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Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf (born 1972 in New Delhi, India) is a historian and writer, lives in Britain, and has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.
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Bishop Auckland
Bishop Auckland is a market town and civil parish in County Durham in north east England.
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Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison or dungeon in Fort William where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war for one fatal night on 20 June 1756.
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Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary)
Brandywine Creek (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States.
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Charles Mason
Charles Mason (April 1728. Retrieved 6 July 201525 October 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (1764–1768).
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Cheat River
The Cheat River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Clive MacDonnell Dixon
Major Clive MacDonnell Dixon (10 February 1870 in Middlesbrough – 5 November 1914 in Ypres) was an English illustrator and soldier, best known for the charming images in his book The Leaguer of Ladysmith, created during the four-month Siege of Ladysmith in South Africa.
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Cockfield, County Durham
Cockfield is a village on the edge of Teesdale, County Durham, England.
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Daffy's Elixir
Daffy's Elixir (also sometimes known as Daffey's Elixir or Daffye's Elixir) is a name that has been used by several patent medicines over the years.
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David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 – June 26, 1796) was an American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official.
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Demarcation line
A political demarcation line is a geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire.
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Dixie
Dixie (otherwise known as Dixieland) is a nickname for the Southern United States, especially those states that composed the Confederate States of America.
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Dixon (surname)
Dixon is a surname, and may refer to.
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Dunkard Creek
Dunkard Creek is a stream that flows U.S. Geological Survey.
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Embreeville, Pennsylvania
Embreeville is an historical unincorporated community, little more than a rural stretch of road with a few businesses and homes, in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, inside a bend of Brandywine Creek.
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Geordie
Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect spoken by its inhabitants.
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George Dixon (Cockfield Canal)
George Robertus Dixon (18 November 1731 Bishop Auckland - 29 September 1785 Cockfield, County Durham), was a chemist, mathematician, engraver, china-painter, engineer, geologist and coalmine operator, who helped pioneer the use of coal gas in heating and gas lighting - one of his gas experiments leading to the destruction of his own house.
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Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton
Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton (19 December 1726 – 14 June 1800) was an English nobleman, the son of Hon.
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History of Delaware
The history of Delaware as a political entity dates back to the early colonization of North America by European-American settlers.
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History of Maryland
The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for England in 1498.
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James Burrow
Sir James Burrow (28 November 1701 – 5 November 1782 at Starborough Castle, Lingfield, Surrey), was a Legal Reporter at Inner Temple, London, and was Vice President and twice briefly President of the Royal Society.
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January 22
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Jeremiah (given name)
Jeremiah is a male given name meaning "Yhwh will raise", and having its origin in ancient Hebrew.
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John Dixon (engineer)
John Dixon (c.1795–1865) was an English railway civil engineer, and was the Stockton and Darlington Railway's Chief Civil Engineer between 1842 and 1865.
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July 27
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List of episodes in Mason & Dixon
The following is a list of episodes in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.
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List of eponyms (A–K)
An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name.
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List of eponyms (L–Z)
An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society D, E, F
About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1773
This is a list of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1773.
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List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia
Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed within the English Colony of Virginia or, after statehood, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and no longer retain the same form within its boundaries.
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List of Maryland Scenic Byways
The Maryland Scenic Byways system consists of nineteen byways that pass through scenic and historic areas across the U.S. state of Maryland, with four of them designated as National Scenic Byways and two of them designated as All-American Roads.
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Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by U.S. author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997.
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Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is a historic marker located near Pentress, West Virginia, United States.
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Mason Dixon
Mason Dixon may refer to.
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Mason–Dixon line
The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–4000
015 | 3015 Candy || 1980 VN || Michael P. Candy (1928–1994), British astrometrist and discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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Nevil Maskelyne
The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne DD FRS FRSE (6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal.
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New Castle Court House Museum
The New Castle Court House Museum is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border between the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania and parts of the borders between Delaware and New Jersey and Maryland.
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Penn–Calvert boundary dispute
The Penn–Calvert boundary dispute (also known as Penn vs. Baltimore) was a long-running legal conflict between William Penn and his heirs on one side, and Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and his heirs on the other side.
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Pennsylvania-Maryland-Delaware Tri-State Marker
The Delaware-Maryland-Pennsylvania Tri-State Marker is a stone marker marking the tri-point at the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.
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Quakers in science
The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, encouraged some values which may have been conducive to encouraging scientific talents.
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Raylton Dixon
Sir Raylton Dixon (8 July 1838 – 28 July 1901), was a shipbuilding magnate from Middlesbrough on the River Tees who served as Mayor of Middlesbrough.
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Rising Sun, Maryland
Rising Sun is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.
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Robertus Dixon
Robertus de Fenwicke Dixon was an English clergyman and theologian best known as the last Lord Prebendary of Rochester.
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Royal Mathematical School
Royal Mathematical School is a branch of Christ's Hospital, founded by Charles II.
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Ryk Tulbagh
Ryk Tulbagh (14 May 1699, Utrecht – 11 August 1771, Cape Town) was Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 27 February 1751 to 11 August 1771 under the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
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Sailing to Philadelphia
Sailing to Philadelphia is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 26 September 2000 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.
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Schiehallion experiment
The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth.
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Somerset County, Maryland
Somerset County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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St Kenelm's Church, Sapperton, Gloucestershire
St Kenelm’s Church is a historic church in Sapperton, Gloucestershire in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.
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Staindrop
Staindrop is a village and civil parish east of Barnard Castle in County Durham, England.
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Star Gazers' Stone
Star Gazers' Stone located on Star Gazers' Farm near Embreeville, Pennsylvania, USA, marks the site of a temporary observatory established in January 1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Stargazer
Stargazer may refer to.
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Sussex County, Delaware
Sussex County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula.
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Thomas D. Cope
Thomas Darlington Cope (1880 – December 13, 1964) was an American physicist and historian of science who published numerous articles concerning the Mason-Dixon survey in America, providing the most thorough record of the scientific accomplishments and historical importance of the survey.
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.
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Transit of Venus
A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk.
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Transpeninsular Line
The Transpeninsular Line (at approximately 38°27′ N) is a surveyed line, the eastern half of which forms the north–south border between Delaware and Maryland.
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Wedge (border)
The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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Wicomico County, Maryland
Wicomico County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Maryland.
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William Wales (astronomer)
William Wales (1734? – 29 December 1798) was a British mathematician and astronomer who sailed with Captain Cook on two voyages of discovery, then became Master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Worcester County, Maryland
Worcester County is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Yohogania County, Virginia
Yohogania County was created by the new state of Virginia in 1776, in an area long disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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1733
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1733 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1733 in Great Britain.
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1733 in science
The year 1733 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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1761 in science
The year 1761 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1765
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1767
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1769 in science
The year 1769 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti
On June 3, 1769, British navigator Captain James Cook, British naturalist Joseph Banks, British astronomer Charles Green and Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus on the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world.
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1779
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1779 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1779 in Great Britain.
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1779 in science
The year 1779 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Dixon
