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  2. Edmond Halley - Wikipedia

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    Edmond Halley Biography (SEDS) Edmond Halley's 1716 paper describing how transits could be used to measure the Sun's distance, translated from Latin. A Halley Odyssey; The National Portrait Gallery (London) has several portraits of Halley: Search the collection Archived 19 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine; Halley, Edmond, An Estimate of the ...

  3. When Knowledge Conquered Fear - Wikipedia

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    The episode's premiere on Fox brought a 1.7/4 in the 18-49 rating/share, with 4.25 million American viewers watching it live. It placed fourth and last in its timeslot behind Resurrection , The Amazing Race All-Stars , and Believe ; and thirteenth out of eighteenth for the night.

  4. HMS Paramour (1694) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Paramour was a 6-gun pink of the Royal Navy, briefly commanded by the astronomer Edmond Halley, initially as a civilian and later as a "temporary captain". Paramour was built by Fisher Harding of Deptford and launched in April 1694. She was rigged as a three-masted ship and was the first vessel built specifically as a research vessel for ...

  5. Halley Lectures - Wikipedia

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    The Halley Lectures are a series of annual public lectures hosted by the University of Oxford, in memory of the astronomer Edmond Halley.Currently, some podcasts of the lectures can be found through the Oxford Physics Public Lectures [1] These lectures aim to promote public understanding and engagement with science, mathematics, and related fields, and to inspire new generations of researchers ...

  6. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    In New Zealand English, the vowels of kit /ˈkɪt/ and focus /ˈfoʊkəs/ have the same schwa-like quality. [o] [p] If you are from New Zealand, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɪ/ and /ə/. In contemporary New Zealand English and some other dialects, the vowels of near /ˈnɪər/ and square /ˈskwɛər/ are not distinguished.

  7. Peter Roach (phonetician) - Wikipedia

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    He has been the principal editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary for all editions from the 15th (1997) to the current 18th (2011) [6] [7] which is also published in CD-ROM format [8] and an Apple app. [9] Other books include Phonetics (OUP, 2001), in the series 'Oxford Introductions to Language Study', and Introducing Phonetics ...

  8. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  9. Solar eclipse of May 3, 1715 - Wikipedia

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    A total solar eclipse occurred on 3 May 1715. It was known as Halley's Eclipse, after Edmond Halley (1656–1742) who predicted this eclipse to within 4 minutes accuracy. . Halley observed the eclipse from London where the city of London enjoyed 3 minutes 33 seconds of tota