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  2. George Meade - Wikipedia

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    George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865.

  3. Mead - Wikipedia

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    Mead is a drink widely considered to have been discovered likely among the first humans in Africa 20,000–40,000 years ago [17] [18] [19] [better source needed] prior to the advent of both agriculture and ceramic pottery in the Neolithic, [20] due to the prevalence of naturally occurring fermentation and the distribution of eusocial honey-producing insects worldwide; [21] as a result, it is ...

  4. mySky - Wikipedia

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    My Sky was a personal astronomy tool made by Meade Instruments. When pointed at an area of sky, it was supposed to identify objects based on its built-in database of 30000 objects. When pointed at an area of sky, it was supposed to identify objects based on its built-in database of 30000 objects.

  5. History of alcoholic drinks - Wikipedia

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    Around 1668, Perignon used strong bottles, invented a more efficient cork (and one that could contain the effervescence in those strong bottles), and began developing the technique of blending the contents. However, another century would pass before problems, especially bursting bottles, would be solved and champagne would become popular. [21]

  6. George Herbert Mead - Wikipedia

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    George Herbert Mead was born on February 27, 1863, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.He was raised in a Protestant, middle-class family comprising his father, Hiram Mead, his mother, Elizabeth Storrs Mead (née Billings), and his sister Alice.

  7. John Diebel - Wikipedia

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    Meade Instruments would eventually become the world's largest telescope manufacturer for amateur astronomy, with distribution in over thirty countries. Diebel received the Franklin Institute's Bower Award for Business Leadership in 1998 [ 1 ] and retired from Meade Instruments in 2003.

  8. James Meade - Wikipedia

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    James Edward Meade FBA (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist who made major contributions to the theory of international trade and welfare economics. Along with Richard Kahn , James Meade helped develop the concept of the Keynesian multiplier while participating in the Cambridge circus .

  9. Richard Mead - Wikipedia

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    Richard was born in Stepney, London on 11 August 1673, son of Matthew Mead (1630–1699), who was an Independent minister. He was the eleventh of thirteen children. He studied at Utrecht for three years under JG Graevius.