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  • In 1616, Peiresc went with du Vair when he was called to Paris by the king to become Guardian of the Great Seal (Garde des Sceaux). Du Vair initiated ...
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  • Jacob Le Maire were the first Europeans to arrive (1616), landing on one of Tonga's northern islands. Abel Tasman visited Tongatapu and nearby Ha ...
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  • In 1616, Janesen returned to Louvain, to take charge of the college of St.Pulcheria, a hostel for Dutch students of theology. Among his students ...
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  • , it was not settled by Europeans until the Dutch in 1616, who established three separate colonies: Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752 ...
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  • in 1596, taking Ahmadnagar completely between 1616 and 1636, and Aurangzeb's 1686-1687 campaign conquered Golkonda and Bijapur. As in the north ...
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  • William Shakespeare (Baptized April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was ... as Shakespeare died on the same day in 1616. As the son of a prominent ...
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  • under the Netherlands rule; Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752). The British occupied Guyana in the late eighteenth century ...
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  • / Malabar lead," and Paracelsus (1616) was credited with giving the name zinc. Ignorance of the value of this metal can be gauged from the ...
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  • as early as 1578 by Guillaume de Baillou (1538-1616), but earlier reports date back at least to the twelfth century (Versteegh et al. 2005). B. ...
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  • in 1614 and Archdeacon of Huntingdon in 1615. In 1616, he became Dean of Gloucester Cathedral. He offended some by insisting on the wearing of the surplice. ...
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  • Many artists of the time created reproductions of the Veil, but in 1616, Pope Paul V prohibited the manufacture of copies of Veronica's ...
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  • Christianity. More restrictions came in 1616 (the restriction of foreign ... *1616: Tokugawa Ieyasu dies *1623: Tokugawa Iemitsu becomes the third shogun ...
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  • was not until William Harvey's dissections, in 1616, that the function of pulmonary circulation was widely accepted by physicians. In 1984, a Zaragoza ...
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  • Jakob Lemaire and Willem Cornelis Schouten, in 1616. British explorer Samuel Wallis visited Wallis in 1767. The French were the first Europeans to ...
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  • Fuego around Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616. Drake crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Magellan Strait. After this passage ...
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  • Abelard and Heloise, (first French translation ed. 1616), Aldine House, London: M. Dent & co., 1901. Online at www.sacred-texts.com. ...
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  • *Africa (Taschen, 2002, ISBN 3-8228-1616-7) *Riefenstahl Olympia (Taschen, 2002, ISBN 3-8228-1945-X) ===Author=== *Leni Riefenstahl by Leni Riefenstahl ...
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  • after the Little Ice Age was William Baffin, in 1616. It was named in 1852, by Edward Inglefield's expedition after Francis Egerton, 1st Earl ...
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  • In 1616, the 22-year-old Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden started looking around for a Protestant bride. He had, since 1613, tried to get his mother ...
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  • Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) was born in Mikawa Province, the eastern half of modern Aichi prefecture). An ally of Nobunaga, he was able to maintain ...
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