• Captain Sir Thomas Staines KCB (1776 – 13 July 1830) was an officer in the Royal Navy. Staines joined Peterel on 3 July 1796 on his promotion to Lieutenant...
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    Neolithic, there was a causewayed enclosure on Staines Moor. The first bridge across the Thames at Staines is thought to have been built by the Romans and...
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    130.000°W / -25.033; -130.000. However, this was not known to Sir Thomas Staines, who commanded a Royal Navy flotilla of two ships, HMS Briton and HMS...
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  • Staines is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alberto Campbell-Staines (born 1993), Jamaican-born Australian athlete Alfred Staines (1838–1910)...
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    Columbine and was renamed Cyane on 6 December of that year. Under Captain Thomas Staines she captured the Spanish privateer Medusa in 1808 which was the last...
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    Christian and George Young (Edward Young's son). The captains, Sir Thomas Staines and Philip Pipon, reported that Christian's son displayed "in his benevolent...
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    keel laid down at Chatham Dockyard in February 1810. Navy veteran Sir Thomas Staines was appointed her first captain on 7 May 1812 but did not join the ship...
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    postnominal letters KC. Horatio Nelson, Knight, 1799, by Selim III Thomas Staines, c. 1801, by Selim III Charles Marsh Schomberg, Knight, 1801, by Selim...
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    Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, and historically in the county of Middlesex. 3000 BC — Neolithic settlement at Yeoveney Manor Farm by Staines...
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    stain (or haematoxylin and eosin stain or hematoxylin-eosin stain; often abbreviated as H&E stain or HE stain) is one of the principal tissue stains used...
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