It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

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Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 line engraving by James Charles Armytage after Eyre Crowe ( painter ) | Eyre Crowe

Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Daniel Defoe fiction at The Literature Network

* The Journeys of Daniel Defoe around Britain ( from a Vision of Britain )

* Life of Daniel Defoe at luminarium. org

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Daniel Jackson also comments that it would mean that Ambrosius was 74 at the Battle of Mount Badon.

In 1983 he wrote an extended manuscript ( about 600 pages ) entitled Pursuing Stacks, stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown, ( see also R. Brown and Tim Porter at University of Bangor in Wales ), and starting with a letter addressed to Daniel Quillen.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

Daniel also foresees the Greek Empire being divided among the four generals upon the death of Alexander.

The prophet Habakkuk is also mentioned in the tale of Bel and the Dragon, part of the deuterocanonical additions to Daniel in a late section of that book.

Designed by Daniel Asher Alexander and constructed originally between 1806 and 1809 by local labour, to hold prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, it was also used to hold American prisoners from the War of 1812.

Allen was also approached by Daniel Shays in 1786 for support in what became the Shays ' Rebellion in western Massachusetts.

Judaism addresses the end times in the Book of Daniel and numerous other prophetic passages in the Hebrew scriptures, and also in the Talmud, particularly Tractate Avodah Zarah.

He also met and befriended the Irish nationalist Daniel O ' Connell who was to prove to be a great inspiration.

Daniel Waters also gained recognition for his screenplay, which won a 1990 Edgar Award.

Daniel Waters wanted his screenplay to go to director Stanley Kubrick, not only out of profound admiration for Kubrick but also from a perception that " Kubrick was the only person that could get away with a three-hour film ".

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

Daniel Dennett countered that for some things, such as money, baseball, or consciousness, one cannot have the thing without also having the concept of the thing.

Private Daniel Tarnopolsky serving in the Argentine Marine Corps in 1976, also passed on valuable information to Walsh regarding the tortures and killings of left-wing guerrillas taking place in ESMA.

In recent years, under the administrations of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan economy has increased dramatically, although it has also been subject to the global recession.

* Similarly, Daniel Wallace's Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions ( 1998 ) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the Apologoi ( Books 9-12 ).

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

Trudeau also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr. during constitutional negotiations.

He was also cast again by Daniel Abineri in the role of Johnny, in the stage musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom in 1989.

The " Insurrectional Tendency ", also known as the " Third Way " or Terceristas, led by Daniel Ortega, his brother Humberto Ortega, and Mexican-born Victor Tirado Lopez, was more pragmatic and called for tactical, temporary alliances with non-communists, including the right-wing opposition, in a popular front against the Somoza regime.

The party also experienced a number of internal divisions, with prominent Sandinistas such as Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez resigning to protest what they described as heavy-handed domination of the party by Daniel Ortega.

He also contributed a version of Daniel Johnston's " King Kong " to the tribute album The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, released on Gammon Records.