Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

* Lament over a great locust plague and a severe drought ( 1: 1 – 2: 17 )

The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.

The great plague of 1596 – 1602 killed 600, 000 to 700, 000 people, or about 10 % of the population.

This injury was to plague him for the rest of his life, causing him great pain.

The jubilee of 1400 drew to Rome great crowds of pilgrims, particularly from France, in spite of a disastrous plague.

His sardonic sense of humour is evident throughout, as when, during his description of the Athenian plague, he remarks that old Athenians seemed to remember a rhyme which said that with the Dorian War would come a " great death ".

Some claimed that the rhyme was actually about a " great dearth " ( limos ), and was only remembered as " death " ( loimos ) due to the current plague.

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He rose still higher in the favor of the people when they witnessed his self-denying devotion during the time of a great plague and famine.

It is believed by the faithful that on its way from the island the plague scratched one of the fortification stones of the old citadel to indicate its fury at being expelled ; St. Spyridon is also attributed the role of saving the island at the second great siege of Corfu of 1716.

In the town of Dundee there exists a strange traditionary story of the plague, connected with the conversion, from dire necessity of the Arionaten, or black slug, to a use similar to that which the luxurious Romans are said to have made of the great apple-snail.

Gondor maintained garrisons in the region to maintain the road and great bridge at Tharbad, but these were withdrawn in the aftermath of the great plague.

Having passed the time during the plague composing prose pamphlets ( including a continuation of Thomas Nashe's Pierce Penniless ), he returned to drama with great energy, producing close to a score of plays for several companies and in several genres, most notably city comedy and revenge tragedy.

The prophet Gad suggested the area to King David as a fitting place for the erection of an altar to YHWH, since it was there a destroying angel was standing when God stopped a great plague in Jerusalem.

This chapter shows a low opinion of flatterers ; Machiavelli notes that “ Men are so happily absorbed in their own affairs and indulge in such self-deception that it is difficult for them not to fall victim to this plague ; and some efforts to protect oneself from flatterers involve the risk of becoming despised .” Flatterers were seen as a great danger to a prince, because their flattery could cause him to avoid wise counsel in favor of rash action, but avoiding all advice, flattery or otherwise, was equally bad ; a middle road had to be taken.

He'd be out there squinting because he could see, at midnight, the moonlight and shadows, and that was his way of not seeing the weeds or imperfections that would plague him during the day ..." Talking of the tranquility he felt at Friar Park, Harrison once said: " Sometimes I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet, and it's great when I'm in my garden.

During Frederick's rule Copenhagen was struck by two disasters: the plague of 1711, and the great fire of October 1728, which destroyed most of the medieval capital.

That was a period of great devastation, terrible famine and plague for Egypt.

" In the movie, he saves Lukyo, Bizo, and other animals from the dreaded speckled fever ( a. k. a. the great plague ).

The reforms coincided with a great plague in 1654 and Russians were also greatly concerned about the upcoming year 1666 which many considered the year of the apocalypse.

There was a family connection between these two great writers: in 1650, Mme de La Fayette's mother, then widowed, married Renaud de Sévigné, uncle of the great letter writer.

This group published eight books of poems and songs from 1638 to 1650, the books meeting with great success.

While there were many great French masters at the time, the most influential in proposing these hands was Louis Babedor, who published Les Escitures Financières Et Italienne Bastarde Dans Leur Naturel circa 1650.

Tukaram ( 1608 – 1650 ) was the most prominent Marathi Warkari spiritual poet identified with the Bhakti movement, and had a great influence on the later Maratha society.

His great work, Historia plantarum universalis, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, was incomplete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650 – 1651.

Mano and Gio people believe they came to this area in the period of great migration between 1450 and 1650 A. D. Until 1904, the area was ruled by traditional monarchs and warriors.

Luis Jerónimo of Alcocer, natural of this island and who wrote it in the year of 1650 we take a testimony of great interest in a document that is conserved in the National Library of Madrid:

We know nothing more about the education of Esaias Boursse, other than the fact that he travelled to Italy in about 1650 to study the great Renaissance examples.

John Parkinson ( 1567 – 1650 ; buried 6 August 1650 ) was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists.

During the great famine in Vologda ( 1650 ), Rtischev sold much of his property, including clothes and house utensils, in order to raise funds for the famine-stricken city.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

It has been compared with the great series of the distant past, such as 1894 – 95 and 1902.

* 2007 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.

* 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

A great part of the craft of parallel programming consists of attempting to reduce the component ( 1 – P ) to the smallest possible value.

... was also a great and profound chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and his works – Die Blockade, My System and Chess Praxis – established his reputation as one of the father figures of modern chess.

Dr. Anita Borg was a great supporter of ACM – W.

The first great battles were at the Adrianople – Kirk Kilisse defensive line, where the Bulgarian 1st and 3rd Armies ( together 110, 000 men ) defeated the Ottoman East Army ( 130, 000 men ) near Gechkenli, Seliolu and Petra.

However, Marlborough was convinced of the urgency – " I am very sensible that I take a great deal upon me ", he had earlier written to Godolphin, " but should I act otherwise, the Empire would be undone ..."

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

Charlton began to settle back into his footballing life with Manchester United and England and enhanced his reputation as a scorer of great goals as well as a great goalscorer – rarely is a player regarded as both.

The author conceives of a date in the future – the ‘ great day of the Lord ’ – when the Lord will judge all the people of the earth.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio ( Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine ) was published at Basel in March 1536.

304 – 232 BC ) inscribed on great pillars around his kingdom, the King showed reverence for all life by giving up the slaughtering of animals and many of his subjects followed his example.

" The great councils of 359 – 60 are therefore not reckoned ecumenical in the tradition of the church, and Constantius II is not remembered as a restorer of unity, but as a heretic who arbitrarily imposed his will on the church.

The Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) was exceptional because both sides of the war received support from intervening great powers: Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported opposition leader Francisco Franco, while France and Russia supported the government ( see proxy war ).

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.