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    three separate volumes: Love-Letters Between a Noble-Man and his Sister (1684), Love-Letters from a Noble Man to his Sister: Mixt with the History of...
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    the three-part Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, anonymously published between 1684 and 1687. The novels were inspired by a contemporary scandal...
    56 KB (6,760 words) - 11:19, 21 July 2024
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    Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    p. 288. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 16, 580(49). Wright 1684, p. 97. Angus 2022, p. 29: "Cromwell's late sister Catherine...
    141 KB (16,368 words) - 04:26, 23 June 2024
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    Louis XIV (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
    January 1684. This marriage, though never announced or publicly discussed, was an open secret and lasted until his death. Louis was a pious and devout...
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    Bielińska (1684–1761). She was the daughter of Kazimierz Ludwik Bieliński, a Polish noble, politician and diplomat. She was also the sister of Franciszek...
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    a genre, Aphra Behn had written at least one epistolary novel prior to Oroonoko. The epistolary work Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister predates...
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    statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794...
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    Behn's first novel was Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister in 1684. This was an epistolary novel documenting the amours of a scandalous nobleman...
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    Katarzyna Bielińska (1684–1761), daughter of Kazimierz Ludwik Bieliński, a Polish noble, politician and diplomat. She was also the sister of Maria Magdalena...
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (category CS1 maint: date and year)
    intended Tom to be a "noble hero" and a Christ-like figure who, like Jesus at his crucifixion, forgives the people responsible for his death. The false...
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    Frederick Douglass (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
    be held by a black man. He again referred to it stunningly in his last Autobiography. After the raid, which took place between October 16 and 18, 1859,...
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    Christopher Columbus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1-4000-6281-2. Morison 1991, p. 497. Cook, Noble David (1998)...
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    and was never acknowledged by Charles as his own daughter.) By Nell Gwyn (1650–1687): Charles Beauclerk (1670–1726), created Duke of St Albans (1684)...
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    Robert Walpole (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister...
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    Nell Gwyn (category History of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    Albans on 5 January 1684, King Charles granted his son Charles the title of Duke of St Albans, gave him an allowance of £1,000 a year, and also granted him...
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    Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    the stage for tensions between his Catholic family and the Protestant royal line that would be continued by Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth I. Thomas was...
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    Maison royale de Saint-Louis (category 1684 establishments in France)
    twenty girls from poor noble families to students drawn from among the people, who were taught a different curriculum. In 1684 the Maison Royale was visited...
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    1895 and died three years later. Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "The People's William" or the "G.O.M." ("Grand Old Man", or,...
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Leibniz did not publish anything about his calculus until 1684. Leibniz expressed the inverse relation of integration and differentiation, later called the...
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    Christina, Queen of Sweden (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The American Cyclopaedia with a Wikisource reference)
    Pope and his court. The nobles vied for her attention and treated her to a never-ending round of fireworks, jousts, mock duels, acrobatics, and operas...
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