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Rhododendron History
... ) from Japan. Hooker, Sir Joseph D.(1817-1911) A Scotsman and son of Sir William, who he succeed as Director of Kew Gardens [http://www.sisley.co.uk/kew.htm]. Sir Joseph Hooker returned ... timberline. Rhododendron albiflorum was discovered by Mr. Drummond during the early nineteenth century. In 1834, Sir William Jackson Hooker sent seeds to Dr. Graham of Edinburgh, where it flowered in Scotland in ...
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Robert Tait McKenzie
... McKenzie was born in 1867, in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, where his father, William McKenzie, emigrated to Canada from Kelso, Scotland, in 1858 and became minister of the ... began to create at McGill a special Department of Physical Education but, though the President, Sir William Peterson, and other officials were in favor, funding was not available. Meanwhile, the University of ...
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The Beaver
... it on the shield of its coat of arms in 1678. (Sir William Alexander, who was granted title to Nova Scotia in 1621, had ... town was destroyed during the American Civil War (1864) by General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army. It is now an agricultural trading centre ... in socage, particularly in Pennsylvania, where the royal charter given to William Penn created a socage tenure with an annual rent of ...
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Historical Perspectives on Scouting
... developed to identify and recruit members. This program was pioneered by William H. Spurgeon III. Explorer crews in Boy Scout Troops were eliminated. ... study was made of the special-interest posts being organized by William H. Spurgeon III, a businessman from California, and the newly ... a year before the King's death, hence B-P became Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell. In 1919, Mr. W. de Bois ...
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Famous Quotes & Documents
... human dignity which means a lot more than saying, "yes ma'am" and "thank you sir". It reflects an attitude that later in life you wish you had honored more... ... of Norwalk, Connecticut; Charles C. Jackson, of Boston, Massachusetts; John H. Nicholson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; William D. Murray, of Plainfield, New Jersey; and George D. Porter, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, their associates ...
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