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•  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world.

  

  50.0%
  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827), was a French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally. He is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fresnel lens, first adopted in lighthouses while he was a French commissioner of lighthouses, and found in many applications today.

  

  28.6%
  

  57.1%
  

  14.3%
  
•  Robert Peel

  Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force (leading to officers being known as "bobbies", in England, or Peelers, in Ireland, to this day) while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.

  

  28.6%
  

  42.9%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Tomás de Zumalacárregui

  Tomás de Zumalacárregui y de Imaz (1788–1835), Spanish Carlist general, was born at Ormaiztegi in Guipúzcoa, Basque Country, on 29 December 1788. His father, Francisco Antonio Zumalacárregui, was a lawyer who possessed some property, and the son was articled to a solicitor.

  

  55.6%
  

  33.3%
  

  11.1%
  
•  Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

  Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (December 29, 1788 – May 21, 1865) was a Danish archaeologist. Although he lacked academic training, in 1816 he was appointed head of 'antiquarian' collections which later developed into the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. It was while organizing and classifying the antiquities that he proposed the three-age system, for which he is remembered internationally.

  

  60.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  William Henry Smyth

  William Henry Smyth (21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865) was an English sailor and astronomer. He was the father of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth and General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth. Of his daughters, Henrietta Grace Smyth married Professor Baden Powell and was mother of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, while Georgiana Rosetta Smyth married Sir William Henry Flower. He was born in Westminster, London.

  

  18.2%
  

  27.3%
  

  54.5%
  
•  Edward Hodges Baily

  Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS (10 March 1788 - 22 May 1867) - (sometimes misspelled Bailey) was an English sculptor who was born in Downend in Bristol.

  

  60.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Edward Sabine

  General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS (14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer. He was born in Dublin and died at East Sheen in Surrey.

  

  20.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Samuel Bamford

  Samuel Bamford (28 February 1788 – 13 April 1872), English radical and writer, was born in Middleton, Lancashire. Bamford was one of five children born to Daniel Bamford, a muslin weaver, part-time teacher, and later master of the Salford workhouse, and his wife, Hannah. After his father withdrew him from Manchester Grammar School Bamford became a weaver, and then a warehouseman in Manchester.

  

  50.0%
  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Richard Harris Barham

  Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English novelist, humorous poet, and cleric in the Church of England. He was better known by his nom de plume of Thomas Ingoldsby.

  

  42.9%
  

  14.3%
  

  42.9%
  

• 1788 births by likeorhate
• 1870 deaths by likeorhate
• Scottish theologians by likeorhate
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•  Anisakis

  Anisakis is a genus of parasitic nematodes, which have a life cycle involving fish and marine mammals. They are infective to humans and cause Anisakiasis, and fish that have been infected with Anisakis spp. can produce an anaphylactic reaction in people who have become sensitized to Immunoglobulin E (IgE).

  

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•  Socialist Republic of Serbia

  Socialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav federation and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav republics, and it housed the greatest concentration of economical and political development in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as its capital Belgrade was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.

  

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•  Saturn's moons

  

  29.4%
  

  38.2%
  

  32.4%
  
•  Abra (traditional boat)

  

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  38.1%
  
•  Cowbridge comprehensive school

  

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