As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar. European history scholars will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th century as 1715-1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution. 18th century - Events. 18th century - 1700s. 1701-1714: War of the Spanish Succession 1703: Saint Petersb ...

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18th century - 1700s. 1701-1714: War of the Spanish Succession 1703: Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great. Russian capital until 1918. 1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain. 1707: After Aurangzeb's death, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline. 18th century - 1710s. 1715: Louis XIV dies 1718: City of New Orleans founde ...

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Clyster is an old-fashioned word for enema, more particularly for enemas administered using a clyster syringe — that is, a syringe with a rectal nozzle and a plunger. Clyster syringes were used from the modern era to the 19th century, when they were largely replaced by enema bulb syringes, bocks and bags. The patient was placed in an appropriate position (kneeling, with the buttocks raised, or lying on the side); some servant or apothecary would then insert the nozzle into the anus and depress the plunger, resulting in the liquid remedy (generally, water, but also som ...

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Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BCE and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian," apparently a forerunner of the Skeptics and Cynics, though none of his authentic works have survived. Anacharsis was half Greek and the son of a Scythian chief, from a mixed Hellenistic culture, apparently in the region of the Cimmerian Bosporus. He cultivated the outsider's knack of seeing the illogic in familiar ...

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1. 1980 (4.00) (written by E. Swaray, R. Shelton, K. Veney, L. Hill) Produced by Rich Shelton, Kevin Veney and Loren Hill. 2. Don’t Talk (3.39) (written by E. Swaray, R. Shelton, K. Veney, L. Hill, K. Harper, R. Prager, H. Swaray) Produced by Rich Shelton, Kevin Veney and Loren Hill. 3. Dance Bitch (3.47) (written by E. Swaray, C. Wilson) Produced by E-Boogie. 4. Change Is Coming (4.01) (written by E. ...

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Edward Plunkett was the son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron Dunsany (1853–1899) and his wife Ernle Elizabeth Ernle-Erle Drax, née Grosvenor. He was a kinsman of the Roman Catholic Saint Oliver Plunkett, the martyred Archbishop of Armagh. The Countess of Fingall, wife of Dunsany's cousin the Earl of Fingall, wrote a best-selling account of the life of the aristocracy in Ireland in the late 19th ce ...

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His most notable fantasy short stories were published in collections from 1905 to 1919: he had to pay for publication of the first, The Gods of Pegāna. The stories were set within an invented world, with its own gods, history and geography. His significance within the genre of fantasy writing is considerable. The following is the opening paragraph of The Hoard of the Gibbelins (first published in The Book of Wonder in 1912), which gives a good indication of both tone and tenor of Dunsany's work: The ...

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The catalogue of everything that Dunsany wrote during a 50-year writing career is quite extensive, and is especially fraught with pitfalls, owing to two things: first, Dunsany's many original books of collected short stories were later followed by numerous reprint collections, some of which included only previously published stories and nothing new; and second, many later collections bore titles very similar to somewhat different original books. The following is a partial list compiled from various sources. E ...

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H. P. Lovecraft was greatly impressed by Dunsany after seeing him on a speaking tour of the United States, and Lovecraft's early stories clearly show his influence. Fletcher Pratt's 1948 novel The Well of the Unicorn was written as a sequel to Dunsany's play King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior. ...

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Millennium Fantasy Masterworks Time and the Gods (Collection containing The Gods of Pegāna, Time and the Gods, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, A Dreamer's Tales, The Book of Wonder and The Last Book of Wonder) The King of Elfland's Daughter Penguin Classics In the Land of Time: and Other Fantasy Tales Wildsidepress Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley Plays of Gods and Men The Book of Wonder F ...

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The Prussian kings of the 18th century had little interest in maintaining their own navy. Due to the state’s Continental position, lacking natural borders, Prussia had to concentrate its military preparations on land forces. Besides this, the kingdom was able to rely on its many friendly connections with the neighboring naval powers of Denmark and the Netherlands. Frederick II ("the Great") took the view that Prussia should never seek to develop its own war fleet. The kingdom could never hope to equal the great fleets of England, Fr ...

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Deist thinking has existed since ancient times and can be inferred from pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus. However, it was not until the modern era, during the European Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, with their respective emphases on rigorous skepticism, deductive logic, and empiricism (experience/induction), that deism came into its own as a subject of philosophical discourse, particularly in France (Descartes, the Philosophes), Germany (Kant†, Leibniz), Great Britain (Hobbes, Hume‡ ...

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York elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons. On 22 March 1739 the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin was convicted at York assizes of horse-stealing, and was hanged at the Knavesmire on 7 April 1739. Turpin was said to have been buried in St George's churchyard, York. ...

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York elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons. On 22 March 1739 the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin was convicted at York assizes of horse-stealing, and was hanged at the Knavesmire on 7 April 1739. Turpin was said to have been buried in St George's churchyard, York. ...

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It is perhaps ironic that Paradise Lost, a story of fallen pride, was the first major poem to appear in England after the Restoration. The court of Charles II had, in its years in France, learned a worldliness and sophistication that marked it as distinctively different from the monarchies that preceded the Republic. Even if Charles had wanted to reassert the divine right of kingship, the Protestantism and taste for power of the intervening years would have rendered i ...

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By 1720, immigrants were settling in considerable numbers, both by way of the Great Lakes and the mouth of the Mississippi. To meet the demands of rapidly expanding commerce, barges and keelboats were introduced. In the same year, the Frenchman Phillippe François Renault brought the first black slaves to Missouri to work in lead mining. Fort Orleans was built in 1724 along the north bank of the Missouri River by Etienne de Bourgmont in what is now Carroll County, Missouri. In 1750, Ste. Genevieve was founded on the Mississippi. King Louis XV issued an edict ...

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In the early 17th century, there were two important developments in geometry. The first and most important was the creation of analytic geometry, or geometry with coordinates and equations, by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665). This was a necessary precursor to the development of calculus and a precise quantitative science of physics. The second geometric development of this period was the systematic study of projective geometry by Girard Desargues (1591-1661). Projective geometry is the study of geometry without me ...

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Geometry - Non-Euclidean geometry. The old problem of proving Euclid’s Fifth Postulate, the "Parallel Postulate", from his first four postulates had never been forgotten. Beginning not long after Euclid, many attempted demonstrations were given, but all were later found to be faulty, through allowing into the reasoning some principle which itself had not been proved from the first four postulates. By 1700 a great deal had been discovered about what can be proved from the first four, and what the pitfalls were i ...

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Laurence Sterne Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels. This novel, often treated as a book for children, is one of the most savage satires in the English language and set the highest possible standard for Irish writers to come. The next Irish novelist of importance was Laurence Sterne (1713-1768). Stern was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary and was in his mid-forties when he published The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen ...

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