Barnes
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Albert Coombs 1873–1951, U.S. inventor and art collector.
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Djuna (Chappell) 1892–1982, U.S. novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Djuna . 1892–1982, US novelist, noted for Nightwood (1936)
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William . 1801–86, British poet, best known for Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879)
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Selma Blair's lawyer Shawn Barnes asked the judge to consider her "body of work"
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The research, published in Brain and led by Professor Nicholas Barnes at the University of Birmingham, identifies the P2X7 receptor as an important driver of neuroinflammation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
“It’s not just his enunciation, which, like, was super bad, especially last year,” one person said about Barnes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
To understand people’s needs and preferences, Barnes said her team regularly follows shoppers through supermarkets and then home as they unload groceries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The only trouble was that people who did not fall into any of those three categories were very liable to be told there was no one home, chez Barnes.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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