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The Social Contract, Rousseau
Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concep... |
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Emile, Rousseau
This work by Jean Jacques Rousseau probably represents the single greatest work in defining what we would call education today. I am a Francophone living in Northern Onta... |
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George IV of Great Britain and Ireland
George IV was the king of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten... |
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Josephine, Empress of France
A socialite without equal, Josephine was mistress to several leading political figures and left a young General Napoleon Bonaparte completel... |
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James Kirkpatrick, Resident in Hyderabad
Lieutenant Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident in Hyderabad from 1798 to 1805. He also built the historic Koti Residency in Hyderabad, a landmark... |
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The Lunar Society
The Lunar Society was a remarkable grouping of gifted polymaths who met every month in and around Birmingham on the Monday nearest the full moon (when there was most lig... |
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Robert Fulton, 1st Practical Submarine
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of ste... |
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Joseph Niépce, Inventor of Photography
When the craze for the newly invented art of lithography swept France in 1813, it naturally attracted Joseph's attention. Unable to draw well, he placed engravings, made... |
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William IV of Great Britain and Ireland
William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William, the third son of George III and younger... |
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John Dalton, First Useful Atomic Theory
John Dalton developed the first useful atomic theory of matter around 1803. In the course of his studies on meteorology, Dalton concluded that evaporated water exists in... |
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Andrew Jackson, 7th US President
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was also military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle... |
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John Quincy Adams, 6th US President
John Quincy Adams was the son of President John Adams, served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and was Secretary of State under President Monroe. In the presidential el... |
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Francis II, Last Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, also referred to as Franz I, Emperor of Austria, was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until August 6, 1806, when the Empire w... |
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Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies, Count of Survilliers was the older brother of French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him... |
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonaparte was general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of t... |
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