Berkeley
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Busby William Berkeley Enos, 1895–1976, U.S. choreographer and musical-film director.
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George, 1685?–1753, Irish bishop and philosopher.
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Sir William, 1610–77, British colonial governor of Virginia 1642–76.
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a city in western California, on San Francisco Bay.
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a city in eastern Missouri, near St. Louis.
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Also Barclay a first name.
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Busby . real name William Berkeley Enos . 1895–1976, US dance director, noted esp for his elaborate choreography in film musicals
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George . 1685–1753, Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop, whose system of subjective idealism was expounded in his works A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713). He also wrote Essay towards a New Theory of Vision (1709)
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Sir Lennox ( Randal Francis ). 1903–89, British composer; his works include four symphonies, four operas, and the Serenade for Strings (1939)
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Berkeley is the location of a distinguished branch of the University of California. The University of California at Berkeley has been a center for student activism and social-change movements, particularly in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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That isn’t surprising, said Lucas Davis, a UC Berkeley energy economist.
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now identified a microorganism that challenges this long accepted rule.
From Science Daily
To account for the mismatch, researchers at MIT and UC Berkeley proposed that Saturn once had an additional moon.
From Science Daily
Disclaimers warning that AI responses “are not professionally vetted or a substitute for medical advice” have all but disappeared from AI platforms, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley.
From Los Angeles Times
His own gardens, located at homes in Connecticut and Berkeley, continue to be places of respite for Pollan, Marzorati says, “an antidote to urban life.”
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