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  William Jardine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the mid-1820s, Jardine invited James Matheson (1796-1874), son of a Scottish baronet, to form an enterprise for the (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China trade.
Jardine was known as the planner, the tough negotiator and strategist of the firm as Matheson was known as the organization man, who handled the firm's correspondence, books of accounts and finances.
Jardines also had hundreds of small ships, lorchas and small (Secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due) smuggling crafts for coastal and upriver smuggling.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_jardine.htm   (1517 words)

  
 Al Jardine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alan Jardine is a founding member of the Beach Boys, their occasional lead vocalist, and one of their guitarists.
Jardine was born in Lima, Ohio on September 3, 1942.
Jardine left the touring version of the Beach Boys in 1998 after Carl Wilson died of lung cancer.
www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Al_Jardine   (224 words)

  
 Clan JARDINE
The chiefly house is that of Jardine of Applegarth, a well established and landed family, the head of which was raised to the baronage of Nova Scotia by patent dated 1672.
The Buchanan-Jardine of Castlemilk, Dumfries is one of the families that is descended from Dr. William Jardine, co-founder of the famous Jardine Matheson conglomerate.
In 1573 the King confirmed the grant of lands to Sir Alexander Jardine of Jardinefield in Berwickshire; Applegirth and Sibbaldbie in Dumfrieshire; Hartside and Wandel in Lanarkshire; and Kirkandrews in Kirkcudbright.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/htol/jardine2.html   (727 words)

  
 The Curious Life of Robert Hooke - Lisa Jardine
Jardine also has to deal with this in her biography of the man, and it turns out to be quite a hurdle.
Jardine suggests a focus with her subtitle -- Hooke as The Man Who Measured London -- but the book admits there was far more to him, and gives equal space to his important work with and at the Royal Society, and many of his other endeavours.
Jardine gives a decent overview of some of these projects, and the illustrations bring much of this to life, but it's hard material to simply survey and one wishes for a more detailed and specific account of it.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/scibio/hooker1.htm   (1576 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jardine Matheson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jardine Matheson was formed in China in 1832 by William Jardine and James Matheson (http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst628.html), both British citizens from Scotland.
Jardine Matheson have diversified enormously since, becoming a large conglomerate with operations in several south-east Asian nations and in the UK.
Jardines was the thinly-disguised inspiration for a series of novels written by James Clavell, including Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, and Noble House.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jardine-Matheson   (1395 words)

  
 The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine
Jardine, foreseeing the want of fresh provision, proposed to the Government to send his own sons, Frank and Alexander, overland with a herd of cattle to form a station from which it might be supplied.
Jardine cut (or caused to be cut) its number with a chisel into the wood of a tree, in Roman numerals, and his initials generally in a shield.
Jardine immediately jumped on his horse and brought him back to Eulah's, but to no purpose, for he galloped past without taking the least notice of him, and as it was now dark they had to let him go.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/4/5/2/4521/4521-h/4521-h.htm   (19709 words)

  
 David Jardine - Curriculum Vitae 1998
Jardine, D., with Friesen, S. A play on the wickedness of undone sums, including a brief mytho-phenomenology of "x" and some speculations on the effects of its peculiar absence in elementary mathematics education.
Jardine, D., LaGrange, A. Clifford, P. and Friesen, S. (under construction) "Back to basics": Re-thinking what is basic to education through an interpretive study of the work of teachers and students in elementary school classrooms: An outline of research in progress.
Jardine, D., LaGrange, A. Clifford, P. and Friesen, S. "Back to basics": Re-thinking what is basic to education through an interpretive study of the work of teachers and students in elementary school classrooms: An outline of research in progress.
www.ucalgary.ca /~jardine/cv.html   (5167 words)

  
 The Hindu : Jardine in Australia
At the centre of the controversy was the M.C.C. captain, D. Jardine, the centenary of whose birth falls this fortnight.
Jardine, seeing this, is alleged to have said: "I've got it, he's yellow." Yellow, perhaps, but he still averaged 56 runs an innings, twice that of Jardine himself.
Jardine, he wrote, was "the most hated sportsman ever to visit this country, yet there was something indefinably magnificent and courageous in the resolute manner in which he stuck to his "bodyline" guns.
www.hinduonnet.com /2000/10/29/stories/0729028d.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Westminster's Jardine to swim for national crown - PittsburghLIVE.com
Jardine, who has been battling a bad back since her high school swimming days at North Allegheny, was allowed to select two additional events to compete in at the national championships and chose her next strongest events, the 100-butterfly and the 50-freestyle.
Jardine, 20, solidified her return to the national level with a grand showing at the PAC championships at Grove City College.
Jardine, who had earned Women's Swimmer of the Week honors for both Division III and the Presidents' Athletic Conference this season, admitted that it was disappointing not being able to swim in the ECAC finals, but said that it made her really look forward to swimming at nationals.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/golf/s_122497.html   (676 words)

