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  • Chairs are known to have existed since Ancient Egypt and have been widespread in the Western world from the Greeks and Romans onwards. They were in common...
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    conferences, to "chair" something (chairing) means to lead the event. Look up chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, or preside in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
    32 KB (3,244 words) - 04:18, 31 May 2024
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    stability for the upper chair.[citation needed] The cushion of the chair is typically thick velveteen material filled with cotton fluff similar to that of a...
    2 KB (278 words) - 06:00, 29 January 2024
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    Johann Heinrich Heidegger (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    philosophy. In 1659, he was called to Steinfurt to fill the chair of dogmatics and ecclesiastical history, and in the same year he became doctor of theology...
    3 KB (374 words) - 22:24, 26 May 2024
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    Jakob Friedrich Fries (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and called for Judaism to be "extirpated root and branch" from German society. In 1816 he was invited to Jena to fill the chair of theoretical philosophy...
    8 KB (931 words) - 10:07, 17 November 2023
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    Wheelchair (redirect from Wheel chair)
    form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest and armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses...
    52 KB (7,028 words) - 21:31, 29 May 2024
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    Lee Morgan (category The Jazz Messengers members)
    Messengers, Morgan persuaded Blakey to hire Wayne Shorter, a young tenor saxophonist, to fill the chair. This version of the Jazz Messengers, including pianist...
    24 KB (1,599 words) - 06:07, 16 May 2024
  • we have reason to believe that America's God has raised you up to fill the Chair of State out of that goodwill which he bears to the millions which you...
    12 KB (1,580 words) - 01:51, 29 January 2023
  • Gustav Cohn (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    In 1875, he was invited to fill the chair of economics at ETH Zurich, which he held until 1884, when he became professor in the University of Göttingen...
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    Carl Nägeli (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    extraordinary, in the University of Zürich; later he was called to fill the chair of botany at the University of Freiburg; and in 1857 he was promoted to Munich...
    10 KB (1,016 words) - 19:26, 12 October 2023
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    Christian Martin Frähn (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and in the following year was chosen to fill the chair of Oriental languages in the Russian university of Kazan. Though in 1815 he was invited to succeed...
    3 KB (282 words) - 20:50, 7 June 2024
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    The Barcelona chair is a chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, for the German Pavilion at the International Exposition of 1929,...
    7 KB (613 words) - 19:56, 1 March 2024
  • Look People (redirect from The Look People)
    recording, leaving Great Bob Scott to fill the chair as drummer and percussionist. In 1986, Look People released the EP Stop Making Cheese, which was recorded...
    8 KB (679 words) - 17:04, 26 April 2022
  • The following is a partial list of chairs with descriptions, with internal or external cross-references about most of the chairs. For other chair-like...
    52 KB (5,853 words) - 20:12, 9 June 2024
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    Friedrich Tiedemann (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    1816, after having filled the chair of anatomy and zoology for ten years at Landshut, and died at Munich. He was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy...
    13 KB (1,310 words) - 22:43, 5 April 2024
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    announced to fill LaWare's seat by Bill Clinton in 1995. Felix Rohatyn (district unknown) was announced to fill Alan Blinder's as vice chair and his seat...
    52 KB (1,375 words) - 15:04, 21 April 2024
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    Heinrich Zimmer (category Academic staff of the University of Greifswald)
    at the University of Berlin. Between 1920 and 1924, he lectured at the University of Greifswald, moving to Heidelberg University to fill the Chair of...
    17 KB (1,764 words) - 15:37, 25 March 2024
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    Christian Schussele (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    the right hand. In 1865, he went abroad and underwent severe treatment with no apparent benefit. On his return, in 1868, he was elected to fill the chair...
    3 KB (384 words) - 20:01, 6 June 2024
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    Lodovico Scapinelli (category Academic staff of the University of Bologna)
    literary labors spread throughout Italy. In 1628 he was recalled to Bologna to fill the chair of rhetoric again. Scapinelli was renowned for his scholarship...
    7 KB (506 words) - 03:17, 20 March 2024
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    Rachael Thomas (category Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta)
    Liberal and NDP members of the committee walked out of the meeting to deny quorum during which the vote to fill the Chair position would have been held...
    27 KB (2,474 words) - 10:04, 21 February 2024
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