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Alexander Keiller ( 1889 – 1955 ) was an archaeologist and businessman who worked on the site at Avebury in Wiltshire.
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He also befriended the archaeologist and practicing Pagan Alexander Keiller, known for his excavations at Avebury, who would encourage Gardner to join in with the excavations at Hembury Hill in Devon, also attended by Aileen Fox and Mary Leakey.
The Scotsmen William Gibson and Alexander Keiller opened a factory for production of sail-and tent cloth.
In the 1930s the archeologist Alexander Keiller re-erected many of the fallen stones, partially restoring the circle to its original condition.
Woodhenge was identified in 1925 after an aerial archaeology survey by Alexander Keiller and OGS Crawford.
Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project of reconstructing much of the monument.
Following the opening of his excavations, Alexander Keiller decided that the best way to preserve Avebury was to purchase it in its entirety, and he also obtained as much of the Kennet Avenue as possible.
The Alexander Keiller Museum features the prehistoric artifacts collected by archaeologist and businessman Alexander Keiller, which include many artefacts found at Avebury.
* Alexander Keiller and Harold St George Gray excavate Windmill Hill, Avebury ( continues to 1929 ).
The site was bought by Alexander Keiller in 1924 and excavated over several seasons from 1926 – 1929 by Keiller and Harold St George Gray whose work established it as the type site for causewayed camps as they were then called.
Excavations by Stuart Piggott and Alexander Keiller in the 1930s indicated that around 100 pairs of standing stones had lined the avenue and that they dated to around 2200 BC based on finds of Beaker burials found beneath some of the stones.
* Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford.
Alexander and 1889
Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević
In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.
Alexander III forbade Romanov morganatic marriages altogether by issuance of ukase # 5868 on 24 March 1889 amending article # 63 of the Statute on the Imperial Family in the Pauline laws.
** Vertinsky, Alexander: Cabaret singer ( 1889 – 1957 )— became known as the " Russian Pierrot " after debuting around 1916 with " Pierrot's doleful ditties "— songs that chronicled tragic incidents in the life of Pierrot.
* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )
Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).
In 1889 Tsar Alexander III finished construction of Massandra Palace a short distance to the north of Yalta and Nicholas II built the Livadia Palace south-west of the town in 1911.
The Honourable Thomas Alexander Pakenham ( 1820 – 1889 ), third son of the second Earl, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy.
* Alexander ( 1857 – 1893 ), created Reigning Prince of Bulgaria in 1879, abdicated in Bulgaria and created Count of Hartenau, married morganatically in 1889 Johanna Loisinger ( 1865 – 1951 ), with issue.
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD ( 10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912 ), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark.
There have been two creations of the title, the first in 1889 and the second in 1900, both in favour of Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland and 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was crafted and delivered to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III who presented it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna on Easter day 1889.
* Robertson, Alexander ( 1889 ) Lectures, Legal, Political, and Historical: On the Sciences of Law and Politics ; Home and Foreign Affairs, Stevens & Haynes
David died in 1889 at the age of 94, and in 1890 the name of Broughton Creek was changed to Berry to honor the Alexander and David's contribution to the region.
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov ( Bogoljubov, Bogoljubow ) April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952 ) was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.
Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC who is usually referred to as A. E. B. Davie, ( born in Wells, Somerset, November 24, 1847 – August 1, 1889 Victoria, British Columbia ) was a British Columbia politician and lawyer, and was premier of British Columbia from 1887 until his death.
The first refusal, in 1887, disappointed Struve so much that he applied for resignation and was stopped from that only by the Tsar Alexander III, who requested Struve to keep his posts until the 50th anniversary of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1889.
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