Harrington (or Harington) may refer to:
People as a surname
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Harrington (surname) Harrington (or Harington) is an English habitational name from places in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire. It is also a common surname in south west Ireland and adopted as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic surnames Ó hArrachtáin and Ó h ...
People as a forename
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Arthur Raikes
Arthur Edward Harington Raikes (5 February 1867 – 3 March 1915) was a British army officer who served as acting prime minister, vizier and first minister to numerous Sultans of Zanzibar. Serving in the Wiltshire Regiment Raikes took up a p ...
(Arthur Edward Harington Raikes, 1867–1915), British army officer
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Charles Harrington Elster
Charles Harrington Elster (born 1957, New York City) is an American writer, broadcaster, and logophile. In 1998, he cofounded and cohosted the weekly public radio show ''A Way with Words
''A Way with Words'' is an American weekly public radio ...
, American writer
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Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890–1941) was a U.S. writer, poet, editor and anthologist.
As Edward J. O'Brien, he created a series of annual anthologies containing his selection of the previous year's best short stories by U.S. authors, ...
(1890–1941), American author
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Francis Harrington Glidden
Francis Harrington Glidden (1832–1922) was an American businessman best known for founding the company now known as the Glidden Company, which became a subsidiary of Akzo Nobel NV before that company sold the Glidden business to PPG Industries, ...
(1832–1922), American businessman
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Bantu Holomisa
Bantubonke Harrington Holomisa (born 25 July 1955) is a South African Member of Parliament and President of the United Democratic Movement.
Holomisa was born in Mqanduli, Cape Province. He joined the Transkei Defence Force in 1976 and had beco ...
(Bantubonke Harrington Holomisa, born 1955), leader of the United Democratic Movement in South Africa
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Harrington Lees
Harrington Clare Lees (17 March 187010 January 1929) was the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne from 1921 until his death.
Family
Lees was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom, the eldest son of William Lees, a cotton farmer and Ju ...
(1870–1929), Australian archbishop
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Darnell Autry
Harrington Darnell Autry (born June 19, 1976) is a former American football player who played college football at Northwestern University. In his sophomore season, he helped lead the 1995 Northwestern Wildcats football team, 1995 Northwestern W ...
(born 1976), American football player
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Harrington Evans Broad
Harrington Evans Broad (1844 – 8 December 1927) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895.
Broad was born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He was a Chartered Accountant of Warlingham, Surrey. In 1892, on th ...
(1844–1927), English politician
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Harrington Hext
Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, India, was educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for ten years before studying for the stage a ...
, pseudonym of English author Eden Phillpots
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Hulbert Harrington Warner
Hulbert Harrington Warner (1842–1923) was a Rochester, New York businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune from the sales of patent medicine.
Biography
He was born near Syracuse, New York, in a small settlement called Warners. Warne ...
(1842–1923), American businessman
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Ivo Whitton
Ivo Harrington Whitton (9 December 1893 – 2 July 1967) was an Australian amateur golfer, who, along with Greg Norman, is the only Australian to have won the Australian Open five times (1912, 1913, 1926, 1929 and 1931).
Whitton was born i ...
(Ivo Harrington Whitton, 1893–1967), Australian golfer
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John Harington Gubbins
John Harington Gubbins (24 January 1852 – 23 February 1929) was a British linguist, consular official and diplomat. He was the father of Sir Colin McVean Gubbins.
Education
Gubbins attended Harrow School and would have gone on to Cambridge Un ...
(1852–1929), British linguist
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John Harrington Stevens
John Harrington Stevens (June 13, 1820 – May 28, 1900) was the first authorized colonial resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was granted permission to occupy the site, then part ...
, American senator
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Jonathan H. Green
Jonathan Harrington Green (1813–1887) was an American gambler, inventor, writer and later reformer in New York City during the early-to mid 19th century. In his youth, he was known as one of the most skilled card players in the United State ...
(Jonathan Harrington Green, 1813–1887), American gambler and inventor
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Louis Harrington Lewry
Louis Harrington "Scoop" Lewry, (April 16, 1919 – February 25, 1992) was a Canadian politician and reporter.
