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Berkeley

Berkeley \Berkeley\ n. Bishop George Berkeley; b. 1685, d. 1753.

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Berkeley, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 102743
Housing Units (2000): 46875
Land area (2000): 10.459067 sq. miles (27.088857 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.246900 sq. miles (18.769384 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.705967 sq. miles (45.858241 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06000
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.871775 N, 122.274603 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94702 94703 94704 94705 94709 94710
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Berkeley, CA
Berkeley
Berkeley, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 5245
Housing Units (2000): 1914
Land area (2000): 1.392956 sq. miles (3.607740 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.392956 sq. miles (3.607740 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05404
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.886794 N, 87.910528 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Berkeley, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 10063
Housing Units (2000): 3953
Land area (2000): 4.931431 sq. miles (12.772346 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003727 sq. miles (0.009653 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.935158 sq. miles (12.781999 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04906
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.742250 N, 90.333288 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63134 63140
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Berkeley, MO
Berkeley
Berkeley -- U.S. County in South Carolina
Population (2000): 142651
Housing Units (2000): 54717
Land area (2000): 1097.716390 sq. miles (2843.072277 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 130.353549 sq. miles (337.614128 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1228.069939 sq. miles (3180.686405 sq. km)
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.127058 N, 79.980644 W
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Berkeley, SC
Berkeley County
Berkeley County, SC
Berkeley -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 75905
Housing Units (2000): 32913
Land area (2000): 321.139069 sq. miles (831.746334 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.438176 sq. miles (1.134871 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 321.577245 sq. miles (832.881205 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.462988 N, 77.983926 W
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Berkeley, WV
Berkeley County
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Wikipedia
Berkeley (film)

Berkeley is a 2005 film by Bobby Roth filmed in Berkeley, California. It stars Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, and Henry Winkler.

Berkeley (surname)

Berkeley is a surname. It is also used, uncommonly, as a given name. The name is a habitation name from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, itself derived from Old English beorce léah meaning birch lea. People with the name include:

  • The Berkeley family of England
    • Baron Berkeley
    • Berkeley baronets
    • Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley, lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife
    • Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Ormond, wife of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and daughter of the above
  • Anthony Berkeley Cox or Anthony Berkeley, writer
  • Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988), English actor
  • Busby Berkeley, film choreographer
  • Edmund Berkeley, mathematician and computer scientist, founder of the Association for Computing Machinery and inventor of the first personal computer, Simon
  • Elizabeth Berkeley, the wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort
  • Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher
  • George Berkeley (1685–1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher
  • George Berkeley (died 1746) (1680–1746), MP for Dover 1720–34
  • Grantley Berkeley (1800–1881), British politician, writer
  • Humphrey Berkeley (1926–1994), British politician
  • John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602–1678), English soldier
  • John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1663–1697), English admiral
  • Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
  • Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), English composer
  • Mary Berkeley (courtier), mistress of Henry VIII and mother of his son, John Perrot
  • Matthew Berkeley (born 1987), English footballer
  • Michael Berkeley (born 1948), British composer and broadcaster
  • Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889), English cryptogramist and clergyman
  • Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt (1718–1770), Member of Parliament and governor of Virginia Colony
  • Reginald Cheyne Berkeley (1890–1935), British Liberal Party Member of Parliament 1922–1924, then a playwright and scriptwriter
  • Theresa Berkeley, 19th century London madam
  • Sir William Berkeley (governor) (1605–1677), governor of Virginia
  • Sir William Berkeley (Royal Navy officer) (1639–1666), English naval officer and admiral
  • Vivian Berkeley, blind Canadian lawn bowling champion and 1996 paralympic silver medalist
  • Xander Berkeley (born 1955), American actor
Berkeley (1913)
For the 1956-1960 car manufacturer see Berkeley Cars

Berkeley was a car manufacturer that traded in 1913, building 18 hp cars. The engine was quoted as a 75x100, 1764 cc unit of unknown origin and the nominal list price was £120. Little else is known of them.

Usage examples of "berkeley".

After moving to Berkeley in 1968 and becoming coeditor of Ramparts - a leading radical magazine - Horowitz befriended Black Panther leader Huey Newton and became a moving force behind the scenes in the Panther organization.

Because of this last fact, Gilbert Dasein, a Berkeley psychologist, comes to the Santaroga Valley.

I cross the Oakland Bay Bridge and approach my motel in Berkeley with a quickening appetite for an ample feast of proteins, fats, and green vegetables.

I took more abuse from these petulant linthead bastards during the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries than I have ever taken from my friends on any political question since the first days of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, and that was nearly 12 years ago.

They turned up the road past the car park, past the Millstream Hotel, then parked near The Berkeley Arms.

Berkeley neurophysiologist Walter Freeman, writing with the philosopher Christine Skarda.

Heliotrope was a paraplegic pharmacologist from Berkeley, beautiful and brilliant, and a bathtub chemist of underground renown.

Sculptured sprays and berries, with leaves of Mistletoe, fill the spandrils of the tomb of one of the Berkeleys in Bristol Cathedral--a very rare adornment, because for some unknown reason the parasite has been always excluded from the decorations of churches.

At a meeting of physicists and mathematicians in Berkeley in 1991, Candelas announced the result reached by his group using string theory and mirror symmetry: 317,206,375.

England in 1817: teenage Cecelia is stuck at home at Rushton Manor, while her cousin Kate is enjoying the spring Season at Berkeley Square.

All through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.

This idea lay behind the experimental programme begun in the late 1950s by the psychologist Mark Rosenzweig, biochemist Ed Bennett and anatomist Marian Diamond in Berkeley, California, to study the effects of different rearing environments on the brain structures of young rats.

There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move -- either figuratively or literally -- from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope, from the hangups of protest to the peaceful disengagement of love, nature and spontaneity.

Fiona Gowan who happens to be a Berkeley graduate, knows her way around.

Last year in Berkeley, hard-core political radicals who had always viewed hippies as spiritual allies began to worry about the long-range implications of the Haight-Ashbury scene.