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    Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art...
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    of English with their own norms shared by large speech communities. Since 1788, English has been spoken in Oceania, and Australian English has developed...
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  • The year 1787 in science and technology involved some significant events. January 11 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, the first moons...
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    The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...
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  • Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1. Bernce, Arvid (1981). Efter 1809 en Krönika...
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  • December 22 – Jean-Victor Poncelet (died 1788), French mechanical and military engineer and mathematician. "science, n." Oxford English Dictionary online...
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  • of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet...
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    Sydney). The First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 to establish a penal colony. In the century that followed, the British established...
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    writers such as Cadalso or Larra (Cartas marruecas, En este país). In reality the field of "science" was not clearly distinguished from that of "letters"...
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    Louis-Sébastien Mercier (category French science fiction writers)
    2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1771), L'Essai sur l'art dramatique (1773), Néologie ou Vocabulaire (1801), Le Tableau de Paris (1781–1788), Le nouveau Paris...
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    De la démocratie en Amérique (French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is...
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  • The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française...
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  • region. The French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) and the German anatomist Johann Blumenbach (1752–1840) were proponents of...
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  • The year 1794 in science and technology involved some significant events. Antonio Scarpa publishes Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam cardiacorum...
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    Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    his career in astronomy, such that in 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1790, to establish a universally...
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    reforms, on 6 May 1788, and even dissolving and depriving of all power the "Parlement", replacing it with a plenary court, on 8 May 1788. The failure of...
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    Charles XIII (category People of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790))
    Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distinction as admiral of the fleet, especially at the battles of Hogland (7 June 1788) and Öland (26 July 1789)...
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    James Phipps (category 1788 births)
    James Phipps (1788 – 1853) was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers...
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    Mufro in Corsica, and the female Mufra; the French naturalist Buffon (1707–1788) rendered this in French as moufflon. In Sardinia, the male is called Murvoni...
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    community and its borders were formalized under the 1795 Jay Treaty. In 1788, while part of the province of Quebec, southern Ontario was divided into...
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    Joseph Jérôme Siméon (category People from Aix-en-Provence)
    Siméon, was a noted diplomat. Born in Aix-en-Provence, he was the son of Joseph-Sextius Siméon (1717–1788), a professor of Law and royal secretary for...
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    Language Newspapers in the USA : Hispanic Newspapers : Periódiscos en Español en los EE.UU". Onlinenewspapers.com. Archived from the original on June...
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    health claims related to: anthocyanidins and proanthocyanidins (ID 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791); sodium alginate and ulva (ID 1873); vitamins, minerals...
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    VI, Buen Retiro was the setting for Italian operas. Charles III (r. 1759–1788) ordered the replacement of the old walls with wrought-iron railings. The...
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    Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    Sciences, pages 67–77. Coulomb (1787) "Cinquième mémoire sur l’électricité," Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, pages 421–467. Coulomb (1788)...
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    William Edward Shore (1794–1874) and Frances ("Fanny") Nightingale (née Smith; 1788–1880). William's mother Mary (née Evans) was the niece of Peter Nightingale...
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    also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes (Spanish: El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, La lucha con los mamelucos or La carga de los mamelucos), is a painting...
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    Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    May 1788 the process of tax collection was faulting and the loyalty of the army was slipping. As a result, Louis XVI suspended parlements in May 1788 and...
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    caso de Masié Nguema Biyogo". Oráfrica (in Spanish) (6): 129–152. ISSN 1699-1788. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Klinteberg, Robert F. Equatorial...
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    Lampris guttatus (category Fish described in 1788)
    Species doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T195038A19929436.en Lampris guttatus (Brünnich, 1788). Fish Base Polovina, Jeffrey J.; Hawn, Donald; Abecassis...
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