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Oglethorpe, Founder State of Georgia
James Edward Oglethorpe was an English general, a philanthropist, and a founder of the state of Georgia. It was through his initiatives in England in 1732 that the British government authorized the es... |
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Modern Gay History Timeline
gayhistory.com is an introduction to the stories and the people of modern gay history (1700-1973). The site is an ongoing project and most articles about gay male history from 1700-1900 have been com... |
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British Empire : Timeline
The British Empire was the first genuinely global empire, an empire that ranged, at times, from the American colonies in the West, Australia and New Zealand in the East, Canada and her dominions in th... |
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GEH Timeline of Photography
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film... |
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Anders Celsius, Temperature Scale
Anders Celsius became famous for his recommendation in 1742 to divide the temperature scale of a mercury thermometer at 760mm mercury air pressure into 100 degrees, where 100 is the frozing point and... |
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Harpsichord after Michael Mietke
By the time Michael Mietke was building instruments in his workshop on the outskirts of Berlin in the early 1700s the harpsichord already had over two centuries worth of repertoire. During the Middle... |
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Thomas Bayes, Mathematician
Thomas Bayes was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem. Bayes was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742.
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John Wesley, Leader Methodists
John Wesley was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had three rises, the first at Oxford University with the foundi... |
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The United Methodist Church
This web site represents The General
Commission on Archives and History for The United Methodist Church. You will find many useful and interesting pages here to place the information you need at your... |
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The Advertising Age Timeline
295-year timeline. In this Web site, the timeline evolved into an interactive document covering 295 years of the primary events in the history of American advertising from 1704, when the first newspap... |
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Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father USA
Benjamin Franklin stands tall among a small group of men we call our Founding Fathers. Ben used his diplomacy skills to serve his fellow countrymen. His role in the American Revolution was not play... |
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Great Britain, Union England and Scotland
The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state in Western Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merger of the Kingdom of Scotland... |
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Linnaeus, Father Species Classification
Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern plant and animal classification. Linnaeus was born in 1707, the son of a Lutheran clergyman, at Rashult in Sweden. He began to study medicine at the University o... |
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Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
On the life and work of notable people who have contributed to evolutionary thought... |
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Julien De La Mettrie, Man a Machine
Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, French physician, atheist, mechanist and materialist; an infamous specimen of the Enlightenment. La Mettrie's Man a Machine (L'Homme Machine, 1748) is his main and most in... |
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