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The Ladies' Diary: or, Woman's Almanack appeared annually in London from 1704 to 1841 after which it was succeeded by The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary. [1] It featured material relating to calendars etc. including sunrise and sunset times and phases of the moon, as well as important dates (eclipses, holidays, school terms, etc.), and a ...
During his years in Kendal, Dalton contributed solutions to problems and answered questions on various subjects in The Ladies' Diary and the Gentleman's Diary. In 1787 at age 21 he began his meteorological diary in which, during the succeeding 57 years, he entered more than 200,000 observations.
The son of the Rev. John Dalton, rector of Dean, Cumberland, he was born there; Richard Dalton was his brother. He received his school education at Lowther, Westmorland, and when sixteen years old was sent to The Queen's College, Oxford, entering the college as batler 12 October 1725, being elected taberdar 2 November 1730, and taking the degree of B.A. on 20 November 1730.
Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough (née St John; 15 July 1699 — 26 March 1756), [1] was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener.She married the rising politician Robert Knight in 1727, but he banished her to his estate at Barrells Hall in 1736 as punishment for a romantic indiscretion.
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society; Formation: 28 February 1781; 243 years ago (): Type: Learned society: Registration no. 235313: Legal status: Charity: Purpose: The Manchester Lit and Phil was established in 1781 with the object of promoting the advancement of education and public interest in any form of literature, science, arts or public affairs.
The re-boot/teardown expected to come with John Mozeliak passing the baseball ops poohbah reigns to Chaim Bloom hasn’t yet happened. It’d be funny if the Cards accidentally won the division ...
The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary was a recreational mathematics magazine formed as a successor of The Ladies' Diary and Gentleman's Diary in 1841. It was published annually between 1841 and 1871 [1] by the Company of Stationers; its editor from 1844 to 1865 was Wesley S. B. Woolhouse.
found that the presence of women directors was positively associated with higher firm value.17 Companies with women CEOs or heads have experienced better financial performance. Forbes examined the stock performance of the 26 publicly traded companies headed by women on its “2010 Power Women 100” list and found that, on average, companies in the