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Machiavellian political diary (publ. 1784), and for being the patron

...omer and the brother-in-law of Clive of India; his predecessor and Mason's patron, James Bradley, who was indeed the discoverer of the aberration of light (t

...– 23 December 1810) was a Scottish nobleman. Queensberry was a liberal patron of Italian opera, although, it was said, more out of interest in the prima

...name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces, bakkheia. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theater. He was also known as the Liberator ( ...me president of the Royal Society (24 March 1764), and was a distinguished patron of science, and particularly of astronomy. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Armand starts to answer as if the question were asked by a restaurant patron perusing a menu.

...anonized. The feast day of Ignatius is celebrated on July 31 — he is the patron saint of soldiers, the Society of Jesus, the Basque Country, the provinces

...(13 February 1743 – 19 June 1820) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great

...y's Library", part of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Duke Humphrey was a patron and protector of Oxford, donating more than 280 manuscripts to the Universi