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	Priestley, Joseph
		Priestley's house was next to a brewery, and he became fascinated with the layer of dense gas that hung over the giant vats of fermenting beer.
		Priestley's concept of this new-found "air" (or gas), which dramatically supported and enhanced combustion, was shaped by his attachment to the prevalent "phlogiston" theory.
		Priestley is considered to have been a better experimentalist than a theorist, as is evidenced by the multitude of his observations and creative experiments.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Joseph_Priestley (2134 words)

	Joseph Priestley
		Joseph Priestley, the son of a cloth-dresser from Leeds, was born in 1733.
		In 1761 Priestley was appointed as tutor at the dissenting Warrington Academy in Lancashire.
		Priestley argued that he believed the events in France increased the chance of "universal peace and goodwill among all nations" as it made possible an "empire of reason".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRpriestley.htm (1114 words)

	So you might study Physics
		Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733 in Yorkshire, England.
		Worse still Priestley got involved in radical politics of the day and was a supporter of both the French Revolution and the struggle for independence in the American colonies.
		Priestley's house, library, his church and all his scientific apparatus were destroyed.
	www.sln.org /pieces/otoole/priestley's_story.htm (1044 words)

	Encyclopedia: Priestley Riots (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Priestley Riots were a set of riots, which took place in Birmingham, England, in 1791, and were named after Joseph Priestley, one of their targets.
		Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 - February 6, 1804) was an English chemist, dissenting clergyman, and educator.
		However, his sympathies for the French revolutionaries were notorious, and the well- organised mob seized the occasion to attack the homes of several dissenters, including burning his chapel and sacking his house at Fairhill, destroying his library and laboratory.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Priestley-Riots (443 words)

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		Priestley’s most important ministries were at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds (1767-1773) and at New Meeting, Birmingham (1780-1791) being forced out of the latter by the riots of July 1791.
		Priestley’s interests were wide ranging and he wrote and published extensively on many topics including political theory and grammar as well as science and theology.
		Priestley was awarded an honorary degree from Edinburgh University in 1765.and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766.
	www.hibbert-assembly.org.uk /Priestley/factfile.htm (666 words)

	Priestley
		Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, at Fieldhead in the north of England and died on February 6, 1804, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, then on the frontier of post-revolutionary America.
		Priestley was trained for the dissenting ministry and always held this to be his principal vocation.
		Priestley was a prominent anti-Establishment figure both in religion and politics, and in 1791 his Birmingham house was torched in the government-subsidized Church and King riots.
	www.bioanalytical.com /info/calendar/98/02priest.htm (244 words)

	Priestley Society
		Priestley was born in the parish of Birstall in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where the modern day Priestley Society is based, and was brought up in nearby Heckmondwike.
		Priestley later moved to Birmingham, London and eventually Northumberland in Pennsylvania USA because his radical views in England were opposed by the general populous.
		Joseph Priestley was a clergyman and political theorist.
	www.priestleysociety.net /information/index.php (293 words)

	A Narrative of the Riots in Birmingham by William Hutton
		Priestley F2 in a dispute with the clergy.
		When the riots were over, he was the man who informed against Whitehead as a ringleader, described his person, name, trade, and place of abode; consequently was the sole cause of his being taken.
		After the riots Priestley was invited to stay for a time with Wedgwood, at his house at Etruuria, and Wedgwood subscribed liberally to the annuity which was procured for him.
	www.geocities.com /Nashville/Opry/2848/hutton/riots.html (13444 words)

	Joseph Priestley: Encyclopedia of chemistry, analytics & pharmaceutics with 64,557 entries.
		Priestley's strength as a natural philosopher was qualitative rather than quantitative and his observation of "a current of real air" between two electrified points would later interest Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell as they investigated electromagnetism.
		While Priestley accepted parts of Lavoisier's theory, he was unprepared to assent to the major revolutions Lavoisier proposed: the overthrow of phlogiston, a chemistry conceptualized around elements and compounds, and a new chemical nomenclature.
		Priestley and his wife fled from their home; although their son William and others stayed behind to protect their property, the mob overcame them and torched Priestley's house, destroying his valuable laboratory and all of the family's belongings.
	www.chemie.de /lexikon/e/Joseph_Priestley (9534 words)

