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The mathematician who drove Whist forward: William Henry Whitfeld (1856–1915)

BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, 2013
As a card game in which different partnerships play against each other, or each player plays with different partners, Whist is a popular social activity. The organization of whist drives where people move from table to table is a practical problem, and one that offers a mathematical challenge. How should a drive be organized? In solving such problems W
Ian Anderson, Tony Crilly
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Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)

2018
Born into slavery in Virginia, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the most prominent spokesman for Black Americans at the end of the 19th century. After attending the Hampton Institute, a school established to educate freedmen (freed black slaves), he was named head of the new Tuskegee Institute, a teachers college in Alabama that, like Hampton, would ...
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Booker T. Washington 1856–1915

2009
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on a farm near Hale’s Ford in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Franklin County, Virginia, most likely on April 5, 1856. Washington spent the first eight years of his childhood as a slave. Following emancipation he moved with his mother, brother, and sister to join his stepfather, who had found ...
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Kesterčanek, Fran Žaver (Franjo Xaver), šumarstvenik (1856-1915)

2009
Biobibliografska jedinica o jednom od osnivača suvremenoga šumarstva u nas zaslužnom za uvođenje visokoškolske šumarske nastave u Hrvatskoj i za reorganizaciju šumarske uprave. Članak sadrži 24 literaturne jedinice.
Šikić, Jasna, Prpić, Branimir
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OBITUARY. WILLIAM DYACK, 1856-1915.

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1915
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