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Donald Greene

Later, he was the editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Johnsonian News Letter, along with holding the position as president of the Johnson Society and served on the board of directors for the Johnson Society of Southern California.


1987 Giro d'Italia

The primarily flat eighteenth stage stretched from Riva del Garda to Trescore Balneario, as the riders prepared to race through the Alps in the next few stages.

Alcohol during and after prohibition

The nation was highly optimistic and the leading prohibitionist in the United States Congress confidently asserted that "There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

Bladud

Eighteenth century Bath architect John Wood, the Elder wrote about Bladud, and put forth the fanciful suggestion that he should be identified with Abaris the Hyperborean, the healer known from Classical Greek sources.

Carry On Again Doctor

Carry On Again Doctor is the eighteenth in the series of Carry On films to be made.

Daniel E. Freeman

Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.

Daniel H. Miller

Miller was elected as a Jackson Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses.

Delarivier Manley

The more accessible edition of The New Atalantis, which Rosalind Ballaster turned into a Penguin Classic, brought Manley wider recognition among students of early eighteenth-century literature.

Ecclesiastical history of Braga

At the beginning of the eighteenth century a contest was waged over the birthplace of Orosius, some claiming him for Braga and others for Tarragona.

Enoch Lincoln

Upon the admission of Maine as a state, he was again elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1826.

EWP

England and Wales Precipitation, a set of monthly records dating back to the eighteenth century

Giusto Utens

In the early twentieth century an anonymous artist completed the scheme, based on eighteenth-century vedute illustrating the villa at Careggi, that at Cerreto Guidi and Poggio Imperiale, which in the sixteenth century was still the Villa di Poggio Baroncelli.

Historia Roderici

It was found in the late eighteenth century in San Isidoro in León, but was probably originally copied in Castile or La Rioja.

James Allison, Jr.

Allison was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth and a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congresses and served until his resignation in 1825 before the assembling of the Nineteenth Congress.

John Mullan

Eighteenth-century Popular Culture: A Selection (ed. with Christopher Reid) (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-19-871135-2

John Test

Test was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1827).

Joseph Gist

Gist was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, re-elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827).

Joun

Monastery Saint (in Arabic دير المخلص) of the Melkite Basilian Salvatorian Order was built on a hill covered with pine and olive trees and grape vines and located in the east side of Joun beginning of the eighteenth century, and it constitutes a landmark in the Chouf district.

Karl Gottlieb von Windisch

Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine.

Kennington Road

With the growing popularity of Brighton as a resort in the later eighteenth century it became part of the route there, used by George IV on his excursions there and later for other London to Brighton events such as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

Kuilta

The myth, however, is most important one and throws significant light on the socio-economic and political history as well as culture of Kosal region during the eighteenth century AD.

Lewin's Mead

In the eighteenth century a Unitarian chapel, the Lewin's Mead Unitarian meeting house, designed by William Blackburn, was built adjacent to the sugar refinery.

Love and Other Obsessions

Love and Other Obsessions is the eighteenth album by Spyro Gyra, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music).

Ludwig Worman

Before his death, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress.

Malplaquet

The Battle of Malplaquet (11 September 1709) between the French and the Allies, the largest European battle in the eighteenth century

Michael Solomon

Meyer Solomon (Michael), eighteenth century manufacturer at Bishopsgate, London

Mistress Masham's Repose

Blenheim Palace and Stowe House are in turn linked in that Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who developed the house and gardens at Stowe in the early eighteenth century, was a notable officer serving under the Duke of Marlborough.

Nicola Spedalieri

In his book, except in certain details, the writer only expressed in the language of the eighteenth century the teaching of the scholastic doctors on the popular origin of political sovereignty, a doctrine commonly taught from Thomas Aquinas to Suarez and Bellarmine, which does not exclude the Divine origin of the same sovereignty.

One Tree Hill, Honor Oak

Before the end of the eighteenth century, the East India Company built a semaphore station on the top of the hill to signal when ships were sighted in the Channel, and it was used as a beacon point by the Admiralty during the Napoleonic Wars.

Patrick Farrelly

Farrelly was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, and was reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served until his death in Meadville in 1826.

Penthelia

The eighteenth-century English writer Bryant claimed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey poems were written by Penthelia, and stolen from the archives of the temple by Homer in travels through Egypt.

Punsch

A testament to the widespread popularity of punsch or rack (arrack) is the songs of Swedish eighteenth century poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman.

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Raphael Kaulla

Jacob Raphael Kaulla (died May 1, 1810, Hechingen) was a German court banker; born at Buchau on the Feder-See about the middle of the eighteenth century.

Saint Grottlesex

In contrast, the so-called academies, such as Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and Milton, were generally founded in the late eighteenth century as places to "combine scholarship with more than a little Puritan hellfire" and, originally, were often the first educational step in preparing men for the Puritan ministry.

Saint-Gildas

The first book by the Irish writer Julia Kavanagh, Saint-Gildas, or, The Three Paths (1847) is largely set in the village in the eighteenth century.

Samuel Dicker

Samuel Dicker ( died 1760), was an English politician who represented Plymouth in the British House of Commons in the eighteenth century, and was also responsible for the building of the first Walton Bridge in Surrey.

Shrawley

"...This type of woodland is a feature of eastern England and its occurrence here is unusual in the West Midlands. The woodland also has a long history of management with records going back to the beginning of the eighteenth century. ... The streams and pools included in this site add to the site’s conservation value ... the rare soft hornwort occurs in one of the pools. Over 400 species of fungi have been recorded in the woodland. ...".

Social aspects of jealousy

Stearns similarly notes that the social history of jealousy among Americans shows a near absence of jealousy in the eighteenth century, when marriages were arranged by parents and close community supervision all but precluded extramarital affairs.

Spanish missions in the Americas

Between 1687 and 1700 several missions were founded in Trinidad, but only four survived as Amerindian villages throughout the eighteenth century - La Anuncíata de Nazaret de Savana Grande (modern Princes Town), Purísima Concepción de María Santísima de Guayri (modern San Fernando), Santa Ana de Savaneta (modern Savonetta), Nuestra Señora de Montserrate (probably modern Mayo).

Thaddeus H. Caraway

He supported American entrance into the League of Nations, bonuses for World War I veterans, as well as the Eighteenth (Prohibition), Nineteenth (Women's Suffrage), and Twentieth (Lame Duck) amendments.

Theophilus John Levett

Theophilus John Levett was named for his ancestor Theophilus Levett, who had served as Lichfield Town Clerk in the early eighteenth century.

Thomas Patrick Moore

Moore was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1829).

To the Devil a Daughter

Verney learns that the order really harbours a group of practicing Satanists who have prepared Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth upon her eighteenth birthday.

Tologalpa

Much of its territory eventually passed under the control of Miskito raiders in the eighteenth centuries.

Transfer of panel paintings

The practice evolved in Naples and Cremona in 1711-25, and reached France by the middle of the eighteenth century.

Vanessa Collingridge

In 2000 she quit her television presenter's job on Tonight with Trevor McDonald to author two biographies, one of eighteenth century explorer James Cook and one of Celtic warrior queen Boudica.

Vittorio Alfieri

Rosmunda, the only one that could be of his own contrivance, and which is certainly the least happy effusion of his genius, is partly founded on the eighteenth novel of the third part of Bandello and partly on Prevost's Memoires d'un homme de qualite.

Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies

The Archives are based in the former Molineux Hotel building, built in the mid eighteenth century and restored since 2003 thanks to a Heritage Lottery fund grant.


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