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•  Arthur Aikin

  Arthur Aikin (19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854), English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, was born in Warrington, Lancashire into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians. He was born into a family of writers, the most well known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature. His father, Dr. John Aikin, was a medical doctor, historian, and author.

  

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•  William Henry Harrison

  William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the United States Declaration of Independence, Harrison died on his thirty-second day in office of complications from a cold – the shortest tenure in United States presidential history.

  

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•  Thomas Young (scientist)

  Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was an English genius and polymath, admired by among others Herschel and Einstein. He is famous with the public for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs before Champollion did. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony and Egyptology.

  

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•  Louis-Philippe of France

  

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•  George Cayley

  Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) was a prolific English engineer, one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Many consider him the first true scientific aerial investigator and first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of flight. Sometimes called "Father of Aviation" in 1799 he set forth concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.

  

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•  Sally Hemings

  Sally Hemings was a mixed race slave owned by the third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson. She was said to be the half-sister of Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Journalists and others alleged during and after Jefferson's presidency that he had consensual sex with her and may have fathered several children with Hemings after his wife's death, but few historians credited the allegation.

  

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•  Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich

  Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859) was a German-Austrian politician and statesman. He was one of the most important diplomats of his era. He was a major figure in the negotiations before and during the Congress of Vienna, and is considered both a paradigm of foreign-policy management and a major figure in the development of diplomatic praxis.

  

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•  Ludwig Tieck

  Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 – April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

  

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•  James Mill

  James Mill (6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was a founder of classical economics, together with David Ricardo, and the father of influential philosopher of classical liberalism, John Stuart Mill.

  

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•  Jean-Baptiste de Villèle

  Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph Marie Anne Séraphin, comte de Villèle (14 April 1773 - 13 March 1854), was a French statesman. Several time Prime minister, he was a leader of the Ultra-royalist faction during the Bourbon Restoration.

  

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•  Laudanum

  Laudanum (laudanum liquidum simplex), also known as opium tincture or thebaic tincture is an alcoholic herbal preparation containing approximately 10% opium and 1% morphine (the equivalent of 100 mg of opium/10 mg of morphine per mL). It is extremely bitter to the taste. It is made by combining ethanol with opium latex or powder. Laudanum contains almost all of the opium alkaloids, including morphine and codeine.

  

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•  Beatrice Portinari

  Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari (1266–1290) was a Florentine woman and the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova. Beatrice also appears as his guide in Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) in the last book, Paradise, and in the last four canti of Purgatory.

  

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•  YTMND

  YTMND, an initialism for "You're The Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs or sites) featuring an absurd of a single image or a simple slideshow, which may be animated or tiled along with optional large zooming text and a looping sound file. Images used in YTMNDs are usually either created or edited by users.

  

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•  2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles

  

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•  Hell's Rain

  

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