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•  Hilaire Rouelle

  Hilaire Marin Rouelle (1718–1779) was a French chemist. In 1773, he discovered urea. He is known as "le cadet" (the younger) to distinguish him from his older brother, Guillaume-François Rouelle, who was also a chemist.

  

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•  Jean Joseph Marie Amiot

  Jean Joseph Marie Amiot was a French Jesuit missionary.

  

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•  Maria Gaetana Agnesi

  Maria Gaetana Agnesi (May 16, 1718 – January 9, 1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi (pronounced 'Anyesi') is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna. According to Dirk Jan Struik, Agnesi is "the first important woman mathematician since Hypatia (fifth century A.D. )".

  

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•  Israel Putnam

  Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790) was an American army general who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Although Putnam never quite attained the national renown of more famous heroes such as Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone, in his own time his reckless courage and fighting spirit were known far beyond Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends celebrating his exploits.

  

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•  Thomas Chippendale

  Thomas Chippendale (probably born at Farnley near Otley, baptised at Otley 16 June 1718 - November 1779) was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published to publish a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. The designs are regarded as establishing the fashion for furniture for that period and were used by many other cabinet makers.

  

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•  Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie

  Victor-François, 2ème duc de Broglie (19 October 1718 – 30 March 1804) was a French aristocrat and soldier and a marshal of France. He served with his father, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, at Parma and Guastalla, and in 1734 obtained a colonelcy. In the War of the Austrian Succession he took part in the storming of Prague in 1742, and was made a brigadier. In 1744 and 1745 he saw further service on the Rhine, and he succeeded his father as duc de Broglie on the old duke's death in 1745.

  

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•  Hugh Blair

  Hugh Blair (7 April 1718–27 December 1800) was a Scottish author, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse. As a Presbyterian preacher and occupant of the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh, Blair's teachings had a great impact in both the spiritual and the secular realms.

  

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•  William Hunter (anatomist)

  William Hunter FRS (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was born at Long Calderwood near East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, the elder brother of John Hunter. After studying divinity at the University of Glasgow, he went into medicine in 1737, studying under William Cullen. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. His guidance and training of his ultimately more famous brother was also of great importance.

  

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•  John Roebuck

  John Roebuck FRS (1718 – 17 July 1794) was an English inventor who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid.

  

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•  David Brainerd

  David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans. Brainerd was born in Haddam, Connecticut. He was orphaned at fourteen and had an experience that intensified his dedication to Christianity at age 21 in 1739. Shortly after, he enrolled at Yale, but was expelled his junior year for privately saying of a college tutor, "He has no more grace than this chair".

  

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•  Werkrealschule

  Werkrealschule is a relatively young branch of German secondary education (e.g. in Baden-Württemberg), which offers pupils additional lessons in grades 8 and 9 and allows them to qualify after ten years with a final exam which is equal to graduation from Realschule.

  

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•  Delonix pumila

  Delonix pumila is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family. It is found only in Madagascar.

  

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•  Edred Corner

  

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•  Kirby White

  Oliver Kirby White (January 3, 1884 in Hillsboro, Ohio - April 22, 1943 in Hillsboro, Ohio), nicknamed "Red" and "Buck", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1909 to 1911 for the Boston Doves and Pittsburgh Pirates. His minor league career began in 1907. In 1907, White pitched for the Lancaster Lanks, going 15-16 in 34 games. In 40 games with the Lanks in 1908, he went 28-12, allowing 216 hits in 363 innings of work. On May 4, 1909, White made his big league debut.

  

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