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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • December 22 – Jean-Victor Poncelet (died 1788), French mechanical and military engineer and mathematician. "science, n." Oxford English Dictionary online...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Antoine Lavoisier (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    Society, Académie des sciences de L'institut de France and the Société Chimique de France in 1999. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Louis 1788 publication entitled...
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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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    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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    Peter Simon Pallas (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    provintsiyam Rossiyskogo gosudarstva (Saint Petersburg, 1773–1788). Flora Rossica (Saint Petersburg, 1774–1788, in 2 parts). Sammlungen historischer Nachrichten...
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    160,000 dozen gloves each year. The city gained some notoriety on 7 June 1788 when the townspeople assaulted troops of Louis XVI in the "Day of the Tiles"...
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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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    South Wales. A First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 to establish a penal colony, the first colony on the Australian mainland...
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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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    despite there being "no evidence that Aboriginal people had used it in 1788 as the name of a language or group of people inhabiting the Sydney peninsula"...
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  • Erfinder der teutschen Science Fiction und des phantastischen Reiseromans in Deutschland, nebst ... der deutschen Science Fiction 1510 - 1788, Synergen, 2005 ;...
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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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  • launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. An ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized...
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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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