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    Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille (French pronunciation: [ɡijom dəlil]; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726...
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  • Gulf (French: Lac Guillaume-Delisle), a waterbody in Nunavik, in administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada Sector Delisle, a sector of Alma...
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    Claude Delisle (1644–1720). Like many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle, he initially followed classical studies. Soon however, he moved to...
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    businessman Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726), French cartographer Guillaume Depardieu (1971–2008), French actor Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie Guillaume Dubois...
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    "shit", -iinkwee, "face", and -na, "indefinite actor". The 1718 Guillaume Delisle map (pictured) labels it as "le Moingona R." During the mid-19th century...
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    Tripoly) is shown as including much of modern-day Libya on a map by Guillaume Delisle (1707). 1736 map 1747 map 1771 map Tripolitania in 1818 1907 map Karamanli...
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    Canada. It was formerly known as Richmond Gulf in English and Lac Guillaume-Delisle in French. In 2008, regional councillors asked the Commission de toponymie...
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  • poet of the Parnassian movement Claude Delisle (1644–1720), French cartographer and royal censor, father of Guillaume (q.v.) Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle...
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    Mayo. The feature is named after the French cartographer Guillaume Delisle (also spelled Guillaume de L'Isle; 1675–1726) whose 1700 map of South America...
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    Imperii Orientalis et Circumjacentium Regionum by Guillaume Delisle (1742)...
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    1765 globe by Guillaume Delisle, showing a fictional Northwest Passage....
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    Ottoman–Hotaki War of 1726–1727 1730 map of the Persian Empire by Guillaume Delisle. Belligerents Hotak Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders and leaders Ashraf...
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    2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Delisle, Guillaume (1675–1726) Auteur du texte (January 1, 1718). "Carte de la Louisiane...
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  • Collins (British, 1643–1694) Vincenzo Coronelli (Venetian, 1650–1718) Guillaume Delisle (French, 1675–1726) Petter Gedda (Sweden, 1661–1697) Hessel Gerritsz...
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    designation. On Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi (1718) by Guillaume Delisle and on A Map of North America (1768) by John Blair, the St. Croix...
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  • Rivière à l'Eau Claire) is a river flowing on the east shore of Lake Guillaume-Delisle (formerly designated "Richmond Gulf"), which empties into the Hudson...
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    River, as the first adoption of those names. French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the area's first reasonably accurate...
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    Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) February 28 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) March 31 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)...
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  • Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) February 28 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) March 31 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)...
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    Commission de toponymie – Quebec (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-22. "Lac Guillaume-Delisle". Commission de toponymie – Quebec (in French). Archived from the...
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    XV put under the care of François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi; Guillaume Delisle and the Cardinal Fleury are put in charge of Louis' education. 2 May:...
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    climate change. The lake was first named in a map of New France made by Guillaume Delisle at the request of Louis XIV of France in 1703. The lake was named...
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    village is located 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Richmond Gulf (French: Lac Guillaume-Delisle; Inuttitut: Tasiujaq (which resembles a lake)), an immense inland...
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    arctic enclave. A vast area surrounding the lakes, Richmond Gulf (Lac Guillaume-Delisle), and Iberville Lake (Lac D'Iberville) are part of the 15,549 km2...
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    1707 map of Northwest Africa by Guillaume Delisle, including the Maghreb. After the Middle Ages, the Ottoman Empire loosely controlled the area east of...
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    Adai Cropped detail map from a 1718 map by Guillaume Delisle. Adaie on left side. Total population extinct as a tribe, merged into the Caddo Regions with...
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  • unknown - Lady Anne Monson, English botanist (died 1776) January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, one of the founders of modern geography (born 1675)...
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    expedition's discoveries eventually found their way to cartographer Guillaume Delisle, who used the information to create a map of the lower Missouri. In...
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  • pocket watches, in a letter to the Journal des Sçavants. February 28 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (died 1726) October – James Gregory, Scottish...
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    by early French explorers, the bay was identified on a 1718 map by Guillaume Delisle as Lac Sandouské (later anglicized as Lake Sandusky). The Indians...
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