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Athol
Athol , town (1990 pop. 11,451), Worcester co., N Mass.; inc. 1762. Athol manufactures furniture, toys, lumber, textiles, and precision tools. The area was settled in 1735. ... Read more
Edmé Bouchardon
Edmé Bouchardon , 1698-1762, French sculptor; pupil of Guillaume Coustou. He is known for his fountain in the Rue de Grenelle, Paris, and for numerous works at Versailles, in the Louvre, and in Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Bouchardon was famous for the classical purity of his style. ... Read more
William Falconer
William Falconer , 1732-69, Scottish poet. The victim of a shipwreck off Greece, he described his ordeal in a long, didactic poem, The Shipwreck (1762). He also wrote (1769) a source book on shipping and naval practices. ... Read more
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves , 1720?-1778, English engineer. In 1762 he made an unsuccessful attempt to develop a machine for carding, a process preparatory to spinning , and in 1764 he invented the spinning jenny, which resulted in doubling production in the carding process. ... Read more
Richard Hurd
Richard Hurd 1720-1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), an examination of knight-errantry and Gothic literature. ... Read more
William Robertson
William Robertson 1721-93, Scottish churchman and historian. As moderator (1762-80) of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, he led the moderate party and enforced the right of the state to make clerical appointments. Robertson was one of the first to approach history as an empirical scie... Read more
John Ashe
John Ashe c.1720-1781, American Revolutionary general, b. Brunswick co., N.C. Speaker of the colonial assembly (1762-65) and a leader of the opposition to the Stamp Act, he was important to the patriot cause in North Carolina. On Mar. 3, 1778, Ashe, a major general commanding North Carolina troops,... Read more
Francesco Geminiani
Francesco Geminiani , 1687-1762, Italian composer and violinist; pupil of Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. He immigrated (c.1730) to the British Isles, settling in Ireland, where he gave concerts and taught. In addition he composed music and wrote several works on violin technique that pr... Read more
Glens Falls
Glens Falls city (1990 pop. 15,023), Warren co., E central N.Y., in the foothills of the Adirondack Mts. and on the Hudson River; settled 1762, inc. as a city 1908. Major industries include lumber, paper, and electronics. A navy training center is there. Noteworthy are Cooper's Cave and the Hyde Co... Read more
Thomas Godfrey
Thomas Godfrey 1736-63, American poet and playwright, b. Philadelphia. The son of Thomas Godfrey, who invented the quadrant, he became apprenticed to a watchmaker after his father's early death. Godfrey is remembered as the author of The Prince of Parthia (1767), a blank verse tragedy reminiscent... Read more

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Niles, Samuel (1674–1762). Congregational Clergyman of Rhode Island
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Niles, Samuel (1674–1762). Congregational Clergyman of Rhode Island, was a prominent religious controversialist and historian. His works include Tristitice...
Catherine II (Russia) (1729–1796; Ruled 1762–1796)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...RUSSIA) (1729 – 1796; ruled 1762 – 1796) CATHERINE II (RUSSIA) (1729 – 1796; ruled 1762 – 1796), empress of Russia...consort to the emperor (six months in 1762), and as monarch (1762 –...
Elizabeth (Russia) (1709–1762; Ruled 1741–1762)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ELIZABETH (RUSSIA) (1709 – 1762; ruled 1741 – 1762) ELIZABETH (RUSSIA) (1709 – 1762; ruled 1741 – 1762), empress of Russia. Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter...
Peter III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History PETER III (1728 – 1762), emperor of Russia, January 5, 1762, to July 9, 1762. The future Peter III was born Karl Peter Ulrich in Kiel, Germany, in February 1728, the son of the duke of Holstein and Peter I's daughter Anna...
Catherine II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Catherine the Great," Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796. Recognized worldwide...Emperor Peter III (1728 – 1762). Whatever her actual complicity, his...her husband's short-lived reign in 1762 she gave birth to another son, Alexei...
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...sur les sciences et les arts. The second (1750-1762) saw the publication of his closely related major...loïse (1761), L'Émile (1762), and Du contrat social (1762). The last period (1762-1778) found Rousseau...
Seven Years War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and (after 1762) Spain on the one side and Prussia, Great...British subsidies. The death (Jan., 1762) of Elizabeth of Russia and the accession...Peace By the Treaty of St. Petersburg (1762) Russia made peace and restored all conquests...
Grain Trade
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...the domestic and foreign markets. Before 1762 the export of grain was conducted under...permission reluctantly. As a result, before 1762 grain trade was limited mainly to the empire...declaration of freedom of grain trade in 1762 did a systematic growth of grain exports...
Sectarianism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Selivanov was actually Emperor Peter III (r. 1762) — the unfortunate husband of Catherine the Great (r. 1762 – 1796). Though the real Peter III was killed in Catherine's 1762 coup, the Castrates held that he actually escaped...
Manifesto of 1763
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...from several circumstances. In October 1762 the newly crowned empress ordered the Senate...short manifesto of mid – December 1762 was translated into "all foreign languages...it. In preparing the two manifestoes of 1762 – 1763 the Senate discovered...

