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...s }}'''William Thomson''' (June 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907), later Baron Kelvin of Largs, was a [[Great Britain|British]] scientist who developed th

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Sir '''Edward Herbert''', 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648), was an English diplomat, writer and philos ...led in 1624. [[Charles I]] first gave him an Irish peerage, then made him Baron Herbert of Cherbury. As the [[English Civil War]] developed, Herbert, thou

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In 1797 he entered the peerage of Great Britain, being created Baron Wellesley.<ref name=historyofparliamentonlineRichardWellesley/> | quote = ...took name of Wellesley 1789; cr. Baron Wellesley [GB] 20 Oct. 1797; Marquess Wellesley [I] 2 Dec. 1799; K.G. 3 Mar

...Mores tried to build a meat-packing empire, with the help of the wealthy [[Baron von Hoffman]], in North Dakota, where he built houses, business, a Catholic

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| title = heir to the hereditary title [[Baron Rothschild]] Rothschild is the heir to the hereditary title [[Baron Rothschild]].

*Rocha, Guy Louis. “Reno’s First Robber Baron,” ''Nevada Magazine'' 40,2(March-April, 1980), pp. 28-29, 62.

...ngton]], and, four years prior to the Act of Union, in 1787, was created [[Baron Wellesley]] in the peerage of Great Britain. A Baronage is the most junior | quote = ...took name of Wellesley 1789; cr. Baron Wellesley [GB] 20 Oct. 1797; Marquess Wellesley [I] 2 Dec. 1799; K.G. 3 Mar

'''Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff''', KG, PC (27 March 1912 - 26 March 2005) was [[prime ...ed an MP for some years before being elevated to the [[House of Lords]] as Baron Callaghan of [[Cardiff]].

'''Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel''', KT, PC (2 July 1903 - 9 October 1995) was a [[prime ...e House of Lords when he accepted a [[life peerage]], and became known as 'Baron Home of the Hirsel' ([[The Hirsel]] being his family seat in [[Berwickshire

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Baron (posthumous) '''Nobuyoshi Muto''' was an [[Imperial Japanese Army]] officer | title = Muto, Nobuyoshi, Baron, Field Marshal

...s named after the Irish-born physicist and engineer [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]] (1824 – 1907), who wrote of the need for an absolute thermometri

*[[Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton]], painter and sculptor

...printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:crisis+intitle:early+inauthor:hans+inauthor:baron&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&sig=tw7r_LsDJ0cDz66H4WSylNz3TA0 excerpts and text searc * Baron, Hans. ''In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism'' (2 vols. 1988).

'''Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède at de Montesquieu''' (1689—1755) was a French writer and pol

...n than not, were either taken directly from, or were imitations of, the "[[Baron Munchausen]]" stories of Rudolf Erich Raspe. Other influences include the

...igher in the [[Order of Precedence]] than a [[Knight]], but lower than a [[Baron]]. Traditionally different from the five degrees of [[Peerage]] since a [[B

...and <ref name="pmid20671013">{{cite journal| author=Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Baron JA, Grey A, MacLennan GS, Gamble GD et al.| title=Effect of calcium supplem ...])).<ref name="pmid20671013">{{cite journal| author=Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Baron JA, Grey A, MacLennan GS, Gamble GD et al.| title=Effect of calcium supplem

*Beaverbrook, Max Aitken Baron and Taylor, Alan John Percivale (1966) ''The Abdication of King Edward VIII

After the war, he rose quickly through the ranks of baron, viscount, and count. He died suddenly after having briefly been [[Chief of

*[[Baron]] (Baroness); in Scottish peerages (created before the Union of 1707, the c

* Akin, Edward N. ''Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.'' (1992). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97474432 online edition] * Latham, Earl ed. ''John D. Rockefeller: Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman?'', 1949. Primary and secondary sources. [https://

...fictitious character Munchausen&mdash;single h, no umlaut; for the "real" Baron von Münchhausen, see [[Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhause [[Image:446px-Dore-munchausen-illustration.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Depiction of Baron Munchausen by [[Gustave Doré]], 1887]]

...ruler of Bohemia too, but was forced to allow important concessions to his baron supporters. Those privileges, known as the ''iura conradi'' (1189) allowed

| title = Neue Befunde bestätigen Baron Pernaus (1660--1731) Angaben über Lautäusserungen des Buchfinken (Fringil | title = Baron von Pernau, pioneer student of bird behavior

'''Baron Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm''' (July 7, 1

...et]], [[Denis Diderot]], [[Georges Buffon|Buffon]], [[Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l’Aulne Turgot|Turgot]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] in France; [[Dav

...ckens, providing security for a performance of [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|Edward Bulwer-Lytton]]'s play "Not So Bad as We Seem", which was thr

| url = http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/hiranuma-kiichiro-baron.jsp | title = HIRANUMA, KIICHIRO, BARON

...as ''The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil.'' (2002)

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'''William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of [[Richmond]]''' (born 26th March 1961) is a [[United Kingdom|UK]]

...i]], who would destroy liberalism, individualism and party politics. While Baron Hiranuma was more discreet in public, when [[Prince Saionji]] first heard H

...th [[Hermann von Boyen]], [[Karl von Grolman]], [[Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Baron von und zum Stein]], and [[August von Gneisenau]]. The reforms suggested w

{{r|Baron Hill}} [[Committee on Energy and Commerce]] IN

* "Baron Toll", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 6. (Jun., 1904), pp.&nbsp;770

[[Baron Janner of Braunstone]]

...[[Terry Gilliam]]'s [[Adventures of Baron Münchausen (film)|Adventures of Baron Münchausen]].

...gineering was established to educate technical specialists. In addition to Baron de Tott many other staff were brought in from foreign countries to moderniz

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...ohn Arbuthnot Fisher''' (1841-1920), known as '''Jacky Fisher''' or '''1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone''' was a colorful and controversial British [[admiral

*[[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu]]

...been transformed into bubble-breathing dinosaurs by Baron von Blubba. The Baron has also captured their two girlfriends, and the two dinosaurs must battle ...hion that chases the player and cannot be killed. When a player dies their Baron von Blubba will disappear, all of the creatures will stop being angry, and

...Seneca raid and, in 1688, Duluth's successor [[Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan]] likewise was depressed about the posting. In 1688, apparentl

...r the title ''The Champion of Virtue'' and only in 1778 as The Old English Baron. She was clearly inspired by Walpole's Castle of Otranto. Her novel would o * [[Clara Reeve]], ''The Old English Baron'' (1777, originally published as ''The Champion of Virtue'')

{{Image|Dore-Munchausen-pull.jpg|right|250px|[[Baron Munchausen]] uses support-less propulsion to get out from the swamp by pull ...ation, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 2008, page 81, Figure 4.1: Baron Munchausen escaping from a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair; fro