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ballad opera
ballad opera in English drama, a play of comic, satiric, or pastoral intent, interspersed with songs, most of them sung to popular airs. First and best was The Beggar's Opera (1728) by John Gay . The vogue for these operas lasted until c.1750. ... Read more
Joseph Bellamy
Joseph Bellamy 1719-90, New England clergyman, b. Cheshire, Conn. A follower of Jonathan Edwards and a powerful revivalist of the Great Awakening , he preached in Bethlehem, Conn., for 52 years. Bellamy wrote True Religion Delineated (1750) and pamphlets in opposition to the Half-Way Covenant. ... Read more
Lemuel Hopkins
Lemuel Hopkins 1750-1801, American poet and physician, b. Waterbury, Conn. One of the Connecticut Wits , he collaborated with several others in writing popular political satires. He was one of the most advanced and distinguished physicians of his time and founder of the Medical Society of Connecti... Read more
Ludlow
Ludlow town (1990 pop. 18,820), Hampden co., SW Mass., on the Chicopee River; settled c.1750, set off from Springfield 1774, inc. 1775. It is a residential suburb of Springfield and Chicopee. Industrial molds, plastic products, and twine are produced. ... Read more
Robert Feke
Robert Feke , c.1705-c.1750, early American portrait painter, b. Oyster Bay, N.Y. He practiced in Newport, R.I., New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston. He probably studied in Europe for a time, but soon developed a very personal painting style. His best-known portrait of Isaac Royall and his famil... Read more
Brown, Thomas
Brown, Thomas (1750–1825) Revolutionary War soldier and superintendent of the Southern Indian Department, born in Whitby, England. A conspicuous Loyalist, Brown was an early target of the Georgia Whigs. He promoted the strategy of recruiting Indian allies to fight revolutionaries, and recrui... Read more
Ciudad Victoria
Ciudad Victoria , city (1990 pop. 194,996), capital of Tamaulipas state, NE Mexico, on the San Marcos River and at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental. The city, founded in 1750, lies on the Inter-American Highway and on a major rail line. Agricultural products, especially henequen, are processed ... Read more
John Cleland
John Cleland 1709-87, English novelist. His Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1750), commonly known as Fanny Hill, was an immediate popular success; the novel's notoriety led to a number of official efforts to ban it over the next two centuries. Traditionally considered the first great pornograph... Read more
Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Biddle 1750-78, American naval officer, b. Philadelphia. Biddle left the British navy in 1773. In the American Revolution he became captain in the patriot navy and daringly raided British shipping off the American coast. After receiving command (1777) of the ship Randolph, Biddle was kil... Read more
William Jasper
William Jasper c.1750-79, American Revolutionary soldier, b. South Carolina (possibly near Georgetown). He joined William Moultrie's regiment early in the Revolution (1775), was made sergeant, and was ordered to Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in Charleston harbor. There he bravely rehoisted the ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1750"

Southcott, Joanna (1750-1814)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Southcott, Joanna (1750-1814) British prophetess of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who announced that she had a divine pregnancy. She was born on April 25, 1750, one of the daughters of a farmer in the village of Gittisham, East...
Bacstrom, Sigismond (ca. 1750-1805)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Bacstrom, Sigismond (ca. 1750-1805) Physician who was also an alchemist and a Rosicrucian. Believed to be of Scandinavian origin, he spent some time as...
Fitzlar, Martin von (ca. 1750)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Fitzlar, Martin von (ca. 1750) German alchemist who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was probably a Hessian, residing chiefly at the...
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...Nederlandtsche kunstschilders en schilderessen in 1750, her artfulness "was all the more astonishing and...
Muratori, Ludovicoantonio (1672–1750)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World MURATORI, LUDOVICOANTONIO (1672 – 1750) MURATORI, LUDOVICOANTONIO (1672 – 1750), Italian historian, reformer, and ecclesiastic. Probably the most important figure of the early Italian Enlightenment, Muratori at first...
