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  Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (John B-John C)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Bell was an American politician and one of the founders of the Whig party.
John Bright became a leading spirit in the Anti-Corn-Law League and in 1843 was elected to Parliament to represent Durham, where upon he distinguished himself as an advocate of free trade and reform.
John Cotton was a Puritan clergyman, known as the Patriarch of New England.
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 John Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Barry (1745-1803), an officer in the Continental Navy.
John Steward Barry (1802-1870), a Governor of Michigan (1842-1846, 1850-1852)
John Barry, a recipient of the Victoria Cross
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 Charles Barry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795-12 May 1860) was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (perhaps better known as the Houses of Parliament) in his home city of London during the mid 19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.
Born in Bridge Street, Westminster, Barry was educated privately before being apprenticed to a Lambeth surveyor at the age of 15.
Following the destruction by fire of the existing Houses of Parliament on 16 October 1834, Barry won the commission in 1836 to design the new Palace of Westminster, working with Pugin on the Gothic-influenced building.
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 John Wolfe-Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir John Wolfe-Barry (1836-1919) was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century.
He was a pupil of civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw, as was Henri Marc Brunel, son of the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
He was chairman of Cable and Wireless from 1900 to 1917.
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 Sir Charles Barry biography
Despite this, Barry was skilled in a variety of design styles, from Greek Revival to Italian Rennaissance, Gothic to Elizabethan, and suited his designs to the requirements of the job at hand.
Barry's design did not meet with universal approval; when the Commons finally met in their new chambers in 1852, members complained that the high ceilings produced poor acoustics.
John Wolfe-Barry designed Tower Bridge in London, Charles Barry rebuilt Burlington House in Piccadilly, London, and Edward Barry finished his father's work on the Palace of Westminster and the Town Hall of Halifax, Yorkshire, as well as redesigning the Covent Garden Opera House in London.
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 Barry, Daniel Thomas - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Barry, Daniel Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was also aboard the space shuttle Discovery, launched in May 1999 to deliver supplies to the ISS before the arrival of the first resident crew, and on the Discovery flight in August 2001 to the ISS to exchange crews and to attach the Leonardo module.
Barry was selected as an astronaut in 1992.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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John D. Podesta was the White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton.
John Keegan (born 1934) is an English military historian specializing in 20th-century wars.
John Selwyn Gummer is a British politician, and Conservative member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal.
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Wolfe Tones - The Wolfe Tones are an Irish band deeply rooted in Irish traditional music.
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Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect - The integrated Sachs Wolfe effect is a change in the fluctuations of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background due to evolution of the Universe...
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 John W. Wolfe
John W. Wolfe joined the firm in February of 1996 and became a partner in January, 2000.
Wolfe include cable television operators, communications tower rental companies, radio station owners and operators, paging and wireless communications companies, security alarm monitoring businesses, internet access providers, outdoor advertising companies and internet service and database companies.
Wolfe had engaged in a general corporate/transactional/real estate practice in Los Angeles at the firm of Carlsmith Ball, and had also been a member of the corporate/transactional practice group at Partridge, Snow and Hahn in Providence, R.I. Mr.
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 Division 1B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Barry Eccles brought his personal tally to 1-6 with two much-needed scores for Omagh but they no longer seemed secure when Drumquin narrowed the gap to just three points with seven minutes remaining.
Barry McGuigan was Moortown's top scores on the day with four points and their remaining five points were shared by Stephen McNally (2), Colin Campbell (2) and Stephen Lawn.
Barry Eccles followed up his eight-point haul against Drumquin with another four points against the Clarkes but it was former Omagh CBS Captain, Cormac McAleer, who really turned in a man of the match display from wing half-back.
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 Blackfriars Railway Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The second bridge, built slightly further downstream (to the east), was originally called St Paul's Railway Bridge and opened in 1886.
It was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and Henri Marc Brunel and is made of wrought iron.
When St Paul's railway station changed its name to Blackfriars in 1937 the bridge changed its name as well.
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BARRY: Yes, and the other problem is that even if you get some sort of tenuous ceasefire, and if you get some sort of withdrawal and withdrawal is almost an infinitely flexible term, so I suspect we'll get something that will satisfy both sides.
Reintroducing our panel now, Raza Deh Moaveni from "Time Magazine" is in New York, and in Washington John Barry from "Newsweek" and Richard Wolffe from "The Financial Times." Thanks again for sticking around all of you.
He's speaking of the rhetoric of endurance and of suffering, because I mean in a sense understandably how his Palestinian constituency looks to him for leadership in terms of the fact that they're both under siege and suffering.
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 Serebella Contents John Willis Ellis---John XIX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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With their genrehopping, fence-busting debut album, Horse Of A Different Color, the duo brings the most exciting new scene in Nashville to the rest of America - where people who listen to country music don't just listen to country music, where folks wear a John Deere hat and an Eminem T-shirt.
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This 1884 design by Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry won out, and the bridge, combining steel and stone, took eight years to complete.
The current Houses of Parliament was built from 1834 onward on a plan by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin.
It is a stunning neo-gothic mass with innumerable spiky embellishments that replaced the Old Palace, which dated from the 11th Century and was the seat of the English kings into the early 16th Century, when fire damaged the building.
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 Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Victoria Tower, perhaps the most satisfyingly perpendicular Gothic part of the structure, was completed after Barry's death by his son.
Barry's other well known buildings include the Manchester Athenaeum (1836), Manchester City Art Gallery (built 1824-35), the Treasury building in Whitehall (1845), the Travellers' Club (1829-31) and the Reform Club (1837) - both Italianate - and the Royal College of Surgeons.
