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Alleyne Fitzherbert (lub: FitzHerbert) (ur.1 marca 1753 w Derby, zm. 19 lutego 1839 w Londynie) – brytyjski arystokrata (1. baron St Helens) i dyplomata.. Życiorys. Był człowiekiem świetnie wykształconym. Kształcił się kolejno w Derby School (1763-1766), Eton College (1766–70) i w St John’s College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge (1770-1774).Do jego przyjaciół należał uczony ...

Early life. Frederick was the son of Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia and his wife, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. He was born sometime between 11 and 12 p.m. on 24 January 1712 in the Berlin Palace and was baptised with the single name Friedrich by Benjamin Ursinus von Bär on 31 January. The birth was welcomed by his grandfather, Frederick I, as his two previous …

The term Irish diaspora is open to many interpretations. The diaspora, broadly interpreted, contains all those known to have Irish ancestors, i.e., over 100 million people, which is more than fifteen times the population of the island of Ireland, which was about 6.4 million in 2011.It has been argued the idea of an Irish diaspora, as distinct from the old identification of Irishness with ...

Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波 劉曉波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent …

This is a list of cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for the Otago cricket team. Otago played its first representative match in January 1864 against Southland, before playing the first match in New Zealand which is considered to be first-class later in the same month, a fixture against Canterbury.The team has competed for the Plunket Shield since …

第一次鸦片战争（英語： First Opium War ），又称鸦片战争:275 、中英战争（英語： The Anglo-Chinese War ）:52 、通商战争:11 ，是公元1840年至1842年（道光二十年至二十二年）期间，大清帝国和大英帝国之间的一系列军事冲突。 战争的远因是中国奉行闭关政策与朝贡制度导致中英两国发生外交冲突和贸易 ...

Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, then a village in Middlesex.He was the second youngest of eight children of George Huxley and Rachel Withers. His parents were members of the Church of England but he sympathized with nonconformists. Like some other British scientists of the nineteenth century such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Huxley was brought up in a literate …

This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.

Frederick T. Macartney (1887–1980) James McAuley (1917–1976) Ian McBryde (born 1953) George Gordon McCrae (1833–1927) David McCooey (born 1967) Hugh McCrae (1876–1958) Ronald McCuaig (1908–1993) Nan McDonald (1921–1974) Roger McDonald (born 1941) Ella McFadyen (1887–1976) Greg McLaren (born 1967) Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968 ...