Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Charles Piazzi Smyth" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Charles and Piazzi
Late in the nineteenth century astronomers such as Richard Proctor and Charles Piazzi Smyth investigated the astronomical orientations of the pyramids.
* 1844 – Charles Piazzi Smyth proposes comfort cooling
Glover, Hibbert Newton, John Cox Gawler, Robert Polwhele, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, John Pym Yeatman, Herbert Aldersmith, William Carpenter, Protheroe Smith, Thomas Stratton, Elieser Bassin, William H. Poole, Thomas Rosling Howlett, Frederick Charles Danvers, Charles Piazzi Smyth, George Moore, C. A. L. Totten, Edward Wheeler Bird, Moses Margoliouth, Robert Govett, Jonathan Titcomb, John Leyland Feilden, Marcus Blake Brownrigg and Alexander Beaufort Grimaldi.
Their three sons were Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth and General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth.
Charles Piazzi Smyth ( 3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900 ), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Charles Piazzi Smyth:
A painting of the Great Comet of 1843 that was created by astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth.
This diagram from Charles Piazzi Smyth's Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid ( 1877 ) shows his measurements with the pyramid inch and chronological determinations made from them
Taylor and his followers, who included the Astronomer Royal of Scotland Charles Piazzi Smyth ( 1819 – 1900 ), also found numerous apparent coincidences between the measurements of the pyramids and the geometry of the earth and the solar system.
The Charles Piazzi Smyth Observatory and the Wolfson Planetarium were opened in May 2002 by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
The time ball was the idea of Charles Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and was originally triggered by a clock in the adjacent City Observatory, to which it was connected by an underground wire.
There is a painting in the National Maritime Museum that was created by astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth.
* Charles Piazzi Smyth
* 1846 – 1888 Charles Piazzi Smyth
In 1846 Charles Piazzi Smyth became second Astronomer Royal for Scotland and set about reducing and publishing the backlog of Henderson's observations.
:* John Taylor, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Charles Taze Russell and others with their theories about the Great Pyramid of Giza
Taylor in turn influenced the Astronomer Royal of Scotland Charles Piazzi Smyth, F. R. S. E., F. R. A. S.
The renowned Egyptologist Flinders Petrie in 1880 went to Egypt to perform new measurements of the Great Pyramid and wrote that he found that the pyramid was several feet smaller than previously believed by John Taylor and Charles Piazzi Smyth.
The section on Pyramidology was influenced by the theories of Charles Piazzi Smyth, who also helped review it ;

Charles and Smyth
It also includes a number of blogs by Evening Standard writers, such as restaurant critic Charles Campion, theatre critic Kieron Quirke and music critic David Smyth.
He cultivated connections with most of the prominent British composers of the day including Edward Elgar, Hamilton Harty, Alexander Mackenzie, Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ethel Smyth, Gustav Holst and the Australian Percy Grainger.
He was the eldest son of Charles Smyth, Member of Parliament for Limerick City, and Elizabeth Prendergast ( born 1708 ).
Thomas Smyth died unmarried, but fathered four children, all of whom bore the surname Stuart, including the Indian Army officer, Major-General Charles Stuart, better known as the " Hindoo Stuart ", who features in William Dalrymple's book, White Mughals.
In the 1930s, the company presented standard repertoire works including operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, lighter works by Balfe, Donizetti, Offenbach and Johann Strauss, some novelties, among which were operas by Holst, Ethel Smyth and Charles Villiers Stanford, and an unusual attempt at staging an oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah.
The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1643 in favour of Sir Charles Smyth.
In the election, Gibson was supported by Glen Barr of Vanguard, Charles Harding Smith, the leader of the West Belfast Ulster Defence Association and the independent Shankill councillor Hugh Smyth, who went on to become one of the founders of the Progressive Unionist Party.
The first complete ascent was made from Zermatt on August 1, 1855 by John Birkbeck, Charles Hudson, Christopher Smyth, James Greenville Smyth, Edward Stephenson with the guides Matthäus Zumtaugwald and Johannes Zumtaugwald ( from Zermatt ) and Ulrich Lauener ( from Lauterbrunnen ).

