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John Mackenzie Bacon
Reverend John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (19 June 1846 – 26 December 1904) was an English people, English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer. Background John was the son of John Bacon, the Vicar of Woodlands St Mary in Berkshire, and grandson of John Bacon (sculptor, born 1777), John Bacon, the sculptor. Studies He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1888. Bacon and John Nevil Maskelyne filed a patent for inflating balloons. He died in Cold Ash in Berkshire. Eclipses Both John and his daughter Gertrude Bacon, Gertrude were members of the British Astronomical Association. The BAA organised expeditions to observe total solar eclipses, which John and Gertrude went on. The first was to Vadsø, Vadso, Lapland (eclipse date Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896, 9 August 1896), which was unsuccessful due to cloudy weather. The second was to Buxar, India (eclipse date Solar eclipse of January 22, 1898, 22 January 1898). Here they succeeded in filming the eclipse, but unfort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
