Kent, 73, in Carlton after a robbery gone wrong. Lee ...
3 hours ago · John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. [6]
1 day ago · Elvis Costello. Declan Patrick MacManus OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television presenter. According to Rolling Stone, Costello "reinvigorated the literate, lyrical traditions of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison with the raw energy and sass that were ...
1 day ago · v. t. e. Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994.
