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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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    English language (redirect from ISO 639:en)
    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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    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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    most of the coastline in the 17th-century. British colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales. By the mid-19th...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française...
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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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  • The year 1794 in science and technology involved some significant events. Antonio Scarpa publishes Tabulae neurologicae ad illustrandam historiam cardiacorum...
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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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    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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    the 4th century BCE, written by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and published in 1788. Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's book was a fanciful but learned imaginary travel...
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    Cemetery added a sense of urgency to the cemetery-eliminating measure, and from 1788, nightly processions of covered wagons transferred remains from most of Paris's...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Chicago: University of Chicago Press Eric Gojosso, Le concept de république en France (XVIe – XVIIIe siècle), Aix/Marseille, 1998, pp. 205–45. James Hankins...
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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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  • Erfinder der teutschen Science Fiction und des phantastischen Reiseromans in Deutschland, nebst ... der deutschen Science Fiction 1510 - 1788, Synergen, 2005 ;...
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