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•  Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab

  Muhammad ibn 'Abd Al-Wahhab ibn Sulayman ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rashid al-Tamimi (1703–1792) was an Islamic scholar born in Najd, in present-day Saudi Arabia. Using proofs from the Qur'an and Sunnah, Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn 'Abd Al-Wahhab ibn Sulayman ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rashid al-Tamimi believed that those who practice innovation in Islam are Kufr and Shirk. Moreover he believed that innovation is practiced in Sufism and mostly in Shia Islam.

  

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•  John Wesley

  John Wesley (28 June 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an Anglican cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, with founding the English Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield. In contrast to George Whitefield's Calvinism (which later led to the forming of the Calvinistic Methodists), Wesley embraced Arminianism.

  

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•  François Boucher

  François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture. He also painted several portraits of his illustrious patroness, Madame de Pompadour.

  

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•  Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

  Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage.

  

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•  Robert Dodsley

  Robert Dodsley (13 February 1704 – 23 September 1764) was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer. He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school. He is said to have been apprenticed to a stocking-weaver in Mansfield, from whom he ran away, going into service as a footman.

  

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•  Thomas Clap

  Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp (June 26, 1703 - January 7, 1767), was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest to be called "president" of Yale College (1740-1766). He was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, and studied with Rev. James McSparran, missionary to Narragansett from the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts", and with Rev. Nathiel Eells, of Scituate.

  

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•  Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans

  Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans) (4 August 1703 – 4 February 1752) was a member of the royal family of France, the House of Bourbon, and as such was a prince du sang. At his father's death, he became the First Prince of the Blood (Premier Prince du Sang). Known as Louis le Pieux and also as Louis le Génovéfain, Louis was a pious, charitable and cultured prince, who took very little part in the politics of the time.

  

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•  Maria Leszczyńska

  

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•  Vasily Trediakovsky

  Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature. Trediakovsky was a Russian literary theoretician and poet whose writings contributed to the classical foundations of Russian literature. The son of a poor priest, Trediakovsky became the first Russian not of the nobility to receive a humanistic education abroad, at the Sorbonne in Paris (1727–30) where he studied philosophy, linguistics and mathematics.

  

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•  Ferdinand Konščak

  Ferdinand Konščak (variously also Fernando Consag, Konsag, Konschak, etc. ) (December 2, 1703 – September 10, 1759) was a Jesuit missionary, explorer, and cartographer.

  

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•  Yellow fever

  Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family. The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitos (the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and other species) and is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa, and Asia. The only known hosts of the virus are primates and several species of mosquito.

  

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•  Taygetus

  Mount Taygetus, Taugetus, or Taigetus is a mountain range in the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece. It is the tallest mountain in the Peloponnese, reaching 2,407 m (7,896 feet) at the Profitis Elias summit. The Taygetus range is about 100 km long, extending from the center of the Peloponese to Cape Matapan, its southermost extremity.

  

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•  Wirtinger's inequality for functions

  In mathematics, historically Wirtinger's inequality for real functions was an inequality used in Fourier analysis. It was named after Wilhelm Wirtinger. It was used in 1904 to prove the isoperimetric inequality. A variety of closely related results are today known as Wirtinger's inequality.

  

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•  1989–1999

  1989–1999 is a compilation album released by Life of Agony in 1999 through Roadrunner Records. It contains nine songs from the demos the band released, some bonus tracks of previous releases as well as a few extra tracks. The chorus for "Dancing with the Devil"(Demo) was eventually kept to be used for the chorus in "Other side of the River" from 'Ugly'. Tracks 10 and 11 were bonus tracks of the 'Ugly' album and tracks 12 and 13 of the 'Soul Searching Sun' album. The S.O.D.

  

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•  Seung-Hui Cho

  Seung-hui Cho (January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a senior-level undergraduate student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others in the shooting rampage which has come to be known as the "Virginia Tech massacre". Cho later committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the building where the majority of the shooting had taken place.

  

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