area and also served as a justice of the county court. Augustine’s first wife‚ Janet Butler‚ died in 1729‚ leaving him with two sons‚ Lawrence and Augustine‚ Jr.‚ and a daughter‚ Jane. The elder Augustine then married George’s mother‚ Mary Ball‚ in 1731. George was the eldest of Augustine Washington’s and Mary Ball’s six children. In 1735 Augustine moved the family up the Potomac River to another Washington home‚ Little Hunting Creek Plantation (later renamed Mount Vernon). In 1738 they moved again
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Joseph Galloway was born in 1731 near west river in Maryland. Joseph was the fourth son of Samuel and Anne Galloway who were both quakers. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1749 where his father lived. Here he attended liberal school and became a lawyer and practiced in Philadelphia. Joseph Galloway was a Philadelphia lawyer who remained loyal to the British Crown during the Revolutionary War (1775–83). Born in Maryland‚ Galloway came from an affluent family that provided him
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SOSC A101 Social Sciences: A Foundation Course Assignment 2 Question: a What is a political party? b ‘Political parties are powerless in Hong Kong because they cannot form government and make policies.’ Discuss. Student name: Lam Tsz Ho Student no: S11421101 Introduction In this year‚ Occupy Central arouses a lot of controversies. It is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28‚ 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong’s financial
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Famous French Enlightenment writer and historian Voltaire was born Francois Marie Arouet into a Parisian middle class family in 1694. Voltaire was the youngest of five children to parents‚ François Arouet and Marie Marguerite d’Aumart. After his mother’s death at the age of seven; Voltaire’s father‚ a high-profile lawyer sent him to the infamous Paris boarding school Louis-le-grand. The school was run by Jesuit priests that lent him a background in early Greek and Latin‚ while also providing him
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SUBJECT: ZAGREB‚ CROATIA Welcome to one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe‚ Zagreb! Although located in a country plagued by war‚ it offers safety‚ a strong history‚ and many tourism destinations. It is considered to be "the focal point of culture and science‚ and now of commerce and industry as well" in Croatia. HISTORY: Originally a "suburb of the ancient Roman town of Andautonia"‚ the Mongols invaded it in 1242. It became an important city of Croatia and Slovenia‚ which
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Life and Music of Antonio Vivaldi Written by: Steven C. Noah Antonio Lucio Vivaldi‚ nicknamed il Prete Rosso because of his red hair‚ was an Italian Baroque composer‚ Catholic priest‚ and virtuoso violinist‚ born in Venice‚ Italy on March 4th‚ 1678. He was ordained as a priest in 1703‚ celebrating mass for a year before claiming that he wished to do so no more on account of chest pains‚ presumed now to be angina pectoris‚ asthmatic bronchitis‚ or some sort of a nervous disorder resulting in
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uncritical assumption that there must be an unbroken chain of being all the way from inanimate matter up to God."[3] The essay‚ written in heroic couplets‚ comprises four epistles. Pope began work on it in 1729‚ and had finished the first three by 1731. They appeared in early 1733‚ with the fourth epistle published the following year. The poem was originally published anonymously; Pope did not admit authorship until 1735.
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and con list‚ just to start off naming two. One of the first of many ways that Benjamin Franklin bettered the people around him was the founding of the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731. He founded it with his own book collection‚ as well as some books that the members of the Junto donated. This was the first library in America‚ and it greatly increased the literacy and
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Financial Plan The following sections will outline our financial plan for growth and continued sales. Important assumptions are laid out in each section to better clarify what we are projecting. Important Assumptions The current economic climate in the U.S. appears to be on the brink of recession. We do believe that this could have a mild impact on our company’s profitability because many families will start to allocate their expendable income towards more of the basic needs of the family
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perception (Patterson‚ 1998). The construction of telescopes and microscopes was made possible because of the basis of Euler’s work (Patterson‚ 1998). Not too long after becoming the Director of Mathematics at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in 1731‚Euler married Katharina Gesell x (Wikipedia‚2012). The couple had five children who survived childhood out of thirteen x (Wikipedia‚ 2012). Euler worked in nearly every area of mathematics including geometry‚ infinitesimal calculus‚ trigonometry‚ algebra
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