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    Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (also known as The South Sea Scheme) is an early print by William Hogarth, created in 1721 and widely published...
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    Political cartoon (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    "English graphic satire really begins with Hogarth's Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme". William Hogarth's pictures combined social criticism...
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    The South Sea Company (officially: The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America and...
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    William Hogarth (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    the money in the Westminster Court, where the case was decided in his favour on 28 May 1728. Early satirical works included an Emblematical Print on the...
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    Trump (dog) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    1730 group portrait of The Wollaston Family, on loan to the New Walk Museum in Leicester since 1943. In the fifth scene of Hogarth's 1732–1734 series A...
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  • with two figures and two cupids (1720) Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme / The South Sea Scheme (c.1721) [43] Fifteen illustrations for Aubrey De...
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    La Pendaison. In William Hogarth's early engraving Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme, the hanging tree is replaced by a wheel of fortune. Francisco...
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    than the distressed poet himself. Hogarth had featured Pope picking John Gay's pocket in the foreground of Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme, an...
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    Isaac Fawkes (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    analogous to the exceptions of the investors in the South Sea Bubble (whom Hogarth had mocked earlier in his Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme). Fawkes'...
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    world map and framed prints of among others the Roman emperors Augustus, Titus, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian. The eight paintings in the series were sold...
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    idiocies of the theatre managers. He followed up with his Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme – a similar composition with crowds between buildings...
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    Sarah Malcolm (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    came to London and found work in the domestic services sector, working as a laundress for residents above the Inns of the Court. She came to know an old...
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    Africa (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Mediterranean Sea Red   Sea The countries in this table are categorized according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations...
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    fierce storm at sea off Yarmouth demasts a merchant ship from the south, Ham attempts to rescue the crew, but is drowned by the ferocity of the waves before...
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    area along with central and south India by constructing a coastal reservoir to store water on the Bay of Bengal sea area. The Ganges Basin with its fertile...
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    cuts to Gaza as emblematic of the disabling of Gaza; the court deemed the fuel cuts permissible on the basis that they would not harm the population's "essential...
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    Le Quart Livre (category Novels set on islands)
    success. The prologues serve to illustrate this polemical context. The novel, written with the comic flair typical of François Rabelais, is a sea voyage...
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    promoted to Vice-Admiral of the White while still at sea, on 23 April 1804. In January 1805, the French fleet, under the command of Admiral Pierre-Charles...
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  • Human rights violations against Palestinians by Israel (category Israeli occupation of the West Bank)
    sundering families, the practice was arrest household heads at night in their homes and take them to a desert south of the Dead Sea where they were forced...
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  • protest by the Nazi government, as the black-red-yellow color scheme was emblematic of the liberal German revolutions of 1848–49 and the Weimar Republic...
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    Plaques Scheme. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020. "Sinodun Players". Sinodun Players. Archived from the original on 10 February...
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    real pies; only a fragment of the film was known to exist until the first half resurfaced in the 1970s; a more complete print was discovered in 2015 by historian...
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    sundering families, the practice was arrest household heads at night in their homes and take them to a desert south of the Dead Sea where they were forced...
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    such as Berenice, The Dream of the Doctor and The Sea Monster, or allegories and the series of Imperial Triumphs, or his prints on the passion and death...
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    2010s (redirect from The twenty-tens)
    superpower status while China sought to expand its influence in the South China Sea and in Africa through its economic initiatives and military reforms...
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    The play was first performed around 1607, by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre. Its first appearance in print was...
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  • follow a mixed scheme, with the back vowels o, u following the Sardinian scheme but the front vowels e, i following the Western Romance scheme. This produces...
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  • independence on July 2, the final language of the document was approved on July 4, and it was printed and distributed on July 4–5. However, the actual signing...
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    from the original on 14 January 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2013. Bloom, Jonathan (2001). Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic...
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    and the colonial authorities used these schemes to exercise some control over immigration. While these assisted schemes were biased against the poorest...
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