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Dracut
Dracut , town (1990 pop. 25,594), Middlesex co., NE Mass., near the N.H. line; settled 1664, inc. 1702. The growing commercial center of a fertile farm region, the town has light manufacturing. ... Read more
Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton 1630-87, English author. He is chiefly remembered for his contribution to his friend Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler (5th ed. 1676). His pleasant, unaffected verse includes "An Ode to Winter" and "The Retirement." He also wrote burlesques of Vergil (1664) and Lucian (1665) a... Read more
Wakefield
Wakefield family estate of George Washington, on the Potomac River, E Va.; part of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument (see National Parks and Monuments , table). John Washington, the great-grandfather of George, settled there in 1664. The house in which George was born was built ... Read more
Pierre Mignard
Pierre Mignard , 1612-95, French painter. In 1657 he was summoned by Louis XIV to portray the king and celebrities of the court. In 1664 he decorated, in fresco, the cupola of the Church of Val-de-Grâce, Paris. In his theories, rather than in his painting, he led the opposition against Le Brun... Read more
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé , 1626-1700, French religious reformer, founder of the Trappists . He was of a noble family, was well educated, and lived at court as a worldly priest. In 1664 he retired to the Cistercian abbey at LaTrappe, where he was already abbot in commendam (i.e.,... Read more
William Alexander Stirling, earl of
William Alexander Stirling, earl of 1567?-1640, Scottish poet. He was tutor of Prince Henry of Scotland and went to England on the accession of James I. The holder of various government offices, he was made Viscount Stirling in 1630 and earl of Stirling in 1633. His work includes Aurora (1604), l... Read more
Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis 1621-75, English physician and anatomist. He became professor at Oxford in 1660 and in 1666 established a practice in London. An authority on the brain and the nervous system, he discovered the 11th cranial nerve and a circle of arteries at the base of the brain (the circle of Willis)... Read more
John Williams
John Williams 1664-1729, American clergyman, b. Roxbury, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1683. In 1686 he became the first minister at Deerfield, Mass. During the great Native American massacre at that frontier town in Feb., 1704, he and his family were taken captive. Two of his children were murdered, and h... Read more
Giulio Alberoni
Giulio Alberoni , 1664-1752, Italian statesman in Spanish service, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed (1713) representative of the duke of Parma at the court of Philip V of Spain, Alberoni gained influence and ultimately became de facto prime minister. With the princesse des Ursins ... Read more
John Clarke
John Clarke 1609-76, one of the founders of Rhode Island, b. Westhorpe, Suffolk, England. He emigrated to Boston in 1637 and shortly thereafter joined Anne Hutchinson (with whom he had sided in the antinomian controversy) and William Coddington in founding (1638) Portsmouth on Aquidneck (Rhode ... Read more

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Ruysch, Rachel (1664–1750)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World RUYSCH, RACHEL (1664 – 1750) RUYSCH, RACHEL (1664 – 1750), Dutch painter. One of the most successful women artists of early modernity, Ruysch was born in The Hague. While growing up, she assisted her father, Frederik...
Bérigard of Pisa (1578?-1664)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology B é rigard of Pisa (1578?-1664) French alchemist born Claude Guillermet de B é rigard...1640. He held an analogous position at Padua, where he died in 1664. His most important contribution to scientific literature is Dubitationes...
Zurbarán, Francisco De (born Francisco de Zurbarán Márquez [or Salazar]; 1598–1664)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...xE1; n M á rquez [or Salazar]; 1598 – 1664) ZURBAR Á N, FRANCISCO DE (born Francisco de Zurbar á n M á rquez [or Salazar]; 1598 – 1664), Spanish painter. Francisco de Zurbar á n was born...
Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...English trade and help unite the country. In 1664 Sir Robert Holmes (1622 – 1692...1672) captured New Amsterdam in August 1664 and renamed it New York, and Sir Thomas...attacked the Dutch Smyrna convoy in December 1664. War was finally declared in February...