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he was elected as an alderman on the Moose Jaw City Council in 1948. Lewry later became mayor o ...
, Canadian politician
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Paul Hewitt
Paul Harrington Hewitt (born May 4, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and George Mason University. He grew up in Westbury, New York. In 2021, he was named ...
(Paul Harrington Hewitt, born 1963), American basketball coach
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Virginia Knauer
Virginia Harrington Knauer (née Wright; March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American Republican politician. She served as the Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs and Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affair ...
(Virginia Harrington Knauer, 1915–2011), American politician
Places
Australia
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Harrington, New South Wales
Harrington is a small village located on the northern entrance of the Manning River in New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1853 and proclaimed a village on 26 September 1896. It is 15 km north-east of Taree on the Mid North C ...
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Harrington Park, New South Wales
Harrington Park is a suburb of the Macarthur Region of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia in Camden Council. Once a grand estate, owned by the Fairfax family, it has recently been developed as a residential suburb. Harrington P ...
Bermuda
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Harrington Sound
Harrington Sound is a large inland body of water in the northeast of the main island of Bermuda. It is surrounded by the main island on all sides, only appearing open to the ocean via a small channel called Flatt's Inlet in the southwest. Much o ...
Canada
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Harrington, Ontario
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Harrington, Quebec
Harrington is a township municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality. It is located in the Laurentian Mountains, about north-west of Lachute.
Its population centres include Harrin ...
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Harrington Harbour, Quebec
Harrington Harbour is an unconstituted locality within the municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.
History
Harrington Harbour was founded near the end of the 19th century by fishermen from ...
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Harrington Lake
Harrington Lake (french: La résidence du lac Mousseau) is the summer residence and all-season retreat of the prime minister of Canada, and also the name of the land which surrounds it. The farm that surrounded most of the lake was the property o ...
New Zealand
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Harington Point
The settlement of Harington Point (often incorrectly spelt ''Harrington Point'') lies within the boundaries of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. It is located at the Otago Heads, at the northeastern end of Otago Peninsula, close to the entrance ...
United Kingdom
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Harrington, Cumbria
Harrington is a village and former civil parish on the Cumbrian coast south of Workington and north of Whitehaven in England. Historically part of Cumberland, its industrial history, which largely ended in the late 1930s, included a shipbuilders ...
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Harrington, Lincolnshire
Harrington is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-west from Alford, and north-west from Spilsby.
History
Harrington is not listed in ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. In the 14th c ...
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Harrington, Northamptonshire
Harrington is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, administered by North Northamptonshire council. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 154 people, including Thorpe Underwood but reducing to 146 at t ...
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Harrington Bridge
Harrington Bridge crosses the River Trent near Sawley in Derbyshire carrying the ''Tamworth Road'' ( B6540) into Leicestershire. The stonework of the bridge dates from 1790, but the central section was replaced in 1905 after it was damaged by f ...
, crosses the River Trent between Derbyshire and Leicestershire
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Harrington Dock
Harrington Dock was a dock on the River Mersey and part of the Port of Liverpool. Situated in the southern dock system, it was connected to Toxteth Dock to the north and Herculaneum Dock to the south.
History
The first dock on the site was kno ...
, Liverpool
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Harrington Road tram stop
Harrington Road tram stop is a light rail stop in South Norwood in the London Borough of Croydon in the southern suburbs of London. Harrington Road is in a residential area, and along with Woodside tram stop is the nearest tram stop to the town ...
, South Norwood, London
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RAF Harrington
Royal Air Force Station Harrington or more simply RAF Harrington is a former Royal Air Force station in England about west of Kettering in Northamptonshire south of the village of Harrington off the A14 road. During the early Cold War, it wa ...
, Northamptonshire
United States
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Harrington, California
Harrington is an unincorporated community in Colusa County, California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents ...
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Harrington, Delaware
Harrington is a city in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Harrington hosts the annual Delaware State Fair each July. The population was 3,562 at the 2010 census.
History
Har ...
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Harrington, Maine
Harrington is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 962 at the 2020 census. Harrington is an old seafaring and shipbuilding village.
