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Jacques Joseph Ducarne de Blangy. Jacques Joseph Ducarne de Blangy (December 11, 1728 – April 18, 1808) was a French agronomist and inventor. Although known for his beekeeping activity, he's better known as an inventor of the rescue bomb [1] [2] at the end of 18th century. Over the English Channel British Army Sergeant (later Lieutenant) John ...
George William Manby. Captain George William Manby FRS (28 November 1765 – 18 November 1854) was an English author and inventor. He designed an apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks and also the "Pelican Gun", the first modern form of fire extinguisher .
Flag of the State of New York. As of 2008 there were 514 law enforcement agencies in New York State employing 66,472 police officers, some agencies employ peace / special officers (about 341 for each 100,000 residents) according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
April 23, 1980. The Charles Street Jail (built 1851), also known as the Suffolk County Jail, is an infamous former jail (later renovated into a luxury hotel) located at 215 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It is listed in the state and national Registers of Historic Places. The Liberty Hotel, as it is now known, has retained much of its ...
West Suffolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Nick Timothy, a Conservative. [n 2] Between 1832 and 1885 there had also been a constituency, the Western Division of Suffolk , also known as West Suffolk, although on different boundaries.
The List of Long Island law enforcement agencies provides an inclusive list of law enforcement agencies serving New York's Long Island.This includes those agencies serving the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens on the western portion of Long Island along with those serving the suburban counties of Nassau County and Suffolk County.
Suffolk Coastal (sometimes known as Coastal Suffolk) is a parliamentary constituency in the county of Suffolk, England, which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, a Labour Party Member of Parliament.
Royal Humane Society. A man recuperating from near-drowning at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, 18th century. The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention. It was founded in England in 1774 as the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, [1] for the purpose of rendering first ...