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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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  • of surgery, receiving his degree in 1717. In 1718, Quesnay was accepted into the community of surgeons of Paris. In 1723, he became royal surgeon ...
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  • were issued, the last and best being that of 1718. His younger brother, Dr. John Clarke, dean of Sarum, translated it into English in 1723. ...
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  • died in 1714, leaving Gravina his heir, and in 1718 Gravina also died. Metastasio inherited a fortune of 15,000 scudi. At a meeting of the Arcadian ...
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  • ; Manchu: Hiyoošungga Fulehun Eldembuhe Hūwanghu) (d. 1718) from the Borjigit clan, made empress in 1654 #Concubine from the Tunggiya clan ...
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  • son of William Talbot, then bishop of Oxford. In 1718 he was ordained deacon and priest, and on the recommendation of Talbot and Clarke, was nominated ...
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  • Song’s main disciple, Kwon Sangha, wrote his own colophon in 1718, about a set of four ink paintings (flowers, grasses, fish, and bamboo) that ...
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  • # Seaton Delaval Hall, begun in 1718. Work in progress on each of these ... Built between 1718 and 1728 for Admiral George Delaval, it replaced ...
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  • or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity (1718). The existence and origin of this source continues to be debated by scholars. ...
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  • wishes of Aurangzeb. Durgadas died at Rampura in 1718, his funeral rites performed according to his wishes on the banks of Shipra River. The rulers ...
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  • Brittany. His father, René de Chateaubriand (1718-86), was a former sea captain turned ship owner. His mother was Apolline de Bedée. Chateaubriand& ...
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  • by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 1717-1718. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04758-X * Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield ...
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  • 1711 and 1774 and the Peloponnesus peninsula in 1718, the following century saw further losses starting with Greece in 1829, then by successive Balkan ...
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  • 1, Från forntid till frihetstid : 800-1718. (Stockholm : Bonnier Alba ... The period in Swedish history between 1630 and 1718 is known as the ...
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  • Founded in 1718 by the French Mississippi Company, in 1763, the French colony was ceded to the Spanish and remained under Spanish control for ...
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  • by Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr., 1714-1718. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0313329722 *Ward, Thomas. "Cornel West y ...
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  • jpg|thumb|left|250 px|Original building, 1718–1782]] Yale was founded ... to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield. In 1718, the college moved to New ...
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  • Despite his frequent travels from 1718, the Ospedale paid him 2 sequins ... In 1717 or 1718, Vivaldi was offered a prestigious new position as ...
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  • the city for two years, destroying a Chinese army in 1718. Lhasa was not retaken until 1720. Overall speaking, the 8 Banner Army was already in ...
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  • of Russia by Czar Peter the Great in 1718. One result of that tax was the institution of a census in order to provide a basis for financial calculations ...
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  • a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718, but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars not far from Lhasa.Hugh E. Richardson ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople ...
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  • The bank became the Banque Royale ("Royal Bank") in 1718, meaning the notes were guaranteed by the king. The Company absorbed the Compagnie ...
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  • Newton followed John Glas and Robert Sandeman (1718-1771), extreme Calvinists who scorned faith and taught that God saved or condemned a person solely ...
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  • Minor sometime in the seventeenth century. In 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, reported that ...
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  • Bourbon (Réunion, 1664), Île de France (Mauritius, 1718), and the Seychelles (1756). ==Colonial conflict with Britain== In the mid-eighteenth ...
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  • Treaty of Passarowitz with Austria on July 21, 1718. Among its provisions was the refusal of the Turks to extradite the exiled Hungarians. Two years ...
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  • Worlton. 1979. Journal of Chemical Physics 71: 1718-1721. * [http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/15.html Phosphorus.] Chemistry Division, Los Alamos ...
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  • called "The Puckle Gun" on May 15, 1718. It was a design for a 1 inch (in.) (25.4 mm) caliber, flintlock revolver cannon able to fire 9 rounds ...
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  • The next visit was by Daniel Beekman, who described it in his 1718 book, A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, in the East Indies. ...
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  • through the theorist Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718-1795) whose Abhandlung von der Fuge ("Treatise on the fugue," 1753) was largely based ...
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  • and Indians that lasted from at least January 1718 to the end of 1721. Significantly, Mather offered no writing instruction at this school (even ...
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  • brought a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718, but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars not far from Lhasa.Hugh E. Richardson ...
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  • The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, but remained greatly unsettled until the recently independent United States expelled around ...
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  • never talked about it, and his father died in 1718, "disappointed by great men's promises" to subscribe to a projected Latin dictionary ...
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  • Bernard de Montfaucon in 13 volumes, (Paris, 1718-1738) republished in 1834-1840). There is an English translation in the first series of the Nicene ...
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  • of Savoy, during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718]] [[Image:Knez stara.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Knez Mihailova street at the beginning of the ...
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  • Security Council resolutions 1695 of July 2006, 1718 of October 2006, and 1874 of June 2009, for carrying out both missile and nuclear tests. Intelligence ...
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  • to Narva." In Sweden’s Age of Greatness, 1632-1718, edited by Michael Roberts. New York: Macmillan, 1973. * Benecke, Gerhard. Germany in ...
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  • The Astronomical Journal 129(3) (March 2005): 1718-1723. * [http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/pluto.html "Pluto's 3:2 ...
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  • Denmark-Norway. After the death of Charles XII in 1718, the Swedish empire crumbled. In 1809, Finland became an autonomous Duchy of Imperial ...
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  • cyclone] Geophysical Research Letters 30(13) (2003): 1718. Retrieved April 20, 2023. About 45 percent of the sea's primary production of ...
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  • in their turn, rapidly expanded their empire: in 1718 an important part of Wallachia, called Oltenia, was incorporated to the Austrian monarchy and was ...
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  • The disastrous performance in the War of the Quadruple Alliance, 1718–1720 ... one—a Havana Company (1740). In 1717–1718 the structures for governing ...
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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 and to maintain the ...
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