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  2. McLean Museum - Wikipedia

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    The James Watt collection includes "plans and letters written by James Watt, tools and items used by him and images of him in the form of paintings, sculpture, prints and books." [ 3 ] [ dead link ‍ ] Also featured is a history of Inverclyde , a Maritime Transport collection, social history material, and exhibitions of Scottish and British ...

  3. Omnipotence paradox - Wikipedia

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    Omnipotence, they say, does not mean that God can do anything at all but, rather, that he can do anything that is logically possible; he cannot, for instance, make a square circle. Likewise, God cannot make a being greater than himself, because he is, by definition, the greatest possible being.

  4. The Vinegar Works: Three Volumes of Moral Instruction

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    It is stylised as a poem describing the deaths of 26 children, with the initials of their first names corresponding with each consecutive letter of the alphabet. (For instance, "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs." and "D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.") The book's instructive quality is in teaching the alphabet using a mnemonic device.

  5. Matthew Robinson Boulton - Wikipedia

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    Matthew Robinson Boulton medal struck at the Soho Foundry, Smethwick, West Midlands, England, c. 1803. Matthew Robinson Boulton (8 August 1770 – 16 May 1842) [1] was an English manufacturer, a pioneer of management, the son of Matthew Boulton and the father of Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, who first patented the aileron.

  6. Christian Watt - Wikipedia

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    Christian Watt was born in 1833 in Broadsea, in the fishertown of Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. [1] She was the seventh of eight children of her parents, James Watt (1787–1868), fisherman, and Helen Noble (1788–1860), [2] and their only daughter. [3] At the age of eight, Watt worked as a domestic servant, and in 1843 she became a maid to ...

  7. File:James Watt Signature.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on af.wikipedia.org James Watt; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org جيمس واط; Usage on arz.wikipedia.org

  8. Peasants' Revolt - Wikipedia

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    The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...

  9. If I were God - Wikipedia

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    Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt added that the poem reflects the melancholy of Astrid Lindgren in her later years. The poem is foreshadowing the 21st century. [8] Birgit Dankert writes that the poem proves that both Astrid Lindgren's childhood and her melancholy can be seen as the part where her creativity comes from.