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Blackstone refers to various people, places and concepts.
Blackstone Library
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Building information
Location 4904 South Lake Park Avenue
Chicago, IL, Illinois
Country United States
Architect Solon S.
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People
- Charles Blackstone, an American author
- Elliott Blackstone, once sergeant of the San Francisco Police Department and advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered community in that city
- Gay Blackstone, widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr
- Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a 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, an English former footballer
- Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan
- Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
- Timothy Blackstone, Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president
- William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist
- Blackstone's formulation, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist
- The Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, a major legal text of the seventeenth century often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's Commentaries"
- William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
- William Eugene Blackstone, an American evangelist and Christian Zionist
- William Seymour Blackstone, an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1800s
Geography
- Blackstone, Queensland, Australia
- Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States
- Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, a neighborhood
- Blackstone, Virginia, United States
- Blackstone Heights, Tasmania
- Blackstone Valley, a river valley, and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States
Fiction
- Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th Century detective created by Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert)
- Blackstone Chronicles (novel series), a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul
- Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000
- Blackstone (Greyhawk), a fictional mining town in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
Other
Blackstone may also refer to:- Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence,
- Blackstone Avenue, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA
- Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England
- Blackstone Group, a private equity firm
- Blackstone Library, Chicago's 1st Public Library
- Blackstone Hotel, a famous Chicago Hotel
- Blackstone Hotel (Omaha), an Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center
- Blackstone Memorial, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone
- Blackstone Valley Rail
- Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - Beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia
- Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones
- Blackstone Society, the Law Students’ Society at the University of Western Australia
- Blackstone, the Magic Detective, a radio series which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1940s
- Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, Allied landings in Africa during World War II
See also
- Blackstone Lake, Ontario
- Blackstone River (disambiguation)
- Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School
Charles Blackstone (born 1977) is an American author. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder creative writing program, where he won the Barker Award for Fiction in 2001, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Sergeant Elliott R. Blackstone (November 30, 1924 - October 25, 2006) of the San Francisco Police Department was a longtime advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered community in that city.
Born in Chinook, Montana, Blackstone served in the U.S.
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Born in Chinook, Montana, Blackstone served in the U.S.
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Gay Blackstone is the widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr. She was her husband's co-star and chief onstage assistant throughout his career.
She is currently (2006) a producer/director and is serving as President of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California.
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She is currently (2006) a producer/director and is serving as President of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California.
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Harry Blackstone (September 27, 1885 - November 16, 1965) was a famed magician. Blackstone was born Harry Boughton, and was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He began his career as a magician in his teens and was popular through World War II as a USO entertainer.
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Harry Blackstone, Jr. (June 30 1934 – May 14 1997) was an American stage magician, author, and television performer.
He received the Magician of the Year Award in 1979 and 1985.
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He received the Magician of the Year Award in 1979 and 1985.
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Full name Ian Kenneth Blackstone
Date of birth July 7 1964
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Date of birth July 7 1964
Place of birth
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Jerry Blackstone is a Grammy Award winning American choral conductor. He is 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.
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Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC (born 27 September 1942 in Bures, Suffolk) is a British politician and university administrator. Blackstone was educated at Ware Grammar School for Girls and the London School of Economics, where she ultimately gained a doctorate.
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Timothy Beach Blackstone (March 28, 1829 – May 26, 1900) served as president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad from 1864 through 1899. He was also a one-term mayor of La Salle, Illinois, and a founding president of the Union Stock Yards.
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Sir William Blackstone (originally pronounced Blexstun) (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise on the common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England
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In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle: "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".
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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, 1765-1769.
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Reverend William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone) (1595-1675) was an early British settler in New England, and the first European settler of modern day Boston and Rhode Island.
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Dr. William Eugene Blackstone (October 6 1841 – November 7 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist influenced by Dwight Lyman Moody, and author of the Zionist Blackstone Memorial of 1891.
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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).
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He was the son of James Blackstone, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and grandson of the legal writer William Blackstone (1723-1780).
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Blackstone, Massachusetts
Location in Worcester County in Massachusetts
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Worcester
Settled 1662
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Location in Worcester County in Massachusetts
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Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Worcester
Settled 1662
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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 comprising the East Side of Providence.
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Blackstone, Virginia
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Location of Blackstone, Virginia
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State Virginia
County Nottoway
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Blackstone Heights
Launceston, Tasmania
Population: 1,295 (2006 census)
Postcode: 7250
Location: 14 km from Launceston
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Launceston, Tasmania
Population: 1,295 (2006 census)
Postcode: 7250
Location: 14 km from Launceston
LGA:
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Blackstone Valley or Blackstone River Valley is a region of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It is the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution.
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Blackstone River
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Derek Lambert (10 October 1929 – 2001)[1] was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk,[2] and a journalist.
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Blackstone Chronicles is a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul. The series consists of six novels and takes place in a small New Hampshire town called Blackstone.
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Blackstone Fortresses were originally created as weapons in the first war against the C'tan, and were known to the ancient Eldar as the Talismans of Vaul. To capitalise on the C'tan's vulnerability to warp attacks the Fortresses were equipped with a warp-cannon that could create a
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Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game (D&D).[1][2]
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Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the time of Adam and Eve.
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Blackstone Avenue is a major roadway arterial in Fresno, California, USA. This street is the location of a number of historic structures[1] and is also the locus of a considerable concentration of retail commercial land usage.
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Blackstone Edge is an area of moorland at 472 metres (1323 ft) high, along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary, England.
It is a spot often visited by walkers and amateur mountain climbers.
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It is a spot often visited by walkers and amateur mountain climbers.
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Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX ) is a prominent private equity and investment management firm founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. The company is based in New York City, in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, with offices in Atlanta,
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Front of Blackstone Library
Building information
Location 4904 South Lake Park Avenue
Chicago, IL, Illinois
Country United States
Architect Solon S.
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Location: Chicago, IL
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Built/Founded: 1909
Architect: Benjamin Marshall
Architectural style(s): Second Empire, Beaux-Arts
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Built/Founded: 1909
Architect: Benjamin Marshall
Architectural style(s): Second Empire, Beaux-Arts
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