	Joseph Priestley and the slave trade
		Priestley argued that the slave trade was physically brutal: 'In order to raise our sugar, and other West-India commodities, perhaps half a million of persons are annually destroyed, and in a manner peculiarly shocking to humanity.
		Priestley argued that moral arguments were always more important than economic ones: 'Some say that if we abandon the slave trade we give up a valuable source of national profit, and yield it to our rivals.
		Priestley’s willingness to attack people in his own class and country undoubtedly contributed to his unpopularity which led to the ‘Priestley Riots’ in Birmingham in 1791.
	www.hibbert-assembly.org.uk /Slavery/Priestley.htm (876 words)

	Joseph Priestley – pamphleteer?
		Priestley's enemies took his words as a 'covert threat of a new Gunpowder Plot'.
		Priestley explained that in fact he referred to the 'powerful force of argument' but made no impression on his critics.
		Priestley had at the time written another booklet, 'An Illustration of the Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution'.
	www.bl.uk /learning/histcitizen/21cc/utopia/methods1/pamphleteer1/pamphleteer.html (211 words)

	More about the Priestley riots
		Although Joseph Priestley's years in Birmingham were the happiest and most productive of his life, they were to end in tragedy, in a terrible orgy of destruction known as the Priestley riots.
		Contrary to rumours that the government was implicated in the riots, it seems to have acted with commendable speed and considerable determination, for a troop of dragoons arrived from Nottingham in the afternoon of Sunday 17th, having made a forced march of 59 miles.
		Joseph Priestley apart, none of the other members suffered directly in the riots, although William Withering saved his home only by dint of hiring and arming men to beat off rioters who threatened to attack, and Matthew Boulton had assembled a force of men to defend the Manufactory and Soho House if need be.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /moreriots.htm (3451 words)

	Priestley Riots -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On July 14, of that year, the Constitutional Society of Birmingham arranged a dinner to celebrate the anniversary of the (Click link for more info and facts about storming of the Bastille) storming of the Bastille.
		He and his family escaped, but his material possessions were lost and the labour of years annihilated.
		Priestley afterwards moved to (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/priestley_riots.htm (107 words)

	List of riots - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1863 - New York Draft Riot, (New York, New York)
		1969 - Stonewall Riots, (New York, New York)
		1971 - Attica Prison riots, (Attica, New York)
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_riots.html (193 words)

	The Priestley Riots
		Joseph Priestley, a dissenter, was minister of the Old Meeting House.
		Priestley had gained notoriety for his criticism of an attack on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke (a conservative statesman and political thinker).
		On 14 July 1791 Priestley and his followers met at a dinner to celebrate the second anniversary of the storming the Bastille.
	www.bl.uk /learning/histcitizen/21cc/utopia/methods1/priestley1/priestley.html (274 words)

	More about Joseph Priestley
		He held the view that all humans were equal, and he backed this up by campaigning passionately against the evils of slavery, arguing that we should view all of mankind as brethren and neighbours, regardless of race or religion, and should work equally hard to relieve the distresses of all of them.
		In fact, Priestley's report on his experiments with gases is a fascinating account of one man's struggle to make sense of what he had discovered, from which we can see that the leaps of imagination and understanding that would have been needed to truly appreciate the significance of his discovery were quite beyond him.
		A quantity of inflammatory, and egregiously inaccurate, propaganda was published in connection with this dinner - for example, it was alleged quite untruthfully that Priestley, who was not even at the dinner, had toasted ' the king's head on a plate'.
	bobmiles.bulldoghome.com /pages/bobmiles_bulldoghome_com/morejpriestley.htm (1880 words)

	Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
		Priestley was a political theorist and campaigner; in his time only people who took communion in the Church of England were admitted to Oxford or Cambridge Universities; nor could anyone become a member of Parliament unless he was a communicant member of the Established Church; as a Non-conformist Priestley campaigned against these restrictions.
		All Priestley's work was in pursuit of Truth and to arrive at a greater understanding of the works of God.
		As a Unitarian, Priestley accepted the teachings of Jesus but not that he was one with God; his rational approach to scripture is widely accepted today.
	www.hibbert-assembly.org.uk /Priestley (175 words)

