Harry John Betteley Birks is a botanist and emeritus professor at the University of Bergen and University College London. He is best known for his work...
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Dizzy Gillespie (redirect from John Birks Gillespie)
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/ gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator...
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John W. Birks (born 10 December 1946, in Vinita, Oklahoma, USA) is an American atmospheric chemist and entrepreneur who is best known for co-discovery...
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Henry Birks (30 November 1840 – 16 April 1928) was a Canadian businessman and founder of Henry Birks and Sons, a chain of high-end Canadian jewellery stores...
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satirical song, "The John Birch Society", which made its way to no. 99 in the Billboard Hot 100. When jazz trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie launched...
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Birks Group Inc. (formerly Birks & Mayors Inc.) is a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of jewellery, timepieces, silverware and gifts, with stores and...
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John Birks Society, named for Gillespie's first two names and coined as an obvious rebuke to the right wing John Birch Society. Members of the John Birks...
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under the lower lip". Maggin, Donald L.: Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie. HarperCollins, 2005 "The meaning of the soul patch: a brief...
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Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. No. 17. Retrieved 15 September 2018. Peterson, John (2007). Hallmark keepsake ornaments: inside stories from the artists who...
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Birks' law (named after British physicist John B. Birks) is an empirical formula for the light yield per path length as a function of the energy loss...
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