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about and 1721
On June 6, 1721, Mather sent an abstract of reports on inoculation by Timonius and Jacobus Pylarinus to local physicians, urging them to consult about the matter.
* Russia: officially from about 1547 until 1721, unofficially in 1721 – 1917 ( officially " Empresses ").
Early satirical works included an Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme ( c. 1721 ), about the disastrous stock market crash of 1720 known as the South Sea Bubble, in which many English people lost a great deal of money.
In 2011, his " Lady Blunt " violin from 1721, which is in pristine condition, was sold at Tarisio auctions for £ 9. 8 million, or about $ 15. 9 million ( it is named after Lord Byron's granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt, who owned it for 30 years ).
( The 1721 census listed 26 million commoners and about 4 million members of samurai families ).
Although his inheritance had been substantial ( about £ 10, 000 ), he cultivated an expensive lifestyle, and suffered significant financial reverses in the depression of 1721.
Following the reforms of 1729, the treasury increased from the 1721 total of 32, 622, 421 taels to about 60, 000, 000 taels in 1730, surpassing the record set during Yongzheng's father's ( the Kangxi Emperor's ) regime ; however, the pacification of the Qinghai area and the defense on the border areas were heavy burdens.
When Walpole became the leading minister of the day in 1721 there was speculation about his future should George I pass away and be succeeded by his son, who was more favourably inclined towards Compton than Walpole and declared that he would replace the latter with the former on accession.
Architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, who viewed the wheel in 1721, reported: " At every turn of the wheel can be heard the sound of about eight weights, which fall gently on the side toward which the wheel turns.
Ever since the conclusion of the Great Northern War, Danish statesmen had been occupied in harvesting its fruits, namely, the Gottorp portions of Schleswig definitely annexed to Denmark in 1721 by the Treaty of Nystad, and endeavouring to bring about a definitive general understanding with the House of Gottorp as to their remaining possessions in Holstein.
An Act of Parliament authorizing the Mersey and Irwell Navigation was passed in 1721 and the work, which included eight locks in a distance of to overcome a rise of, was completed about 1725.
Anyhow, Major A. Giers was married to Brita Ambjørnsdotter Syvia ( born about 1637, died 19 April 1721 in Gøteborg, Sweden ).
During a smallpox outbreak in 1721 in Boston, he inoculated about 248 people by applying pus from a smallpox sore to a small wound on the subjects, a method said to have been previously used in Africa.
The Catholic community at Brewood used the chapel at Chillington for baptisms and weddings from about 1721, but it was demolished to make way for the enlargement of the house around 1786.

about and married
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
Here he sketched, sitting in their flowing gowns of linen and silk, young girls not yet twenty, some about to be married, some married a year or two.
Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.
A few were doubtful about the merits of an exclusive section for married students.
After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.
It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.
I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.
When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.
It was a provocative and controversial road comedy about two sexually obsessed teenagers who take an extended road trip with an attractive married woman in her late twenties.
He married his first wife, Anne Child, in about 1677 in Ecton and emigrated with her to Boston in 1683 ; they had three children before emigrating, and four after.
* erotic poems: some of them indicate homosexual penchants ( 50 and 99 ), but most are about women, especially about one he calls " Lesbia " ( which served as a false name for his married girlfriend, Clodia, source and inspiration of many of his poems ).
Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.
In spite of knowing about her feelings, Liam married Maria Sutherland.
In about 1365, Casimir married his fourth wife Hedwig of Żagań.
Beatty's father was also unhappy about the match, fearing a repeat of the difficulties he had faced with his own relationship with a married woman, but with the added risk of publicity because both Beatty and Ethel were famous and the risk that Beatty's illegitimacy might be exposed.
It therefore is unlikely that Bertha was married much before about 580.
Gregory, however, also says that he thinks that Ingoberg was seventy years old in 589 ; and this would make her about forty when she married Charibert.
** Imperial Princess Ohotomo or Ohomata ; born about 560 ; married to her nephew Prince Oshisako no Hikohito no Oe, son of Emperor Bidatsu
** Imperial Princess Toneri, born about 565 ; died 603 ; married to her nephew Prince Tame Toyora, son of Emperor Yomei
** Imperial Princess Hasetsukabe no Anahobe no Hashihito, born about 560 ; died 621 ; married ( A ) to her half brother Emperor Yomei ; married ( B ) to her nephew and stepson Prince Tame Toyora, son of Emperor Yomei
** Prince Oshisako no Hikohito no Oe, born about 556, married ( A ) Princess Ohomata ( Ohotomo ), his aunt, daughter of Emperor Kimmei and Soga no Kitashi-Hime, by whom he had a son and a daughter ;( B ) Princess Nukate-Hime ( his half sister ), by whom he had 3 sons ; ( C ) Princess Woharida ( his half sister ), by whom he had a son and a daughter:
*** Eldest son: Prince Chinu, born about 575, married to Princess Kibitsu-Hime, by whom he had a son and a daughter: Princess Takara ( Empress Kōgyoku ), born 594, and Prince Karu ( Emperor Kōtoku )

