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Thomas Dempster was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire,which comprises regions of both the Scottish highlands and the Scottish lowlands,he was sent abroad as a youth for his education. The Dempsters were Catholic in an increasingly Protestant country and had a reputation for being quarrelsome. Thomas' brother James,outlawed for an attack on his father,spent some years as a pirate in the northern islands,escaped by volunteering for military service in the Low Countries and was drawn and quartered there for insubordination. Thomas' father lost the family fortune in clan feuding and was beheaded for forgery.
The Yellow Line,also known as the Skokie Swift,is a branch of the Chicago "L" train system in Chicago,Illinois. The 4.7-mile (7.6 km) route runs from the Howard Terminal on the north side of Chicago,through the southern part of Evanston and to the Dempster Terminal in Skokie,Illinois,making one intermediate stop at Oakton Street in downtown Skokie.
The Dempster Highway,also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8,is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon to Inuvik,Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta. The highway crosses the Peel and the Mackenzie rivers using a combination of seasonal ferry services and ice bridges. Year-round road access from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk opened in November 2017,with the completion of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway,creating the first all-weather road route connecting the Canadian road network with the Arctic Ocean.
Dinosaurs constitute a group of animals of the clade Dinosauria.
Denny is a town in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. Historically in Stirlingshire,it is situated 7 miles west of Falkirk,and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Cumbernauld,adjacent to both the M80 and M876 motorways. At the 2011 census,Denny had a resident population of 8,300.
George Roby Dempster was an American businessman,inventor,and politician,active primarily in Knoxville,Tennessee,during the first half of the 20th century. Dempster is known for the invention of the Dempster-Dumpster,a now-commonly-used trash receptacle that can be mechanically emptied into garbage trucks. During the 1910s and 1920s,the Dempster Brothers Construction Company,operated by Dempster and his brothers,built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern Appalachian region. Dempster also served as a city manager and mayor of Knoxville,where he became known for his political battles with eccentric Knoxville businessman Cas Walker and Knoxville Journal editor Guy Smith Jr.
George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo FRSE FSA (Scot) (1732–1818) was a Scottish advocate,landowner,agricultural improver and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1790. Dempster founded the bank George Dempster &Co. in 1763,was a Director of the East India Company from 1769,and served as Provost of St Andrews (1780) and a Director of the Highland Society of Scotland (1789).
Ryan Scott Dempster is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher,who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins,Cincinnati Reds,Chicago Cubs,Texas Rangers,and Boston Red Sox. Dempster batted and threw right-handed. He was both a starter and a reliever in his career.
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery in 1935 of the uranium isotope 235U.
A fuath is a class of malevolent spirits in Scottish Highland folklore,and less commonly Irish Folklore especially water spirits.
Charles Stewart Dempster was a New Zealand Test cricketer and coach. As well as representing New Zealand,he also played for Wellington,Scotland,Leicestershire and Warwickshire.
Sean Dempster is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans and St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
A dumpster is a movable waste container designed to be brought and taken away by a special collection vehicle,or to a bin that a specially designed garbage truck lifts,empties into its hopper,and lowers,on the spot. The word is a generic trademark of Dumpster,an American brand name for a specific design. Generic usage of skip,or wheelie bin may be used in other English speaking countries.
Quentin Dempster AM,is an Australian journalist and author.
Elder Dempster Lines was a UK shipping company that traded from 1932 to 2000,but had its origins in the mid-19th century.
Etruscology is the study of the ancient civilization of the Etruscans in Italy (Etruria),which was incorporated into an expanding Roman Empire during the period of Rome's Middle Republic. Since the Etruscans were politically and culturally influential in pre-Republican Rome,many Etruscologists are also scholars of the history,archaeology,and culture of Rome.
Dream Street is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith,and starring Carol Dempster,Charles Emmett Mack,and Ralph Graves in a story about a love triangle set in London,and based on two short stories by Thomas Burke,"Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp". The cast also features Tyrone Power Sr.
Thomas Barclay was a Scottish jurist,professor at Toulouse and Poitiers.
The Love Flower is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by D. W. Griffith and released through the then nascent United Artist company of which Griffith was a founding partner.
Events from the year 1579 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
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- ↑ "SDLRC - Thomas A. Dempster". sdlegislature.gov.
- ↑ "The Voter's Self Defense System". Vote Smart.
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