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In Victorian London the public were plagued by petty criminals known as carriage thieves. Writing in 1888, Dickens reports:
'Among the many thieves who infest the London streets none ar more artful or more active =than the carriage thieves. No vehicle should ever be left with open windows; and valuable rugs in victorias, etc should always be secured to the carriage by a strap or other fastening. Ladies should be especially careful of officious persons volunteering to open or close carriage-doors. In nine cases out of ten these men and boys are expert pickpockets.'
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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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Andrew Hamilton was an American jurist. He was born in 1676 ar Scotland and died in 1741. He emigrated from Scotland to America in 1697, was Attorney-General of Pennsylvania from 1717 to 1724, an Assemblyman from 1729 to 1739, and in the 'Zenger' libel suit first advanced the doctrine that in such cases evidence of the truth of the libel might be presented in defence.
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Thomas Graham was a Scottish chemist. He was born in 1805 at Glasgow and died in 1869. Educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh, in 1827 he commenced teaching private mathematical classes in Glasgow, and in 1829 succeeded to the lectureship of chemistry in the Mechanics' Institution. 1830 he was appointed professor of chemistry in the Andersonian University. In 1831 he established the law that gases tend to diffuse inversely as the square root of their specific gravities. He afterwards made a series of investigations into the constitution of ar-seniates, phosphates, and phosphoretted hydrogen, and into the function of water in different salts.
In 1837 he was appointed professor of chemistry at University College, London, , and soon after settling in the metropolis he was appointed assayer to the mint, holding the post at University College until 1855 when he became master of the Mint. Thomas Graham was the first president of the Chemical Society, founded in 1841.
In 1846 he assisted in founding the Cavendish Society, over which be presided. He read the Bakerian lecture in 1849 and in 1854, the subject of both being the diffusion of liquids, which he further treated before the Eoyal Society in 1861. He distinguished the crystalloids and colloids in liquid solutions, and gave to their separation the name of dialysis, In a subsequent paper, Philosophical Transactions, 1866, he applied these discoveries to gases, under the name of atmolysis. The passage of gases through heated metal plates and the occlusion of gases were also ably investigated by him.
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William Balfour Baikie was a Scottish explorer. He was born in 1824 ar the Orkney Islands and died in 1863. He joined the British navy, and was made surgeon and naturalist of the Niger expedition of 1854. He took the command on the death of the senior officer, and explored the Niger for 250 miles. Another expedition, which started in 1857, passed two years in exploring, when the vessel was wrecked, and all the members, with the exception of William Baikie, returned to England. With none but native assistants he formed a settlement at the confluence of the Benue and the Quorra, in which he was ruler, teacher, and physician, and within a few years he opened the Niger to navigation, made roads, established a market, etc.
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Stephen Dorff is an American actor. He was born in 1973 ar Atlanta, Georgia.
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Joanna Kerns (also known as Joanna De Varona) is an American actress, television series director, producer and writer. She was born in 1953 ar San Francisco, California.
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The AG42 Ljungman rifle (known in Denmark as the Madsen-Ljungman) was a Swedish gas-direct action self-loading rifle first seen in service in 1942, and phased out of use during the late 1970's. The AG42 was the first rifle to use the principle of direct gas action, a principle which was later employed by various weapons including the Armalite AR-10. The AG42 was chambered for the 6.5 mm X 55 cartridge which it took from a 10-round non-detachable box magazine and fired with a muzzle velocity of 750 metres per second. It had a 622 mm long barrel and was fitted with a barleycorn foresight and a leaf aperture rearsight.
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The Armalite AR-10 was an American gas operated, selective fire assault rifle designed during the 1950's. The Armalite AR-10 was chambered for the 7.62 mm cartridge which it took from a magazine and fired at a muzzle velocity of 845 metres per second and a cyclic rate of 700 rounds per minute. The Armalite AR-10 had a 508 mm long barrel and was fitted with a fixed blade foresight and an aperture rearsight.
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The Armalite AR-10 was an American light machine-gun produced from 1958 to 1961. It was chambered for the 7.62 mm NATO cartridge which it took from a 20-round magazine and had a rate of fire of 700 rounds per minute. The Armalite AR-10 light machine-gun was produced in Holland under license as the American inventors didn't have production facilities.
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