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Samuel Plimsoll ( 10 February 1824 – 3 June 1898 ) was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line ( a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draft, and therefore the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions ).
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Men such as William Harvey and his father Thomas Harvey Mayor in 1600 a. d. here, discoverer of the circulation of the blood ; and Samuel Plimsoll who invented the line named after him for ship safety.
Three more such novels followed: Foul Play ( 1869 ), in which he exposed the iniquities of ship-knackers, and paved the way for the labours of Samuel Plimsoll ; Put Yourself in His Place ( 1870 ), in which he dealt with trade unions ; and A Woman-Hater ( 1877 ), in which he continued his commentary on trade unions while also tackling the topic of women doctors.
Samuel Plimsoll.
Samuel Plimsoll was born in Bristol and soon moved to Whiteley Wood Hall, Sheffield, also spending part of his childhood in Penrith, Cumberland.
Memorial to Samuel Plimsoll on Victoria Embankment, London.
* " Our Seamen: An Appeal " by Samuel Plimsoll, 1873, at The Internet Archive
In association with a man named Brion, Peace did, as a fact, patent an invention for raising sunken vessels, and it is said that in pursuing their project, the two men had obtained an interview with Samuel Plimsoll at the House of Commons.
Though Hall was subsequently unseated for political corruption, a seat was found for Harcourt at Derby, by the voluntary retirement of Samuel Plimsoll.
* Samuel Plimsoll, British politician
* Plimsoll line or Plimsoll mark on a ship's hull, named after Samuel Plimsoll
The MP and social reformer Samuel Plimsoll spent part of his childhood living at Page Hall in Foster Street.
* Samuel Plimsoll
: 1887: Samuel Plimsoll
This marking was invented in the 1870s by Samuel Plimsoll.
The churchyard contains the grave of shipping reformer Samuel Plimsoll ( whose gravestone bears the Plimsoll line ), and, among many military burials, 24 CWGC-registered war graves, with all three armed forces represented, 15 from World War I ( Major-General Hubert Hamilton being the first and highest-ranking of the latter ) and 9 from World War II.
Samuel Plimsoll, the man who gave his name to the Plimsoll line used to indicate the limit of a ship's load, is buried in St Martin's churchyard.
Samuel and 10
The 6th century authors / editors drew on earlier sources, including ( but not limited to ) an " ark narrative " ( 1 Samuel 4: 1-7: 1 and part of 2 Samuel 6 ), a " Saul cycle " ( parts of 1 Samuel 9-11 and 13-14 ), the " history of David's rise " ( 1 Samuel 16: 14-2 Samuel 5: 10 ), and the " succession narrative " ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ).
First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.
* The son of Toi, King of Hamath who was sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadezer ( 2 Books of Samuel 8: 10 )
Then, in I Samuel 10 and the texts that follow, a curious thing happens.
* Israel defeated at the Battle of Aphek, Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant ( 1 Samuel 4: 1 – 10 )— see Eben-Ezer ; Aphek.
There was still no such recognition in the U. S. This remained the case until June 10, 1871, when a bronze statue of Samuel Morse was unveiled in Central Park, New York City.
He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).
* ( 1 Samuel 10: 11 etc.
In this view it was on account of his modesty that he did not reveal the fact that he had been anointed king ( 1 Samuel 10: 16 ; Meg.
Samuel Loyd ( January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911 ), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician.
Lucas ordered his Adjutant-General Samuel C. Andrews to conduct a count of the militia, and was told that 10, 000 volunteers were ready to fight.
It is in this period that the earliest clear monotheistic statements appear in the Bible, for example in the apparently seventh-century Deuteronomy 4: 35, 39, 1 Samuel 2: 2, 2 Samuel 7: 22, 2 Kings 19: 15, 19 (= Isaiah 37: 16, 20 ), and Jeremiah 16: 19, 20 and the sixth-century portion of Isaiah 43: 10 – 11, 44: 6, 8, 45: 5 – 7, 14, 18, 21, and 46: 9.
* January 10 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor ( b. 1814 ) z
* March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist ( d. 1886 )
* April 10 – Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy ( d. 1843 )
It is likewise the holy rod with which Moses worked ( Exodus 4: 20, 21 ), with which Aaron performed wonders before Pharaoh ( Exodus 7: 10 ), and with which, finally, David slew the giant Goliath ( I Samuel 17: 40 ).
:* Bradford, Samuel C. Sources of information on specific subjects, Journal of Information Science, 10: 4, 1985 ( October ), pp. 173-180
Thus Saul ( 1 Sam 10: 1 ) and David were anointed as kings by the prophet Samuel:
The kings were taken alive and brought back across the Jordan ; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the killing of Gideon's brothers, they were put to death ( compare 1 Samuel 12: 11 ; Isaiah 10: 26 ; Psalms 83: 11 ).
Samuel and February
In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.
" Samuel Pepys used it in his diary entry of 28 February 1660 " Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before.
Samuel Colt received a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent ( number 138 ) on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.
The February 25, 1836 patent was then reissued as entitled Revolving gun to Samuel Colt on October 24, 1848.
# Samuel Philips Lee ( February 13, 1812 – June 5, 1897 ); Rear Admiral ; married Elizabeth Blair, daughter of Francis Preston Blair
Samuel Butler ( baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680 ) was a poet and satirist.
David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah ( February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).
David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah was born February 21, 1925, in Fresno, California, where he attended both grammar school and high school.
Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.
Following his April 1789 inauguration, President George Washington occupied two executive mansions in New York City: the Samuel Osgood House at 3 Cherry Street ( April 1789 – February 1790 ), and the Alexander Macomb House at 39 – 41 Broadway ( February – August 1790 ).
* February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer ( b. 1834 )
* February 22 – Samuel Byck, American airplane hijacker and murderer ( b. 1930 )
* February 4 – Samuel M. Vauclain, American engineer ( b. 1856 )
* February 27 – Samuel Dash, American Watergate Congressional counsel ( d. 2004 )
* February 27 – Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister ( b. 1653 )
* February 18 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and temperance activist ( d. 1900 )
* February 13 – Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina ( b. 1725 )
* February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer ( d. 1890 )
* February 27 – Samuel Adams, Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas ( b. 1805 )
* February 23 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist ( d. 1703 )
* February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
* February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Representatives and sent to the other Thirteen Colonies.
In February 1860 Iowa Representative Samuel Curtis introduced a bill to build the railroad.
As of February 17, 1972, when Shakur was identified as one of four BLA members on a short trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Shakur was wanted for questioning ( along with Robert Vickers, Twyman Meyers, Samuel Cooper, and Paul Stewart ) in relation to police killings, a Queens bank robbery, and the grenade attack.
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