He had an easy-going manner and little interest in politics; his appointment as Lord High Admiral in 1702 was largely honorary. Anne's seventeen pregnancies by George resulted in twelve miscarriages or stillbirths, four infant deaths, and a chronically sick son, William, who died at the age ...
Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629-1682), Dutch (naturalistic) landscape painter Georg Eberhard Rumpf = Rumphius (1627-1702), German/Dutch botanist John Ruskin (1819-1900), critic, man of letters S Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), Bloomsbury Set writer ...
John William Friso (Dutch: Johan Willem Friso van Oranje-Nassau; 14 August 1687 – 14 July 1711) became the (titular) Prince of Orange in 1702. He was the Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen in the Dutch Republic until his death by accidentally drowning in the Hollands Diep in 1711. ...
However, Mayer Amschel attained absolute influence over his successor, Elector Wilhelm I, who, like Mayer Amschel, had also been born in 1743. It was said that they were like two shoes, so well did they go together. It was a pleasant change from Mayer Amschel’s relationship with the f...
[妙笔成篇] 【参考范文】 Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family in 1685 in Eisenach , -3- Germany.Bach had an unhappy childhood.At the age of nine,he lost his mother,and the next year his father died.When young,he went to school on a scholarship and graduated in 1...
(a fountain pen dated 1702 belonging to a William Line, who lived his entire life in Warwickshire) to the well-recorded and scandalous (a sealing-wax case dated 1761 perhaps belonging to John Finch, stabbed by the courtesan Sally Sainsbury at a tavern in Chandos Street, London, in 1722)....
, Mustafa Besarani (1641–1702), Mala Tahir Avromani, and Muhammad Kuli Sleman. Their works are written in the Gorani dialect and show the influence of Sufism. The late 18th and early 19th centuries saw the decline of Kurdish literature. It abandoned folk traditions and became the property ...
[妙笔成篇] 【参考范文】 Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family in 1685 in Eisenach , Germany.Bach had an unhappy childhood.At the age of nine,he lost his mother,and the next year his father died.When young,he went to school on a scholarship and graduated in 170...
The second was the difficulty England had in securing coffee from the Levant while at war with France at the end of the seventeenth century and again during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13). Tea also became the dominant beverage in Ireland and over a period of time became the ...
50+ Celebrities Born on May 28 Jules Burke Updated February 5, 2025 59 items May 28 is not just another day on the calendar—it's a birthdate shared by a diverse array of celebrities and historical figures both living and deceased who have made significant marks in various fields. From ac...