  
 Jardine New Page
Jardine and Associates Inc. are pleased to announce the signature of a professional services agreement with Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc. Under this agreement Jardine will provide their reliability consultancy services, employing their TARO simulation software, to assess the performance of petrochemical and refinery plants.
Jardine Technology Limited is not part of the DNV acquisition and remains under the ownership and direction of Dr Iain Jardine.
Jardine are also employing their advanced TARO simulation tool to assist the Operator in understanding the optimum levels of liquids storage that require to be provided in order to ensure uninterrupted operation of the gas collection and processing facilities.
www.jardinesolutions.com /news.htm   (610 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Prize fighter
Jardine was not taking advantage, as was sometimes cynically supposed, of his research in order to get on with a book she did not have time to write by herself.
No wonder that by the time Jardine came to make the traditional speech about the difficulty of choosing a winner, she sounded, according to one member of the audience, 'self-aggrandising and tiresome'.
Nick Jardine wishes to contribute only one line about his ex-wife: 'She is a very fine scholar.' Her second husband, John Hare, is even less forthcoming but for other reasons.
education.guardian.co.uk /academicexperts/story/0,1392,722993,00.html   (1508 words)

  
 State v. Jardine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jardine was then arrested and charged with committing the offense of abuse of a family or household member, in violation of HRS § 709-906 (Supp.
Jardine explained that in his mind, he had two choices: either keep driving, in which case Bradbury "could hurl herself out of the car"; or he could "pull over," in which case he was "pretty sure she would have jumped out" of the car.
Jardine argues that the family court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal because the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his use of force was not justifiable to keep Bradbury from harming herself or their unborn child.
www.state.hi.us /jud/ica24282.htm   (3839 words)

  
 Short CV: J.F. Jardine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jardine is the coauthor, with Paul Goerss, of the book Simplicial Homotopy Theory, which appeared in the Birkhäuser Progress in Mathematics series in the fall of 1999.
Jardine is the cofounder, with Dan Grayson (Urbana-Champaign), of the Algebraic K-theory Preprint Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Grayson and Jardine are also the cofounders of the Great Lakes K-theory series of conferences, which began in 1995 and has since been held on an annual basis.
www.math.uwo.ca /~jardine/cv   (371 words)

  
 Jardine's Parrot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jardine's are highly stimulated by watching daily activities and listening to conversations.
One of my Jardine' favorite word is "Jardine", and he will say is in several different tones such as "Jardine?" and "Jardine!Jardine!", depending on his mood.
Jardine's love to dip their food, bathe, or dump it just for the fun of it, leaving them nothing to drink.
home.earthlink.net /~jenandjonm/id14.html   (665 words)

  
 jardine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jardine's history focuses on gems, books, furniture, plateware, tapestries, paintings, altarpieces, maps, instruments, cloth, and spices -- and the scholars, cardinals and kings and bankers who were aggressive consumers of these most worldly goods.
As a closing point in Chapter Seven, Jardine notes that merchants had freed themselves, or were freed, from restrictive usury laws by the end of the 16th century.
Jardine concludes with a discussion of Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors, an exemplary image of the political, scientific, and religious goods overflowing in Renaissance consumer culture.
www.lehigh.edu /~cmp8/worksinprogress/summary/jardine.html   (515 words)

  
 Aspergillosis and Jardines
Whatever the case is regarding Jardine's parrots and aspergillosis, this illness is a common and serious illness that all parrots can suffer from and all parrot owners need to be aware of so that they can take preventative measures to protect their birds.
In reporting his experience with his Jardine's and trying to find a reason why she had developed the illness, that owner wondered whether he had not been sufficiently tough with her in the past by giving her so many choices of foods.
She sees 3 Jardine's in her practice currently, one of them being the Jardine's belonging to a listmember which was treated successfully by her for aspergillosis.
www.maxwellcaputo.com /parrot/asper.htm   (6370 words)

  
 Jardine chairs division of Soil Science Society of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, February 23, 1996 — Dr. Philip M. Jardine, staff research scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was recently elected chair of the Soils and Environmental Quality Division of the Soil Science Society of America.
Jardine will be responsible for organizing symposia and the agenda for the next two annual meetings of the Soil Science Society of America, which is an organization of scientists that investigates subsurface, chemical, physical and microbial processes.
A resident of West Knoxville, Jardine is married to Shari Jardine.
www.ornl.gov /info/press_releases/archive/mr19960226-00.html   (265 words)

  
 Custom 1911 Pistols - Jardine's Custom Handguns - 1911A1 Pistolsmith
John Jardine is a master pistolsmith who has enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for simply outstanding work since 1965 when he apprenticed under a truly legendary 1911 handgun expert.
John Jardine is also the man behind Valtro USA, manufacturers of the 1998A1 pistol.
Jardine's Custom is the exclusive gunsmith responsible for providing Valtro USA factory-authorized service, Valtro customization and enhancements.
www.jardinescustom.com   (138 words)

