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    name Brother Walfrid, was an Irish Marist Brother and is best remembered for being the founder of Scottish football club Celtic. Walfrid was born of John...
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  • Walfrid, or Galfrido della Gherardesca, was an eighth-century saint from Pisa, Italy. Though he had six children with his long-time wife, Thesia, they...
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    Vagn Walfrid Ekman (3 May 1874 – 9 March 1954) was a Swedish oceanographer. Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, himself an oceanographer, he...
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  • Gustaf Walfrid Hellman (17 November 1883 – 7 October 1952) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he won the bronze...
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    Walfrid Lehto, originally Valfrid Olganpoika, (May 11, 1896 – January 4, 1946) was a Finnish American singer. He is better known by his stage name Volpi...
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  • Walfrid Isak (W. I.) Alhainen (27 April 1869 – 17 November 1947) was a Finnish farmer and politician, born in Kalvola. He was a member of the Parliament...
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  • Walfrid Ek was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. Alsjö, Martin (2011). 100 år med Allsvensk fotboll (in Swedish). Idrottsförlaget. pp. 307–309...
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    colours are red and white, hence their nickname the Bit 'O' Red. Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic Football Club, was born in Ballymote, in the south...
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  • Walfrid Johnson (November 23, 1936) is an American children's book author. She writes from a Christian perspective. Johnson was born to Alvar Walfrid...
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    Vilhelm Bjerknes to study it scientifically. Bjerknes had his student, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, investigate. Ekman, who later described the effect now bearing his...
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    Brother Walfrid on 6 November 1887, with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the East End of Glasgow by raising money for the charity Walfrid had instituted...
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    Brother Walfrid on 6 November 1887, with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the East End of Glasgow by raising money for the charity Walfrid had instituted...
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    same direction as the wind. His student, the Swedish oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman, was the first person to physically explain this process. In order...
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    formed at a meeting in St. Mary's church hall in Glasgow, by Marist Brother Walfrid on November 6, 1887. The stated purpose, according to the official club...
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  • from planetary rotation. It is named after the Swedish oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman. When the Ekman number is small, disturbances are able to propagate...
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  • French businessman and publisher, founded Coty (d. 1934) 1874 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954) 1877 – Karl Abraham...
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    including Gaelic football and athletics at Corran Park and soccer at Brother Walfrid Memorial Park. The town had had a nine-hole golf course on the outskirts...
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    Velodrome directly opposite the stadium. Since 2005, statues of Brother Walfrid, Jimmy Johnstone, Jock Stein and Billy McNeill have been erected outside...
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    transport is part of Ekman motion theory, first investigated in 1902 by Vagn Walfrid Ekman. Winds are the main source of energy for ocean circulation, and Ekman...
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    force, Coriolis force and turbulent drag. It was first described by Vagn Walfrid Ekman. Ekman layers occur both in the atmosphere and in the ocean. There...
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    Chicago. Exposed to music at an early age, he studied classical flute with Walfrid Kujala, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Butterfield was also athletic...
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    Düben, von – Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". sok.riksarkivet.se. Holst, Walfrid. Ulrika Eleonora d. y. Karl XII's syster Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm...
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    Juuso Walfrid Walden (5 April 1907 – 19 November 1972) was a Finnish industrial leader and entrepreneur, long term CEO of Yhtyneet Paperitehtaat, the...
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    The Ekman current meter is a mechanical flowmeter invented by Vagn Walfrid Ekman, a Swedish oceanographer, in 1903. It comprises a propeller with a mechanism...
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    Amongst her awards are a Sense Over Sectarianism Award for the Brother Walfrid Veil; Guardian/Modern Painters prize for Writing on Art; Robert Graves...
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    sampling by Geophysic institut of the University of Bergen (Norway) Oceanography Vagn Walfrid Ekman Ekman spiral Ekman current meter Nansen bottle v t e...
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  • Delijanić Jean-André Deluc Charles A. Doswell III Heinrich Wilhelm Dove V. Walfrid Ekman Kerry Emanuel John Farrah William Ferrel Rich Fields John Park Finley...
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  • (1876–1964), Swedish zoologist Ulf Ekman (born 1950), Swedish clergyman Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954), Swedish oceanographer Ekman layer Ekman spiral Ekman...
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    as was Charles Forte, Baron Forte. St Joseph's was founded by Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic F.C. International chart-topping record producer...
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    Cathcart in December 1887 to invite Tom Maley to join Celtic, Brother Walfrid and the rest of the Celtic deputation met Willie Maley and they casually...
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