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Blackstone may refer to: People * Charles Blackstone (born 1977), fiction writer * Elliott Blackstone (1924–2006), former police sergeant and LGBT advocate * Gay Blackstone (born 1952), widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr. * Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), American painter * Harry Blackstone Sr. (1885–1965), famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr. * Harry Blackstone Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century * Ian Blackstone (born 1964), English former footballer * Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan * John Wilford Blackstone Sr. (1796–1868), American lawyer and legislator * John Wilford Blackstone Jr. (1835–1911), American lawyer and legislator * Milton Blackstone (1906–1983), publicity agent for Eddie Fisher * Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone (born 1942), British politician * Timothy Blackstone (1829–1900), Chicago Railroad and St ...
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Charles Blackstone
Charles Blackstone (born March 21, 1977)Kevin Frazier"Wine and Bellow: An Interview with Charles Blackstone," Open Letters Monthly, Fall 2013. is an American writer. His most recent novel is the semi-autobiographical ''Vintage Attraction'' (2013). Early life Blackstone was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Illinois at ChicagoKelli Christiansen"We'll Drink to That,"Chicago Book Review, October 11, 2013. and earned a master's degree from the University of Colorado creative writing program in 2003, where he received the Barker Award for Fiction in 2001."Vintage Attraction with Charles Blackstone,"
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William Seymour Blackstone
William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881) was an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was the son of James Blackstone, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and grandson of the legal writer William Blackstone (1723–1780). Elected Conservative MP for Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England in 1832, he served until 1852, when the constituency refused to re-adopt him. He defended the Corn Laws, and was one of the rebels who opposed Robert Peel over Free Trade in 1846, causing the fall of the government. Like his grandfather, he was staunchly anti-Roman Catholic. He lived at Castle Priory, Wallingford, built for his grandfather, but decided to build a still-grander house, Howbery Park, across the Thames in Crowmarsh Gifford. However, he fell into debt, largely because of the costs of building this new home, and spent time in the debtors' prison at Oxford. His debt problems also contributed to the end of his political career. He died in Brighton, never having lived at ...
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Papulankutja
Papulankutja (also referred to as Blackstone) is a large Aboriginal community located in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku. History The community exists on the traditional lands of the Ngaanyatjarra people, many of whom were transported in the 1960s to Warburton mission. In the 1970s, Ngaanyatjarra people returned to the region from Warburton mission. Since this time the community has steadily grown in size and population. Native title The community is located within the determined Ngaanyatjarra Lands (Part A) (WAD6004/04) native title claim area, determined on 26 June 2005. Town planning Papulankutla Layout Plan No. 2 was endorsed in March 2013, with five amendments up to April 2018.
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Blackstone, Queensland
Blackstone is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Blackstone had a population of 1,024 people. History The district was originally called Bundamba Creek but this caused confusion with nearby Bundamba, so the postmistress Mrs Orr proposed the name Blackstone, believed to be a place in Ireland. The area is renowned for its mining history and in 1866 Welshman Lewis Thomas established one of the first mines in the area. Blackstone has a rich Welsh history with Lewis Thomas having populated the community with Welsh miners and their families, who in turn established their own Cambrian choir and church in 1886, a School of Arts in 1891, a Soccer club in 1890, and public school in 1887. After switching to mining at Dinmore in 1870, Thomas returned to open his first Aberdare Mine in 1876 and prospered thereafter. In 1881 the government granted him permission to build a private railway which developed by 1903 into a loop line connecting the mines ...
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Blackstones Bar
Blackstones Bar is a bar located on Pine St off Longfellow Square in the West End (Portland, Maine) neighborhood of Portland, Maine. From its establishment in 1987, the bar served as a popular gathering place for members of the LGBTQ ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is a ... community. When established in 1987, Blackstones' facade featured seven floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows. These windows suffered consistent vandalism through 1991, when staff boarded them over. In 2019, the plywood sheaths were removed and new windows installed. The event was heralded as a significant milestone for the city of Portland and the local LGBTQ movement, with the story reported in several national newspapers, and featured in several national LGBTQ publications. References {{reflist ...
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Blackstone Inc
Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. Blackstone's private equity business has been one of the largest investors in leveraged buyouts in the last three decades, while its real estate business has actively acquired commercial real estate. Blackstone is also active in credit, infrastructure, hedge fund solutions, insurance solutions, secondaries and growth equity. As of Q3 2022, the company's total assets under management were approximately US$951 billion, making it the largest alternative investment firm globally. Blackstone was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman Brothers. History Founding and early history Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with $400,000 in seed capital. The founders named their firm "Blackstone," using a cryptogram derived from the names of the ...
