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Hace 1 día · World Population Policies: Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact. Dordrecht, Springer, 2012, ISBN: 9789400728363; 339pp.; Price: £117.00. At the beginning of the 18th century, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, maréchal de France, sent a letter to Louis XIV, as part of his efforts to persuade the King to help his poverty-stricken subjects.
Hace 2 días · Kyiv, chief city and capital of Ukraine. A port on the Dnieper (Dnipro) River and a large railroad junction, it is a city with an ancient and proud history. As the centre of Kyivan (Kievan) Rus, the first eastern Slavic state, 1,000 years ago, it acquired the title “Mother of Rus Cities.”. It was severely damaged during World War II, but by ...
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Hace 3 días · Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [ OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the ...
Hace 1 día · Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Hace 2 días · During the 18th century the Royal Navy engaged in a long struggle with the French navy for maritime supremacy, leading Britain to victory over France in four separate wars between 1688 and 1763. It played a key role in Britain’s stand against Napoleon , and, after winning the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the Royal Navy was never again challenged by the French.
Hace 5 días · After a series of incremental changes, by the end of the 18th century, the range with a fully-enclosed fire, a boiler for water on one side, and an oven on the other, was standard in better off urban houses. Paralleling and, at least in part, causing changes in the hearth were changes in fuel. Well into the 18th century, the favored fuel was wood.
