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Charles Dibdin
Charles Dibdin 1745-1814, English songwriter and theatrical entrepreneur. His best-known songs are from his ballad operas, such as The Bells of Aberdovey from Liberty Hall (1785) and To Bachelors' Hall and Tom Bowling from The Oddities (1789). ... Read more
University of Georgia
University of Georgia at Athens, Ga.; land-grant and state-supported; coeducational; chartered 1785 as the first state-supported university in the United States, opened 1801. The university's library contains the DeRenne and Moore collections of Georgiana and a large mathematics collection. ... Read more
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1785-1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier . He served in the Peninsular War and wrote a famous and still authoritative History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vol., 1828-40). ... Read more
John Wolcot
John Wolcot , pseud. Peter Pindar, 1738-1819, English poet. He wrote several satires, notably Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians (1782-83), Bozzy and Piozzi (1786), and The Lousiad (1785-95). Bibliography: See study by R. L. Vales (1973). ... Read more
Torbern Olof Bergman
Torbern Olof Bergman , 1735-84, Swedish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. A professor at the Univ. of Uppsala from 1758, he developed a theory of chemical affinity, made improvements in the methods of chemical analysis and in the classification of rocks, and did important research in crystallogr... Read more
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright 1743-1823, English inventor and clergyman. He was the inventor of an imperfect power loom that, when finally patented (1785), became the parent of the modern loom. It was the first machine to make practical the weaving of wide cotton cloth. A few of Cartwright's many other inventi... Read more
David Dale
David Dale 1739-1806, Scottish cotton manufacturer and philanthropist. In 1785 he built New Lanark, a cotton mill and model community that provided his employees with good housing and schools. He was succeeded at New Lanark by his son-in-law, Robert Owen , who later made the community world famous... Read more
William Few
William Few 1748-1828, political leader in the American Revolution, b. near Baltimore. He was raised in North Carolina and was involved in the Regulator movement there. He later moved to Georgia. Few participated in partisan activities in the American Revolution, served in the Continental Congres... Read more
Nachman Krochmal
Nachman Krochmal , 1785-1840, Jewish secular historian and writer, b. Galicia. He was a leader in the movement of the Jewish enlightenment and a pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship. He applied his synthesis of religion and philosophy to the writing and teaching of Jewish history. His most important... Read more
Lanark
Lanark , town (1991 pop. 9,778), South Lanarkshire, S central Scotland, on the Clyde River. It has cattle markets and textile mills. There are hydroelectric power stations at the Falls of Clyde, just S of Lanark. Sir William Wallace 's first act of rebellion (1297) was the murder of the English she... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1785"

Land Ordinance of 1785
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785 The Land Ordinance of 1785 was the second of three land ordinances passed by the Confederation...in the area. The following year, in the Land Ordinance of 1785, Jefferson's committee established the way in which the territory...
Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785–1819) and Matthew (1794–1858)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785–1819) and Matthew (1794–1858), naval officers.Born in Rhode Island, the sons of Captain Christopher...
Adam Sedgwick
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Sedgwick The English geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was the founder of the Cambrian...Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, at Dent in his ancestral region of the...Adam Sedgwick, geologist and dalesman, 1785-1873: a biography in twelve themes...
Crabbe, George
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...and in 1781 he became curate at Aldeburgh, then from 1782 to 1785 was chaplain to the duke of Rutland at Belvoir. In 1783, after...infertile landscape described with a botanist's precision. In 1785 he published a satirical work, The Newspaper . A long interval...
Warton, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Oxford (1757–67), and became poet laureate in 1785, an appointment celebrated in the Probationary Odes (see Rolliad...revive), and light verse; he edited the early poems of Milton (1785). He also edited The Oxford Sausage (1764), a celebrated...
De Quincey, Thomas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Thomas De Quincey English writer Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) wrote prolifically and in numerous fields...Thomas Quincey in the English city of Manchester on August 15, 1785. The family later adopted the name De Quincey, hypothesizing...
Peter Cartwright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Peter Cartwright The American preacher Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was largely responsible for the rapid growth of Methodism...Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys. Born on Sept. 1, 1785, Peter Cartwright followed his pioneering father, Justinian...
Alessandro Manzoni
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) wrote I promessi sposi, or The Betrothed, Italy's...romanticism. Alessandro Manzoni was born in Milan on March 7, 1785. His parents, elderly Count Pietro and young Giulia, separated...
John McLean
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography John McLean The American politician and judge John McLean (1785-1861) was perhaps the most politically conscious justice in...John McLean was born in Morris County, N.J., on March 11, 1785, to Fergus McLean, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian weaver turned...
Inchbald, Elizabeth
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...husband died, and later appeared at Covent Garden , retiring in 1785 to devote herself to playwriting after the moderate success of her first plays, which included I'll Tell You What (1785), The Widow's Vow (1786), and, from the French, The...