	More about Joseph Priestley
		He held the view that all humans were equal, and he backed this up by campaigning passionately against the evils of slavery, arguing that we should view all of mankind as brethren and neighbours, regardless of race or religion, and should work equally hard to relieve the distresses of all of them.
		In fact, Priestley's report on his experiments with gases is a fascinating account of one man's struggle to make sense of what he had discovered, from which we can see that the leaps of imagination and understanding that would have been needed to truly appreciate the significance of his discovery were quite beyond him.
		A quantity of inflammatory, and egregiously inaccurate, propaganda was published in connection with this dinner - for example, it was alleged quite untruthfully that Priestley, who was not even at the dinner, had toasted ' the king's head on a plate'.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /morejpriestley.htm (1880 words)

	Priestley, Joseph biography - S9.com
		1772 – He published a paper entitled Impregnating Water with Fixed Air in which he described a process of dripping sulfuric acid (or oil of vitriol as Priestley knew it) onto chalk in order to produce carbon dioxide and forcing the gas to dissolve by agitating a bowl of water in contact with the gas.
		Schopenhauer, in his On the Freedom of the Will, in 1839, included Priestley as one of three great men who completely changed their minds regarding this subject.
		Priestley followed them, seeking political and religious freedom.
	www.s9.com /Biography/Priestley-Joseph (680 words)

	Priestley Centenary Churches Churches 1
		The Old Meeting was destroyed in the Priestley riots on July 14th, 1791, and was rebuilt on the same site, the Chapel being opened on the 4th October, 1795.
		Priestley was minister here from December 1780, to July, 1791, when his Chapel was destroyed in the Church and King riots.
		Priestley preached the Dudley Double Lecture here in the year 1780, and he was also present at the Lecture in1787 and 1788.
	mysite.orange.co.uk /priestleycentenary/page10.htm (1349 words)

	A Sorry End: The Priestley Riots of 1791
		This article was originally presented in a public day school, “Joseph Priestley and Birmingham”; organised by the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 28 February 2004.
		Peter Leather explores the events of the Priestley Riots in Birmingham in 1791.
		The most up-to-date published list of sources for the Priestley Riots is provided by Field, Clive D, “The Protestant Churches” in Chinn, Carl (ed), Birmingham: Bibliography of a City (University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, 2003) pp.
	www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk /engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?resource=4547 (295 words)

	New Church History Fun Facts and General Announcements » Riotous Mob Attacks New Church Temple (1791)
		Joseph Priestley had first come into contact with members of the Birmingham society at the dedication services held on June 19th.
		Robert Hindmarsh, one of the early leaders of the New Church in England, later wrote that Priestley was “an attentive hearer, who afterwards expressed his surprise, and indeed satisfaction, at the proceedings of the day.
		He was scheduled to meet with “the minister [Joseph Proud], and the heads of the society, on Friday the 15th of July” to discuss his Letters, but on the 14th Priestley’s house and library were destroyed by rioters, including the manuscript which he had planned to deliver to the printer.
	newchurchhistory.org /funfacts/?p=119 (520 words)

	The Global Syndicator \| Tech News
		The Priestley Riots took place from 14 July to 17 July 1791 in Birmingham, England; the rioters' main targets were religious Dissenters, most notably the religious and political controversialist, Joseph Priestley.
		The riots started with an attack on a hotel that was the site of a banquet organized in sympathy with the French Revolution.
		While the riots were not initiated by Prime Minister William Pitt's administration, the national government was slow to respond to the Dissenters' pleas for help.
	www.molinu.org (612 words)

	The Life and Times of Dr Joseph Priestley
		Image: Plaque to Joseph Priestley on the wall of St Michael's Catholic Church, Birmingham, formerly Priestley's New Meeting House.
		The paper by Professor Peter Jones provides an overview of Priestley’s life and times.
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	www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk /engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?resource=5235 (156 words)

	jacobito: What's your favorite riot?
		* 121 BC - Roman Election Riot of 121 BC * 113 BC - Roman Election Riot of 113 BC * 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople) The deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30,000 killed in the Hippodome.
		* 1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947, (Jerusalem)
		* 1992 - Bombay Riots - Riots in the Indian City of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the demolition of Babri Masjid, Ayodhya.
	jacobito.livejournal.com /15704.html (1885 words)

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