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•  John Graves Simcoe

  John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806) was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791-1796. Then frontier, this was modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and in abolishing slavery.

  

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•  Adrien-Marie Legendre

  Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 – 10 January 1833) was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris (or possibly, in Toulouse, depending on sources) on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He was given a top quality education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, defending his thesis in physics and mathematics in 1770.

  

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•  John Eager Howard

  John Eager Howard (June 4, 1752 – October 12, 1827) was an American soldier and politician from Maryland. He was born in and died in Baltimore County. Howard County, Maryland, is named for him.

  

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•  Muzio Clementi

  Muzio Clementi was a celebrated Italian, classical composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. He is credited with being the first to write specifically for the piano. He is best known for his piano sonatas, sonatinas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum. Nineteenth century enthusiasts called Clementi "the father of the pianoforte", "father of modern piano technique", "father of Romantic pianistic virtuosity", etc.

  

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•  Frances Burney

  Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814) and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney (1725–62). The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her “scribblings” at the age of ten.

  

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•  John Nash (architect)

  John Nash was an Anglo-Welsh architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London.

  

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•  Timothy Dwight IV

  Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795-1817).

  

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•  Joseph Marie Jacquard

  Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as computers.

  

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•  Humphry Repton

  Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the nineteenth century. His first name is often incorrectly rendered "Humphrey".

  

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•  Johann Gottfried Eichhorn

  Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (October 16, 1753 – June 27, 1827) was a German Protestant theologian of Enlightenment and early orientalist.

  

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•  Pine Haven, Wyoming

  Pine Haven is a town in Crook County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 222 at the 2000 census.

  

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•  ECos

  eCos (embedded configurable operating system) is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded systems and applications which need only one process with multiple threads. It is designed to be customizable to precise application requirements of run-time performance and hardware needs. It is implemented in C/C++ and has compatibility layers and APIs for POSIX and µITRON.

  

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•  Georgetown, Floyd, Indiana

  

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•  Al 'Ulmaniyya

  

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