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•  Charles Messier

  Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 103 "Messier objects". The purpose of the catalogue was to help astronomical observers, in particular comet hunters such as himself, distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky.

  

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•  Josiah Wedgwood

  Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. A prominent abolitionist, Wedgwood is remembered for his "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion. He was a member of the Darwin-Wedgwood family. Charles Darwin was his grandson.

  

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•  Oliver Goldsmith

  Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). (He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase.)

  

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•  John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

  John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1732 – 25 February 1809) was a British peer and colonial governor. He was the son of William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore, and his wife Catherine (née Murray). He is best remembered as the last royal governor of the Colony of Virginia.

  

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•  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Friedrich Wilhelm Augustin Ludolf Gerhard (Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand) von Steuben also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, (September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794) Prussian aristocrat and military officer who served as inspector general and Major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline, helping to guide it to victory.

  

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•  Étienne Bézout

  Étienne Bézout (31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Basses-Loges, France.

  

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•  Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

  Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, KG, PC (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782), styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Earl Malton in 1750, was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain. He became the patron of many Whigs and served as a leading Whig grandee.

  

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•  Thomas Tyrwhitt

  Thomas Tyrwhitt (27 March 1730 – 15 August 1786) was an English classical scholar and critic. He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton and Queen's College, Oxford (fellow of Merton, 1755). In 1756 he was appointed under-secretary at war, in 1762 clerk of the House of Commons. In 1768 he resigned his post, and spent the remainder of his life in learned retirement.

  

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•  William Moultrie

  William Moultrie, (November 23, 1730 – September 27, 1805) was a general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He fought in the Anglo-Cherokee War (1761) and served in the colonial assembly before the advent of the American Revolution. In 1775 he was commissioned colonel of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment. In December of that year he led a raid on an encampment of runaway slaves on Sullivan's Island, killing 50 and capturing the rest.

  

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•  William Burnet (1730–1791)

  William Burnet (December 13, 1730, Elizabeth, New Jersey – October 7, 1791, Newark, New Jersey) was an American political leader and physician from New Jersey. He served in the Continental Army and the Continental Congress. Burnet graduated from Princeton University in 1749, studied medicine under Dr. Staats in White Plains, New York, and started his practice in Newark. He was a member of Newark's Committee of Safety in 1775 before he joined the Continental Army as a surgeon.

  

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•  Book of Han

  The History of the Former Han Dynasty is a classical Chinese history finished in 111 CE, covering the history of China under the Western Han from 206 BCE to 25 CE. It is also sometimes called the Book of Former Han. A second work, the History of the Later Han Dynasty covers the Eastern Han period from 25 to 220, and was composed in the fifth century by Fan Ye (398–445). Various scholars have estimated that the earliest material covered in the book dates back to between 206 and 202 BCE.

  

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•  East Angus (UK Parliament constituency)

  Angus East was a Scottish constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 1997, when it was replaced by Angus. Between 1950 and 1983, the area had been represented by the North Angus & Mearns and South Angus constituencies.

  

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•  Azima sarmentosa

  Azima sarmentosa is a species of plant in the Salvadoraceae family. It is found in Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

  

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•  Culture of honor

  

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•  Huston, Anjelica

  

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