Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural...
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Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980), usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch...
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Joe Banks, member of the punk band Avail Joe Banks, hero of the film Joe Versus the Volcano All pages with titles containing Joseph Banks JoS. A. Bank Clothiers...
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Botany, New South Wales (section Sir Joseph Banks Park)
around Australia on his ship, the Endeavour. The ship's English botanist Joseph Banks and Swedish assistant botanist Daniel Solander, spent several days on...
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Seventeen Seventy, Queensland (redirect from Joseph Banks Top Lookout)
peninsula: Joseph Banks Lower Lookout (24°09′05″S 151°53′12″E / 24.1513°S 151.8866°E / -24.1513; 151.8866 (Joseph Banks Lower Lookout)). Joseph Banks Top...
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John Geoghan (redirect from Joseph Druce)
to assignment. Banks was concerned about the conclusions of the institute's discharge summary. On December 13, the institute sent Banks a letter explaining...
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The Sir Joseph Banks Group is an archipelago in the Australian state of South Australia located in Spencer Gulf about 20 kilometres (12 mi) off the eastern...
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Joseph Banks: A Life (1987), is a biography by Patrick O'Brian of the 18th-century English naturalist, botanist and explorer Joseph Banks. It was first...
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Robert Joseph Banks (born February 26, 1928) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin...
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Jos. A. Bank is an American retailer of men's furnishings specializing in suits. Established in 1905, by Charles Bank and Joseph Alfred Bank, it operates...
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of Joseph Banks is a portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds of the botanist and President of the Royal Society Joseph Banks. Banks had...
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Rosa banksiae (redirect from Lady Banks' rose)
Rosa banksiae, common names Lady Banks' rose, or just Banks' rose, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, native to central and western China...
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Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve is one of the few specialised gardens in Sydney to focus entirely on Australian native plants. Located at Kareela in...
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A Māori and Pākehā man trading a crayfish (redirect from A Maori man and Joseph Banks exchanging a crayfish for a piece of cloth)
and Joseph Banks trading a crayfish for a piece of cloth. The drawing is referenced by Michel Tuffery in his work Tupaia's chart Cook and Banks/Tupaia's...
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The Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory is a tropical house at Woodside Wildlife Park in Lincolnshire, England. The Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory is a 5,000-square-foot...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Henry Banks (1843–1916) was the British Commandant and instructor of the Auckland Militia through whose capacity the first six...
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Thomas Joseph Banks (1828–1896), sometimes known as "Thomas John Banks", was a British portrait and landscape painter. He died at Goathland, and an obituary...
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the general public, however, the aristocratic botanist Joseph Banks was a greater hero. Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage but...
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Robert Banks may refer to: Robert Banks (American football) (born 1963), former American football defensive end Robert Banks (chemist) (1921–1989), co-inventor...
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hundreds of thousands of migratory birds who nest at Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 1 and Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 2. As of the...
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English collector of antiquarian items and sister of the naturalist Joseph Banks Sarah Banks (Brookside), fictional character from the soap opera Brookside...
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It is likely based on a passage of Joseph Banks' diary describing the HMS Endeavour's arrival in Botany Bay. Banks wrote that the natives did not appear...
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Joseph Banks Secondary College (abbreviated as JBSC) is an independent public co-educational high day school, located in Banksia Grove, a suburb 29 kilometres...
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Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. Joseph Banks had been appointed to the voyage as the official botanist. Banks funded seven others to join him: a Swedish...
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The Old Sir Joseph Banks Hotel is a heritage-listed former hotel at 23 Anniversary Street, Botany, Bayside Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was...
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Joseph Banks (21 June 1695 – 31 March 1741), of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from...
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politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727. Banks was the second son of Robert Banks of Beck Hall, Giggleswick, Yorkshire and his wife Margaret...
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breadfruit expedition to Tahiti) but was refused by Bligh. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, dated 17 July 1791 (two weeks before departure), Bligh wrote: Should...
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Strelitzia (category Taxa named by Joseph Banks)
the reverse of the South African 50-cent coin. The genus was named by Joseph Banks in honour of the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The...
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Endeavour. Other dates are suggested by the journals of Joseph Banks and James Cook. Joseph Banks's journal has an entry for 11 November, in which he wrote...
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