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 )

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

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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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Around this time Johann Bernoulli's two sons, Daniel and Nicolas, were working at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.

In 1868 Hansen returned to Bergen to study leprosy while working with Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, a noted expert.

On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".

According to Holocaust writer Daniel Goldhagen's review of the book in The New Republic, most of the people working in these camps were not Jewish and Goldhagen argued Sack did his best to conceal this.

After working for two years as a wool-stapler in Wakefield he became his father's partner in the business of Daniel Salt and Son.

Philip Francis Berrigan was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, a Midwestern working class town, the younger brother of the Jesuit fellow-activist and poet, Daniel Berrigan.

He famously had a chapter of his 1910 book " Labour in Irish History " entitled " A chapter of horrors: Daniel O ’ Connell and the working class.

Studio Daniel Libeskind, headquartered two blocks south of the World Trade Center site in New York, is currently working on over 40 projects across the world.

Daniel Cooke, Computer Science Department Chair, and his colleagues are working to develop the technical content of the Intelligent Systems Program, and have been awarded a five-year budget valued at $ 350 million.

* Daniel Myer – engineering, production, synths, additional vocals ( began touring in 2007, now writing and working in the studio );

Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, of the band Wire ( who had been working together under the name Dome ), teamed up with Daniel Miller to form a project known as Duet Emmo, an anagram of Mute and Dome.

To further cement their nationalist policies, Herenigde Nasionale Party leader Daniel Malan called for stricter enforcement of job reservation protecting the rights of the White working class, and the rights of White workers to organise their own labour unions outside of company control.

On 28 July 1625 she was working on a commentary of the book of Daniel and believed she heard the voice of the prophet.

# Long before Moll Flanders ( Daniel Defoe ), Lazarillo describes the domestic and working life of a poor woman, wife, mother, climaxing in the flogging of Lazarillo's mother through the streets of the town after her black husband Zayde is hanged as a thief.

In 1883 he became an assistant to Daniel Chester French and concentrated on animal studies and working as a manager and salesman in the quarries.

The principal character of ' Karaoke ' is Daniel Feeld ( played by Albert Finney ), an English playwright in late middle-age who is working on the television production of his latest play, itself entitled ' Karaoke '.

After working for Studds for a year, Hoeffel challenged four-term Republican incumbent Daniel Beren for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 153rd legislative district, in 1974.

Immediately above it was Drury Mill, a corn mill run by Daniel Drury, but this had to be closed in 1791 when the water level in Field Mill Dam was raised, preventing Drury's wheel from working efficiently.

At a cryogenic research institute in London, funded by the pharmaceuticals tycoon Martina Masdon ( played by Diane Ladd ), a group of scientists led by Dr. Emma Porlock ( Frances de la Tour ) is working on reviving the mind of the 20th century writer Daniel Feeld ( Albert Finney ), whose head was frozen after Feeld's death at the end of " Karaoke ".

Kessel's sons David and Daniel also became session musicians, working with Phil Spector during the 1970s.

She also composed for Daniel Lévi and is said to be currently working with a former contestant from " Nouvelle Star 3 ", Roland.

In 1892, working under extremely tight deadlines to complete construction of the World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham appointed Millet to replace the fair's official director of color, William Pretyman.

X Pixmap ( XPM ) is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.

* On camera J. K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe, while discussing the near-death or afterlife scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, both reveal A Matter of Life and Death to have been their favorite film and something that each had had in mind when working on the scenes in Harry Potter.