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Mary Astell
Mary Astell , 1666-1731, English author and feminist. Her Serious Proposal to the Ladies (2 parts, 1694-97) offered a scheme for a women's college, an idea far in advance of the time. The project was not realized, and her ideas were ridiculed in the Tatler, possibly by Swift and Addison. ... Read more
Edward Capell
Edward Capell , 1731-81, English Shakespearean scholar. His 10-volume edition of Shakespeare (1768) was the first to incorporate exact collations of all available old texts. He followed this with a commentary, Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (3 vol., 1783). ... Read more
William Williams
William Williams 1731-1811, political leader in the American Revolution , signer of the Declaration of Independence , b. Lebanon, Conn. He served in the French and Indian War and held many public offices before becoming a Connecticut delegate (1776-78, 1783-84) to the Continental Congress. ... Read more
Edward Cave
Edward Cave 1691-1754, English publisher. He founded (1731) the Gentleman's Magazine, the first modern magazine in English. Cave gave Samuel Johnson his first regular literary employment when he printed (1741-44) Johnson's parliamentary reports, "Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia," in... Read more
Foggia
Foggia , city (1991 pop. 156,268), capital of Foggia prov., in Apulia, S Italy. It is a transportation and industrial center and the main wheat market of S Italy. It is a highly diversified secondary industrial center. It has long been the custom to store grain in huge holes dug in the squares of th... Read more
Fort Frances
Fort Frances town (1991 pop. 8,891), SW Ont., Canada, on Rainy River, opposite International Falls, Minn. It is chiefly a lumbering center with sawmills and a pulp and paper factory. Tourism is also an important industry, with abundant fishing and hunting nearby. Formerly there was a Hudson's Bay C... Read more
John Hadley
John Hadley 1682-1744, English instrument maker. An optician by trade, Hadley built reflecting telescopes, based on Newton's model, that had greater resolution than the cumbersome refractors then in use. In 1731 he built a reflecting octant, based on Newton's sketch, that prefigured the modern naut... Read more
Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse , 1699-1783, German composer; pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti. Hasse was court composer at Dresden (1731-63). He wrote masses, oratorios and cantatas, sonatas, and concertos but was known chiefly for over 60 operas, written in a thoroughly Italianized style. They include Artaserse... Read more
George Lillo
George Lillo 1693-1739, English dramatist. The son of a prosperous jeweller, he was for many years his father's partner in the trade. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell (1731), the first prose domestic tragedy in English. Though the p... Read more
David Lloyd
David Lloyd c.1656-1731, political leader in colonial Pennsylvania, b. Wales. Having been commissioned attorney general of Pennsylvania by William Penn, Lloyd arrived in Philadelphia in 1686. He later became a member of the provincial assembly, acting as its speaker and serving in the provincial co... Read more

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Beaumont, John (d. 1731)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Beaumont, John (d. 1731) British geologist, surgeon, and author of An Historical Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts...
Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World DEFOE, DANIEL (1660 – 1731) DEFOE, DANIEL (1660 – 1731), English journalist, economist, and travel writer, often considered to be the first English novelist. Daniel Defoe wrote approximately 560 books, pamphlets...
SIC 1731 Electrical Work
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries SIC 1731ELECTRICAL WORK This category covers special trade contractors primarily engaged in electrical work at the site. The construction of transmission lines is classified in SIC 1623: Water, Sewer, Pipeline, and Communications and Power Line Construction, and electrical work carried on in repair
San Antonio
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...opened along the river—San José (1719), Concepción (1731), San Francisco de la Espada (1731), and San Juan Capistrano (1731)—and the neighboring town of San Fernando (now the heart of San Antonio...
Prévost D'exiles, Antoine-François (1697–1763)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the author of the novel Manon Lescaut (1731), a love story with tragic overtones...de qualit é (1728 – 1731; Memoirs and adventures of a man of quality...novel, Cleveland, le philosophe anglais (1731 – 1739; Cleveland, the English...
Parma
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Italian ruling families and Spain. The dynasty ended when Duke Antonio (1679 – 1731; ruled 1727 – 1731) died without heirs in 1731. Because Elisabetta Farnese (1692 – 1766) was the wife of King Philip V of Spain...
William Cowper
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...most characteristic work of the English poet William Cowper (1731-1800) is gentle and pious in mood and deals with retired rural...and Victorian authors. William Cowper was born on Nov. 26, 1731; his mother was a descendant of the poet John Donne. He studied...
Robert Rogers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Robert Rogers The colonial American Robert Rogers (1731-1795) was a frontiersman and army officer in the French...Robert Rogers was born in Methuen, Mass., on Nov. 18, 1731. He grew up in Dunbarton, N.H. Though formal education...
Charles Lee
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Charles Lee British-born General Charles Lee (1731-1782) joined the forces of George Washington's Continental...was born in Dernhall, Cheshire, England, on January 25, 1731. His father, a former colonel in the British Army, encouraged...
Banneker, Benjamin
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Benjamin Banneker Born: November 9, 1731 Baltimore County, Maryland Died: October 9, 1806 Baltimore County...Americans in early U.S. history. Early life On November 9, 1731, Benjamin Banneker was born in Baltimore County, Maryland. He...

