Blackstone

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Blackstone refers to various people, places and concepts.

Contents 1 Company 2 People 3 Geography 4 Fiction 5 Other 6 See also

[edit] Company

• Blackstone Group, an American private equity and asset management firm.
• Blackstone Winery, an American winery located in Sonoma county, California.

[edit] People

• Charles Blackstone, an American author
• Elliott Blackstone, once sergeant of the San Francisco Police Department and advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered community in that city
• Gay Blackstone, widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr
• Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr.
• Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century
• Ian Blackstone, an English former footballer
• Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan
• Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
• Timothy Blackstone, Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president
• William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist
  • Blackstone's formulation, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist
  • The Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, a major legal text of the eighteenth century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's Commentaries"
• William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
• William Eugene Blackstone, an American evangelist and Christian Zionist
• William Seymour Blackstone, an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1800s

[edit] Geography

• Blackstone, Queensland, Australia
• Blackstone, Western Australia, Australia
• Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States
• Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, a neighborhood
• Blackstone, Virginia, United States
• Blackstone Heights, Tasmania
• Blackstone Valley, a river valley, and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States

[edit] Fiction

• Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th Century detective created by Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert)
• Blackstone Chronicles (novel series), a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul
• Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000
• Blackstone (Greyhawk), a fictional mining town in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
• The Blackstones, a proposed spin-off of the Flintstones from the 1970s about a black family in the stone age.

[edit] Other

Blackstone may also refer to:

• Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence,
• Blackstone Avenue, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA
• Blackstone Brewing Company, a brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
• Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England
• Blackstone Library, Chicago's 1st Public Library
• Blackstone Hall, a dormitory at the University of Chicago
• Blackstone Hotel, a famous Chicago Hotel
• Blackstone Hotel (Omaha), an Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center
• Blackstone Memorial, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone
• Blackstone Valley Rail
• Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - Beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia
• Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones
• Blackstone Society, the Law Students’ Society at the University of Western Australia
• Blackstone, the Magic Detective, a radio series which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1940s
• Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, Allied landings in Africa during World War II
• Blackstone Army Air Field, Virginia, United States
• Blackstone Singers, a Native American Pow Wow drum band from Alberta Canada.

[edit] See also

• Blackstone Lake, Ontario
• Blackstone River (disambiguation)
• Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School