1771 - Encyclopaedia Britannica is first published.1772 - John Harrisons H4 clock allows navigators to accurately measure longitude enabling long distance sea travel1772 - Warren Hastings is appointed Governor General of India.1773 - The world’s first cast-iron bridge is constructed over the River ...
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common ...
Most of the better breeding was done in the London, Birmingham, and Sheffield areas. A very graphic description of the Bulldog's qualities of that time, can be found in the 1800 Cynographia Britannica, by Sydenham Edwards. It describes the bulldog's "head round and full, muzzle short, ...
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The 1988 Britannica Book of the Year lists 32.9 percent of the world as Christian, 17.2 percent Muslim, and 0.4 percent Jewish, and Abraham is a prominent figure in all three of these religions. 1988不列颠年鉴》列出世界人口有百分之32.9是基督徒,百分之17.2是回教徒,百分之0.4是犹太教徒;这三...
Newton, Sir Isaac. 1687.Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.Trans. Andrew Motte and Florian Cajori, 1939.Great Books of the Western World.Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952. Quammen, David.The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age ofExtinctions...
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common ...
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common ...
He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common ...