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Hace 2 días · Bosman and Kolben's descriptions went largely unnoticed until 1771, when the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant used the descriptions and his personal experience with a captive specimen as a basis for consistently differentiating the spotted hyena from the striped in his Synopsis of Quadrupeds.
16 de may. de 2024 · This material presents an account of China by naturalist and traveller Thomas Pennant (1726–98). The work forms part of Pennant's multivolume manuscript 'Outlines of the Globe', kept at the National Maritime Museum.
Hace 4 días · Until the end of the eighteenth century the discussion was carried on by the etymologists, but in 1791 Thomas Pennant, the topographer, opined that 'Where Sackville-street was afterwards built, stood Piccadilla-hall, where Piccadillas or Turnovers were sold, which gave name to that vast street, called from that circumstance ...
13 de may. de 2024 · Pennants are short, 3 weeks long or less. Patterns longer than that are symmetrical triangles, rising or falling wedges. Flagpole. The flagpole which leads to the pennant should be unusually steep and last several days. Volume trend. Downward trend 86% of the time. Breakout. Upward 57% of the time. More.
12 de may. de 2024 · The collection includes the papers of Thomas Pennant, the 18 th century naturalist. It is an archive of international importance and Monica’s catalogue opened it up to research. Catalogues need indexes, so she produced one for the Feilding and Pennant papers, over 12,000 cards, and set about creating a subject index to the whole of ...
13 de may. de 2024 · The antiquarian Thomas Pennant believed that a statue of Whittington with his cat was installed in a niche in Newgate in 1412, by the executors of Whittington's estate, but that it was damaged in The Great Fire of 1666 and replaced.
25 de may. de 2024 · The earliest evidence for the name 'Peeping Tom' occurs in the city annals under the year 1773 and Thomas Pennant, writing in 1782, calls him a tailor. Thomas Seward, Canon of Lichfield (d. 1790), describes the peeper as 'one Actaeon, a groom of the countess', whose horse, recognising the groom, neighed.