History
Originally called Plantation Number 5, it was one of six townships eas ...
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Harrington (Princess Anne, Maryland)
Harrington is a historic home located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, mid-18th century, frame farm house approximately . It is one of the very few existing two-story frame 18th century farm houses ...
, listed on the NRHP in Maryland
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Harrington, South Dakota
Harrington is an unincorporated community in Bennett County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
History
Harrington was laid out in 1924. A post office was established at Harrington in 1924, and remained in operation until 1976.
Education
The Ben ...
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Harrington, Virginia
Harrington is an unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North Am ...
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Harrington, Washington
Harrington is a city in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 424 at the 2010 census. It was named after W.P. Harrington, a banker from Colusa, California, who had heavily invested in local land.Phillips, James W. ''Washi ...
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Harrington Bay
Harrington Bay is a bay in Washington County, Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provi ...
, Maine
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Harrington Beach State Park
Harrington Beach State Park is a Wisconsin state park on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Town of Belgium. In addition to a mile-long beach, the park contains a white cedar swamp surrounding a lake that used to be a stone quarry. The park pro ...
, Wisconsin
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Harrington Creek Harrington Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek.Harrington House (Weston, Massachusetts)
The Harrington House is a historic First Period house in Weston, Massachusetts, USA. With its oldest portion dating to about 1710, it is one of the town's oldest surviving buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
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Lake Harrington
Lake Harrington is a lake in McLeod County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.7 ...
, a lake in Minnesota
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Harrington Meeting House
The Harrington Meeting House is a historic colonial meeting house at 278 Harrington Road in Bristol, Maine. Built in 1772 and moved to its present site in 1775, it is one of the town's original three meeting houses. It contains a small museum ...
, Maine
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Harrington Park, New Jersey
Harrington Park is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 4,664,[Camp Don Harrington
The Golden Spread Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America and serves youth in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Its service area includes all or part of 23 counties in Texas and three counties in Oklahoma. Through 2010, the c ...]
, Texas
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Don Harrington Discovery Center
Don Harrington Discovery Center is a nonprofit interactive science center and planetarium in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. The Discovery Center is located in the city's hospital district and is named after philanthropist Don Harrington.
Located in fron ...
, Amarillo, Texas
Characters
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Allison Chou Harrington
This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the stories set in the Honor Harrington universe or Honorverse, a best-selling series of over twenty military science fiction novels and anthologies invented and written by David Weber.
The stori ...
, fictional character in David Weber's Honorverse
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Brandy Harrington
''Brandy & Mr. Whiskers'' is an American animated television series created by sitcom writer Russell Marcus for the Disney Channel. It follows the lives of the titular characters—respectively, a pampered-yet-spunky dog and a hyperactive rabbit†...
, animated dog
*Catherine Harrington, fictional character in TV drama ''
Peyton Place''
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Derby Harrington
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gain ...
, fictional character from the video game
''Bully''
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Eve Harrington
''All About Eve'' is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although Orr does not receive a screen credi ...
, lead character in the film ''All about Eve''
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Faith Harrington
The characters from the American drama television series ''Lost'' were created by Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet from the fic ...
, character in ''Lost'' TV series
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Honor Harrington
The Honorverse is a military science fiction book series, its two Spin-off (media), subseries, two prequel series, and anthologies created by David Weber and published by Baen Books. They are centered on the space navy career of the principal ...
, fictional character in David Weber's Honorverse
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Leslie Harrington
Leslie Harrington is a fictional character in the novel and movie '' Peyton Place'' as well as the television series of the same name. In the movie, Leslie was played by actor Leon Ames. Paul Langton played the role in the television series.
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, fictional character in TV drama ''Peyton Place''
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Rodney Harrington
Rodney "Rod" Harrington is a fictional character in the 1956 Grace Metalious novel '' Peyton Place'', the 1957 film adaptation, and the 1960s television adaptation '' Peyton Place''. He was portrayed by Barry Coe in the film, and by Ryan O'Neal i ...