  
 Jardine Exhaust
Jardine's engineering expertise has resulted in the production of a wide range of products for all branches of the sport of motorcycling.
Utilizing years of manufacturing knowledge, Jardine is elevating the art and science of development and manufacturing to levels not previously achieved in the motorcycle industry.
Jardine Performance is proud to be the official supplier of exhaust systems to American Honda's Roadrace Team.
www.exoticsportbike.com /jardine.htm   (170 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
Jardine Pacific's advertising slogan, "In Hong Kong, For Hong Kong," has shown up in newspapers, televisions and slick brochures for more than a year as the former British colony prepared for its handover to China last July.
Jardine started off in 1832 on a bad foot in China, where the company's founders made their fortune selling opium from the colonial outpost of Hong Kong.
William Jardine was born in Dumfriesshire in 1784 and served as ship's surgeon from 1802-1816 in the East India Company, which monopolized the tea trade between China and Europe.
starbulletin.com /98/04/09/news/story3.html   (1448 words)

  
 Jardine Subspecies of Aves International
Jardines were relatively rare in U.S. aviculture in those days and there wasn't much interest in them so the importers were reluctant to put much energy into getting them.
These birds were clearly different from the other Jardines- larger, different shades of green, with a smaller area of darker orange coloring on the forehead.
Jardine Parrots have a reputation of being susceptible to Aspergillosis but I have not found that to be at all true of the Jardine Parrots we own.
babybirdcalendar.com /Jardinesubspecies.html   (1078 words)

  
 MyClan.com : Clan Jardine : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Their earliest stronghold was Spedlings Tower, which was abandoned in the late seventeenth century when the family moved across the River Annan to Jardine Hall, apparently to escape the ghost of an unfortunate miller who had been left to starve to death in the tower’s dungeon.
Sir Alexander Jardine of Applegirth was active in defending the Borders against the incursions of the English.
The father of the present chief, Sir William Jardine, twelfth Baronet and twenty-third chief, was active in promoting clan activities and served on the Committee of the Council of Chiefs.
www.myclan.com /clans/Jardine_56/default.php   (910 words)

  
 Liz Jardine Artist Biography at ARTinaClick.com
As a child, Jardine was raised on and artistically shaped by the sights and sounds of New York City.
Jardine would journey to a different museum every Sunday with her father, who is also a painter.
Jardine gravitated toward the tactile and, as an undergraduate student at the State University of New York in Buffalo, she concentrated on textile design and clay forms.
www.artinaclick.com /artist/bio.asp?fk_artist=3808   (390 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > People > Tony Jardine
Jardine finished school and went to the University of Warwick to study psychology and sociology.
In 1993, following the death of James Hunt, Jardine became the BBC pitlane reporter and, when ITV took over the Formula 1 coverage for the British market, he was hired as one of the commentary team.
Jardine remains a rally fan and competes regularly on the RAC Rally, the British round of the World Rally Championship.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/cref-jarton.html   (608 words)

  
 Custom 1911 Handguns By Pistolsmith John Jardine
Pistols produced by Jardine's custom are highly reliable, accurate, and beautiful pieces of work tuned to be extremely accurate and reliable pieces of work.
The pride of ownership which is evident in those who have purchased a Jardines Custom 1911 is shown in the feedback that they give both to John Jardine and to others who they come in contact with.
Jardine's customers appreciate the meticulous attention to detail, the time taken to do it right, and the steadfastness Jardine displays in standing behind all of his work with a lifetime warranty.
www.jardinescustom.com /custom1911s.html   (391 words)

  
 Backpacker.com - The Ray Way
It hardly matters whether Jardine is talking about the heated reaction to his original ideas about long-distance backpacking or to his innovative camming devices—called "friends"—that ushered in a new era of rock climbing.
When Jardine first published The Pacific Crest Trail Hiker's Handbook in 1992 and then came out with a substantially revised version in 1995, he challenged some long-held beliefs about the proper way to backpack.
In typical Jardine fashion, The Ray Way was developed through intense personal experience, starting with his first long-distance hike, a PCT trek, in 1989.
www.backpacker.com /article/0,2646,2451,00.html   (614 words)

  
 Clan Jardine - Contacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Jardine Clan Society was formed in 1976 as a focal point for people with Jardine in the name or in their ancestry.
Jardines then moved to Westmorland in the north west of England, and on to the Lockerbie area where the family settled.
Jardines are one of 14 clans in the West march of the Borders recognized by the Scottish Parliment in July 1587.
www.gatheringoftheclans.com /clans/Jardine/society/society.html   (227 words)

  
 Jardine lodges complaint for ouster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Carl A. Jardine was fired in December, two months after a CU audit accused him of embezzlement and bribery in connection with the alleged mismanagement of two university properties.
Jardine, who remains unemployed, was unwilling Friday to release a copy of his discrimination complaint.
The purchases, including pricey office furniture and CU basketball tickets, were billed to the university by a management firm contracted to run the College Inn Conference Center and the University Club, both of which are overseen by the housing department.
www.thedailycamera.com /buffzone/news/16ajard.html   (400 words)

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