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Glencoe
Glencoe , valley of the Coe River, Highland, W Scotland. It was the scene of the massacre of the Macdonald clan (Feb., 1692) by the Campbells, under the direction of John Campbell, 1st earl of Breadalbane, and John Dalrymple, 1st earl of Stair. ... Read more
La Hogue
La Hogue , or La Hougue , cape on the northeast coast of the Cotentin peninsula, France, on the English Channel. Off the cape, during the War of the Grand Alliance, a French fleet under Tourville was defeated (1692) by the English and Dutch. The battle ended French naval supremacy in the war. ... Read more
Irvington
Irvington town (1990 pop. 59,774), Essex co., NE N.J., an industrial suburb of Newark; settled 1692 as Camptown, renamed 1852, inc. 1898. Tools, castings, photographic equipment, paints, building materials, and plastic and paper products are among its manufactures. ... Read more
Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth
Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth or Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth , 1641-1724, Scottish statesman. Devoted to Presbyterianism, he opposed the policies of the duke of Lauderdale , took part in the unsuccessful rebellion of the 8th earl of Argyll in support of the duke of Monmouth , and fled to Fra... Read more
John Rich
John Rich 1692-1761, English actor-manager. Rich introduced pantomime to England, himself playing (1717-60) the role of Harlequin in annual performances. His successful production of John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728) enabled him to build Covent Garden Theatre, which he opened in 1732. ... Read more
Johann Gottfried Schnabel
Johann Gottfried Schnabel , b. 1692, d. after 1742, German author, whose pseudonym was Gisander. He fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. Schnabel's popular novel Die Insel Felsenburg [Felsenburg island] (4 vol., 1741-43) was modeled on Robinson Crusoe but was primarily concerned with uto... Read more
Thomas Rymer
Thomas Rymer , 1643?-1713, English critic and historiographer. Educated at Cambridge and Gray's Inn, he was called to the bar in 1673 but turned his efforts instead to literature, especially drama. Although in 1678 he did publish Edgar, or the English Monarch, a play in rhymed verse, he was especi... Read more
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall , 1652-1730, American colonial jurist, b. England. He was taken as a child to Newbury, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard in 1671. He became a minister but gave up the cloth to assume management of a printing press in Boston and entered upon a public career. He was elected (1683) to... Read more
Robert Barclay
Robert Barclay 1648-90, Scottish apologist for the Society of Friends (Quakers). He wrote many controversial works but is best known for his great treatise An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, which appeared in Latin in 1676 and in English two years later. The duke of York (later James II)... Read more
John Benbow
John Benbow , 1653-1702, English admiral. Some of the stories of his exploits seem to be legendary, but he did command the fleet and successfully fight the French at La Hogue (1692), Saint-Malo (1693), and Dunkirk (1696) and the Spanish in the West Indies (1698). In 1702 he engaged in a four-day run... Read more

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Nurse, Rebecca (1621-1692)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Nurse, Rebecca (1621-1692) Alleged witch executed at Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts, in 1692. Rebecca Nurse was born Rebecca Towne...had fours sons and four daughters. Until 1692 Rebecca Nurse was well-respected by her...
Farnese, Isabel (Spain) (1692–1766)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World FARNESE, ISABEL (SPAIN) (1692 – 1766) FARNESE, ISABEL (SPAIN) (1692 – 1766), queen of Spain. Isabel Farnese...1724 – 1746), was born in Parma in 1692, the daughter of Odoardo II Farnese of the ducal...
Good, Sarah (d. 1692)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Good, Sarah (d. 1692) One of the first women to be declared...arrested on a warrrant issued on February 29, 1692. Her age is not known, but at the time...others were executed by hanging on July 19, 1692. Good is remembered not only for being...
Salem Witchcraft
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Salem Witchcraft. It began early in 1692 in Salem Village, an outlying region of...distrusting them as folk superstition; but in 1692 these authorities, convinced of a satanic...political change in Massachusetts: in 1692 church members lost their monopoly over...
Salem Witchcraft Trials
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...principal outbreak of persecution took place in 1692, when an epidemic disease resembling epilepsy...delusion, in the spring and summer of 1692, 19 persons were hanged; one, Giles...Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village (1692) was written by Deodat Lawson; Cotton...
War of the Grand Alliance
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ended by the English victory of La Hogue (1692). On land, however, Louis and Vauban took Namur (1692); Marshal Luxembourg was victorious at...1690) over the Dutch and at Steenkerke (1692) and Neerwinden (1693) over William III...
Giuseppe Tartini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) was an Italian violinist, composer, and theorist. He...contemporaries. Giuseppe Tartini was born in Pirano, Istria, on April 8, 1692. At his father's wish he studied for the priesthood. In 1710...
Bridget Bishop
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Bridget Bishop Bridget Bishop (died 1692) was a tavern keeper whose wild temperament and flamboyant dress enventually...extract the truth from suspected witches. Even before the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to 1695, there had been more than 1
witchcraft
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...America shared in this fanaticism, particularly in Salem, Mass., where in 1692, 20 persons were executed as witches. (The state exonerated all the...B. Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002).
Andrew Hamilton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...against popular opposition and shortly had to leave the colony. In 1692 he was commissioned governor of East and West Jersey, but after...authority. Appointed deputy postmaster general for the colonies in 1692, Hamilton induced several colonies to set up uniform postal...