Dutch Settlements in North America
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...iron fist as director general from 1646 to 1664. His administration brought political...English imperialist ambitions. In September 1664 an attack financed by England's Duke...the Second Anglo‐Dutch War (1664–1666). At war's end a grateful...
Dutch Wars
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...to submit territorial claims to arbitration. War of 1664-67 The years 1664-67 saw another war between the English and the Dutch...Indian trade and in the West African slave trade. In 1664, Robert Holmes raided the Dutch colonies on the coast...
Sir John Vanbrugh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Sir John Vanbrugh Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), English architect and dramatist, was one of the leading...John Vanbrugh was born in London and christened on Jan. 24, 1664. His father was Giles van Brugge, the son of a Protestant merchant...
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste (1619–1683)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...founded a series of state-backed monopoly joint-stock companies, including the East India Company (1664), the West India Company (1664), and the Company for the Levant (1670). Despite problems and competition with the Portuguese, Dutch...
The Americas
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...North America, New Netherland (fully settled 1624 – 1664), was made up of settlements on the Hudson, Delaware, and...the conquest of New Sweden in 1655. The English takeover of 1664 was followed in 1673 by a successful Dutch capture that led to...
Elisabetta Sirani
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici visited her workplace in 1664 to watch her paint his uncle, Prince Leopold de' Medici of...which she produced on oversized four-by-five foot canvas. In 1664, Sirani painted a languorous pose featuring Galatea, Pygmalion...

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Bartholin, Erasmus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...works, he issued in almost every year from 1664 to at least 1674 a Dissertatio de problematibus...he observed the comets of 23 December 1664 – 9 April 1665. In this effort...including Descartes ’ s). Also in 1664 Bartholin began, at the direction of Frederick...
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Royal Family’ from 1662. From 1664 collab. with Molière in series...xC8;RE: Le mariage forcé (1664); L'amour médecin (1665); La Princesse d'Elide (1664); Le Sicilien (1667); Georges Dandin...
Proprietary Colonies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...14 March 1681   East Jersey* 4 July 1664 15 April 1702** West Jersey** 4 July 1664 15 April 1702** Maryland 30 June 1632  ...1680 absorbed into Mass. 1708 New York 12 March 1664 6 February 1685 Pennsylvania 14 March 1681...
Campani, Giuseppe
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Observatory at Paris. In 1663 – 1664 Campani invented the composite lens eyepiece...of a triple ocular and an objective. In 1664 he developed a lens-grinding machine...of Jupiter and of the rings of Saturn in 1664 – 1665 and published the results...
Thirteen Colonies
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Connecticut (1635), Rhode Island (1636), North Carolina (1663), South Carolina (1663), New York (1664), New Jersey (1664), Delaware (1664), New Hampshire (1679), Pennsylvania (1681), and Georgia (1732). By 1776 all were ruled...
Anglo-Dutch Wars
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1664-67) early wars for control of the colonies in North America...Peter Stuyvesant surrendered, and New Amsterdam became New York in 1664, after the August 25 landing of the first British regulars on North...
Triennial Acts
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Triennial Acts, 1641, 1664, 1694. These were attempts to curb the prerogatives of the crown in...three years and to keep it for at least 50 days. This was repealed in 1664 and replaced by an Act, 16 Car. II c. 1, declaring that the king...
Dongan Charters
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664 – 1775. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...Duke's Province: A Study of New York Politics and Society, 1664 – 1691. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...
Glaser, Johann Heinrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Hippocrate et Galeno depromptae (1661) and his Theses opticae (1664). In 1668 Glaser was named doctor-in-chief of the large...Sp ö rlin (Basel, 1661); Theses opticae (Basel, 1664); and Tractatus de cerebro (Basel, 1680). II. Secondary...
