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Belleek Pottery Ltd is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd in Belleek, County Fermanagh, Ireland in what was to later become Northern Ireland. The factory produces Parian ware that is characterised by its thinness, slightly iridescent surface and body formulated with a significant proportion ...
Belleek may refer to: Belleek, County Fermanagh, a village and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Belleek Pottery, the village's major industry; Belleek, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (also known as Belleeks). Belleek, County Mayo, an estate outside Ballina
William Willet (November 1, 1869 – March 29, 1921) was an American portrait painter, muralist, stained glass designer, studio owner and writer. An early proponent of the Gothic Revival and active in the "Early School" of American stained glass, he founded the Willet Stained Glass and Decorating Company, a stained glass studio, with his wife Anne Lee Willet, in protest against the opalescent ...
David Willets or David Willetts (born 1956), English Conservative Party politician; Karl Willets of Bolt Thrower, a British death metal band from Coventry, England; Anita Willets-Burnham, American Impressionist artist, teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, author, and lecturer
The Ferranti Mark 1 was "the tidied up and commercialised version of the Manchester Mark I". [3] The first machine was delivered to the Victoria University of Manchester in February 1951 [ 4 ] (publicly demonstrated in July) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] ahead of the UNIVAC I which was delivered to the United States Census Bureau in late December 1952, having ...
The white wing band is distinctive in flight, both above and below. The willet is an inelegant and heavily built shorebird with a structure similar to that of the common redshank but being larger in size than the greater yellowlegs while resembling a godwit in flight with black primary coverts and primaries contrasting with a broad white band, white secondaries with a white rump and gray tail ...
Belleek Castle, originally known as Belleek Manor, [1] is a 19th-century manor house in Ballina, County Mayo in Ireland. Now operated as a hotel, the house was built between 1825 and 1831 in a neo-Gothic style. [2] The 10-room hotel has a museum in its basement containing what is reputed to be Grace O'Malley's bed. [3]
The Mark I NAAK (left) and its training kit (right) In the United States military, the Mark I NAAK, or MARK I Kit, ("Nerve Agent Antidote Kit") is a dual-chamber autoinjector: Two anti-nerve agent drugs—atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride—each in injectable form, constitute the kit.