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Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.
* 1660 At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
* November 28 At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning " ( later known as the Royal Society ).
Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: " the cornerstones of the Invisible ( or as they term themselves the Philosophical ) College, do now and then honour me with their company ..."; John Wilkins and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: " About the year 1645, while I lived in London ( at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ), ...
He then recruited Charles McCall ( who followed Jeff Wilkins as CEO, and later became CEO of HBOC ), Maury Cox ( who became CEO after the departure of McCall ), and Robert Massey ( who was the last CEO of CompuServe ).
After Wilkins ' death in 1903, his sons John and Robert ran The Post for two years before selling it in 1905 to John Roll McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
* Robert Wilkins, blues musician
In the novel Peter Wilkins and the Flying Indians, by Robert Paltock, these fictional flying Indians take off and land on suitable stretches of rivers called ' arkoes '.
On January 16, 1850, Robert Logan, Thomas Davison and Daniel Bieber were appointed by the court to review the boundaries of a new township to be formed from the northwestern part of Wilkins.
Robert Hooke was gradually recruited into the Wilkins group: he arrived at Christ Church, Oxford in 1653, working his way to an education, became assistant to Willis, and became known to Wilkins ( possibly via Richard Busby ) as a technician.
* Robert Wilkins
Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers also in Memphis ( 1929 ) by Brunswick / Vocalion.
On the early morning of Tuesday 26 February 1935 the radio station at Daventry ( Borough Hill ) was used for the first-ever practical demonstration of radar, by its inventor Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Frederic Wilkins, who used a radio receiver installed in a trailer at Stowe Nine Churches ( just off the A5 about three miles ( 5 km ) south of Weedon Bec and in the Daventry district ) to receive signals bounced off a metal-clad Handley Page Heyford bomber flying across the radio transmissions.
* Robert Paltock-The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
* Robert Olby ; ' Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick ( 1916 2004 ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008
In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, The Travels of the Three English Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley.
Daniel quickly tires of the radical Puritan rhetoric of his father, Drake Waterhouse, and decides to join Reverend John Wilkins and Robert Hooke at John Comstock's Epsom estate.
Oblique adaptations include that by the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who told the story of this parable in the song " Prodigal Son ", which is probably best known as a cover version by the Rolling Stones on their 1968 album Beggar's Banquet.
A film was made about him by Robert Wilkins.
* November 28-At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Robert Moray, meet after a lecture by Wren and resolve to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning ", which will become the Royal Society.

Wilkins and went
The first half ended with the Rams leading 5 3 on a Jeff Wilkins field goal and after a bad snap by the Buccaneers went through their own end zone for a safety.
It turns out that Miss Bridget went to the house of Mrs Waters ' mother, and it was arranged that mother and daughter would attend her ( with Mrs Wilkins being sent to Dorsetshire to be out of the way ).
Len then went on tour with the " O-Bar-O Cowboys " and in June 1933 met Grace Arline Wilkins at a Roswell, New Mexico radio station.
Wilkins went up to St John's College, Cambridge in 1935.
The statue carried a reference to DNA (" the secret of life ") in connection with Maurice Wilkins, who went to school in Birmingham and worked at the University of Birmingham.
The Force bill went to the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Pennsylvania protectionist William Wilkins and supported by members Daniel Webster and Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey ; it gave Jackson everything he asked.
He is the son of professional footballer George Wilkins and the brother of Graham George Wilkins ( born 28 June 1955 in Hillingdon ) former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a full back for Chelsea, Brentford and Southend United, former Brighton & Hove Albion manager and player Dean Wilkins, Stephen Wilkins, signed by Chelsea and Brentford, but did not make any first-team appearances for either team and he went on to play for a number of non-league teams, including Dagenham and Hayes.
Shirley Cheriton and Judith Jacob all went on to appear in EastEnders, with Cheriton playing the particularly prominent role of Debbie Wilkins.

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Stimulated by their discussions with Wilkins and what Watson learned by attending a talk given by Franklin about her work on DNA, Crick and Watson produced and showed off an erroneous first model of DNA.
When it became clear to Wilkins and the supervisors of Watson and Crick that Franklin was going to the new job, and that Linus Pauling was working on the structure of DNA, they were willing to share Franklin's data with Watson and Crick, in the hope that they could find a good model of DNA before Pauling was able.
Marc Wilkins coined the term proteome in 1994 in a symposium on " 2D Electrophoresis: from protein maps to genomes " held in Siena in Italy.
In contrast, the Rams were able to reach inside the Tennessee 20-yard line on all 4 of their remaining drives before halftime, but on each one, the Titans defense forced St. Louis to settle for field goal attempts from kicker Jeff Wilkins, who was successful in making 3 of them, but missed one attempt from 34 yards.
The Rams offense also racked up 24 points on 2 touchdown passes by Warner, a touchdown run by Faulk, and a field goal by Jeff Wilkins, helping St. Louis put the game away by the end of the third quarter.
The Rams scored first midway through the first quarter, with Kurt Warner completing 6 of 7 passes for 43 yards on 48 yard, 10 play drive to set up a 50-yard field goal by kicker Jeff Wilkins.
Early in the second quarter, the Rams drove to New England's 34-yard line, but quarterback Kurt Warner threw an incompletion on third down, and Wilkins ' subsequent 52-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left.
The experiment consisted of Sherman and Wilkins at the end of each day to relax and visualise a mental image or " thought impression " of the events or thoughts they had experienced in the day and then to record those images and thoughts on paper in a diary.
Wilkins, a disciple of the neo-classical architectural style, designed the first wholly campus-based college plan in the world based on a magnificent entrance on Downing Street reaching back to form the largest quadrangle in Cambridge, extending to Lensfield Road.
Wadham was then under the guidance of John Wilkins, who had a profound impact on Hooke and those around him.
A chance surviving copy of Willis ' pioneering De anima brutorum, a gift the author, was chosen by Hooke from Wilkins ' library on his death as a memento at John Tillotson's invitation.
The book and its inscription in Hooke's hand are a testament to the lasting influence of Wilkins and his circle on the young Hooke.
The 1962 prize awarded to James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for their work on DNA structure and properties did not acknowledge the contributing work from others, such as Oswald Avery and Rosalind Franklin who had died by the time of the nomination.
Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and black civil rights leaders ( including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rustin ) worked out a compromise with MFDP leaders: the MFDP would receive two non-voting seats on the floor of the Convention ; the regular Mississippi delegation would be required to pledge to support the party ticket ; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.
The word " proteome " is a blend of " protein " and " genome ", and was coined by Marc Wilkins in 1994 while working on the concept as a PhD student.
Because of the intense personality conflict developing between Franklin and Wilkins, Randall divided the work on DNA.
In July 1952, as a practical joke on Wilkins ( who frequently expressed his view that DNA was helical ), Franklin and Gosling produced a death notice regretting the ' death ' of helical crystalline DNA ( A-DNA ).
The oldest still standing house is the Wilkins house, which was built in 1693, and served as a tavern on the main road between Salem and Lawrence.
* The first trial for murder in Hillsborough County was of Isreal Wilkins Jr, of Hollis, for the murder of his father, Isreal Wilkins Sr., on November 2, 1772.
Other long gone businesses include Azinger's ( corner store with lunch meat, milk, bread, and candy ), Gigante's ( Italian grocery store ), Stop and Go's, the gas station on the corner of Brinton and Wilkins Avenue, and the infamous Hank's ConCan ( bar located on Wilkins Avenue ).

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