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People

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) ...

(born 1977), fiction writer *

Elliott Blackstone Elliott R. Blackstone (November 30, 1924 – October 25, 2006) was a sergeant in the San Francisco Police Department, known as a longtime advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgender community in that city. Early life Born in Aurora, Illi ...

(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. Harry Bouton Blackstone (born Henry Boughton; September 27, 1885 – November 16, 1965) was a famed stage magician and illusionist of the 20th century. Blackstone was born Harry Bouton in Chicago, Illinois. He began his career as a magician ...

(1885–1965), famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr. *

Harry Blackstone Jr. Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. (June 30, 1934 – May 14, 1997) was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats. Early life Blackstone was born in Three Riv ...

(1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century *

Ian Blackstone Ian Kenneth Blackstone (born 7 August 1964 in Harrogate, England) is an English former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associatio ...

(born 1964), English former footballer *

Jerry Blackstone Jerry Blackstone is a Grammy Award winning American choral conductor. He was the Director of Choirs and Chair of the Conducting Department at the University of Michigan and the Music Director of the University Musical Society Choral Union. Blacks ...

, director of choirs at the University of Michigan *

John Wilford Blackstone Sr. John Wilford Blackstone Sr. (October 18, 1796October 15, 1868) was an American lawyer and Wisconsin pioneer. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory, and served as County Judge of Iowa County, when it was still or ...

(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 Edwin Jack Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular artists during the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show, ''The Eddie Fisher Show''. Actress Eli ...

* Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone (born 1942), British politician *

Timothy Blackstone Timothy Beach Blackstone (March 28, 1829 – May 26, 1900) was an American railroad executive, businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He is descended from William Blaxton, an early settler of New England. He worked in the railroad industr ...

(1829–1900), Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president * Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist **

Blackstone's formulation In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio (also known as Blackstone's formulation) is the idea that: as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work '' Commentaries on the Laws of England'', published in the 1760s. The ...

, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist ** The ''

Commentaries on the Laws of England The ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765–1770. The work is divided into four volume ...

'' by William Blackstone, a 1769 major legal text of the 18th century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's ''Commentaries'' *

William Eugene Blackstone William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 – November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist. He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial of 1891, a petition which called upon America to actively return the Holy Land to the ...

(1841–1935), American evangelist and Christian Zionist * William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881), 19th-century British MP and grandson of William Blackstone the jurist, above * William Blackstone, aka

William Blaxton Reverend William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone) (1595 – 26 May 1675) was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston and Rhode Island. Biography William Blaxton was born in Horncastle, Lincolns ...

(1595–1675), early English settler in New England

Businesses

Blackstone & Co Blackstone & Co. was a farm implement maker at Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. History Company History This business was established in 1837 as Smith & Ashby later known as Rutland Iron Works. Later still it came into the ownership of ...

, a diesel engine and agricultural engineering company in Stamford, Lincolnshire, which became Mirrlees Blackstone * Blackstone Audio, publisher of audiobooks *

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. ...

, online training institute * Blackstone Chambers, a set of barristers' chambers in London *

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 student ...

, legal training and internship program *

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 ...

, a Houston, Texas-based oil and natural gas corporation *

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. Th ...

, a subsidiary of OUP * Blackstone Winery, a Gonzales, California winery owned by Constellation Brands *

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 bu ...

, U.S. private equity, investment banking, and asset management firm *

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 ...

Maine's longest operating LGBTQ bar, and currently Portland's only LGBTQ bar.

Places

Australia

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 ...

, a suburb in the City of Ipswich *Blackstone, Western Australia, known as

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 t ...

Blackstone Heights, Tasmania Blackstone Heights is a rural/residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Meander Valley (97.5%) and West Tamar (2.5%) in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Westbury. The 2016 cens ...

United Kingdom

Blackstone Edge Blackstone Edge ( ) is a gritstone escarpment at 472 m (1,549 feet) above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England. History Crossing the escarpment is Bl ...

, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England * Blackstone, West Sussex, England

United States

Blackstone, Illinois Blackstone is an unincorporated community in section 7 of Sunbury Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States. Blackstone is southeast of Streator and west of Dwight, Illinois. Blackstone has a post office A post office is a publ ...

* Blackstone, Massachusetts * Blackstone, Pennsylvania *

Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island Blackstone is a predominantly residential neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. It is in the northeast corner of the city and is bounded to the south and west by Lloyd Avenue and Hope Street respectively. It is one of six neighborhoods comp ...

