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Gibbon's 'earliest use of irony' revealed by manuscript[url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/12...
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Barbara Zdunk, (1769 - August 21, 1811)
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Barbara Zdunk, (1769 - August 21, 1811), was an ethnically Polish alleged arsonist and witch who lived in the city of Reszel, now in Poland but between 1772 and 1945 part of Prussia. She is considered by many to have been the last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe. Read more [video=http://www....
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Claude Grahame-White (1879 - 1959)
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Claude Grahame-White (21 August 1879 - 19 August 1959) was an English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. Read more
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Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 - 1857)
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Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 - 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. Read more
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779 - 1848)
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius (20 August 1779 - 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry. Read more
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Thomas Simpson FRS (1710 - 1761)
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Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 - 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician, inventor and eponym of Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German is the so-ca...
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Sylvester McCoy
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Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 - the final Doctor of the original programme - and a brief r...
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Franklin Story Musgrave
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Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. Read more
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Julius Lothar Meyer (1830 - 1895)
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Julius Lothar Meyer (August 19, 1830 - April 11, 1895) was a German chemist. He was contemporary and competitor of Dmitri Mendeleev to draw up the first periodic table of chemical elements. Some five years apart, both Mendeleev and Meyer worked with Robert Bunsen. Read more
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Orville Wright (1871 - 1948)
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Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948) and Wilbur, were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers. Read more
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Jennifer Bond
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Jennifer "Jennie" Bond (born 19 August 1950) is an English journalist and television presenter. She worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. Read more
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Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
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Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche (birth name Tsering Paldrön, born August 19, 1967) is a rare example of a female Tibetan Buddhist lama. Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche is a teacher in both the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. She speaks fluent English, Tibetan, and Hindi d...
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Samlesbury witches
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The Samlesbury witches were three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury - Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley - accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of w...
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Karl Jatho flight, 1903
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Karl Jatho (3 February 1873 - 8 December 1933) was a German pioneer and inventor, performer and public servant of the city of Hanover. From August through November of 1903, Jatho made progressively longer hops in a pusher triplane, then biplane, at Vahrenwalder Heide outside of Hanover. Read more...
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Pierre Janssen (1824 - 1907)
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Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 - 23 December 1907), usually known in French as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gas helium. Read more
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