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    After his opera The Voyage (1992) he made a trilogy based on films by Jean Cocteau: Orphée (1993), La Belle et la Bête (1994) and Les enfants terribles...
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    publishes the Titius-Bode rule for planetary distances. 1772–1775 – The second voyage of James Cook definitively disproves the existence of the hypothesized Southern...
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    renamed Princes Town, also called Pokesu. January 6 – The tragic opera Phaëton, written by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault, is premiered at...
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    Exposition. Because she and her escort, George D. Markham, arrived in a phaeton, the gate inspector, who had been told that they would arrive in an automobile...
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