Dictionary entries related to "1785"

Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ORDINANCES OF 1784, 1785, AND 1787 ORDINANCES OF 1784, 1785, AND 1787. In a series of ordinances enacted between 1784...The ordinance, eventually adopted by Congress on 20 May 1785, incorporated the prior survey principle, dividing the...
Pilatre De Rozier, Jean François
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Wimille, near Boulogne. France, 15 June 1785) education, aeronautics . The son of...but soon moved to the rue de Valois. By 1785 it had 700 members, including the academicians...English Channel, and early in January 1785 he was at English Channel, and early in...
Legendre, Adrien-Marie
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Recueil des savants é trangers (1785). He also submitted to Laplace essays...xE9; termin é e ” (1785) contains, among other things, the demonstration...section he was promoted to associ é (1785). In 1787, along with Cassini IV and...
Lhéritier De Brutelle, Charles Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and the group around the Encyclop é die. In 1785 L ’ H é ritier started his botanical...et iconibus illustravit, 9 fascs . (Paris, 1784-1785 [published 1785-1805]); Sertum anglicum, seu plantae rariores...
Indian Removal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...southeastern tribes that began with the first Treaty of Hopewell in 1785. Many citizens of the southeastern states, especially Georgia...others who had accepted a land exchange and gone westward between 1785 and 1800. After the War of 1812 and the elimination of the British...
Land Policy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...lands northwest of the Ohio River to the federal government. In 1785, the original public domain became the Northwest Territory...United States became part of the public domain. And between 1785 and 1934, more than 70 percent of the public lands from Ohio...
School Lands
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...purpose of funding elementary schools. Beginning with the Ordinance of 1785, Congress granted one out of thirty-six sections in each township to...for Education ; Land Policy ; Northwest Territory ; Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787 .
Bournon, Jacques-Louis, Comte De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Forez et sur l ’ origine de ses charbons de pierre (1785). In England, Bournon lectured frequently on mineralogy and...sur l ’ origine de ses charbons de pierre (Paris, 1785); Trait é complet de la chaux carbonat é e...
Frisi, Paolo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...geometria analitica (1782) Meccancia (1783), and Cosmografia (1785), in which he brought together the best of his work, were...Milan, 1781); Opera, 3 vols . (Milan, 1782 – 1785); and Operte seclte (Milan, 1825). His many papers include...
Pelletier, Bertrand
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...by using the techniques of slow evaporation and seeding. In 1785 he confirmed C. W. Scheele ’ s discovery that the...x2019; s important series of researches on phosphorus (1785 – 1792) included the preparation, for the first time...

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DINING OUT: ; Tavern 1785 offers fine food experience in historic town
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 10/24/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...that we should try Lewisburg's Tavern 1785, an excellent place for great food. We...invited six people to dinner at Tavern 1785 on West Washington Street. On that late...and horseradish creme fraiche. Tavern 1785 has an extensive wine list. Hess Chardonnay...
ComReg offers 1785-1805MHz licence to Personal Broadband UK.(Ireland's Commission for Communications Regulation)(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire; 4/30/2007; 700+ words ; ...TELECOMWORLDWIRE-30 April 2007-ComReg offers 1785-1805MHz licence to Personal Broadband...UK Ltd, a broadband operator, for the 1785-1805MHz spectrum band, by the Commission...operator was the winner of the auction for the 1785-1805MHz spectrum, which was the first...
The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence 1411-1785, by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto, Ontario, University of...histoire de cette confrerie laique, de sa naissance a sa mort en 1785, en insistant tout particulierement sur ses diverses manifestations...
SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES EUROPEAN UNION FORCE IN BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA FOR FURTHER YEAR, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1785
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/21/2007; 700+ words ; ...fighting in the country in 1995. Unanimously adopting resolution 1785 (2007), the Council also authorized the continued presence...m. and closed at 10:15 a.m. The full text of resolution 1785 (2007) reads as follows: "The Security Council, "Recalling...
A Woman's Work, 1785; PBS's Engrossing `Midwife's Tale'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...detective and storyteller. The story belongs to Martha Ballard, a Maine housewife, midwife and healer who began keeping a diary in 1785 at the age of 50. By the time she died in 1812, she'd made faithful -- if terse -- diary entries daily for 27 years. She...
Land Ordinance of 1785 -- North America,United States, Map
Map from: Maps.com (Historical Maps); 1/1/2002; 113 words ; 00-00-0000 Land Ordinance of 1785 -- North America,United States, Map
Block x Block: 1785 N.E. Sandy Blvd. in Portland
Newspaper article from: Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR); 8/3/2009; ; 458 words ; The Sandy Plaza at 1785 N.E. Sandy Blvd. may look like a decommissioned high school gymnasium, but its broker, Justin Vernon with American Property...
Great Hunters in history: John James Audubon (1785-1851).(ALMANAC)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...businessman, or great artist was hardly of import when John James Audubon was born on Saint-Dominique, Haiti, on 26 April 1785. He was the illegitimate son of Jean Audubon, a naval lieutenant who had become a wealthy sugar planter and slave trader...
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800.
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/25/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...inferiority of blacks Jefferson was certain; he so testified copiously in his Notes on the State of Virginia, first published in 1785. Much of what he said would become racist cliches: blacks had rhythm, they smelled bad, they were lazy and improvident...
Telling Time: Clocks, diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785. By STUART SHERMAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xv + 323 pp. $60; 47.95 [pounds sterling...