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A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun, by Joseph Wright of Derby. The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment [1] or the Birmingham Enlightenment, [2] was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands ...
Birmingham's first cartographic representation, on the fourteenth century Gough Map. The town (centre) is shown within the Forest of Arden, on the road between Lichfield (left) and Droitwich (right). North is to the left. Birmingham's market is likely to have remained primarily one for agricultural produce throughout the medieval period. [56]
August: Midland Bank established by Charles Geach as the Birmingham and Midland Bank. Birmingham Battery and Metal Company established. 1837 4 July: The Grand Junction Railway is opened providing through trains from Birmingham to Manchester and Liverpool from a temporary terminus at Duddeston railway station (opened as Vauxhall).
Map showing areas in red with high concentration of people who self-report as having "American" ancestry in 2000. In the Southern United States as a whole, 11.2% reported "American" ancestry, second only to African American. American was the fourth most common ancestry reported in the Midwest (6.5%) and West (4.1%).
Old Stock American (also known as Pioneer Stock, Founding Stock or Colonial Stock) is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwestern Europe whose ancestors emigrated to British America in the 17th and 18th ...
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There is no single definition for the Midlands. If defined as being made up of the statistical regions of East Midlands and West Midlands, [4] it includes the counties of Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, most of Lincolnshire (with the exception of North and North East Lincolnshire), Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire ...
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