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It was said in 1703 that the people of Shetland generally spoke English, but that " many among them retain the ancient Danish Language "; while in 1750 Orkney-born James Mackenzie wrote that Norn was not yet entirely extinct, being " retained by old people ", who still spoke it among each other.
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Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
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At an early period he was engaged in buccaneer expeditions to the South Seas and in 1703 joined the expedition of famed privateer and explorer William Dampier.
He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.
In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.
The 1703 exercise was the first census ever to cover all inhabitants of an entire country, mentioning the name, age, and social position of each individual.
Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.
He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.
There, in 1703, he had already founded the city that was to become Russia's new capital, Saint Petersburg, as a " window opened upon Europe " to replace Moscow, long Russia's cultural center.
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (; 1703 – 22 June 1792 ) was an Arabian Islamic Salafi theologian and the founder of Wahhabi movement.
Consequently, each legitimises the other. he was born in 1703 died: 1792 88-89 18th century school: hanbali region = Arabian Peninsula
This period gave way to the highly significant Köprülü Era ( 1656 – 1703 ), during which effective control of the Empire was exercised by a sequence of Grand Viziers from the Köprülü family.
Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ) led the Ottoman counter attack of 1695 – 6 against the Habsburgs in Hungary, but was undone at the disastrous defeat at Zenta ( 11 September 1697 ).
In 1703 Georg Ernst Stahl, professor of medicine and chemistry at Halle, proposed a variant of the theory in which he renamed Becher's terra pinguis to phlogiston, and it was in this form that the theory probably had its greatest influence.
Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.
Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.
This ban was followed by others in 1703 and 1709 as part of a comprehensive system disadvantaging the Catholic community, and to a lesser extent Protestant dissenters.
Year 1703 ( MDCCIII ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
In 1703 French settlers in Mobile established the first organized Mardi Gras celebration tradition in what was to become the United States.
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