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  • Image:Antoine Watteau 024.jpg|Die französische Komödie (1718). ... Image:Antoine Watteau 060.jpg|Les Charmes de la vie (1718) ...
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  • by James Gregory in Optica Promota. In 1718 he discovered the proper motion ... of Some of the Principal Fixed Stars (1718). Reprinted in R.G. Aitken ...
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  • History of Carolina originally published in 1718, Lawson wrote about the Tuscarora ... and vices than these people do (Lawson 1718). However, the arrival ...
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  • William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S ...
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  • Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop of Peterborough from 1691, the son of a citizen of London. He was born ...
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  • Edward Teach (c. 1680Perry, 14. – November 22, 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ...
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  • In 1718, with the Hamburg Opera defunct, he left Hamburg to seek other employment, going to Thuringia and then Stuttgart. From this period, only ...
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  • Image:WatteauPierrot.jpg|Pierrot by Antoine Watteau, ca 1718 Commedia dell'arte peformers, Antoine Watteau, 1718 ...
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  • * Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity (1718) * The Probability of the Speedy and Final Destruction of the Pope (1718) ...
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  • of St. Thomas in 1671, St. Jan (today St. John) in 1718, and bought St. Croix from France in 1733. All of the islands' economies were based primarily ...
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  • In 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montague reported that the Turks have a habit of deliberately inoculating themselves with fluid taken from mild cases ...
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  • and Holland to uphold the Treaty of Utrecht. In 1718 Austria joined and it was expanded to the Quadruple Alliance against Spain to maintain the peace ...
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  • became a Fellow of the Royal Society and, in 1718, joined in the establishment of the Society of Antiquaries, acting for nine years as its secretary ...
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  • step-son, the Earl, was openly hostile to him. In 1718, Addison was forced to resign as secretary of state because of his poor health, but remained an ...
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  • singers on solemn occasions. These include Esther (1718); Athalia (1733); Saul (1739); Israel in Egypt (1739); Messiah (1742); Samson (1743); Judas Maccabaeus ...
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  • * The Uprooted Pine (Nebiki no Kadomatsu) (1718) * The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjūten no Amijima 心中天網島) (1720) * The Woman-Killer ...
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  • |Prince George William of Wales||13 November 1717||17 February 1718 ... of Trinity College, Dublin between 1715 and 1718. *In 1734 George II ...
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  • [[Image:531px-Voltaire.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Voltaire in 1718. Portrait ... he stayed for about a year from 1717 to 1718. There he completed his first ...
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  • From 1716 to 1718, he published a scientific periodical entitled Daedalus ... to his brother-in-law Erik Benzelius in 1718. Around 1730, he had changed ...
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  • of Lord Macclesfield (Chief Justice, 1710-1718) who introduced him to Joseph Addison, described by Mandeville as "a parson in a tye-wig ...
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