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Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is an American producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits. Constellation is the largest beer import company in the US, measured by sales, and has the third-largest market share (7.4 percent) of all major beer suppliers. It also has investments in medical and recreational cannabis. Based in Victor, New York, Constellation has about 40 facilities and approximately 9,000 employees. The company has more than 100 brands in its portfolio. Wine brands include Robert Mondavi, Kim Crawford, Meiomi, Simi Winery, Ruffino, and The Prisoner Wine Company. Constellation's beer portfolio includes imported brands such as Corona, Modelo Especial, Negra Modelo, and Pacífico, as well as American craft beer producer Funky Buddha. Spirits brands include Svedka Vodka, Casa Noble Tequila and High West Whiskey, Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey. History Early days The company was established in 1945 by Marvin Sands in the Finger Lakes r ...
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Blackstone Press
Blackstone Press Limited is a legal publisher that is a subsidiary of Oxford University Press. It was established in March 1988 by Alistair McQueen. Its management was formerly that of Financial Training Publications, whose law list it purchased. The list included "everyday" reference works, and works that were "essential reading" for examinations of the Law Society and Bar and which had been used for that purpose for seven years. The books published by Blackstone Press were updated and revised frequently. In 2000, Blackstone Press had a revenue of £5 million and a net income of £758k. Its backlist contained over four hundred books at the time Oxford University Press purchased it from BPP, PLC, in 2001.Company Overview of Blackstone Press Ltd




Black Stone Minerals
Black Stone Minerals, L.P., or Black Stone Minerals, is a Houston, Texas-based oil and natural gas corporation. History The company was founded as W.T. Carter & Bro., a lumber company, in 1876. The company discovered the Double A Wells Field in East Texas in 1985. It began drilling oil in the late 1980s. By 1992, it acquired the land rights of the Kirby Lumber Company, founded by John Henry Kirby. Four years later, in 1996, it divested from its holdings in the Double A Wells Field. According to ''Bloomberg Business'', by 2014 it owned millions of acres of interests in the "Bakken/Three Forks plays, Eagle Ford Shale, Wolfcamp play, Haynesville/Bossier plays, Granite Wash play, and Fayetteville Shale, as well as in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale and the Canyon Lime play located in 41 states and in 62 onshore basins in the continental United States." It has been traded on the NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations St ...
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Blackstone Legal Fellowship
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is an American legal training and summer internship program for Christian law students, developed and facilitated by the Evangelical Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 1,900 law students have participated in the program. Its main campus is in Scottsdale, Arizona. Among its faculty are Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. ADF co-founder and president Alan Sears said that the program's goal was to put Christian lawyers into "positions of influence, thereby impacting the legal culture and keeping the door open for the Gospel." Overview Blackstone Legal Fellowship was founded in 2000 with a class of 24 interns. In 2012, when Sears was asked about the major achievements of ADF, he said "among the things I am most thankful for are our Blackstone Legal Fellowship graduates." The program is named for Sir William Blackstone, the eighteenth century English legal scholar ...
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Blackstone Chambers
Blackstone Chambers is a set of barristers' chambers in the Temple district of central London. Established in the 1950s, as of 2022 it had 119 tenants, of whom more than 50 are silks. Current notable members include Robert Anderson, Michael Beloff, Michael Bloch, Sir James Eadie (current First Treasury Counsel), Sir David Edward, Dinah Rose, Lord Keen of Elie, Harish Salve, Lord Pannick, Lord Woolf, Adrian Briggs, Tom Hickman, Sir Jeffrey Jowell. Former notable set members include Sir Ian Brownlie, Lord Lester of Herne Hill, and Guy Goodwin-Gill Guy Serle Goodwin-Gill (born 25 December 1946) is a barrister and a professor of public international law at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research areas include international organisations, human rights, migrant .... Members of chambers specialise in public and administrative law and include some of the leading advocates in that field. human rights, commercial & international law. Their barriste ...
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Blackstone Career Institute
The Blackstone Career Institute, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and founded in 1890, offers distance education programs and home study programs, specializing in courses students can use to study at home or take online to advance their careers. Training includes courses that prepare a student for a career as a paralegal/legal Assistant, pharmacy technician, medical transcription, medical billing and coding, medical office assistant, dental office assistant, physical therapy aide, veterinary assistant and child care provider. The Institute was preceded by the Blackstone College of Law (or Blackstone School of Law), an unaccredited correspondence law school in operation until the 1970s. In 1948, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Blackstone to cease misrepresenting its qualifications as a law school, and characterized the institution as a "diploma mill". History In 1890, students with a desire to study law were confronted with many difficulties. Most textbooks were written i ...
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