William Henry Smyth

•  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world.

  

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•  Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827), was a French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally. He is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fresnel lens, first adopted in lighthouses while he was a French commissioner of lighthouses, and found in many applications today.

  

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•  Robert Peel

  Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force (leading to officers being known as "bobbies", in England, or Peelers, in Ireland, to this day) while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.

  

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•  Tomás de Zumalacárregui

  Tomás de Zumalacárregui y de Imaz (1788–1835), Spanish Carlist general, was born at Ormaiztegi in Guipúzcoa, Basque Country, on 29 December 1788. His father, Francisco Antonio Zumalacárregui, was a lawyer who possessed some property, and the son was articled to a solicitor.

  

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•  Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

  Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (December 29, 1788 – May 21, 1865) was a Danish archaeologist. Although he lacked academic training, in 1816 he was appointed head of 'antiquarian' collections which later developed into the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. It was while organizing and classifying the antiquities that he proposed the three-age system, for which he is remembered internationally.

  

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•  Edward Hodges Baily

  Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS (10 March 1788 - 22 May 1867) - (sometimes misspelled Bailey) was an English sculptor who was born in Downend in Bristol.

  

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•  Edward Sabine

  General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS (14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer. He was born in Dublin and died at East Sheen in Surrey.

  

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•  Samuel Bamford

  Samuel Bamford (28 February 1788 – 13 April 1872), English radical and writer, was born in Middleton, Lancashire. Bamford was one of five children born to Daniel Bamford, a muslin weaver, part-time teacher, and later master of the Salford workhouse, and his wife, Hannah. After his father withdrew him from Manchester Grammar School Bamford became a weaver, and then a warehouseman in Manchester.

  

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•  Richard Harris Barham

  Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English novelist, humorous poet, and cleric in the Church of England. He was better known by his nom de plume of Thomas Ingoldsby.

  

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•  Edmund Henry Barker

  Edmund Henry Barker (1788 – 21 March 1839), English classical scholar, was born at Hollym in Yorkshire. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a scholar in 1807, but left the university without a degree, being prevented by religious scruples from taking the oath then required. He had previously obtained (in 1809) the Browne medal for Greek and Latin epigrams.

  

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•  Stephens Orr

  J. Stephens Orr was a 20th century Scottish Glasgow photographer with an interest in people and motor cars. Practicing between 1930 and 1970 in Glasgow's Langside and later at No. 4 Somerset Place, Charing Cross, he became known for his portraits of society figures in magazines such as Scottish Field.

  

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•  Heartbreak in Stereo

  Heartbreak in Stereo is the debut album by the indie/punk rock group Pencey Prep. It was released on November 26, 2001, then re-released again by Eyeball Records in early 2007 because new fans could not find the album.

  

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•  Costières de Nîmes AOC

  Costières de Nîmes is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for wines that are produced in an area between the ancient city of Nîmes and the western Rhône delta, in the French department of the Gard. Formerly part of the Languedoc region of France, as the wines more resemble those of the Rhône valley in character than of the Languedoc, it is now part of the Rhone wine area and administered by the Rhône Wine committee which has its headquarters in Avignon.

  

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•  Brunner Pouter

  The Brunner Pouter is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Brunner Pouters along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia). The breed is one of the most popular blower breeds.

  

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