Pjetër Bogdani

•  Pope Innocent XI

  Pope Blessed Innocent XI (16 May 1611 – 12 August 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689.

  

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•  Christina of Sweden

  Christina, later known as Christina Alexandra and sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive, at the age of six she succeeded her father on the throne of Sweden upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years' War.

  

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•  Aphra Behn

  Aphra Behn (10 July 1640 – 16 April 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British literature.

  

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•  George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys

  George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, PC (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as "The Hanging Judge", became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances).

  

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•  Sambhaji

  Sambhaji Raje Bhosle (14 May 1657 – 11 March 1689), was the eldest son and successor of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha empire.

  

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•  Françoise Bertaut de Motteville

  Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621 – 1689), French memoir writer, was the daughter of Pierre Bertaut, a gentleman of the king's chamber, and niece of the bishop-poet Jean Bertaut. Her mother, a Spaniard, was the friend and private secretary of Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII. At the age of seven Françoise was also made a member of the queen's household and given a pension.

  

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•  John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee

  John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (c. 21 July 1648 - 27 July 1689) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and an Episcopalian. Claverhouse is remembered by history in two distinct characters. Unfavourable records of his persecution of the Covenanters, when he was responsible for policing south-west Scotland during and after the religious unrest and rebellion of the 1670s and 80s, led to Presbyterian historians dubbing him "Bluidy Clavers".

  

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•  Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

  Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 – July 1689) was a French traveller and pioneer of trade with India, born in Paris, where his father Gabriel and uncle Melchior, Protestants from Antwerp, pursued the profession of cartographers and engravers.

  

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•  John Dixwell

  John Dixwell (1607 – 18 March 1689) was one of the judges who tried King Charles I of England and condemned him to death. He was born at Broome Park, Kent. He became a colonel in the Parliamentary army and was active on various county committees. He was appointed governor of Dover Castle by Cromwell. He was a member of four parliaments. He was one of fifty-nine signatories of the death warrant of King Charles I.

  

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•  Thomas Sydenham

  Thomas Sydenham (or Syndenham) (September 10, 1624 – December 29, 1689) was an English physician. He was born at Wynford Eagle in Dorset, where his father was a gentleman of property. His brother was Colonel William Sydenham. Thomas fought for the Parliament throughout the English Civil War, and, at its end, resumed his medical studies at Oxford. He became the undisputed master of the English medical world and was known as 'The English Hippocrates’.

  

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•  Critical Mass (video game)

  Critical Mass is an educational video game being developed at Purdue University. The game teaches players about chemistry while they try to save the world. The game uses the Truevision3D engine. This game has come under scrutiny as the creators may be facing a copyright infringement suit from Sean O'Connor, creator of the 1996 game with the same title.

  

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•  Cass Township, LaPorte County, Indiana

  Cass Township is one of twenty-one townships in LaPorte County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,677.

  

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•  R. N. Taber

  R. N. Taber (born Roger Noel in December 1945) is an English poet and novelist. Raised in Kent, he graduated from the University of Kent during 1973. He is a librarian by profession, and currently lives in London. He has written for various poetry magazines and anthologies across England and America. Openly gay, he writes psycho-sociological poetry about both the homosexual and heterosexual communities, often experimenting with voices.

  

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•  Elizabeth of Thuringia

  

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•  An Open Heart

  An Open Heart is a book written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and Nicholas Vreeland published by Little, Brown and Company, in 2002 ISBN 0316930938 The book explains the fundamentals of Buddhism.

  

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