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Pickering

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Pickering
1. Edward Charles. 1846--1919, US astronomer, who invented the meridian photometer
2. his brother, William Henry. 1858--1938, US astronomer, who discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn, and predicted (1919) the existence and position of Pluto


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I expect you have heard of the Pickering automobiles?
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
Colonel Timothy Pickering, with thirty or forty militia-men, prevented the English colonel, Leslie, with four times as many regular soldiers, from taking possession of some military stores.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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