One of his sons, Sir John Wolfe-Barry, was the engineer for Tower Bridge.
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 Tower Bridge
In London, England is one of the most recognized bridges in the world, the Tower Bridge.
Designed by Sir Horace Jones and engineered by Sir John Wolfe-Barry, the construction of the Tower Bridge began in 1886.
After Jones death in 1887, Barry was able to invoke greater artistic freedom than he would have under the original designers' supervision.
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 glenn101698
In a scene reminiscent of his introduction as one of the nation's original Mercury astronauts nearly four decades ago - a show-stealing tour de force immortalized in Tom Wolfe's ''The Right Stuff'' - Glenn dominated Thursday's final pre-flight public appearance by the seven-member crew of the space shuttle Discovery.
Ohio's retiring senior U.S. senator was mobbed by photographers as he entered the auditorium with the rest of Discovery's crew, and even some reporters discarded any pretense of objectivity by rushing forward to ask for autographs.
Glenn fielded nearly twice as many questions as his six crew mates combined, and when the others were asked a rare question, as often as not, it focused on their thoughts about sharing a space capsule with John Glenn.
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 Barry St. Leger
Accompanying Wolfe to Quebec in 1759, he was in the battle on the Plains of Abraham, where he checked the flight of the French.
In July, 1760, he was appointed brigade-major, preparatory to marching to Montreal, and he became major of the 95th foot, 16 August, 1762.
Leger possessed some literary talent, as is shown both by his letters to Burgoyne and the British ministry, and by his volume entitled "St. Leger's Journal of Occurrences in America" (London, 1780).
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 Thames bridges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was demolished in 1831-2 to make way for a bridge designed by John Rennie the Elder which could cope better with the demands of the growing City and Victorian road traffic.
Its initial design was by Horace Jones, with John Wolfe Barry as the engineer and George D Stevenson as his architectural assistant.
Southwark bridge was originally built between 1814-1819 by John Rennie the Elder and was purchased by the Corporation in 1868.
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 Tower Bridge, London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Built by the Corporation in 1886-1894, was designed by Sir Horace Jones and Sir John Wolfe Barry, comprises a permanent footway, 142 feet above high water level, which is reached by means of lifts and stairs in the supporting towers.
The carriage way is about 29 feet above high water, the central span of which is 200 feet long, and is fitted with twin bascules or drawbridges which can be raised in one minute and a half for the passage of larger vessels.
This photograph, which Nathalie has Chevalier scanned for readers of the Victorian Web, may be used without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose.
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 Kew Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The present bridge was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and opened in 1903 and forms the connection between the South Circular and North Circular roads to the west of London.
Sir John Wolfe Barry, the engineer was invited to assess the bridge in 1892 and recommended building a new bridge rather than modifications to the second one.
The engineers were Barry and Cuthbert A Brereton and the building contractors Easton Gibbs and Son.
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 Barry-Bonds/Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Barry (composer) John Barry (born 1933) is a highly successful composer, chiefly known for his film scores.
He was born in York, England and named John Barry Prendergast.
John Wolfe-Barry Sir John Wolfe-Barry (1836-1919) was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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 Uktravel.com - London Guide
It took until October 1884 for a suitable design to be approved as it had been realized that any building work should not disrupt or interfere with the flow of shipping downstream from London Bridge.
The architects whose plans were accepted were Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry.
Whilst it is hardly obvious, more than 11000 tons of steel went into building the framework for the towers, and walkways, which were then stone clad to offer protection and to blend in with the nearby Tower of London.
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 Founding Concepts - Barry Cooper
From the National Policy of Sir John A. Macdonald to the National Energy Programme of Pierre Trudeau, evidence to support this view is not hard to find.
It is useful to recall that in Quebec liberalism came ashore with the soldiers of General Wolfe in 1759.
In those days, its most important element was freedom of religion, which opened the way for non-Roman Catholic and often English-speaking traders to settle in the newly acquired colony and to prosper.
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 Tower Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Designed by Wolfe Barry and Horace Jones, and completed in 1894, the middle of the bridge can be raised to permit large vessels to pass the Tower Bridge.
The work was divided among eight different contractors Among them Sir John Jackson was responsible for the piers and abutments, Sir William Arrol for the steel superstructure, Sir W. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Ltd., for the hydraulic machinery and Perry and Company for the masonry superstructure.
Work was started on the bridge in April 1886, the foundation stone being laid, on behalf of Queen Victoria, by the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.
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 Tower Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was then clad in Cornish granite and Portland Stone, both to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the bridge a pleasing appearance.
Jones died in 1887, and his chief engineer, Sir John Wolfe-Barry, took over the project.
Wolfe-Barry replaced Jones' original mediaeval style of facade with the more ornate Victorian gothic style that makes the bridge a distinctive landmark.
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 John Wolfe Barry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - John Barry
Barry, John (1745-1803), American naval officer, noted for his achievements as a commander in the United States Navy during the American Revolution....
Tower Bridge, bridge on the Thames River in London, near the Tower of London, one of the city's principal landmarks.
John Vianney College Seminary, private institution for men in Miami, Florida.
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 Kew Bridge, London : tourist information from TourUK
The scour of the river began to cause damage to the wooden structure and, because the bridge was difficult to navigate, it was regularly hit by barges.
Sir John Wolfe Barry, who created Tower Bridge, informed the counties that the bridge should be rebuilt for reasons of safety and economy.
Constructed with concrete foundations and piers and abutment of granite from Aberdeen and Cornwall, the bridge has three arches and is decorated with the coats of arms of the two counties.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Sa-Sl)
Sir John Everett Millais was an English painter.
Sir John Soane was an English architect and collector.
Sir John Stainer was an English composer and organist.
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