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  • fell out with his congregation and came to London in 1782, where his friends encouraged him to earn his living at writing. === Early Writing === ...
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  • * Aux insurgents d'Amérique (1782) * Salons ==References== *Bremner, G. Order and Change: The Pattern of Diderot’s Thought. Cambridge: ...
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  • The French captured the colony in 1782 and developed this town, making it their capital city, La Nouvelle Ville. To guard against the dangers ...
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  • Murillo (about 1650), bought by Louis XVI about 1782; Bathsheba at Her Bath, Rembrandt (1654); and Ex Voto, Philippe de Champaigne (1662), seized in ...
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  • * Muling for Emperor Daoguang (1782-1850, the 6th emperor) * Chongling for Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908, the 9th emperor) The Western Qing tombs ...
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  • [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1782.htm Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1782]. Retrieved March 21, 2023. In certain situations ...
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  • half-sisters. Martha Jefferson died in 1782, leaving the Hemings family to her husband, Thomas. The Hemings family was at the top of the slave ...
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  • (1350 – 1767), the Taksin Kingdom (1768 – 1782, also known as the Thonburi Kingdom) and the Chakri Kingdom (1782-present). [http://www.thailandsworld ...
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  • offices in the short-lived ministries of 1782 and 1783. He was under-secretary for foreign affairs in the Rockingham ministry, and a secretary ...
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  • 175px|Peter Spencer, born a slave in Maryland in 1782, founded the first independent black Christian Church in Delaware in 1813, the A.U.M.P. Church.]] ...
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  • used today. It was coined by Volta in 1782 (derived from the Italian condensatore), with reference to the device's ability to store a higher ...
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  • *The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782-1865 (1949) *A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 (1950) with Alister Kershaw ...
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  • its name by Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman in 1782. He chose "ammonia" because he had obtained "the gas … from sal ammoniac, salt ...
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  • The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) ...
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  • fell to Spanish forces under General Galvez in 1782. After the American Revolution, the British government issued land grants to a group of British ...
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  • by George Washington on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed to recognize "any singularly meritorious action ...
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  • William Miller (1782-1849), a Baptist who inspired the Seventh Day Adventist movement, had predicted Jesus' return for the year 1843. He ...
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  • criminal judge for the diocese of Arras in March 1782. Though his sister claimed that he immediately resigned to avoid sentencing anyone to death, this ...
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  • Its national significance dates back to June 20 1782, when the Continental Congress officially adopted the current design for the Great Seal ...
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  • *1782: Der Erlkönig (The Alder King) *1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies) *1794: Reineke Fuchs *1797: Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's ...
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