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•  Thomas Gainsborough

  Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was a British portrait and landscape painter.

  

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•  Ezra Stiles

  The Rev. Ezra Stiles (November 29, 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College (1778–1795).

  

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•  Naphtali Daggett

  Rev. Naphtali Daggett (September 8, 1727 – November 25, 1780) graduated from Yale University in 1748. Three years later, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Smithtown, Long Island. In 1755, the Yale Corporation persuaded him to return to New Haven to assist President Thomas Clapp in the pulpit, and to be considered for appointment as a college professor. On March 4, 1756, the Corporation inducted him as Yale's first professor -- officially the Livingstonian Professor of Divinity.

  

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•  Jean-André Deluc

  Jean-André Deluc (8 February 1727 – 7 November 1817) was a Swiss geologist and meteorologist. He was born at Geneva, descended from a family which had emigrated from Lucca and settled at Geneva in the 15th century.

  

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•  Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), often referred to as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Today he is best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism.

  

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•  James Wolfe

  General James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canada. The son of a distinguished general, he received his first commission at a young age and saw extensive service in Europe where he fought during the War of the Austrian Succession.

  

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•  André Morellet

  André Morellet (7 March 1727 – 12 January 1819) was a French economist and writer. He was one of the last of the philosophes, and in this character he figures in many memoirs, such as those of Madame de Rémusat. He was born at Lyon, and educated by the Jesuits there, and later at the Sorbonne. He took holy orders, but without much conviction. Voltaire called him "L'Abbé Mords-les" ("Father Bite-them"), because of his ready and biting wit.

  

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•  Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten

  Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten (1727 – April 2, 1786) was a Swedish and Finnish officer and politician, and half-brother of Georg Magnus Sprengtporten. In his twelfth year he chose the profession of arms, and served his country with distinction. The few and miserable triumphs of Sweden during the Seven Years' War were due almost entirely to young Sprengtporten, and he emerged from it with a lieutenant-colonelcy, a pension and the reputation of being the smartest officer in the service.

  

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•  Giovanni Battista Cipriani

  Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727–1785), Italian painter and engraver, Pistoiese by descent, was born in Florence.

  

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•  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as International Dance Day. His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg.

  

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•  576

  For the tv standard, see 576i

  

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•  Ezzo

  Ezzo (c. 955 – 21 March 1034), sometimes called Erenfried, Count Palatine of Lotharingia of the Ezzonen dynasty, was the son of Herman I. Having married Matilda of Germany (died 1025), a daughter of Emperor Otto II and Theophanu, Ezzo became prominent during the reign of his brother-in-law, Emperor Otto III. His power was increased due to the liberal grant of lands in Thuringia and Franconia which his wife received out of Ottonian possessions.

  

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•  Mount Pelion West

  Mount Pelion West is a mountain located in the Central Highlands of Tasmania and in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park It is located at the eastern most boundary of the Murchison River, Tasmania river catchment.

  

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•  David Hittner

  David Hittner (born 1939) is a United States federal judge. Hittner was born in Schenectady, New York. He received a B.S. from New York University in 1961. He received a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1964. He was in the United States Army Captain from 1965 to 1966. He was in private practice in Houston, Texas from 1967 to 1978. He was a judge on the 133rd District Court of Texas from 1978 to 1986.

  

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•  Återtåget (album)

  

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