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2 days ago · Mary Priestley, by Carl F. von Breda (1793); daughter of ironmaster Isaac Wilkinson, sister of industrialist John Wilkinson. In 1761, Priestley moved to Warrington in Cheshire and assumed the post of tutor of modern languages and rhetoric at the town's Dissenting academy, although he would have preferred to teach mathematics and natural philosophy.
4 days ago · The original fabricator of the miracle of the straw was one John Wilkinson, a young Roman Catholic, who at the time of Garnet's trial and execution was about to pass over into France, to commence his studies at the Jesuits' College at St. Omer's.
5 days ago · Hearne's successor, John Wilkinson (rector 1622–66), remained in his benefice without interruption during the Interregnum, though in 1629 he was reported for non-residence and for failure to catechize.
4 days ago · John Wilkinson (1728–1808) English industrialist. John ‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson developed the manufacture and use of cast iron. These precision-made cast iron cylinders were important in steam engines. Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792) English entrepreneur and ‘father of the industrial revolution.’
3 days ago · Thomas Baker, a celebrated scholar and English antiquary, was born at Crookhall (fn. 271), September 14, 1656. He was educated at the Free School of Durham, under the Rev. Thomas Battersby, and afterwards removed to Cambridge, where he was admitted Pensioner of St. John's College, June 13, 1674.
4 days ago · John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
3 days ago · Although her actions were like those of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved 1,200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust, and whose tale was turned into a major Hollywood film, she hardly mentioned her heroics to others.
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