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	William Fairbairn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sir William Fairbairn (February 19, 1789 - August 18, 1874) was a (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish (A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems) engineer.
		Fairbairn was a life-long learner and joined the (additional info and facts about Institution of Civil Engineers) Institution of Civil Engineers in 1830.
		Fairbairn drew on his experience with the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges to pioneer the construction of (A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood) iron-hulled ships.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_fairbairn.htm (335 words)

	Encyclopedia: William E. Fairbairn
		William Ewart Fairbairn (1885-1960) was a soldier, police officer, and exponent of hand-to-hand combat methods for the Shanghai police between the World Wars, and allied special forces in World War II.
		World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was by far the bloodiest and most expensive war in history, estimated...
		William Donovan William Joseph Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was born in Buffalo, New York on New Years Day, 1883, and is best remembered today as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-E.-Fairbairn (482 words)

	SCOTLAND'S INVENTIONS
		William Ged, a goldsmith in Edinburgh, took a plaster mould of the type and then cast the whole page in metal.
		In 1908, another Scot, Alan Campbell-Swinton, outlined the use of the cathode-ray tube for transmission and reception that is used in modern television.
		Sir William Fairbairn (1789 - 1874) was born in Kelso, in southern Scotland.
	www.magicdragon.com /Wallace/thingscot.html (3871 words)

	FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM - Online Information article about FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM
		WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. Ger.
		design, by a Prussian engineer, which was a modification of Fairbairn's, was adopted.
		Hopkins, to determine the melting points of substances under great pressure; and from 1861 to 1865 he was employed to See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EUD_FAT/FAIRBAIRN_SIR_WILLIAM.html (1046 words)

	IHS - reading and reviews
		Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History.
		McNeill, William H. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
		The Wrestler''s Body: Identity and Ideology in North India.
	www.hoplology.com /books.asp (1339 words)

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