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•  John Harrison

  John Harrison (24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English clockmaker. He invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought device in solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail.

  

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•  Pope Clement XIII

  Pope Clement XIII (Venice, 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769 in Rome), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was Pope from 16 July 1758 to 2 February 1769. He was born to a recently ennobled family of Venice, received a Jesuit education in Bologna and became a Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere in 1737.

  

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•  Anna of Russia

  Anna Ivanovna (7 February 1693, Moscow – 28 October 1740) reigned as Duchess of Courland from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.

  

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•  Thomas Secker

  Thomas Secker (1693 – 3 August 1768), Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire.

  

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•  James Bradley

  James Bradley FRS (March 1693 – 13 July 1762) was an English astronomer the Astronomer Royal from 1742. Bradley is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725–28), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728–48).

  

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•  Johann Georg Walch

  Johann Georg Walch (June 17, 1693 – January 13, 1775) was a German theologian. He was born at Meiningen, where his father, Georg Walch, was general superintendent. He studied at Leipzig and Jena, amongst his teachers being JF Buddeus, whose only daughter he married. He published in 1716 a work, Historia critica Latinae linguae, which soon came into wide use. Two years later he became professor extraordinarius of philosophy at Jena.

  

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•  Jeremiah Markland

  Jeremiah Markland (October 18 1693 - July 7, 1776), English classical scholar, was born at Childwall in Liverpool on the 29th (or 18th) of October 1693. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He died at Milton, near Dorking.

  

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•  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  

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•  Jean-Baptiste Louis Crevier

  

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•  Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin

  Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (June 1, 1693 – April 21, 1768), Grand Chancellor of Russia, was one of the most influential and successful European diplomats of the 18th century. He was chiefly responsible for Russian foreign policy during the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna.

  

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•  Alūksne District

  Alūksne district was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Vidzeme region, in the country's north-east, 202 km from the capital city Riga. The district had international borders with Estonia (border 103.8 km/64.35 miles) and Russia (border 46.4 km/28.77 miles), and internal borders with the districts of Valka (51.7 km/32.05 miles), Gulbene (98.1 km/60.83 miles) and Balvi (57.4 km/35.58 miles). The main city in the district was Alūksne.

  

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•  Halton Hills Public Library

  The Halton Hills Public Library is the public library system for the Town of Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. It has branches located in Acton and Georgetown.

  

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•  Robert Elsmere

  Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mrs. Humphrey Ward published in 1888. It was immediately successful, quickly selling over a million copies and gaining the admiration of Henry James.

  

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•  Computer aided instruction

  Improved performance: A 12-year meta-analysis of research by the U.S. Department of Education found that higher education students in online learning generally performed better than those in face-to-face courses. Increased access: Instructors of the highest calibre can share their knowledge across borders, allowing students to attend courses across physical, political, and economic boundaries.

  

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•  10,000 B.C

  

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