Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London

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The greenhouse effect is a warming of earth’s surface and troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere) caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other gases in the air. Cooke, William. Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c 1805. ( Online.) During the Second World War, both Charles and Ronald left to fight for their country and the shop was left in the safe hands of Fred Della Porta, then Sales Director of Premier Drums. Following the bombing of the Hornsey Road premises, the shop was moved in 1946 to 40 Rupert Street, Soho in Central London, close to Premier’s office and showroom at 8 Golden Square. So began a long association between Foote’s and Premier Drums. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! No soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

Among other students of the Troy Female Seminary was future women's right activist Elizabeth Cady, (later Stanton), who attended in 1830. [12] Cady's sister Margaret attended the school between 1834 and 1836, and another sister Catharine attended between 1835 and 1837. [13] The fifty-year memorial publication Emma Willard and her Pupils or Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary 1822–1872 (1898) does not mention Newton, but the introduction explains that a committee divided some 7,000 students into geographic regions and committee members attempted to research the students. Inquiries were made of living pupils, family members, friends, and officials who might have information on known students. Biographies included in the work were culled from personal correspondence received from the queries of committee members. [14] The introduction also notes that records of graduates prior to 1843 were sporadically kept, as diplomas were not granted until that year. [15] At the time of the publication in 1898, Foote had been dead for a decade. [16] [17] Kelly, Ian. Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London, 2012. Picador; later adapted as a play under the same titleMurphy, Mary C. and updated by Gerald S. Argetsinger. "Samuel Foote." in Rollyson, Carl and Frank N. Magill ed. Critical Survey of Drama, 2nd Revised Edition, Vol. 2. Pasadena, CA, Salem Press, 2003. From Our East Bloomfield Correspondent" (PDF). Ontario Repository and Messenger. Vol.20, no.47. Canandaigua, New York. November 23, 1882. p.3. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 7, 2022 . Retrieved July 7, 2022. Holland, Peter. "Samuel Foote." in Banham, Martin. ed. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. Reading this, Sorenson knew at once that he had rediscovered a great figure forgotten by the history of science. In January 2011, the geologist published his finding in the online geoscience journal AAPG Search and Discovery . “It is clear that Eunice Foote deserves credit for being an innovator on the topic of CO 2 and its potential impact on global climate warming,” he wrote.

Armstrong, Anne K.; Krasny, Marianne E.; Schuldt, Jonathon P. (2018). "1: Climate Change Science: The Facts". Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. pp.7–20. doi: 10.7591/j.ctv941wjn (inactive August 1, 2023). ISBN 978-1-5017-3079-5. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv941wjn.5. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2023 ( link) Information on the Foote Medal". American Geophysical Union. Washington, D.C. 2022. Archived from the original on July 13, 2022 . Retrieved July 13, 2022. Electrical Excitation". The New-York Daily Times. New York, New York. August 18, 1857. p.2 . Retrieved July 12, 2022– via Newspapers.com. Elizabeth Erny Foote (born 1953), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2010

A descendant of Newton and pioneer of environmental science

Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician and 14th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador Schwartz, John (April 27, 2020). "Overlooked No More: Eunice Foote, Climate Scientist Lost to History". The New York Times. New York, New York. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022 . Retrieved December 28, 2021. Lerner, Gerda (April 1, 1988). "Priorities and Challenges in Women's History Research". Perspectives on History. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. Archived from the original on October 21, 2022 . Retrieved October 21, 2022. Troy Female Seminary (1837). "Students". Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of the Troy Female Seminary, for the Academic Year, Commencing September 21, 1836, and Ending August 9, 1837 Together with the Conditions of Admittance, Etc. Troy, New York: N. Tuttle. OCLC 41492784.

Instead, another scientist, a man, of course, swept in three years later to take credit for her work. Foote Defined The Greenhouse Effect After marrying attorney Elisha Foote in 1841, Foote settled in Seneca Falls, New York. She was a signatory to the Declaration of Sentiments and one of the editors of the proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first gathering to treat women's rights as its sole focus. In 1856 she published a paper notable for demonstrating the absorption of heat by CO 2 and water vapor and hypothesizing that changing amounts of CO 2 in the atmosphere would alter the climate. It was the first known publication in a scientific journal by an American woman in the field of physics. She published a second paper in 1857, on static electricity in atmospheric gases. Although she was not a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), both her papers were read at the organization's annual conferences—these were the only papers in the field of physics to be written by an American woman until 1889. She went on to patent several inventions. Maxwell, Jim (August 26, 2020). "Geology Professor and Science Historian Co-Author Article Exploring Eunice Foote's Climate Experiments from 1856". College of Arts and Sciences News. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021 . Retrieved July 14, 2022. Returning to London, Foote's financial situation was still quite poor. After renting the Haymarket theatre and revising The Minor into a three-act version (up from the two-act version presented in Dublin), the play opened in London. Doran remarks that while " The Minor failed in Dublin, very much to the credit of an Irish audience, [...] they condemned it on the ground of its grossness and immorality[,]" English society, nevertheless, while hearing condemnations of the play, filled the theatres. [23] The play played for full houses for 38 nights. [24]Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May (2004). Women and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-8135-3737-5. Velasco Martín, Marta (March–April 2020). "Women and Partnership Genealogies in Drosophila Population Genetics". Perspectives on Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 28 (2): 277–317. doi: 10.1162/posc_a_00341. ISSN 1063-6145. OCLC 8594950765. S2CID 219048723. EBSCO host 143003976. Wilkinson, Katherine (July 17, 2019). "Why History Forgot the Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming". Time. New York, New York: Time USA LLC. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022 . Retrieved January 30, 2020. Born into a well-to-do family, [1] Foote was baptized in Truro, Cornwall on 27 January 1720. [2] His father, Samuel Foote, held several public positions, including mayor of Truro, Member of Parliament representing Tiverton and a commissioner in the Prize Office. [3] His mother, née Eleanor Goodere, was the daughter of Sir Edward Goodere Baronet of Hereford. [4] Foote may have inherited his wit and sharp humour from her and her family which was described as "eccentric. ..whose peculiarities ranged from the harmless to the malevolent." [5] About the time Foote came of age, he inherited his first fortune when one of his uncles, Sir John Dineley Goodere, 2nd Baronet was murdered by another uncle, Captain Samuel Goodere. [2] This murder was the subject of his first pamphlet, which he published around 1741. [6]