Charles and pronounced
Eve Arden was born Eunice M. Quedens ( pronounced qwi-DENZ ) in Mill Valley, California, to Lucille and Charles Peter Quedens.
And when it transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London, Charles Spencer reviewing for the Daily Telegraph pronounced it the best Macbeth he had ever seen.
Instead, a group led by Charles P. Thacker designed and constructed two PDP-10 clone systems named " MAXC " ( pronounced " Max ", in honour of Max Palevsky, who had sold SDS to Xerox ) for their own use.
* The comedy-musical play Heid ( pronounced ' Heed ', a Scottish inflection of the word ' Head ') by Forbes Masson alluded to the phrenology work of George Combe, citing the pseudoscience's influence on a young Charles Darwin as an inspiration for writers.
The city is named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia and who established a camp at the site.
Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( pronounced ; born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962 ), was an Italian-born, naturalized American mobster born in Sicily.
He was an excellent preacher ; Charles I pronounced him the most natural orator he had ever heard.
Charles Blount ( pronounced blunt ), 8th Baron Mountjoy and 1st Earl of Devonshire ( 1563 – 3 April 1606 ) was an English nobleman and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I, then as Lord Lieutenant under King James I.
* Luis d ' Antin van Rooten's Mots d ' Heures: Gousses, Rames ( the title is in French, but when pronounced, sounds similar to the English " Mother Goose Rhymes "), in which he is allegedly the editor of a manuscript by the fictional François Charles Fernand d ’ Antin, contains copious footnotes purporting to help explain the nonsensical French text.
The popular leftist newspaper < span lang =" fr "> Le Constitutionnel </ span > pronounced this refusal " a victory over the forces of counter-revolutionaries and reactionism "< ref >< span lang =" fr "> Ledré, Charles La Presse à l ' assaut de la monarchie </ span >.
After Cameron's death in July at the hand of dragoons, Cargill continued to preach in the Torwood near Stirling and in September pronounced the sentence of excommunication against the key government figures who were persecuting the Covenanters: Charles II, James, Duke of York and James, Duke of Monmouth, Privy Councillors, John, Duke of Lauderdale and John, Duke of Rothes, the King's Advocate, Sir George McKenzie, and General Tam Dalziel of the Binns.
Joseph Charles John " Joe " Piscopo ( pronounced PIS-ka-po ) ( born June 17, 1951 ) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live where he played a variety of recurring characters.
Some days later, on the motion of Prince Charles, it was agreed by the lords that the whipping should not be inflicted, and an order was made that in future judgment should not be pronounced, when the sentence was more than imprisonment, on the same day on which it was voted.
The title Baron Ashburnham ( pronounced " Ash-burn-am "), of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex, was created in the Peerage of England in 1689 for John Ashburnham, grandson of the John Ashburnham who assisted King Charles I to escape from Oxford and Hampton Court Palace.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri ( مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced ; born 1942 ), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified aliment.
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe ( pronounced " Wick-lif " according to the author ).
No sentence was ever pronounced, but the House of Osuna was out of the royal favour for three decades, and only during the reign of Charles II did it again play an important role in Spanish political life.
Keynes ( pronounced " Canes ") was born in London, the second son of Geoffrey Keynes and his wife Margaret, the daughter of George Howard Darwin who in turn was the son of Charles Darwin, making him the great-grandson of Charles Darwin ( see Darwin — Wedgwood family ).
The Capitulary of Quierzy ( pronounced Kiersy ), was a capitulary of the emperor Charles II, comprising a series of measures for safeguarding the administration of his realm during his second Italian expedition, as well as directions for his son Louis the Stammerer, who was entrusted with the government during his father's absence.
William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE ( he pronounced the surname as ploomer ) ( 1903 – 1973 ) was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor.
Founded in 1945 on what used to be a pear orchard and hop ranch, the arboretum was originally named the Charles M. Goethe Arboretum in honor of Charles Goethe ( 1875 – 1966, pronounced " geh-teh "), a land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, eugenicist and one of the university's founding fathers, " the name was changed without fanfare to University Arboretum in 2005 " because of renewed attention to Goethe's virulently racist views, praise of Nazi Germany, and advocacy for eugenics.
Charles ordered that sentence should be pronounced, but execution suspended.

4.219 seconds.