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Biographies Royalty United Kingdom:     more books (100)

Diana: La Sua Vera Storia Raccontata DA Lei Stessa (Italian Edition) by Andrew Morton, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Ann Morrow, 1989-01-01 H. R. H. the Princess of Wales by Tom Corby, 1991-06-28 FERGIE CONFIDENTIAL by CHRIS AND PETER THOMPSON HUTCHINS, 1993 Queen Victoria: A Portrait by Giles St.Aubyn, 1991-10-07 Charles and Diana: A Family Album by Tim Graham, 1991-06-06 Secret Journals of Elizabeth II by Lady Constance Crabtree, 1988-06 THE QUEEN by KENNETH HARRIS, 1994 Royal Family Album by Helen Digby, 1993-08 DUCHESS by ANDREW MORTON, 1989 Princess Alice: Memories of Ninety Years by Princess,Duchess of Gloucester Alice, 1993-05-27 ITN Royal Year 1991 by Tim Graham, 1991-10-10 Det Kungliga Aret 1998 (Swedish Edition) by Andstrom, 1998-12-05 Victoria: Kronprinsessa av Sverige by Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg, 1995

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81. Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake
    Royal Navy Modern and relevant, capable and resilient and top class employer withtop class people.  
    http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3525.html
    
    Extractions: The greatest sailor of his generation, the navigator Francis Drake was famous in his own lifetime. He first went to sea aged 13, an apprentice on a small trading ship. The master left the ship to Drake who sold it and sailed with his cousin Sir John Hawkins. Hawkins and Drake made the first English slave-trading expeditions. The dream of French and English privateers in the sixteenth century was to capture Spanish silver mined in the Andes and then transported back to Spain. The most vulnerable part of the journey was crossing the isthmus of Panama in Central America. It was here with the help of the cimarrones, escaped slaves who fought the Spanish, that Drake ambushed a treasure train in February 1573. He returned to England a wealthy man. In 1577 Drake was commissioned to circumnavigate the globe, Queen Elizabeth being among the sponsors of the expedition. On the three year voyage aboard the Golden Hind Drake sailed through the Straits of Megallan into the Pacific. Here he raided Spanish treasure ships before proceeding up the coast of the Americas and landed in what is now California naming it Nova Albion (New England). Turning west across the Pacific, Drake visited the East Indies and loaded his ship with spices before returning to England via the Cape of Good Hope. Drake’s feat of navigation was extraordinary. Only one man, Magellan, had ever circumnavigated the globe before and he had not lived to tell the tale. The expedition captured an estimated £600,000 worth of booty and demonstrated the wealth and vulnerability of the Spanish empire. The Queen’s share of £300,000 was more than the crown’s income for a whole year.

82. BBC - History - Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)
    British Timeline Science Under Royal Patronage. BBC Links The Newton Project Newton s Biography, University of Saint Andrews  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml
    
    Extractions: Send it to a friend! Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 (although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, dates in this biography are those of today's 'corrected' Gregorian calendar, adopted in Britain in 1752) - in the manor house in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, three months after his father's death. He was so tiny that no one expected him to survive. When Newton was three years old, his mother remarried, an event which improved her situation, and led to three more children, but which deprived Isaac of a mother. His stepfather, the Reverend Mr Smith, would not take the three-year-old Newton along with his mother, and he was left at Woolsthorpe with his grandparents. We know little about Newton's pre-teen years, other than that he attended day schools in the neighbouring villages of Skillington and Stoke. In August 1653, when Newton was 10, the Reverend Smith died and Isaac's mother returned to Woolsthorpe. At the age of 12, Newton was sent to grammar school in Grantham. Here he got the standard education of the time, which included Latin and Greek, and some Bible studies - taught at the time to reinforce the Protestant faith in England. He was placed in the bottom class at Grantham, but a playground fight that he won due to sheer spirit began a rise to the top of the school.

83. BBC - History - Oliver Cromwell
    Biography of Cromwell courtesy of the BBC.  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/cromwell_01.shtml
    
    Extractions: Print entire article A unique leader Oliver Cromwell rose from the middle ranks of English society to be Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, the only non-royal ever to hold that position. He played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and to execution; he undertook the most complete and the most brutal military conquest ever undertaken by the English over their neighbours; he championed a degree of religious freedom otherwise unknown in England before the last one hundred years; but the experiment he led collapsed within two years of his death, and his corpse dangled from a gibbet at Tyburn. He was - and remains - one of the most contentious figures in world history 'Cromwell had been converted to a strong puritan faith' Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon. His ancestors had benefited from the power of a distant relative, Thomas Cromwell, who secured them former monastic lands in 1538-9. Cromwell's grandfather built an elegant house on the outskirts of Huntingdon and regularly entertained King James (the hunting was good in Huntingdon) and other prominent courtiers. But Cromwell's father was a younger son who only inherited a small part of the family fortune and he was brought up in a modest town house. Burdened by debt and a decline in his fortunes, he sold up in 1630, and took a lease on a farm a few miles away, in St Ives. It would appear that in 1634 Cromwell attempted to emigrate to Connecticut in America, but was prevented by the government from leaving.

