Kidd also visited Block Island around 1699, where he was supplied by Mrs. Mercy ( Sands ) Raymond, daughter of the mariner James Sands.

When the region was first settled by European colonists around 1699, it was part of Hopewell Township, and continued under that name until the City of Trenton was established in 1719.

In 1699 another attempt was made to open a poorhouse on the site, resulting in the destruction of the Great Chamber around 1700.

Until recently it was thought that there were 28 cycles in the 309 years between 1699 and 2008, giving an average length of 11. 04 years, but recent research has showed that the longest of these ( 1784 – 1799 ) seems actually to have been two cycles, so that the average length is only around 10. 66 years.

According to the testimony of his son Jeremy, taken around 1699 was received in audience by " his brother king ," Charles II and was given a " lac'd hat " and a commission " to kindly use and relieve such straggling Englishment as should chance to come that way.

For very low levels of intensity ( scotopic vision ), the sensitivity of the eye is mediated by rods, not cones, and shifts toward the violet, peaking around 507 nm for young eyes ; the sensitivity is equivalent to 1699 lm / W or 1700 lm / W at this peak.

Gulliver's remarkable travels begin in 1699 and end around the end of 1715, having changed Gulliver's personality to that of a recluse.

In 1699, with financial aid from his friend Isaac Newton, he published Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, a catalogue of fossils collected from places around England, mostly Oxford, and now held in the Ashmolean.

Devices called hot air engines, or simply air engines, have been recorded from as early as 1699, around the time when the laws of gasses were first set out, and early patents include those of Henry Wood, Vicar of High Ercall near Coalbrookdale Shropshire ( English patent 739 of 1759 ) and Thomas Mead, an engineer from Sculcoats Yorkshire ( English patent 979 of 1791 ), the latter in particular containing the essential elements of a displacer type engine ( Mead termed it the transferrer ).

Other first-hand evidence about the name Romanians used to call themselves comes from authors having lived in Transylvania and / or Romanian principalities: the Transylvanian Saxon Johann Lebel confirms in 1542 that common Romanians call themselves " Romuini ", Orichovius ( Stanislaw Orzechowski ) notes as late as 1554 that " in their own language, Romanians are called Romini, after the Romans, and Walachs in Polish, after the Italians ", Anton Verancsics writes around 1570 that Romanians living in Transylvania, Moldavia and Walachia call themselves Romans ( Romanians ) and Martinus Szent-Ivany cites in 1699 Romanian expressions: " Sie noi sentem Rumeni " ( modern standard Romanian " Şi noi suntem români ") and " Noi sentem di sange Rumena " ( in modern standard Romanian " Noi suntem de sânge român ")

Justus van Effen planned a scholarly career, and around 1699 he began his studies at the University of Utrecht, but after the early death of his father ( on 6 May 1706 ) he was forced to became a private tutor, taking responsibilities for his mother and sister.

Isaac Newton's reflecting quadrant was invented around 1699.

Father Louis-Pierre Thury sought to gather the Mi ' kmaq of Peninsular Nova Scotia into a single settlement around Shubenacadie as early as 1699.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

* 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.

The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, an early Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, centers around a London pawnbroker and his somewhat shifty young clerk.

She and her son-in-law, Sir John Middleton, take an active interest in the romantic affairs of the young people around them and seek to encourage suitable matches, often to the particular chagrin of Elinor and Marianne.

It was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and was popularised as the " Celtic New Year " from the late 19th century, following Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer.

The story revolves around the knight Sir Gawain granting to Dame Ragnell, his new bride, what is purported to be wanted most by women: sovereignty.

The most infamous club associated with the name was established in England by Sir Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.

Some accounts have uncritically copied elements from the epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by Blind Harry the minstrel.

Elsewhere around this time, activists like Sir Douglas Nicholls were commencing their campaigns for Aboriginal rights within the established Australian political system and the age of frontier conflict closed.