about and Mlle
* Mademoiselle de Maupin ( 1835 ) In September 1833, Gautier was solicited to write a historical romance based on the life of French opera star Mlle Maupin, who was a first-rate swordswoman and often went about disguised as a man.
Dubois gained the favour of Louis XIV by bringing about the marriage of his pupil with Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Mlle de Blois, a natural but legitimized daughter of the king and Mme de Montespan ; and for this service he was rewarded with the gift of the abbey of St. Just in Picardy.

about and Martin
She was talking about him that time, because he had done some bad thing, something she disliked, but `` Afterwards Martin said he was sorry.
But Martin seldom felt the impulse to talk about anything.
Ulrich Bez has publicly speculated about outsourcing all of Aston Martin ’ s operations with the exception of marketing.
George Martin, producer and arranger for The Beatles, warns arrangers about the intonation issues when only two like instruments play in unison.
* Gardner, Martin, " The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey ", New York: Clarkson Potter.
Article about Alston's Martin Luther King Jr. at the White House.
In 1923, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and Martin Lowry published essentially the same theory about how acids and bases behave, using an electrochemical basis.
Starting in the middle of the 20th century, ideas about harpsichord making underwent a major change, when builders such as Frank Hubbard, William Dowd, and Martin Skowroneck sought to re-establish the building traditions of the Baroque period.
Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, on December 5, 1782, about 25 miles ( 40 km ) south of Albany, New York.
She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner.
However, a 1988 article by Brian Martin in Science and Public Policy states that although their paper concluded the effects would be less severe than originally thought, with the authors describing these effects as a " nuclear autumn ", other statements by Thompson and Schneider show that they " resisted the interpretation that this means a rejection of the basic points made about nuclear winter ".
* Martin Fowler's homepage about refactoring
Further hit singles came, including " Scarborough Fair / Canticle ", based on a traditional English ballad with an arrangement by Martin Carthy, and " Homeward Bound " ( later U. S. No. 5 ), about life on the road while Simon was touring in England in 1965.
Before filming started, producer Martin Ransohoff began to receive phone calls about the Major Dundee ordeal and was told Peckinpah was impossible to work with.
Martin Marietta won the contract for the $ 26 million TRS, which contained about three tons of propellant .< ref >
In December 2011, Martin Scorsese was interviewed about combining his passion for 3D as a new medium with the legacy of older films, and said that if he could go back in time he would " shoot Taxi Driver in 3D.
He struck up a friendship with Cranmer and after his return to Basel, he wrote about Cranmer to the German reformer Martin Bucer in Strasbourg.
This book is about four children whose names were Ann, Martin, Rose and Peter.
In parts of Flanders and some parts of the Netherlands and most areas of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, children go to houses with home made beet lanterns or with paper lanterns ( which can hold a candle or electronic light ), singing songs about St. Martin on St. Martin's Day ( the 11th of November ), in return for treats.
In 1955, theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade, about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual, and he invited Laurents to write the book.
Maitland told Knox to refrain from stirring up emotions over Mary's insistence on having mass celebrated and he quoted from Martin Luther and John Calvin about obedience to earthly rulers.
In response to concerns about misconduct from some servants of the church, in 1517 Martin Luther read his Ninety-Five Theses on the topic of indulgences in the church courtyard at Wittenberg.
Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that " the surrounding world is different for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world ".
" Martin reprised the song in Night and Day, a Hollywood film about Cole Porter, in which she played herself auditioning for Porter ( Cary Grant ).
Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing, about production of the play " Legends " ( Dutton )

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