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Francis Walsingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Walsingham was born in Scadbury Park, Chislehurst, Kent in about 1530 to the family of William Walsingham and Joyce Denny. Walsingham was behind the discovery of the Throckmorton and Babington plots. An admirer of Machiavelli, Walsingham is remembered as one of the most proficient espionage-weavers in history, excelling in the use of intrigues and deception to secure the English Crown. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Walsingham   (882 words)

Trevor Francis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Trevor John Francis (born April 19, 1954 in Plymouth, England), was educated at Plymouth's Public Secondary School for Boys and was a noted footballer and England's first £1 million player. Francis had already begun to sprint into position, but even he had to increase his pace to reach the cross as it dropped, and ended up throwing himself low at the ball. Francis, an agile and skilful forward, joined Birmingham City as a schoolboy and quickly rose in status, making his debut appearance for its first team in 1970, aged just 16. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trevor_Francis   (1094 words)

Francis Ona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ona was, in one stage of his life, employed by Bougainville Copper at the mine but he was increasingly critical of its impact on the environment and what he claimed was the low level of royalties paid the landowners. Ona became the acknowledged leader of the BRA after the death of Serero in 1989 with Sam Kauona, a former soldier in the army leading military operations. In response to a blockade imposed by the PNG Government later in 1990, Ona declared himself to be the head of the Bougainville Interim Government declaring independence for the island. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Ona   (935 words)

Francis Boyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Anthony Boyle, is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Boyle is currently attorney of record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and a member of the Nobel Peace Prize for Governor George H. Ryan Committee. Boyle was publicly rebuked during teh 2004-2005 academic year by the Dean of the College of Law and by the entire faculty committee. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Boyle   (603 words)

Francis Younghusband - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1889, Younghusband was dispatched with a small escort of Gurkha soldiers to survey an uncharted region of the Hunza valley and the Khunjerab Pass through the Karakoram mountain range. Younghusband was the founder of the World Congress of Faiths (1936), and he wrote several books on faith and spirituality. Gromchevsky impressed Younghusband with the horsemanship skills of his Cossack escort, and Younghusband impressed Gromchevsky with the rifle drill of his Gurkhas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Younghusband   (721 words)

Francis Xavier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Xavier was born Francisco de Jaso y Azpilcueta in the Castle of Xavier (modern Spanish Javier, Basque Xabier) near Sangüesa and Pamplona, in Navarre, Spain. One notable church is the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa. The feast of St Francis Xavier in Goa en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Xavier   (2110 words)

Francis Upritchard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Upritchard (born 1976) is an New Zealand artist. Upritchard has also showed drawings, diagrams and notes associating Charles, Prince of Wales with the beast from the Book of Revelation She is represented in the UK by Kate Macgarry. In 2003, Upritchard was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Upritchard   (143 words)

Francis turbine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis turbines are the most common water turbine in use today. Francis turbines may be designed for a wide range of heads and flows. Large francis turbines are individually designed for each site to operate at the highest possible efficiency, typically over 90%. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_turbine   (581 words)

Samuel Francis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis was editor of the Citizens Informer newsletter quarterly, published by the Council of Conservative Citizens and an associate editor and book review editor of The Occidental Quarterly, a white nationalist and self-described "pro-Western" journal edited by Kevin Lamb and sponsored by William Regnery II. Samuel Todd Francis (April 29, 1947– February 15, 2005) was a nationally syndicated paleoconservative columnist known for his opposition to immigration, multiculturalism, and his involvement in debates concerning other controversial issues of the day. Francis was a leading political theorist of paleoconservatism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Francis   (603 words)

Francis Peyton Rous - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Peyton Rous (October 5, 1879, Texas - February 16, 1970, New York City) was an American pathologist whose discovery of cancer-inducing viruses earned him a share of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966. Rous grew up in Baltimore and was educated at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Michigan. In 1910 Rous found that sarcomas in hens could be transmitted to fowl of the same inbred stock not only by grafting tumour cells but also by injecting a submicroscopic agent extractable from them; this discovery gave rise to the virus theory of cancer causation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peyton_Rous   (220 words)