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The Writ of Assistance (1762)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History THE WRIT OF ASSISTANCE (1762) By 1761, cracks were appearing in the relationship between Great Britain and her colonies in the New World. At issue were frequent...
General Will
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...formulation he gave it in his Du contrat social (1762; On the social contract). Interpretations...Julie (1761); a pedagogical work, Emile (1762); and his political treatise, the Social Contract (1762). When the Social Contract and Emile were...
Bezout, Étienne
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2013; 1760) were investigations of integration, but by 1762 he was devoting all his research time to algebra. In his mathematical...plusieurs classes d ’ é quations ” (1762). This paper provides a method of solution for certain n th...
D’arcet, Jean
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xE9; gent of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris on 18 November 1762, d ’ Arcet never practiced medicine. Rather, he...excremento tum recremento ex fermentatione producuntur (Paris, 1762), his doctoral thesis; Analyses compar é es des eaux...
Gleichen-Russworm, Wilhelm Friedrich von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xFC; ths- und Augenerg ö tzungen (1759 – 1762); it was this work which led Gleichen-Russworm to concentrate...microscopy. Lederm ü ller visited Schloss Greifenstein in 1762, and Gleichen-Russworm continued to benefit from his advice...
Hudson, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...stirpium Britannicarum in terms of the Linnean system. Thus, in 1762 he published Flora Anglica , which incorporated the work of other...x2019; s only published book is Flora Anglica (London, 1762; 2nd, enl. ed., 1778; 2nd ed. repr. 1789). From 1768...
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...secco recit. His ballet Don Juan (1761) and opera Orfeo (1762) embodied these principles which reached full expression in...xE8; pastore (Vienna 1756); Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna 1762); Telemaco (Vienna 1765); Paride ed Elena (Vienna 1770...
Galuppi, Baldassare
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Ass. choirmaster of St Mark's, Venice, 1748, choirmaster 1762. Visited St Petersburg 1766–8. His 112 operas incl...1742); Il filosofo di campagna (1752); Il re pastore (1762); and Ifigenia in Tauride (1768). Also wrote oratorios...
Anson, George, 1st Baron Anson
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Anson, George, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762). A circumnavigator of the world, Anson shared some attributes with plundering Elizabethan...politics qualified him for a peerage and spells as 1st lord of the Admiralty from 1751 to 1762.
Revett, Nicholas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Painters and Architects were made (the first volume appeared in 1762). This was one of the key publications leading to the Greek...Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); S&R (1762–1816); Wiebenson (1969)

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OMB ISSUES STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY REGARDING S. 1762 - HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS ACT OF 2007
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/18/2007; 700+ words ; ...statement of administration policy: S. 1762 - Higher Education Access Act of 2007...Administration cannot support Senate passage of S. 1762 in its current form because of serious...The Administration appreciates that S. 1762 includes a number of proposals from the...
Councilor says Biddeford has claim to island ; A document dating from 1762 is the source of disagreement over which city owns Saco Island.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 4/15/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...claim to island ; A document dating from 1762 is the source of disagreement over which...Island. Councilor Fred Staples has cited a 1762 act by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...questions that he believes arise from the 1762 document. "We're taking it pretty seriously...
An "Ossianic" Tribute to the Prince of Wales: Thomas Potts's Verses in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1762.(On the Birth of a Prince, in Imitation of Ossian)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Verses in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1762 Amid the fascination with Ossian that began...an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books (1762)--a fascination that would pit Hugh...its account of the birth of George IV in 1762 (Anonymous 387), published a grandiloquent...
Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda: The Fermiers Generaux Edition of La Fontaine's 'Contes et nouvelles en vers' of 1762.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...s 'Contes et nouvelles en vers' of 1762. By DAVID ADAMS. (SVEC, II) Oxford...after the volume had been published in 1762, they withdrew it from sale. Adams suggests...of Eisen's illustrations that make the 1762 edition so distinctive and that underline...
'EMISSARIES OF PEACE: THE 1762 CHEROKEE AND BRITISH DELEGATIONS' OPENS AT SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/18/2007; 700+ words ; ...press release: "Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations," an...vivid mirror images: Cherokee society in 1762, as seen by British lieutenant and diarist...Emissaries of Peace" chronicles a peaceful 1762 encounter: the visit of a British delegation...
The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 1762-1907
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 1762-1907. London: Pearson Education, 2001...abolition of compulsory noble state service in 1762 to Nicholas II's proclamation on the...serfdom lay in Peter Ill's measures in 1762 to end compulsory noble state service and...
Early modern European -- Die Berichte der Pastoralvisitationen des Gorzer Erzbischofs Karl Michael von Attems in Karnten von 1751 bis 1762 by Peter G. Tropper
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Michael von Attems in Kaernten von 1751 bis 1762. By Peter G. Tropper. Oesterreichische...undertaken during the years 1751, 1756 and 1762 by Archbishop Karl Michael von Attems of...1,665 baptisms performed in the year 1762, only 77 (or 4.6%) were of illegitimate...
Russia; 1762-1825; military power, the state, and the people.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 469 words ; 9780275978716 Russia; 1762-1825; military power, the state, and the people. Hartley, Janet...Hardcover Studies in military history and international affairs DK52 From 1762 through 1825, Russia was almost continually at war. Hartley (international...
CHINA NEEDS 1762 PASSENGER PLANES IN THE COMING 20 YEARS
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 11/6/2002; 373 words ; 00-00-0000 China Needs 1762 Passenger Planes in the Coming 20 years CHINA, Nov 06, 2002 (SinoCast...report today. The report predicts that, China' s civil aviation needs 1762 passenger planes in the coming 20 years. It is said that 79.8 of...
United States: Motion Controllers enhance MicroLogix 1762 functionality.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 10/29/2009; 700+ words ; ...drives with step/direction input. Unleash the power of your 1762 MicroLogix I/O with AMCI's new 3100 series two-axis motion...product releases: Resolver and SSI interface modules for the 1762 MicroLogix I/O. Both are scheduled to release early 2010...