84. Dr Richard Wiseman Biography
    Prof Wiseman has given invited addresses at The Royal Society, The Royal In 2001 he presented a series of evening lectures at the Royal Society’s Summer  
    http://phoenix.herts.ac.uk/PWRU/RWhomepage.html
    
    Extractions: Prof Richard Wiseman NEW: Prof Wiseman's latest study into alleged hauntings Prof Richard Wiseman started his working life as an award-winning professional magician and was one of the youngest members of The Magic Circle. He then obtained a first class honours degree in Psychology from University College London and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently supported by a DreamTime Fellowship from the The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). The University of Hertfordshire recently awarded Prof Wiseman Britain's first Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology. In 2000 he was awarded The CSICOP Public Education In Science Award, and in 2002 Prof Wiseman received the Joseph Lister Award from the BAAS. RESEARCH Prof Wiseman has established an international reputation for scientific research into the scientific examination of unusual areas within psychology. This work has been reported in over 40 academic journal articles, including those In Nature, Science and Psychological Bulletin. In addition, he has co-authored 6 books and presented over 50 papers at both national and international conferences - Full Publication list.

85. The Royal College Of General Practitioners Home Page
    John Hunt page biography and catalogue of his archives Royal College ofGeneral Practitioners 14 Princes Gate Hyde Park London SW7 1PU  
    http://www.rcgp.org.uk/
    
    Extractions: Bookstore Features Recent Updates Seven Days GP Guidance Countries International RCGP N.Ireland RCGP Scotland RCGP Wales ... Printable Version Spotlight: Thames Valley Faculty - Annual Symposium 27 th September 2005 A programme of keynote speakers and Workshops. Explore the tension between governed managed practice and the self-regulation of professional autonomy. Stay for the evening to hear Professor Mike Pringle deliver 'Making Revalidation Credible' and enjoy the convivial company of colleagues at faculty's Annual Dinner. Further Details are available on the Thames Valley Annual Symposium Page

86. RWA:The Royal West Of England Academy In Bristol, UK...Academicians Pages/images
    http://www.rwa.org.uk/memfrm.htm

87. Celebrity And Royal Biography Books - Penguin UK
    Buy contemporary, celebrity and royal biography books from Penguin UK s onlinebook store, offering information on new releases, old favourites and  
    http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Browse/BrowseStdPage/0,,104443,00.html

88. Harry Kroto Bio-sketch
    Biography. Harold Kroto was born in 1939 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and broughtup in Bolton, Lancashire. Tildon Lecturer (Royal Society of Chemistry)  
    http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/kroto/harry1.html
    
    Extractions: Harold Kroto was born in 1939 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and brought up in Bolton, Lancashire. He graduated in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1961 and in 1964 received his PhD there for research with R N Dixon on high resolution electronic spectra of free radicals produced by flash photolysis. After two years postdoctoral research in electronic and microwave spectroscopy at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, he spent one year at Bell Laboratories NJ studying liquid phase interactions by Raman spectroscopy and he also carried out studies in Quantum Chemistry. He started his academic career at the University of Sussex (Brighton) in 1967, where he became a professor in 1985 and in 1991 he was made a Royal Society Research Professor. The presently active research programme derives directly from the earlier work on C and focuses on the implications of the discovery for several areas of fundamental chemistry as well as the way in which it has revolutionised our perspective on carbon based materials. The research encompasses the basic chemistry of the fullerenes, fundamental studies of carbon and metal clusters as well as carbon microparticles and nanotubes. Work on various aspects of interstellar and circumstellar molecules and dust is also in progress. Some parts of the research have been successful due to their interdisciplinary nature and this has been the result of synergistic collaborations involving primarily: colleagues J F Nixon, R Taylor and D R M Walton at Sussex, T Oka at NRC (Canada), and R F Curl and R E Smalley at Rice University (Texas).

89. Sources Of Biographical Information - Royal Astronomical Society
    American National Biography (successor to The Dictionary of American Biography) . Awards with a wider appeal, such as appointments of Astronomers Royal,  
    http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=75

90. Lenin
    now feared a violent revolution and on 28th February suggested that NicholasII should abdicate in favour of a more popular member of the royal family.  
    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSlenin.htm
    
    Extractions: Vladimir Illich Ulyanov (later known as Lenin) was born in Simbirsk, Russia, on 10th April, 1870. His father, Ilya Ulyanov, a local schools inspector, held conservative views and was a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church . Lenin was deeply influenced by the revolutionary political views of his older brother, Alexander Ulyanov , who introduced him to the ideas of Karl Marx Lenin was educated at the Simbirsk Gymnasium. His headmaster was F. I. Kerensky, the father of Alexander Kerensky . Although Lenin despised the conservative views of his teachers he still managed to do well in his examinations. At the of seventeen Lenin read the utopian novel, What is to be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky . Along with Alexander Ulyanov and Karl Marx , Chernyshevsky was the greatest influence on his early political development.

91. The Joseph Dalton Hooker Website: Welcome!
    A leading nineteenth century botanist, and close friend of Charles Darwin.  
    http://www.jdhooker.org.uk/

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