in a vain attempt to protect it. Snuff-boxes and other items were made of the wood and by 1712 the tree had been almost destroyed. The one at Boscobel today is almost certainly a descendant, which grew from one of the original oak’s acorns. Unfortunately, it was badly damaged in a ...
December 5, 1916 – Death of Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in Neustrelitz, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, now in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; buried in the New Crypt at Johanniterkirche in Mirow...
Born 8 Mar 1712; died26 Dec1780at age 68. English physician who was first to describe coronary arteriosclerosis (hardening and thickening of the arterial wall, with a loss of elasticity and reduced blood flow) associated with angina pectoris. He began his medical practise in 1740. He was firs...
The strawberry plant is first found in ancient Rome but is used for medicinal purposes. 1588 Europeans First Discover Strawberries In America, the Fragaria virginiana, a species of strawberry native to North America, is found. 1712 Much Loved Strawberry Hybrid ...
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follow. In 1712, Jonathan Swift, the satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, wrote his "Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue," in which he entreated the Earl of Oxford to establish a national "Society" to arbitrate and limit changes in the English ...
However, the early species of strawberries were very different from those we feast on now. It wasn’t until 1712 that a French excursion to Chile resulted in the mixing of different types of strawberry plants, and the garden strawberry we know today was born. ...
Franklin, Benjamin: "The cat in gloves catches no mice." Franklin, Benjamin: "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia: "The greatest pleasure one can have in the entire world is...
. Michel Le Vassor wrote in his history of Louis XIII (1712) ‘I can look only with horror on a prelate who sacrifices the liberty of his fatherland and the peace of all Europe to his ambition’. A similar charge was levelled by Voltaire in hisLe Siècle de Louis XIV(1751): ‘...
Astrology was much in vogue during the middle ages, and became the parent of modern astronomy, as alchemy did of chemistry. — Noah Webster As given in Edwin Davies, Other Men's Minds, Or, Seven Thousand Choice Extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Etc (1800), 41. ...