Kołłątaj, Hugo (1750–1812)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World KO Ł Ł Ą TAJ, HUGO (1750 – 1812) KO Ł Ł Ą TAJ, HUGO (1750 – 1812), Polish cleric, reformer of education, politician, promoter of Enlightenment thought, historian...
Economics and Children in Western Societies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...difficult, if not impossible. Before 1750 most proletarianization was the result...majority of the urban population. After 1750 this trajectory of social decline was supplemented...million in 1500 to around 127.5 million in 1750, reaching almost 300 million in 1900...
agricultural revolution
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...although there was some slack in demand c. 1750 and a shortfall by 1815 of about 5 per...fed from home production compared with 1750. However, questions have been raised...process. The first phase, completed by c. 1750–70, saw two developments...
Population Growth
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...population grew very slowly until about 1750. There was a long period of stationary...from 1000 b.c.e. to approximately 1750, at which time global population was an...conditions, and general poverty. After 1750, the world's population grew substantially...
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...means alien to German expression. From 1748 to 1750 Klopstock was a tutor in Langensalza. From July 1750 to February 1751 he was Johann Jakob Bodmer...breach in their friendship was unavoidable. In 1750 Klopstock composed the ode Der Z ü...

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Iron Act of 1750
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History IRON ACT OF 1750 IRON ACT OF 1750 was passed by Parliament to encourage iron production in the colonies. It provided for duty-free importation of colonial pig iron and (by a later extension of the law) bar iron into any English port. English...
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Academy botanical garden. In April 1750 Krash. eninnikov was appointed professor...in Torzhestvo Akademii nauk 6 sentyabrya 1750 g ( “ Festival of the Academy of Sciences, 6 September 1750 ” ; St. Petersburg, 1750...
agricultural revolution
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...fed from home production compared with 1750. However, questions have been raised...process. The first phase, completed by c. 1750–70, saw two developments...the second phase, lasting from around 1750 to 1830, demand increased rapidly. In...
Eigtved, Nils
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Carl Friedrich Pöppelmann (d. 1750) in Dresden and Warsaw before returning...with its octagonal Amalienborg Square (1750–5), the finest and most noble...He also designed the Royal Theatre (1750), Frederik Hospital (1752), and several...
enclosures
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...enclosure took place in the period c. 1630– c. 1750. From 1750 Parliament began to pass bills to allow for the enclosure...certain clearly defined conditions. As a result, between 1750 and 1830 in England more than 4,000 enclosure Acts...
Religion and the State: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...evangelicization and orthodoxy, 1492 – c.1750, (2) the secular state, c.1750 – 1892, (3) Rerum Novarum, 1892 to...Evangelical and Orthodox Period, 1492 – c.1750 Once Europeans discovered the Western Hemisphere...
Halfpenny, William
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...England, while his Twelve Beautiful Designs for Farm Houses (1750) and other publications showed he was capable of designing for...charming Gothick orangery at Frampton-on-Severn, Glos. ( c. 1750). At least twelve of his publications were known in the American...
Wood Family
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Streets (1740–3), and then Gay Street (from c. 1750) and the Circus (begun 1754). The last was an important innovation...Dissertation Upon the Orders of Columns and their Appendages (1750). His meanderings drew on a curiously dotty volume ( Chronology...
Cramer Gabriel
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...philosophy and Cramer received the chair of mathematics. In 1750 he was made professor of philosophy when Calandrini entered the...analyse des lignes courbes alg é briques , was published in 1750. During the previous decade he had edited the collected works...
Hill, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...in 1758. Hill acquired a medical degree from St. Andrews in 1750 (probably by purchase) and published many works on medicine...1753) and editor of the British Magazine (1740 – 1750). He was married twice, first to a Miss Travers and then to...

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Cisco Announces New Cisco 1750 Platform Enabling Voice/Data Integration for Small and Medium Businesses and Enterprise Small Branch Office.
Business Wire; 8/9/1999; 700+ words ; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 1999-- Cisco 1750 Modular Access Router Delivers Flexibility...Internet, today announced the new Cisco 1750 modular access router, extending the functionality...networks now or in the future, the Cisco 1750 provides a flexible, cost-effective...