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Gerbezius, Marcus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...observation of an aurichuloventricular block (1692). It occurred in a ninety-year-old...tractatus de morbis complicates (Ljubljana, 1692 ; 2nd ed., Frankfurt am Main, 1713...naturae curiosorum , dec. 2, yr. 10(1692), observatio 63, pp. 115-118. An...
Purcell, Henry
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...British Worthy (1691); The Fairy Queen (1692); The Indian Queen (1695); The Tempest...Indian Emperor (1691); The Libertine (?1692); The Double Dealer (1693); Timon...Turn then thine Eyes ( The Fairy Queen , 1692); I Sighed and owned my Love ( The Fatal...
Salem
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...best known as the site of the notorious Salem witch trials of 1692. Booming international trade soon overshadowed the Salem witch...shalom" or peace. Early settlers farmed and fished for cod. By 1692 Salem had grown into a sprawling community, and divisions began...
Salem Witch Trials
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Indian slave who worked for the Parris household. On 29 February 1692, warrants went out for their arrest. Osborne and Good denied...Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638 – 1692. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. Karlsen, Carol...
Banister, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Gloucestershire, England, 1650; d . on Roanoke River, Virginia, May 1692) botany, entomology, malacology, anthropology. The first...Appalachians before Indians discouraged their further progress. In May 1692 he joined a party going to the Roanoke River, where he was accidently...
Drove
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms ...1350; of bullocks; of cab-drivers — Lipton, 1970; of cattle, 1555; of heresies, 1692; of horses, 1764; of immoralities, 1692; of kine [ ‘ cattle ’ ]; of oxen; of young shoat [ ‘ pigs ’...
Salem witch trials
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Salem witch trials (1692) The trial and execution of 19 supposed witches at Salem, Massachusetts. The hunt for witches began...accused. Increase MATHER and Governor Sir William Phips managed to halt the witch craze in October 1692.
La Hogue, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History La Hogue, battle of, 1692. Control of the Channel, lost by the defeat off Beachy Head in 1690, was restored in May 1692 by the victory of La Hogue, near Barfleur. De Tourville, the French admiral, had orders to engage while still awaiting...
Bernoulli, Johann (Jean) I
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2019; s correspondence with L ’ Hospital. ) In 1692 Bernoulli met Pierre de Varignon, who later became his disciple...x201C; Debeaune ’ sproblem ” ( JS , 1692), which had been put to Descartes as the first inverse tangent...
Gallois, Jean
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...by the Acad é mic Royale des Sciences, especially in 1692 – 1693. Starting in this period Gallois became an...x2019; Acad é mie royale des sciences (31 July 1692), pp. 113-120;, “ Extrait d ’ un...

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A landmark study.(History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Editor History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002...the "History of the Irish Parliament [1692-1800] is concerned with three broad...detailing the business of parliament between 1692 and 1800. Its opening discussion examines...
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What made 1692 Salem so bewitching? Maybe a fungus
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/6/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Could the hysteria over witchcraft in 1692 Salem have been caused by moldy rye? Wacky...townspeople of witchcraft. By the end of 1692, 19 women were hanged and one man was...Hudler both wrote. After the harvest of 1692 and its non-infected rye, accusations...
Chavez' U.N. 'devil' speech harkens back to Salem 1692
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 9/26/2006; 700+ words ; ...Hugo Chavez and the devil: An echo from 1692 Salem By Paul S. Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum...another public address delivered in March 1692, in the tiny farm community of Salem Village...the fears that gripped the community in 1692. The leading witchcraft accusers were...
Notes and documents: Dryden and Dorset in 1692: a new record.(John Dryden; Charles Sackville, the Earl of Dorset)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...the Satires to Dorset is dated "August 18, 1692," and the volume appeared in print very late in 1692 or early in 1693 (the date printed on the...disbursements for the period from October 1692 until March 1693, evidently prepared by his...
The long and short of Salem witchcraft: chronology and collective violence in 1692.(SECTION II PROTEST AND DEVIANCE)(Salem, Massachusetts)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...resulted in a consensus about what happened in 1692. Rather, a variety of interpretations...narratives dramatically recount the events of 1692 as a constantly accelerating, relentless...less about the full range of events in 1692, particularly the way in which accusations...
The Salem witchcraft trials: life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony grew very strange in January 1692. Were two young girls ill--or were they possesed by the devil?(American History)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 9/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Village, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1692. You have no television and no computer...hanged as witches in New England before 1692. People now wondered: Were some Salem...compare the event to the witch-hunt of 1692 Salem. Students can present their findings...
Richard Godbeer. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692. New York and Oxford: Oxford University...shadow cast by the Salem witch hunt of 1692. They also know what distortions and misperceptions...Salem to explore are these. In June, 1692, as the Salem trials were starting to...
In the Devil's Snare: the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.(a review of two books on witchcraft)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 4/19/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. By Mary Beth Norton. Knopf, 436 pp., $30...commemorate anew the tragic events that occurred in 1692-93. Beginning in January 1692 with the "affliction" of young girls--the daughter...
THE PORT ROYAL EARTHQUAKE.(Port Royal, Jamaica earthquake in 1692)
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the earthquake that shattered Jamaica in 1692, and reviews the complex lessons that preachers drew from it. ON JUNE 7TH, 1692, Dr Emmanuel Heath, the Anglican rector...speaks to men on Earth.' For observers in 1692, God had never spoken more clearly than...