Francis Kenrick Kenrick wanted to establish control and authority over the lay people in the Church. Kenrick told lay people they must stay within their boundaries and not try to control him and the Church. Mary’s Parish became a center of conflict with that goal. encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/f/fr/francis_kenrick.html   (220 words)

Francis Lawrence Jobin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Honourable Francis Laurence Jobin (August 14, 1914-August 25, 1995) was a Manitoba politician and Lieutenant Governor. Jobin from born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was educated at the University of Manitoba. Jobin was elected to the Flin Flon Municipal Council in 1966. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Lawrence_Jobin   (220 words)

Francis Greenway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greenway's face was shown on the first Australian decimal-currency $10 note (1966-93), and he is also the eponym of a NSW Federal electorate and a Canberra suburb. Greenway was born in the English city of Bristol, where he became an architect. Greenway fell into disrepute when Macquarie accused him charging high fees whilst on a government retainer, and he was dismissed by the next governor, Thomas Brisbane, in 1822. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Greenway   (265 words)

Francis Fukuyama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an influential American philosopher, political economist and author. Fukuyama is sometimes criticized as being a bioluddite because of his critiques of the political ramifications of transhumanism, though to others Fukuyama is considered more of a bioconservative because of his cautious support for genetically modified organism technologies. Fukuyama was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Fukuyama   (1057 words)

Connie Francis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder but resumed her career in 1989 and has continued singing and recording since then. Connie Francis (December 12, 1938 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American singer. "Connie Francis" is also a character in Victory Gundam, one of the five (of the six) original members of the Shrike Team who are named in homage to 20th century female singers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Connie_Francis   (691 words)

Francis Cooke Francis' wife Hester Mahieu was the daughter of Jaques and Jenne Mahieu, French Waloon refuges that had fled to Canterbury, England where Hester was born about 1584. Francis and Hester (Mahieu) Cooke had lived in Leyden as early as 1603, about five years before the Pilgrims fled there from England. Francis is described as a "Woolcomber from England" in Dutch records dating back as early as 25 April 1603. members.aol.com /calebj/cooke.html   (691 words)

Francis Atterbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Atterbury's treatise, though highly praised by Bishop Gilbert Burnet, was more distinguished for the vigour of his rhetoric than the soundness of his arguments, and the Papists accused him of treason, and of having, by implication, called King James "Judas". Atterbury's merits were warmly acknowledged, his advice was respectfully received, and he was, as Bolingbroke had been before him, the prime minister of a king without a kingdom. Atterbury's taste in English literature was excellent; and his admiration of genius was so strong that it overpowered even his political and religious antipathies. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Atterbury   (1792 words)

Francis Palgrave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897), poet, anthologist, educationist and bureaucrat Sir Francis Palgrave, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, (1788 - 6 July 1861) was a British historian. In 1821, Francis Cohen was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, one of his sponsors being Turner. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Palgrave   (579 words)

Francis Windebank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir Francis Windebank (1582- September 1, 1646) was an English politician. The first Earl of Portland, Francis, Lord Cottington, and Windebank formed an inner group in the council, and with their aid the king carried on various secret negotiations, especially with Spain. The only son of Sir Thomas Windebank of Hougham, Lincolnshire, who owed his advancement to the Cecil family, Francis entered St John's College, Oxford, in 1599, coming there under the influence of William Laud. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Windebank   (418 words)

Water turbine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The word turbine was coined by the French engineer Claude Bourdin in the early 19th century and is derived from the Latin word for "whirling" or a "vortex". Prior to hitting the turbine blades, the water's pressure (potential energy) is converted to kinetic energy by a nozzle and focused on the turbine. Water turbines were developed in the nineteenth century and were widely used for industrial power prior to electrical grids. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Water_turbine   (1934 words)

Francis Simard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Simard, born 1946, of Montreal, Quebec, was a member of the Chenier Cell of the terrorist group, the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ). Simard, Francis, Pour en finir avec Octobre, Stanké, Montreal, 1982. On May 20, 1971, Simard was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Pierre Laporte. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Simard   (296 words)

Hang Gliding in the Aviation History Encyclopedia Hang gliding was invented, or at least strongly influenced, by the NASA technician Francis Rogallo in the 1960s who had to develop a landing system for the Apollo astronauts return to earth. Many early experiments with gliding flight throughout the late 19th century were performed using craft that would now be considered hang gliders, and interest in the sport continued throughout the 20th century. www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Hang_gliding.html   (296 words)

