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•  Francesco Andreini

  Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 - 1624) was an Italian actor. Andreini was born at Pistoia. He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell'arte style to France. Both his wife, Isabella Andreini, and their son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts.

  

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•  Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

  Charles VII Albert (Brussels 6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745 in Munich), a member of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only person not of the House of Habsburg to become emperor-elect since the fifteenth century.

  

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•  Johann Joachim Quantz

  Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer.

  

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•  William Hogarth

  William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Much of his work poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

  

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•  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. She was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais, a village near Charolles of a noble family. Educated at a convent in Paris, she showed great intelligence and a sceptical, cynical turn of mind. The abbess, alarmed at the freedom of her views, arranged for Jean Baptiste Massillon to visit and reason with her, but he accomplished nothing.

  

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•  Canaletto

  Giovanni Antonio Canal (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768) better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.

  

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•  Joseph François Dupleix

  Joseph François Dupleix (1 January 1697 – 10 November 1763) was governor general of the French establishment in India, and was the rival of Robert Clive.

  

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•  George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

  Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson PC RN (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe and his role overseeing the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. During his time in office Anson instituted a series of reforms to the Royal Navy.

  

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•  Bernard Accama

  Bernardus Accama (1697 - 1756) was an eighteenth century Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland, possibly in Burum, the son of Aeltje Boetes Nievelt and Simon Accama the local church minister. He was christened 12 July 1696 at Burum. He worked and died in Leeuwarden.

  

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•  Jacob Emden

  Jacob Emden (the Yabets) was a rabbi and notable talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Sabbateans. He was born at Altona June 4, 1697, and died there April 19, 1776. He was the son of the Chacham Tzvi, and a great-great grandson of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm. Emden was the father of Meshullam Solomon, one of two rival Chief Rabbis of England from 1765 to 1780.

  

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•  Japan national football team

  The Japan national football team is the national football team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association. Takeshi Okada, who had previously served as the manager for Japan leading up to and during the 1998 FIFA World Cup is the current coach for the team. The Japanese team is commonly known by the fans and media as Soccer Nippon Daihyō (サッカー日本代表, lit. Japanese representatives of soccer), or Nippon Daihyō, Daihyō as abbreviated expressions.

  

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•  Ford Focus (international)

  The Ford Focus is a small family car manufactured by Ford first in Europe starting July 1998, then worldwide starting February 2000 (with its own model for North America in production until late 2010). A second generation launched in Europe in January 2005, received styling and engineering updates in January 2008, and is marketed globally outside North and South America.

  

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•  Wielkie Pułkowo

  Wielkie Pułkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dębowa Łąka, within Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Dębowa Łąka, 12 km (7 mi) south-east of Wąbrzeźno, and 38 km (24 mi) north-east of Toruń.

  

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•  Emma Soller

  

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