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1749 in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: 1749 MDCCXLIX: Ab urbe condita: 2502: Armenian calendar: 1198 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԸ: Assyrian calendar: 6499: Balinese saka calendar
The third son of Edmond Prideaux, he was born at Padstow, Cornwall, on 3 May 1648.His mother was a daughter of John Moyle. [1] After education at Liskeard grammar school and Bodmin grammar school, he went to Westminster School under Richard Busby, recommended by his uncle William Morice. [2]
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – popularly known as Fanny Hill – is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, [1] [2] it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". [3]
Alessio Piemontese, also known under his Latinized name of Alexius Pedemontanus, was the pseudonym of a 16th-century Italian physician, alchemist, and author of the immensely popular book, The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont.
Usselby is a hamlet in civil parish of Osgodby, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.It is approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west from the town of Market Rasen.
Roger Joseph Boscovich SJ (Croatian: Ruđer Josip Bošković, pronounced [rûd͡ʑer jǒsip bôʃkoʋit͡ɕ]; Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; [2] Latin: Rogerius (Iosephus) Boscovicius; [3] 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. [4]
Busto Arsizio, according to some hypotheses, has Ligurian origins. [4] The Ligurians, to obtain space for the cultivation of vines and some cereals, as well as for the construction of stone huts covered with straw roofs, used the technique of slash-and-burn: that is, they set fire to the forest that then covered the entire Po Valley.
Cesena was the ancient Cæsena.. The very first catalog of the bishops of Cesena was drawn up by Antonio Casari of Cesena in the middle of the 16th century. The work is lost, but its contents, and a good deal more, were published by Fra Bernardino Manzoni, O.Min., of Cesena, the Inquisitor of Pisa, in his Caesenae chronologia (1643). [2]