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•  Philipp Franz von Siebold

  Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (February 17, 1796 in Würzburg - October 18, 1866 in Munich) was a German physician. He emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan. He obtained significance for his study of Japanese flora and fauna that were endemic to the unique biotic island landscape.

  

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•  Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

  Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who, in his 1824 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics. He is often described as the "Father of thermodynamics", being responsible for such concepts as Carnot efficiency, Carnot theorem, Carnot heat engine, and others.

  

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•  Giovanni Pacini

  Giovanni Pacini (February 2, 1796 – December 6, 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.

  

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•  Nicholas I of Russia

  Nicholas I, (6 July 1796 – 2 March 1855), was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometers. Nicholas I was born in Gatchina to Emperor Paul I and Empress Maria Feodorovna. He was a younger brother to Alexander I of Russia and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia.

  

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•  Thomas Bulfinch

  Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants' Bank of Boston.

  

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•  William H. Prescott

  William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 29, 1859) was an American historian, known for his books The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic and The History of the Conquest of Mexico.

  

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•  Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe

  Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869), usually called Carl Loewe (sometimes seen as Karl Loewe), was a German composer, baritone singer and conductor. In his lifetime, his songs were well enough known for some to call him the "Schubert of North Germany", and Hugo Wolf came to admire his work. He is less known today, but a number of his 400 or so songs are still occasionally performed.

  

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•  Immanuel Hermann Fichte

  Immanuel Hermann von Fichte (18 July 1796 – 8 August 1879) was a German philosopher and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

  

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•  Théodore Simon Jouffroy

  Théodore Simon Jouffroy (6 July 1796 – 4 February 1842) was a French philosopher. He was born at Les Pontets, Franche-Comté, département of Doubs. In his tenth year, his father, a tax-gatherer, sent him to an uncle at Pontarlier, under whom he began his classical studies. At Dijon his compositions attracted the attention of an inspector, who had him placed (1814) in the normal school, Paris.

  

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•  Horace Mann

  Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Mann was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  

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•  Tobruk

  Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of Al Butnan District (formerly Tobruk District) and has a population of 300,000. Tobruk was the site of a colony of ancient Greeks, and, later, of a Roman fortress guarding the frontier of Cyrenaica. Over the centuries, Tobruk also served as a waystation along the coastal caravan route.

  

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•  Sarah Marie Johnson

  Sarah Marie Johnson (born January 24, 1987) is a convicted murderer who is currently incarcerated for killing her parents in 2003 when she was 16 years old.

  

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•  Level 42 (album)

  Level 42 was the debut album released in 1981 by the British group Level 42. When originally issued on CD it featured the full-length 12" versions of the three singles (they were edited on the vinyl). The album was re-released in 2000 (featuring the original vinyl album edits of the three singles) with bonus tracks along with Early Tapes album on a two-CD set. In 2007 it was again re-issued, this time on its own, and with different bonus tracks.

  

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•  Medial arcuate ligament

  The medial arcuate ligament (also medial lumbocostal arch) is tendinous fascia that arches over the psoas major muscle as it passes through the diaphragm.

  

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•  Index of mathematics articles (Y)

  

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