Kyocera Enchances Its Printer Line With The FS-1750 Mid-Volume Networkable Laser Printer.
Business Wire; 9/20/1999; 700+ words ; ...for Small Workgroups, the 14 PPM FS-1750 is a High Performance, Low-Maintenance...the 14 page-per-minute (ppm) FS-1750. At an MSRP of $899, this new laser...workgroups. Users can expect the FS-1750's high speed processor (Power PC 603e...
THE SAMSUNG ML-1750 LASER PRINTER; A SIMPLE, USER-FRIENDLY, ECONOMICAL, HIGH QUALITY B&W PRINTER.(Technews)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 4/5/2004; 700+ words ; ...until I set my eyes on the new Samsung ML-1750 Monochrome Laser Printer. When I received...the box, included were the Samsung ML-1750 laser printer, starter toner cartridge...installing the printer took SAMSUNG ML-1750 LASER PRINTER me less than that. When...
La trace du fleuve, La Seine et Paris (1750-1850). (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
Magazine article from: Urban History Review; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...La trace du fleuve, La Seine et Paris (1750-1850). Paris: Editions de I'Ecole...parties, l'ouvrage couvre la periode 1750 a 1850, soit au moment ou do [much less...fleuve et ses abords au tournant des annees 1750. Grace a un usage judicieux des documents...
Compaq Armada 1750: Easily Manage The Armada.(Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: Computer Shopper; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Software and SMART hard drives, the Armada 1750 targets the corporate set There are several...replacements. Compaq Computer Corp.'s Armada 1750 is one such unit--with a few added attractions...direct price of $3,599. The Armada 1750 is built around the new 366MHz Mobile Pentium...
Procom Expands Family of NAS Solutions with NetFORCE 1750 Enhanced Architecture Improves Performance and Scalability.
Business Wire; 4/3/2002; 700+ words ; ...PRCM) today announced the NetFORCE(TM) 1750, one of the highest density network attached...solutions available today. The NetFORCE 1750, which replaces the NetFORCE 1700, features...architecture for future expansion. The NetFORCE 1750 is designed for companies and departments...
REPEAT/Procom Expands Family of NAS Solutions with NetFORCE 1750 Enhanced Architecture Improves Performance and Scalability.
Business Wire; 4/10/2002; 700+ words ; ...PRCM) today announced the NetFORCE(TM) 1750, one of the highest density network attached...solutions available today. The NetFORCE 1750, which replaces the NetFORCE 1700, features...architecture for future expansion. The NetFORCE 1750 is designed for companies and departments...
Procom's NetFORCE 1750 NAS Filer Approved for Suppliers Implementing Ford's C3P Initiative.
PR Newswire; 10/21/2002; 700+ words ; ...today announced that its NetFORCE(R) 1750 NAS filer has been approved for use by...product and vehicle programs. The NetFORCE 1750 was tested by the EDS PLM Supplier Integration...this further validation of our NetFORCE 1750 filer and the opportunity to be part of...
Glazbena kultura u Splitskoj Katedrali od 1750. do 1940. Musical Culture in the Split Cathedral from 1750 till 1940. (Music in Eastern Europe).(Katalog muzikalija u Benediktinskom samostanu sv. Petra u Cresu/Catalogue of Music Manuscripts and Prints in the Benedictine Convent of St. Peter in Cres by Vedrana Juricic)
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Glazbena kultura u Splitskoj Katedrali od 1750. do 1940./Musical Culture in the Split Cathedral from 1750 till 1940. By Miljenko Grgic. (Muzikoloske...twenty-six documented chapel masters from 1750 to the periodjust before Yugoslavia was...
Masterpieces of Music Before 1750: An Anthology of Musical Examples from Gregorian Chant to J. S. Bach
Magazine article from: The American Music Teacher; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Masterpieces of Music Before 1750: An Anthology of Musical Examples from...Parrish.) Masterpieces of Music Before 1750 is a compilation of selected musical examples...this text. Masterpieces ofMusic Before 1750 may serve as a companion reference guide...