Evelyn, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...planted with trees and sweet-smelling flowers. His Sylva (1664), a treatise on arboriculture, was probably intended as part...Park, Surrey. He was involved at Cornbury House, Oxon. (1664 and again in the 1680s), and Euston Hall, Suffolk (1671...

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FREE BOTTLE OF KRONENBOURG 1664; BOTTLE OF.(Competition/Offers)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 11/4/2000; 567 words ; ...giving away FREE bottles of Kronenbourg 1664 to Daily Record readers. And, every Friday...Miller Pilsner, Beck's, Kronenbourg 1664, McEwan's Export and McEwan's SPA...pick up your FREE bottle of Kronenbourg 1664 today, simply cut out the coupon below...
Scooter power to drive 1664.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Grocer; 2/17/2001; 690 words ; ...the year from roster's to Kronenbourg 1664. For the last five years the brewer has...it plans to do the same for Kronenbourg 1664. But marketing director Brian Sharp said...Europe. The big push behind Kronenbourg 1664 involves a link with Peugeot scooters...
Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns Michaelmas 1664 & Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns Michaelmas 1664. (Hearth Tax Series, Volume I.) London...eds. Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664. (Hearth Tax Series, Volume II.) London...we are given the sum paid in Michaelmas 1664, the name of the occupier and number of...
1664's fatal distraction.(Scottish Courage launches new ad for Kronenbourg 1664)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Grocer; 12/2/2000; 592 words ; ...with the latest execution of a series of ads for Kronenbourg 1664. The new ad, which breaks this week, shows a Latin beauty...stern gendarme approaches and covers her glass of Kronenbourg 1664 with his cap. A stylised title reading "femme fatale", appears...
1664's passion for independents.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Grocer; 7/8/2000; 681 words ; ...retailer loyalty scheme to support Kronenbourg 1664's Passionate Experiences consumer promotion...Loyalty points are linked to the amount of 1664 purchased and the scheme runs from now...on and off-trade promotion linking 1664 with lastminute.com to provide passionate...
KRONENBURG 1664: Facts and figures.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Marketing Week; 8/31/2006; 629 words ; * Kronenbourg 1664 has a marketing budget of #10m * UK consumers...more than 500,000 pints of Kronenbourg 1664 a day * Kronenbourg sales have risen 2...trade growth of 8.8% * Kronenbourg 1664 was the sixth-most valuable lager for...
Kronenbourg 1664 brand has returned to U.S. market. (Weekly Specialty Beer Report).(plans marketing promotional tour)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age; 10/14/2002; 700+ words ; ...boom of the early 1980s. The "Tour de 1664" promotional tour will include events...environment in which we enjoy it. Tour de 1664 encapsulates that experience and we are...selected to host the promotion. Kronenbourg 1664 is the flagship lager of Brasseries Kronenbourg...
KRONENBURG 1664: Plotting a french revolution.(market shares and advertising campaigns)
Magazine article from: Marketing Week; 8/31/2006; 700+ words ; ...its flagship premium lager Kronenbourg 1664 as a drink to "savour" (MW last week...variants. According to Mintel Kronenbourg 1664 was the on- and off-trade's sixth...campaign, urging drinkers to "Sit. Savour. 1664" will work, believing the strategy is...
FREE BIG bottle of Kronenbourg 1664 from Sainsbury's; CELEBRATE BASTILLE DAY WITH US.(Competition/Offers)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 7/14/2002; 569 words ; ...claim a FREE 75cl bottle of Kronenbourg 1664, France's favourite lager. We've teamed up with Kronenbourg 1664 and Sainsbury's to bring you this great...the Queen's coronation, Kronenbourg 1664 is also celebrating its Golden Jubilee...
Evidence of Restoration Performances: Duke Ferdinand Albrecht's Annotated Playtexts from 1664-65.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...playtexts during his ten-month visit to London from 12 May 1664 to 16 March 1664/5, when he immersed himself in London theatre culture...documentation for a production of any of these plays in 1664-65. An additional four plays have no title-page...