The Drachen Foundation Rogallo’s pioneering Flexikite, made during the course of his long career as a government research scientist, was sewn by his wife Gertrude from a flowered chintz curtain, and can still be viewed at the couple’s airy home near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Rogallo shared 1992 honors with the Magellan Project Team of California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for its successful radar mapping of the cloud-shrouded planet Venus via spacecraft. Rogallo also developed a maneuverable parachute and a sophisticated parawing to accurately control the landing of returning spacecraft. www.drachen.org /about_kites_science_rogallo.html   (296 words)

Rogallo Francis Melvin Rogallo earned one of the first Aeronautical Engineering degrees issued by a United States educational system, from Stanford University, in 1935. Francis Rogallo believed that flexible wings provided more stability than fixed surfaces. Rogallo’s early kites needed up to twenty-eight shroud lines, although their tendency to tangle convinced him of the need to design simpler models using six, and then finally four lines. members.bellatlantic.net /~vze26db3/Miscellaneous/rogallo.htm   (296 words)

Francis Petre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Petre was born in 1847 at Petone, today a suburb of Lower Hutt in the North Island, which was one of the earliest British settlements in New Zealand. Francis Petre's immediate family was one of the first and most prominent colonial families of New Zealand; Petre Bay, Chatham Island was named after them, as - originally - was the town of Wanganui in the North Island. Petre's original intention, however, was for a mighty structure, with the twin towers dwarfed by a huge spire some 60 metres (200 ft) in height, which would have resulted in one of the most magnificent cathedrals in the southern hemisphere. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Petre   (3770 words)

§4. Sir Francis Kynaston; "Leoline and Sydanis". IV. Lesser Caroline Poets. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 This has not been the case, till within the last few years, with a fourth and very curious example of the heroic poem, the Leoline and Sydanis (1642) of Sir Francis Kynaston. Kynaston was a Shropshire gentleman of family, and, apparently, of some means; a member, not merely by incorporation, but by actual residence, of both universities; he was proctor at Cambridge in 1635, and sat for Shropshire in parliament from 1621 onwards. One or two of Kynaston’s lyrics, by the production of which he is distinguished from his compeers, had been noted and quoted by anthologists; and a singular experiment of his in the matter of Chaucer had also been chronicled in the present generation: but his principal poem had been left to curiosity-hunters. www.bartleby.com /217/0404.html   (3770 words)

Francis I of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis I, a member of the Valois Dynasty, was born at Cognac, Charente, the son of Charles d'Angoulême (1459 – January 1, 1496), 1st cousin of King Louis XII, and of Louise of Savoy (September 11, 1476 – September 22, 1531). Francis I (French: François Ier) (September 12, 1494 – July 31, 1547), called the Father and Restorer of Letters (French: le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres), was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. Francis I died at the Château de Rambouillet and is interred with his first wife, Claude de France, Duchess of Bretagne, in Saint Denis Basilica. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_I_of_France   (1740 words)

Kay Francis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kay Francis (13 January 1905- 26 August 1968) was an American actress who, after a brief beginning on Broadway in the 1920s, moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936. Francis was born Katharine Edwina Gibbs on January 13, 1905, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Francis married three times, and was involved in numerous well publicized affairs, but rumors of lesbianism followed her both during her life and since; Marjorie Main told author Boze Hadleigh when he interviewed her for his book on Hollywood lesbians: "I always heard she was queer for the ladies." en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kay_Francis   (793 words)

Julius Francis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, when fighting against fighters of a higher caliber Francis was usually outclassed, as was the case in his fights with Vitali Klitschko and Mike Tyson, in both of which he was stopped in the second round. In the latter part of his career Francis has been employed principally as a journeyman, fighting up-and-coming young boxers who are expected to beat him while benefiting from the experience he brings. He begain his professional career in 1993 and reached the peak of his abilities in the mid 1990s with consecutive wins over Pele Reid, Danny Williams, and Scott Welch for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles, securing ownership of the Lonsdale belt at the same time. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julius_Francis   (211 words)

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