Berkeley

Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley Castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened "HMS Berkeley Castle". Any of the holders of several titles in the British Peerage may be known as Lord Berkeley, including Baron Berkeley. There are also the Berkeley Baronets. The former Berkeley House, London, has given its name to Berkeley Square, London, which inspir ...

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Berkeley: Encyclopedia - Berkeley Gloucestershire Berkeley is a town between the south bank of the River Severn and the M5 motorway in Gloucestershire, UK, at grid reference ST685992. The town is located mid-way between Bristol and Gloucester and is built on a small hill in the Vale of Berkeley. The town is noted for Berkeley Castle where the imprisoned Edward II was murdered. Berkeley was the birthplace of Edward Jenner, the originator of vaccination. After studying medicine in London he returned home to work as the local doctor, and in 1796 performed a pioneering experiment ...

Berkeley: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Places

Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the flagship campus of the University of California, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Hall of Science, Space Sciences Laboratory, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, which are on the campus grounds. Another well-known educational institution in Berkeley is the Graduate Theological Union. Other notable places include: The Campanile belltower (Sather Tower) in the University of California, Berkeley campus. Telegraph Ave ...

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Berkeley: Encyclopedia - University of California Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. It is ...

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Berkeley: Encyclopedia - Berkeley Pit

The Berkeley Pit is a gigantic former open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, and is the largest Superfund site. It was opened in 1955 and operated by the Anaconda Mining Company and later by ARCO the Atlantic Richfield Company, until its closure in 1982. When the pit was closed, the water pumps at the bottom were also turned off, which caused groundwater from the surrounding basin to leak into the pit. The water seeped through metal deposits, causing it to become heavily acidic and laden with heavy metals and dangerous chemic ...

Berkeley: Encyclopedia - Berkeley Software Distribution

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley starting in the 1970s. The name is also used collectively for the modern descendants of these distributions. BSD was widely identified with the versions of Unix available for workstation-class systems. This can be attributed to the ease with which it could be licensed and the familiarity it found among the founders of many technology companies during the 1980s. This fami ...

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Berkeley: Encyclopedia - Berkeley Breathed

Berkeley ("Berke") Breathed (last name rhymes with "method") (born June 21, 1957) is a cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues, as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies. Berkeley Breathed - Early life. Breathed was born on June 21, 1957, in Encino, California. He went to Westchester High Sch ...

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Berkeley: Encyclopedia - George Berkeley

George Berkeley (British English:/ˈbɑː.kliː/; Irish English: /ˈbɑɹ.kli/) (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism, summed up in his dictum, "Esse est percipi" ("To be is to be perceived"). Basically, the theory is that we can only direc ...

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Berkeley: Encyclopedia - Anthony Berkeley Cox

Anthony Berkeley Cox (July 5, 1893 - 1971) was a British crime fiction author, born in Watford, England. He wrote under several names, his most famous works being under the name Francis Iles. Other pseudonyms he used included Anthony Berkeley (The Poisoned Chocolates Case) and Monmouth Platts. Cox/Isles was quite prominent amongst crime writers of his time and was associated with others in this field, includ ...

Berkeley: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Transportation

Berkeley is served by Amtrak, AC Transit, BART (Downtown Berkeley Station, North Berkeley, and Ashby Station) and bus shuttles operated by major employers including UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The only major freeway is Interstate 80. Each day there is an influx of thousands of cars into the city by commuting UC faculty, staff and students, making parking for more than a few hours an expensive proposition. Berkeley has one of the highest rates of bicycle and pedestrian commuting in the nation. Berkeley is the safest city of its size for pedestrians and cyclists, a fact that new ...

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