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31Mary Delany — Portrait of Mary Delany by John Opie, 1782. Mary Delany (nee Granville) (14 May 1700 – 15 April 1788) was an English Bluestocking, artist, and letter writer; equally famous for her paper mosaicks and her lively correspondence …
32Philippe de Dangeau — and author.Born in Chartres, he is most remembered for keeping a diary from 1684 till the year of his death. These Memoirs , which, as Saint Simon said of an insipidity to make you sick , contain many facts about the reign of Louis XIV …
33Dingbat (building) — A dingbat apartment building in Southern California. A dingbat is a type of formulaic apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style stucco boxes .… …
34The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …
35Thomas Watson (poet) — Thomas Watson (1557? ndash; 1592), was an English lyrical poet, possibly educated at Oxford, and was a law student in London. He spent some time abroad, and while quite a young man enjoyed a certain reputation as a Latin poet.His De remedio… …
36William Haselden — William Kerridge Haselden (December 3, 1872, Seville, Spain december 25, 1953, Aldeburgh) was an English cartoonist and caricaturist.He was the second of five children of Adolphe Henry Haselden and his wife Susan Elizabeth (née Kerridge).… …
37The Maid's Tragedy — Title page of The Maid s Tragedy (detail). The Maid s Tragedy is a play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. It was first published in 1619. The play was one of the earliest works in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators that was acted by …
38A Sensation Novel — is a comic musical play in three acts (or volumes) written by librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Thomas German Reed. It was first performed on 31 January 1871 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration. New music was later composed by Florian Pascal …
39Notre-Dame Affair — The Notre Dame Affair was an action performed by Michel Mourre, Serge Berna, Ghislain Desnoyers de Marbaix, and Jean Rullier, members of the radical wing of the Lettrist movement, on Easter Sunday, 9 April 1950, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,… …
40Franz Hunolt — (b. 31 March, 1691, at Siegen; d. 12 September, 1746, at Trier.) was a popular German preacher.LifeThe name of this renowned preacher is spelled in various ways in the catalogues of the Society of Jesus Humold, Hunoldt, and (usually) Hunolt. At… …
