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  2. Jeremiah Horrocks - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah Horrocks was born at Lower Lodge Farm in Toxteth Park, a former royal deer park near Liverpool, Lancashire. [5] His father James had moved to Toxteth Park to be apprenticed to Thomas Aspinwall, a watchmaker , and subsequently married his master's daughter Mary.

  3. 1639 transit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641) [3] was born in Lower Lodge, Toxteth Park – now part of Liverpool but at that time a separate town. His father James was a watchmaker , and his mother Mary Aspinwall was from a notable Toxteth Park family. [ 6 ]

  4. William Crabtree - Wikipedia

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    Crabtree was born in 1610 in the hamlet of Broughton Spout, which was on the east bank of the River Irwell, near the area now known as "The Priory" in Broughton, Salford [1] and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School. [2] He married into a wealthy family and worked as a merchant in Manchester. In his spare time, his great interest was ...

  5. Horrocks - Wikipedia

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    Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British comedian and actress; Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), English astronomer; John Horrocks (cotton manufacturer) (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer; John Horrocks (fisherman) (1816–1881), Scottish founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing; John Ainsworth Horrocks, (1818–1846), English-born ...

  6. Teen U.S. soldier accounted for decades after being killed in ...

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    A 19-year-old soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for, military officials said Thursday. U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was assigned to an anti-tank company in Europe ...

  7. Getting It Right (film) - Wikipedia

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    Getting It Right is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter. [2] The tagline is: "Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he's finally...

  8. 2 teens arrested in murder of ‘beloved’ 17-year-old girl at ...

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    Jeremiah Warren, 18, of Beaufort, was jailed Monday afternoon on the same three charges. ... Arianna Mulligan, 17, was killed in a shooting at a Burton-area apartment complex the night of Sept. 15 ...

  9. Timothy Spall filmography - Wikipedia

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    English actor Timothy Spall OBE (born 27 February 1957) has made over 100 appearances in film and television. [1] Having made his cinematic debut in the 1979 film Quadrophenia , Spall first rose to fame for playing boring Barry Spencer Taylor in the comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004), a role that won him popularity and critical praise.