Somerville

[ suhm-er-vil ]

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Mary Fairfax Greig [greg], 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
a town in central New Jersey.

Somerville

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SomervilleMary17801872FBritishWRITING: science writer Mary, original name Mary Fairfax . 1780–1872, British scientific writer, author of Physical Geography (1848) and other textbooks. Somerville College, Oxford, was named after her

Somerville

Scottish astronomer and mathematician who wrote expository works on mathematics, physical geography, microscopic science, and astronomy. Her writings explained complex scientific ideas to the general public through simple illustrations and experiments that the average reader could easily understand.

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The Scottish government's social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville will outline to Holyrood implications of the ruling and the processes that will follow, including ensuring updated guidance is issued for public bodies on access to single-sex spaces such as female toilets and changing rooms.

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Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said ministers were committed to protecting protecting women's and transgender rights.

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Somerville reiterated that the Scottish government had "no intention" of bringing the gender recognition reforms back to parliament or seeking to overturn the UK government block on the bill.

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Somerville said Scottish ministers would meet with body next week.

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Thousands of people gathered in the Boston suburb of Somerville on Wednesday night to protest the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD student who was detained by immigration police on Tuesday.

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