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Miller, Philip
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...editions of his Gardeners Dictionary from 1731 to 1768. As Richard Pulteney stated in...Gardeners and Florists Dictionary , replaced in 1731 by the one-volume folio Gardeners Dictionary...is his Gardeners Dictionary (London, 1731: 2nd ed., 1733; 3rd ed., 1737...
Connecticut
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of funding before it was complete. In 1731, it all began again, this time with a...line was acceptable where it matched the 1731 line, about which there was still uncertainty...legislatures ratified the 1860 (based on the 1731) border, and in 1881, the United States...
Fouchy, Jean-Paul Grandjean De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...a supernumerary assistant astronomer in 1731, he succeeded to regular membership in...Mercury. A few were more general: in 1731, a proposal for giving astronomical tables...aux tables astronomiques ” (1731), 433 – 442; “ Sur...
Greenwood, Isaac
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Changes of the Material World (Boston, 1731) and three papers which appeared in the...Meteors, ” 35 (1710 – 1731), 390 – 402; “ A...Properties of Damps, ” 36 (1731 – 1732.), 184 –...
Bouguer, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of observing the altitudes of stars at sea (1729), and on the observation at sea of the magnetic declination (1731). In 1731 Bouguer was made an associate geometrician of the Acad é mie Royale, and in 1735 he became a full Academician...
Ferrein, Antoine
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...applications for the chairs of medicine and chemistry were refused (1731 – 1732), however, he left Montpellier for Paris...anatomy at the Jardin du Roi. He died following a stroke. In 1731, while he was competing for the chair of medicine at Montpellier...
Vienna, treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Vienna, treaty of, 1731. By the second treaty of Vienna of March 1731, Britain guaranteed Maria Theresa's succession to the Habsburg dominions under the pragmatic sanction, while the Emperor Charles VI agreed to wind up the Ostend Company...
Clairaut, Alexis-Claude
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...curves. This work culminated in 1729 in a treatise (published in 1731) that led to his election to the Academy. The Academy proposed...September 1729, but it was not confirmed by the king until 11 July 1731, at which time he was still only eighteen. In the Academy...
Dufay (Du Fay), Charles-François Decisternai
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...May 1723. He became associate chemist in 1724, pensionary in 1731, and director in 1733 and 1738. Dufay very quickly justified...containing them stand upright. The last two memoirs (1730, 1731), which attempt to measure the force of magnetic poles, are...
Musschenbroek, Petrus van
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...German. He refused offers of academic chairs at Copenhagen in 1731 and at G ö ttingen in 1737; but at the end of 1739 he...accounts into Latin, adding reports concerning his own work (1731). Many of his instruments were made

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Attributions of authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-36: a supplement to the Union List.(List)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Gentleman's Magazine (hereafter GM) during 1731-36, the first six years of the GM...Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List. The...if any). CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING 1 (1731): 23. V: "Another [epitaph for Anna...
Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806
Newspaper article from: New Pittsburgh Courier; 9/1/2001; 700+ words ; Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806 Scientists are thinkers. Sometimes they make things work better...numbers. Benjamin Banneker was such a person. Banneker was born Nov. 9, 1731, near Baltimore, Md. His father was a freed slave named Robert. His...
SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS ARMS, TRAVEL EMBARGOES IN LIBERIA FOR ONE YEAR, DIAMOND RESTRICTIONS FOR SIX MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1731 (2006)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/20/2006; 700+ words ; ...the conditions for doing so. Unanimously adopting resolution 1731 (2006) under the Charter's Chapter VII, the Council will...adjourned at 3:22 p.m. Resolution The full text of resolution 1731 (2006) reads as follows: "The Security Council, "Recalling...
Hottest autumn since 1731 ; Late leaf-fall is a sign of global warming, scientists warn
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/24/2006; ; 520 words ; ...London's parks and gardens gold and russet, Met Office monitoring shows the country is on track for the hottest autumn since 1731. Then, the mean temperature between 1 September and the end of November was 11.8C. Official figures for this year have not...
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Benjamin Banneker, November 9, 1731. (birthday of mathematician, engineer and astronomer who helped layout Washington, D.C., made the first American clock and published an annual almanac)(This Week in Black History)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet; 11/13/1995; 555 words ; November 9, 1731 Benjamin Banneker was born in Ellicott Mills, MD, on this day. Mr. Banneker was a self-taught mathematician and astronomer...
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A Political Academy in Paris, 1724-1731: The Entresol and its Members. (Book Reviews: French Studies).
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