• he died in 1710. William Biles was born in 1644 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England, the son of Alexander and Dorothy (Strong) Biles. His maternal grandfather...
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  • Biles is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Daniel Biles (born 1952), American judge Ed Biles (1931–2020), American football coach and player...
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  • known as Biles Island, consisting of 309 acres (125 ha). Biles arrived in Bucks County on 12 June 1679, three years before the arrival of William Penn. The...
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  • site for silt dredged from the river. The island takes its name from William Biles, to whom it was conveyed in about 1680 "by four local Lenapes, Orecton...
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    Bile (from Latin bilis), or gall, is a yellow-green fluid produced by the liver of most vertebrates that aids the digestion of lipids in the small intestine...
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  • William Daniel Biles (born August 12, 1952) is a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Biles was appointed on January 7, 2009, by Governor Kathleen Sebelius...
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    Friends Meeting, whose first meetings were held at the home of William Biles on Biles Island, found a site for a brick meeting house, built about 1690...
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    self esteem." Similarly, in his book The Life of Muhammad, William Muir states that Bilal "was tall, dark, and with African feature and bushy hair." Muir...
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    chief advocate of the legislation. He was the great-grandson of Judge William Biles, an early Pennsylvania legislator and justice of the first Supreme Court...
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    all-around with Raisman, behind Biles, with a score of 60.450. She finished the two-day competition in third all-around, behind Biles and Raisman. She placed...
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