, fictional character in TV drama ''Peyton Place''
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Stephanie Harrington
''D.P. 7'' was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics as part of its New Universe imprint. It ran for 32 issues and an ''Annual'' (January 1987), which were published from 1986 to 1989.
The title stands for Displaced Paranormals and re ...
, fictional superhero
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Steve Harrington
Steve Harrington is a character from the Netflix television show ''Stranger Things'', portrayed by Joe Keery. While starting out as a typical unlikable jock, Steve has grown into a more protecting and caring character as the show has progres ...
, fictional character from the Netflix series ''Stranger Things''
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Evan Harrington
''Evan Harrington'' is an 1861 novel by George Meredith, a glowing comedy of Victorian presumptions.
Setting and plot
The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and concerns the social cli ...
'', a novel by George Meredith
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''Harrington'' (novel), an 1817 novel by Maria Edgeworth
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Harrington–Hollingsworth experiment
The Harrington–Hollingsworth experiment was an experiment that established the autoimmune nature of the blood disorder immune thrombocytopenic purpura. It was performed in 1950 by the academic staff of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missour ...
, in hematology
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Harrington & Richardson
H&R 1871, LLC, or more commonly known as Harrington & Richardson, is an American brand of firearms and a subsidiary of JJE Capital Holdings. H&R ceased production February 27, 2015.
History
The original H&R firm was in business for over a cent ...
, an American brand of firearms
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Harington baronets
The Harington Baronetcy, of Ridlington in the county of Rutland, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 June 1611 for James Harington. He was a descendant of John Harington, one of the Barons summoned to Parliament by Edwa ...
, an English title
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Harrington College of Design
Harrington College of Design (1931–2015) was a For-profit higher education in the United States, for-profit college in the Chicago Loop, Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, USA, that closed in 2015. It offered students programs leading to either a M ...
, Chicago
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Harrington College Icebergs
The Harrington College Icebergs are an independent junior hockey, Junior A ice hockey team for players ages 15–20. The team is affiliated with Harrington College of Canada. The Icebergs are members of the America East Hockey League. The team pla ...
, a Canadian ice hockey team
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Harrington (typeface)
Harrington (or Harington) may refer to:
People as a surname
*Harrington (surname)
People as a forename
*Arthur Raikes (Arthur Edward Harington Raikes, 1867–1915), British army officer
*Charles Harrington Elster, American writer
*Edward Joseph ...
, a
typeface included with Microsoft Windows
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Harrington rod
The Harrington rod (or Harrington implant) is a stainless steel
Stainless steel is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. It contains at least 11% chromium and may contain elements such as carbon, other nonmetals and me ...
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Harrington jacket
A Harrington jacket (originally known only as a Baracuta jacket or a G9) is a lightweight, waist-length jacket made of cotton, polyester, wool or suede. Designs often incorporate traditional Fraser tartan or checkerboard-patterned lining.
His ...
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Harrington Park Press
Harrington Park Press (HPP) is an academic/scholarly book publisher based in New York City, specializing in LGBTQ topics such as diversity, inclusivity, and equality.
Originally an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc. (now part of the Routledge/T ...
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Harrington's gerbil
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Harrington's rat
Harrington's rat (''Desmomys harringtoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
It is found only in Ethiopia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland
Shrubla ...
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Harrington-Wilson 1
Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo. At about 820,000 light-years distant, it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is thought to be one of the most distant satellites of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered i ...
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SS ''D. W. Harrington'', a U.S. WWII Cargo ship
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Thomas Harrington & Sons
Thomas Harrington & Sons was a coachbuilder in the county of Sussex from 1897 until 1966, initially at Brighton but from 1930 until the end in a purpose built Art Deco factory (an image of which was used on the builder's transfers) in Old Shor ...
, a British coachbuilding business
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Harrington Legionnaire
The Harrington Legionnaire is an passenger coach body built by Thomas Harrington Ltd in Hove, Sussex between 1963 and 1965. It was built on three-axle Bedford VAL, two-axle Ford Thames 676E, and two specials on Guy Victory tram bus chassi ...
, a coach body built by Thomas Harrington Ltd
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52P/Harrington–Abell, a comet
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3216 Harrington
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
, an asteroid
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