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Joseph Priestley "J.P." McCarthy II (March 22, 1933 – August 16, 1995) was a radio personality best known for his over 30 years of work as the morning man and interviewer on station WJR in Detroit, Michigan.
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Priestley's son Joseph Priestley Jr. was a leading member of a consortium that had purchased 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of virgin woodland between the forks of Loyalsock Creek. This they intended to lease or sell in 400-acre (160 ha) plots, with payment deferred to seven annual instalments, with interest. [176]
The Joseph Priestley House was the American home of eighteenth-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher (and co-discoverer of oxygen), educator, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) from 1798 until his death.
A Life of Joseph Priestley. London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Jackson, Joe, A World on Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen. New York: Viking, 2005. ISBN 0-670-03434-7. McLachlan, John. "Joseph Priestley and the Study of History." Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 19 (1987–90): 252–63. Schofield ...
William Russell (11 November 1740 – 26 January 1818) was a practical Christian, a practising Unitarian, a Birmingham merchant and a close friend and sponsor of Joseph Priestley, who helped agitate against penal laws affecting English Dissenters and canvassed for a national political union.
A sermon [on Dan. xii. 3] occasioned by the death of Dr. Joseph Priestley (1804) [23] A Sermon Preached to the Society who Support the Sunday Evening Lecture in the Old Jewry, on the Evening of Dec. 5, 1805 (1805). [24] A sermon at the Old Jewry Meeting-house on the sea and empire, preached after the battle of Trafalgar, referencing Horatio ...
One of the rooms was the laboratory of Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen there on 1 August 1774. In the year 2000, Bowood House was designated an ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of the importance of Priestley's discovery.