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•  Charles Babbage

  Charles Babbage, FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991, a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.

  

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•  Franz Bopp

  Franz Bopp (September 14, 1791 – October 23, 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.

  

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•  Michael Faraday

  Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Faraday studied the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a DC electric current, and established the basis for the electromagnetic field concept in physics. He discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and laws of electrolysis.

  

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•  Samuel F. B. Morse

  

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•  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Marie Louise of Austria was the second wife of Emperor Napoleon I of France. During her first marriage, she was Empress of the French. In 1817, she became Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla. She was the mother of Napoleon II, King of Rome.

  

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•  Samuel Bailey

  Samuel Bailey (5 July 1791 – 18 January 1870) was a British philosopher and writer. He was called the "Bentham of Hallamshire".

  

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•  Alexis Thérèse Petit

  Alexis Thérèse Petit was a French physicist. Petit is known for his work on the efficiencies of air- and steam-engines, published in 1818. His well-known discussions with the French physicist Sadi Carnot, founder of thermodynamics, may have stimulated Carnot in the development theories of thermodynamic efficiency in heat engines. Petit was born in Vesoul, Haute-Saône.

  

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•  Odilon Barrot

  Camille Hyacinthe Odilon Barrot (19 July 1791 – 6 August 1873) was a French politician. Barrot was born at Villefort. He belonged to a legal family, his father, an advocate of Toulouse, having been a member of the Convention who had voted against the death of Louis XVI. Odilon Barrot's earliest recollections were of the October insurrection of 1795. He was sent to the military school of Saint-Cyr, but later moved to the Lycee Napoleon to study law and was called to the Parisian bar in 1811.

  

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•  Marie Collings

  Marie Collings (1791–1853) was Dame of Sark from 1852 to 1853. She was the daughter of John Allaire, a privateer from Guernsey. In 1844, desperate for funds to continue the operation of the silver mine on the island, then-Seigneur of Sark Ernest le Pelley had obtained crown permission to mortgage the Fief of Sark for £4,000 to Allaire.

  

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•  Carl Czerny

  Carl Czerny (sometimes Karl; February 21, 1791 – July 15, 1857) was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny knew and was influenced by the well-known pianists Muzio Clementi and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

  

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•  Antipokhmelin

  Antipokhmelin is a Russian tablet that allegedly helps to prevent or overcome the negative effects of alcohol consumption and hangover. The main ingredient is succinic acid, also found in amber. It is marketed as RU-21 in the US and UK. Claims of effectiveness are based primarily on anecdotal evidence, and there have been no known placebo controlled double blind studies published in peer reviewed scientific journals. RU-21 was developed by Prof.

  

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•  Milo Kirk

  Milo Kirk was the fourth president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), serving 1991-1993. Ms. Kirk's young son suffered several severe injuries, including loss of sight in one eye, after a teenage driver with three prior DUI convictions hit the Kirk vehicle. This tragedy led her to begin working for the organization.

  

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•  87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders)

  The 87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1759 and disbanded in 1763. The regiment was raised at Perth in August 1759 by regimenting three companies detached from the 42nd Foot, the Black Watch. The regiment was initially titled as Keith's Highlanders after its commander, Robert Murray Keith, and was numbered as the 87th Foot in 1760. The regiment was immediately dispatched to Germany, where it fought at Warburg and Villinghausen.

  

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•  Selenium tetrachloride

  Selenium tetrachloride is the inorganic compound composed with the formula SeCl4. This compound exists as yellow to white volatile solid. It is one of two commonly available selenium chlorides, the other example being selenium monochloride, Se2Cl2. SeCl4 is used in the synthesis of other selenium compounds.

  

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•  Archbishop Tenison's Church of England School, Lambeth

  

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