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•  David Thompson (explorer)

  David Thompson (April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857) born Dafydd ap Thomas, was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometers of North America and for this has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived."

  

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•  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of the total reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to continental philosophy and Marxism.

  

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•  William Wordsworth

  William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times.

  

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•  Bertel Thorvaldsen

  (Albert) Bertel Thorvaldsen (19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danish / Icelandic sculptor.

  

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•  Adam Johann von Krusenstern

  Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (November 19, 1770 – August 24, 1846) was an Imperial Russian, Baltic German admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth. In Russia, Krusenstern is known as Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern .

  

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•  Thomas Johann Seebeck

  Thomas Johann Seebeck (9 April 1770 – 10 December 1831) was a physicist who in 1821 discovered the thermoelectric effect. Seebeck was born in Reval to a wealthy Baltic German merchant family. He received a medical degree in 1802 from the University of Göttingen, but preferred to study physics. In 1821 he discovered the thermoelectric effect, where a junction of dissimilar metals produces an electric current when exposed to a temperature gradient.

  

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•  Joseph Jacotot

  Joseph (or Jean-Joseph) Jacotot (1770-1840) was a French teacher and educational philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation. " He was born at Dijon on the 4th of March 1770. He was educated at the university of Dijon, where in his nineteenth year he was made a professor of Latin, after which he studied law, became a lawyer, and at the same time devoted a large amount of his attention to mathematics.

  

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•  Louis Gabriel Suchet

  Louis Gabriel Suchet, 1st Duc d'Albufera (2 March 1770 – 3 January 1826) was a Marshal of France and one of Napoleon's most brilliant generals.

  

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•  Friedrich Hölderlin

  Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 6 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.

  

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•  Thomas Kidd

  

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•  Adamorobe Sign Language

  Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) is an indigenous sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana. Its users are about 30 deaf and 1370 hearing people. ”. Ethnologue reports a total of 3,400 signers, including hearing users, but a recent census mentions a total of 1400 inhabitants. The Adamorobe community is notable for its unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness, estimated at 2% of the total population, or 15% according to Ethnologue.

  

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•  Whitebirk

  Whitebirk is a suburb in the east of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. Most of the suburb is in Blackburn with Darwen, a unitary area, with the east of the suburb being in the borough of Hyndburn. Whitebirk is part of the Blackburn urban area. The area is largely industrial and is the eastern terminus of the town's northern ring road, the A6119, where it meets junction 6 of the M65.

  

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•  Kilb

  Kilb is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. In Germany, "Kilb" is a relatively popular name in the Frankfurt/Wiesbaden/Mainz area. In Alsace (France), there is also a hamlet called "Kilbs".

  

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•  Gmina Brąszewice

  Gmina Brąszewice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Brąszewice, which lies approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) south-west of Sieradz and 78 km (48 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź. The gmina covers an area of 106.33 square kilometres (41.1 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 4,485.

  

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•  Moika Palace

  The Moika Palace or Yusupov Palace was once the primary residence in St. Petersburg, Russia of the House of Yusupov. The building was the site of Grigori Rasputin's murder in 1916. The palace was first built around 1770 by the French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe. Over the years numerous well-known architects worked on the palace, and it is known for the hodgepodge of architectural styles.

  

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