When the slaughter was finally over, the Earl of Mar, Sir Robert Bruce ( an illegitimate son of Robert the Bruce ), many nobles and around 2, 000 Scots had been slain.

Portrait of Anne, aged around 3, by Sir Peter Lely, circa 1667 – 1668

However a monument designed by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis was subsequently erected around the grave, bearing an englyn ( strict-metre stanza ) engraved on slate in his memory composed by his nephew Dr William George.

** Margaret Stewart ( born around 1497 ), married firstly John Gordon, Lord Gordon and secondly Sir John Drummond.

Bucklers Hard was where Sir Francis Chichester began and finished his single-handed voyage around the world in Gipsy Moth IV.

He became ill not long after, and died on 11 October 1542 around the age of 39, while staying with his friend Sir John Horsey at Clifton Maybank House in Dorset.

In April, a force of around 1, 000 English troops, led by Sir William Drury, arrived in Edinburgh.

Sir Hugo Hirst, baronet | Bart, around 1930

* Global Challenge – this race was established in 1992 / 93 by Scottish sailing icon Sir Chay Blythe, the first person to sail around the world alone against the prevailing winds and currents.

Many of the sequels revolve around French characters whom Sir Percy has met and is attempting to rescue.

Many of the episodes revolve around proposals backed by Hacker but frustrated by Appleby, and others revolve around proposals promoted by the latter but rejected by Hacker, which Sir Humphrey attempts by all means necessary to persuade Hacker to accept.

In production of the countdown sequence, Clive Norman filmed images around the United Kingdom, Richard Jopson in the United States, while BBC News cameramen filmed images from Iraq, Beijing ( Great Wall of China ), Bund of Shanghai, Africa, as well as areas affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami and others.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

In a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and Richard Peto in 1981, diet was estimated to cause perhaps around 35 % of cancers.

Indians General Manager John Hart and team owner Richard Jacobs managed to turn the team's fortunes around.

Human diet was estimated to cause perhaps around 35 % of cancers in a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and Richard Peto in 1981.

Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor University, and Richard Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, theorize that by manipulating the extra spatial dimensions of string theory around a spaceship with an extremely large amount of energy, it would create a " bubble " that could cause the ship to travel faster than the speed of light.

Richard Hansen, the director of the archaeological project of the Mirador Basin, believes the Maya at Mirador Basin developed the first politically organized state in America around 1500 BC, named the Kan Kingdom in ancient texts.

Different accounts on how " Please, Please, Please " came together vary, one story from Etta James stated that during her first meeting with Brown in Macon, Brown " used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, ' please, please, please ' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it ...".

One group of chroniclers wrote early in John's life, or around the time of his accession, including Richard of Devizes, William of Newburgh, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph de Diceto.

The lead developer on the Mach project, Richard Rashid, has been working at Microsoft since 1991 in various top-level positions revolving around the Microsoft Research division.

It was widely supported in the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by Robert Edmond Grant, but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's ideas of divergence, and attacked by Richard Owen in the 1830s.

The character is best described as an amalgam of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, who abrogates civil liberties and human rights through positing a conspiracy theory centered around a ( presumably ) fictitious subversive organization known as " Aramchek ".

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

Richard had kept 2, 700 Muslim prisoners as hostages against Saladin fulfilling all the terms of the surrender of the lands around Acre.

In the early evening of 25 March 1199, Richard was walking around the castle perimeter without his chainmail, investigating the progress of sappers on the castle walls.

At some time around the 16th century, tales of Robin Hood started to mention him as a contemporary and supporter of King Richard the Lionheart, Robin being driven to outlawry, during the misrule of Richard's evil brother John, while Richard was away at the Third Crusade.

At the same time Richard Colt Hoare began his activities, excavating some 379 barrows on Salisbury Plain before working with Cunnington and William Coxe on some 200 in the area around the Stones.

Richard Marsh lived until 1727 when his Brewery was bequeathed to his widow, and then to his daughter, who sold the property on to Samuel Shepherd around 1741.