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•  William Withering

  William Withering (17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.

  

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•  Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz

  Johann Wilhelm Archenholz was born in Langfuhr near Danzig on September 3, 1741. He was a Prussian officer, Professor of History and a publicist. His book about the history of the Seven Years of Silesian War (1756–63) was the basis for many reprints, as well as for school books. Archenholz commissioned a Berlin artist, Johann Friedrich Bolt, to produce a copper etching for Archenholz's History of Gustav Vasa of the famous Swedish Nobility.

  

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•  Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse

  Jean François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (23 August 1741–1788?) was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.

  

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•  Jean-Antoine Houdon

  Jean-Antoine Houdon (20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785-88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803-04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).

  

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•  Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

  Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (August 25, 1741 – April 23, 1792), German theologian and adventurer, was born at Bischofswerda, Lusatia, where his father, afterwards professor, canon and general superintendent at Leipzig, was pastor. At the age of sixteen young Bahrdt, a precocious lad whose training had been neglected, began to study theology under the orthodox mystic Christian August Crusius (1715-1775), who in 1757 had become first professor in the theological faculty.

  

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•  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Joseph II (Joseph Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I. He was thus the first ruler in the Austrian dominions of the House of Lorraine, styled Habsburg-Lorraine (von Habsburg-Lothringen in German).

  

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•  Angelica Kauffmann

  Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffmann (October 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807) was a Swiss-Austrian Neoclassical painter.

  

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•  James Barry (painter)

  James Barry (11 October 1741 – 22 February 1806), Irish painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts.

  

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•  Augustin Barruel

  Abbé Augustin Barruel (October 2, 1741, Villeneuve-de-Berg, Ardèche – October 5, 1820) was a French Jesuit priest. He is now mostly known for documenting the conspiracy theory involving the Bavarian Illuminati and the Jacobins in his book Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (original title Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire du Jacobinisme) published in 1797. In short, Barruel wrote that the French Revolution was planned and executed by the secret societies.

  

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•  Emperor Momozono

  Emperor Momozono (桃園天皇 Momozono-tennō) (April 14, 1741 - August 31, 1762) was the 116th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He ruled from June 9, 1747 until his death in 1762. His personal name was Toohito (遐仁); and his pre-accession title was initially Yaho-no-miya (八穂宮) and later Sachi-no-miya (茶地宮).

  

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•  Durga Puja

  Durga Puja (‘Worship of Durga’), also referred to as Hiia Durgotsab (‘Festival of Durga’), is an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga. It refers to all the six days observed as Mahalaya, Shashthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Nabami and Bijoya Dashami. The dates of Durga Puja celebrations are set according to the traditional Hindu calendar and the fortnight corresponding to the festival is called Debi Pokkho (‘Fortnight of the Goddess’).

  

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•  Development of doctrine

  Development of doctrine is a term used by John Henry Newman and other theologians influenced by him to describe the way Catholic teaching has become more detailed and explicit over the centuries, while later statements of doctrine remain consistent with earlier statements.

  

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•  Sidney Cooke

  Sidney Cooke (also known as Hissing Sid), (born 18 April 1927) is a British convicted child molester serving two life sentences.

  

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•  A Doll's House (1992 film)

  A Doll's House is a television movie from the United Kingdom, directed by David Thacker. First broadcast on the BBC on November 21, 1992, it has since been shown on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.

  

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