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    John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear (27 June 1838 in Cape Town – 17 July 1907 in Niagara) was an admiral in the Royal Navy, known for his leadership in hydrography...
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    Maclear's rat (Rattus macleari) is an extinct large rat endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. It was one of two species of rat native to Christmas...
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  • and former correspondent George Maclear (born 1833), English clergyman, theological writer and headmaster John Maclear (1838–1907), commander of HMS Challenger...
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    England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval officers included Commander John Maclear. Under the scientific supervision of Thomson himself, the ship traveled...
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    Thomas Maclear (17 March 1794 – 14 July 1879) was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. Born...
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    of Thomas Maclear, Her Majesty's Astronomer at Cape Town, and cousin to John Maclear, admiral in the Royal Navy, and Basil Maclear. Maclear won the Carus...
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  • Maclear Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park at the tip of Cape Melville, Queensland in Bathurst Bay. It is north of Denham Island in...
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    (1842–1933) married on 4 June 1878 to Captain (later Admiral) John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear Matilda Rose Herschel (1844–1914), a gifted artist, married William...
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    Challenger expedition to Indonesia, naturalist John Murray carried out extensive surveys. In 1886, Captain John Maclear of HMS Flying Fish, having discovered an...
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  • territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet honours John Maclear, captain of the survey vessel HMS Flying Fish, which visited Christmas...
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    Nares for a survey of the Strait of Magellan. On 12 March 1879 Captain John Maclear took command, and under him she went to Australia Station and the Pacific...
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    introduced the game to Korea. From 1883 to 1887, she was under the command of John Maclear. During the Russian war scare of 1885, she was rearmed and rejoined fleet...
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  • N2 north of Mthatha to Lady Frere via Maclear, Rhodes, Barkly East, and Indwe. Routes Travel Info Falkner, John (May 2012). South African Numbered Route...
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    Andrew Maclear is an English photographer, screenwriter and documentalist. He was born in Lewes (East Sussex) in 1950 and He grew up in rural England...
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    South Africa that connects Middelburg with Pietermaritzburg via Molteno, Maclear and Kokstad. It is co-signed with the N2 between Kokstad and Stafford's...
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    John Ralston Saul CC OOnt (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his...
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    Sharpe in 1887 based on an adult male specimen collected by Captain John Maclear of HMS Challenger. The species name whartoni honours British admiral...
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    Denham, who commanded HMS Herald from 1853 to 1861 Maclear Island named after Lieutenant John Maclear, who commanded HMS Alert from 1881 to 1882. In the...
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  • Producers: Andrew Brown, John Hambley Producer: Irving Teitelbaum Music: Colin Towns The series was created by Andrew Maclear, who also wrote the 1989...
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  • second padrão (stone cross), that's north-east of St. Philip, in Cape Maclear, south of Cape Point, on his return journey to Portugal In 1497-99, Vasco...
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     30–32. Hotson 2000, p. 173. Maclear 1975, pp. 225–226. Bremer 2009, p. 76. Maclear 1975, p. 226. Maclear 1975, p. 227. Maclear 1975, p. 229. Bremer 1995...
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    Astronomer and Geodesist (Oxford University Press, 2013) pp. 30-33. Thomas Maclear, Verification and Extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape...
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  • John Guyon Richards (born August 19, 1944) is a Canadian politician and professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia. During the 1970s...
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  • The specific epithet (listeri) honours Joseph Jackson Lister who, with John Maclear and the officers of H.M.S. Egeria collected the type specimen.: 351 ...
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    John Vaillant (born 1962) is an American Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and...
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  • in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, 69 km north-north-east of Maclear. It is a birthplace of both political activities Epainette Mbeki and Oscar...
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  • and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012. Johns is best known for his works on the...
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  • 21, 2012. 'Second Quarter Figures', Director: Paul Seed; Writer: Andrew Maclear. "Capital City", Euston Films, episode 1, series 1. Original air date:...
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  • under the command of Richard Hamilton." Graham, Rev John A History of the Siege of Londonderry Maclear & Co, Toronto 1869. p. 13 et seq Mackenzie 1690, p...
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  • television documentary about the Vietnam War which was produced by Michael Maclear Vietnam: A Television History, a 1983 documentary series which was also...
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