First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from the Latin, and it is the romanisation of the Greek " καμηλοπάρδαλις " meaning " giraffe ", from " κάμηλος " ( kamēlos ), " camel " + " πάρδαλις " ( pardalis ), " leopard ", due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.

William, his parents, his three sisters, and the Clark family's slaves arrived in Kentucky in March 1785, having first traveled overland to Redstone Landing in present-day Brownsville, Pennsylvania.

After having been successively Repetent in the University of Göttingen and teacher in the public schools of Dortmund ( Westphalia ) and Altdorf ( Bavaria ), he was appointed second professor of theology at the University of Altdorf in 1785, then promoted to a chair in Jena in 1804, where he succeeded Griesbach in 1812 and remained until his death.

What's more, they were acknowledged as being of " extraction chevaleresque " ( very old nobility ), having been noble since 1347, and so allowed to the " Honneurs de la Cour " by the King of France in 1750, 1769, 1770, 1775, 1777, 1785 and 1788.

The House of Deputies is the older of the two houses having been formed in 1785.

In 1785 he moved to London, Lord Shelburne, then a minister of state, having invited him to undertake the education of his sons.

Born in Essex, at Great Dunmow in 1742, Lionel Lukin became credited with the invention of the Lifeboat after some experimentation along the French lines in 1784 with his own conversion of a Norway ‘ yawl ’ which he tested out on the river Thames, and in 1785 having received the personal encouragement of the Prince Regent, Lukin took out a patent.

Hoare was an extremely wealthy man, having inherited the Stourhead estate from his grandfather in 1785.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1785 to 1795, but was not re-elected, having condemned the " sedition " and " treason " bills as unconstitutional.

There are a few discrepancies and problems with Beldham's recollection as recounted above ( e. g., there is no record of Farnham having played Hambledon on 1784 ), but it is beyond doubt that, aged nineteen, he was a Hambledon player during the 1785 season, for in the minutes of the weekly club meeting of July 26 that year it was " order'd that John & James Wells, Wm.

In 1785, Elbert wrote in a letter to George Walton, " It is a pity that the people on our Frontiers will behave so cruelly toward those poor savages ; not contented with having the lands, but to rob, beat and abuse them likewise is enough to bring down Divine vengeance on their heads.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

This work has been lost, although it had been printed by Artaria in 1785.

They were taken from the " Ode to Joy ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( d. 1787 ), founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, then brought some attention back to casuistry by publishing again Hermann Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis ; the last edition published in 1785 and receiving the approbation of the Holy See in 1803.

In 1785, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti ( which was devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions ) signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartl-Kakheti received protection from Russia.

This proved to be false in 1785 by Antoine Lavoisier who found the correct explanation of the combustion as reaction with oxygen from the air.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

The use of D. purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in the English-speaking medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility ( it is a positive inotrope ) and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in the irregular ( and often fast ) atrial fibrillation.

For example, in 1785 Benjamin Franklin Bache mocked George Washington by terming him the " Grand Lama of this Country ".

** Vladimir by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov ( 1785 )

* The Conquest of Canaan by Timothy Dwight IV ( 1785 )

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb developed the law of electrostatic attraction in 1785 as an outgrowth of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by Joseph Priestley in England.

The understanding of friction was further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).

The shape of the Milky Way as deduced from star counts by William Herschel in 1785 ; the solar system was assumed to be near the center.

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging.

In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.

He then founded a private school catering to wealthy parents in Goshen, New York, and by 1785, he had written his speller, a grammar book and a reader for elementary schools.

He then served in the house of Pennsylvania General Assembly ( 1785 – 1788 ).

Louis XVII ( Versailles 27 March 1785 – Paris 8 June 1795 ), from birth to 1789 known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy ; then from 1789 to 1791 as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France ; and from 1791 to 1792 as Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, was the second son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

In 1785, as a result of a " fit of illness " in the family the young Turner was sent to stay with his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the River Thames.

Pearsontown Plantation was first settled in the 1750s, then incorporated as the town of Standish on November 30, 1785.

While the Landaff case underwent litigation to resolve the rival claims, Vermont ( then meeting in Norwich ) came to the aid of the college and granted it the township of Wheelock ( northwest of St. Johnsbury ) in 1785.

The John Hendricks House in the southern section of Staatsburg was built in 1785 and remains as it was then.

He travelled to the area then known as the State of Franklin or western North Carolina, called " the Holston country ," by 1785 and, during a stay at a tavern adjacent to Colonel Thomas Amis ' home, had fallen in love with the Colonel's daughter, Mary Amis.

Eventually, the land was conveyed to James McCubbin Lingan in 1785, then to Captain George Calmes in 1803.

In Pennsylvania, John Fitch, an acquaintance of Henry, made a model paddle steamer in 1785, and subsequently developed propulsion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in 1786, then built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in 1787.

Symmes represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress ( 1785 – 1786 ), then, in 1788, moved to the west, settling in what later became North Bend, Ohio.

The Continental Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785 and then the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to control the survey, sale, and settling of the new lands.

Louis Philippe d ' Orléans known as le Gros ( the Fat ) ( 12 May 1725 – 18 November 1785 ), was a French nobleman, a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the dynasty then ruling France.

After the summer of 1785, the government of Franklin ( which was by then based in Greeneville ), ruled as a " parallel government " running alongside ( but not harmoniously with ) a re-established North Carolina bureaucracy.

Hutton's innovative 1785 theory based on Plutonism visualised an endless process of rocks forming under the sea, being uplifted and tilted, then eroded to form new strata under the sea.

* Sir Charles Edward Grey ( 1785 – 1865 ), MP for Tynemouth and North Shields, UK, then Governor of Barbados, 1841 – 1846

After serving in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, Varnum helped to destroy the Shays insurrection before he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1780 – 1785 ) and then the Massachusetts State Senate ( 1786 – 1795 ).

Between 1783 and 1785, the Georgia General Assembly met in both Savannah and Augusta ; the primary cause for the moves arose when tensions were created between the cities of Savannah and Augusta causing then Governor Lyman Hall to officially reside in both places.

He then transferred to Yale College, where he graduated in 1785.

He was re-elected in 1785, but then lost to Samuel Huntington in 1786.

Elizabeth, 19th Countess of Sutherland then married George Granville Leveson-Gower in 1785 ; he inherited the title of Marquess of Stafford from his father in 1803.

The area was first explored by the Portuguese in 1785, and was claimed for Portugal by Luís Cândido Cordeiro Pinheiro Furtado, who had been sent there in the frigate Loanda by the then governor-general of Angola, Baron Moçâmedes, who also sent an overland expedition headed by Gregório José Mendes to rendezvous with Furtado.