, a neighborhood **

Blackstone Boulevard Park Blackstone Boulevard Park is a public park and footpath that runs down the center of Blackstone Boulevard on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. It is located in the Blackstone neighborhood, an affluent and primarily residential part ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island **

Blackstone Park Conservation District The Blackstone Park Conservation District is a public, 45-acre woodland conservation area on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. It is run by the non-profit Blackstone Parks Conservancy in partnership with the Providence Parks Departm ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island **

Blackstone Park Historic District Blackstone Park Historic District is roughly bounded by the Seekonk River, Laurell Avenue, Blackstone Boulevard, and South Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island within the Blackstone region of the East Side. In 1886 Horace Cleveland plan ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island * Blackstone, Virginia **

Blackstone Army Airfield Blackstone Army Airfield , also known as Allen C. Perkinson Airport, is located two miles (3 km) east of the central business district of Blackstone, a town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. It is owned by the United States Army ...

, Virginia *The Blackstone River in Massachusetts and Rhode Island **The Blackstone Valley, a National Heritage Corridor along the Blackstone River ** Blackstone River Bikeway, a planned rail trail **

Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, or BVT for short, is a technical high school in Upton, Massachusetts, serving the thirteen towns of the Blackstone Valley. The school was established in 1964. The school offers eighteen t ...

, Upton, Massachusetts

Canada

Blackstone Lake, Ontario Blackstone Lake, in The Archipelago of the Parry Sound district in Ontario, Canada, is primarily a small, boat-access lake containing nine islands. The lake is approximately three and a half miles long and a little over two miles wide, when the nor ...

Fiction

* ''Blackstone'' (novel), a 1972 novel featuring the character Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th century detective created by "Richard Falkirk" (Derek Lambert); the first of six such novels *

Blackstone Chronicles ''The Blackstone Chronicles'' is a serialized novel by American Horror fiction, horror and suspense author John Saul. The series consists of six installments and takes place in a fictional New Hampshire town called Blackstone. The series has been ...

, a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul *

Blackstone Fortress ''Warhammer 40,000'' is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. The first edition of the rulebook was published in September 1987, ...

, a type of space station in the fictional universe of ''Warhammer 40,000'' * ''Blackstone'' (TV series), the fictional Blackstone First Nation's struggles with corruption, politics, and the need for change *''

Blackstone, the Magic Detective ''Blackstone, the Magic Detective'' was a 15-minute radio series based on Elmer Cecil Stoner's comic book series ''Blackstone, Master Magician''. The program aired Sunday afternoons at 2:45pm on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 3, 194 ...

,'' a radio series starring a fictionalized version of Harry Blackstone, Sr. * The Blackstone, a country club in the TV series '' Royal Pains''

Other

* Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence *

Blackstone Avenue Blackstone Avenue is a major roadway arterial in Fresno, California, United States, running from Stanislaus and O Streets near Downtown to Highway 41 northeastern part of the city. This street is the location of a number of historic structures an ...

, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA *

Blackstone Hall Housing at the University of Chicago includes seven residence halls that are divided into 48 houses. Each house has an average of 70 students. Freshmen and sophomores must live on-campus. Limited on-campus housing is available to juniors and senior ...

, a dormitory at the University of Chicago *

The Blackstone Hotel The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 21-story hotel on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1908 and 1910, it is on the Natio ...

, a Chicago hotel *

Blackstone Hotel (Omaha, Nebraska) The Blackstone Hotel is a historic hotel located at 302 South 36th Street in the Blackstone neighborhood of the Midtown area in Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1915, it was declared an Omaha Landmark in 1983 and listed on the National Register of His ...

, a 1915 Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center * Blackstone Library, Chicago's first public library * Blackstone Memorial, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone *Blackstone, a codename for

ColdFusion Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995. (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CF ...

7.0 - beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia *Blackstone, in reference to the

Black P. Stones The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation often abbreviated as (BPS, BPSN, Black Peace Stones, Black P. Stones, Stones, or Moes) is an American street gang founded in Chicago. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as the Blackstone Rangers. ...

gang *HTC BlackStone, a Windows Mobile phone also known as the

HTC Touch HD The HTC Touch HD, also known as the HTC T828X or its codename the HTC Blackstone, is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC launched in 2008. Part of the HTC Touch Family, it features a larger, higher-resolution displa ...

* Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II