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• 1717 — Year 1717 (MDCCXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11 day slower Julian calendar). Events of PAGENAME January June * January 4 The… …   Wikipedia

• 1717 in literature — The year 1717 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events* Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and is banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D Orléans. While in prison he writes his first play,… …   Wikipedia

• Ma Duanlin — (Zh cw|c=馬端臨|w=Ma Tuanlin, 1245 ndash; 1322), was a Chinese historical writer and encyclopædist. In 1317 he published the 348 volumes comprehensive Chinese encyclopedia Wenxian Tongkao …   Wikipedia

• Daniel Evans (minister) — Daniel Evans (1774–1835), was an independent minister at Mynyddbach, Glamorganshire, Wales. Life Evans was born at Maindala, Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, 16 January 1774. As a youth he was fond of frequenting prayer meetings in private houses. At an …   Wikipedia

• BARTHEZ, PAUL JOSEPH —    a celebrated physician, physiologist, and Encyclopædist, born at Montpellier, where he founded a medical school; suffered greatly during the Revolution; was much esteemed and honoured by Napoleon; is celebrated among physiologists as the… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• CAPELLA —    1) a reddish star of the first magnitude in the northern constellation of Auriga.    2) an encyclopædist, born in North Africa in the 5th century; author of a work called the Satiricon, a strange medley of curious learning …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Contrition — Saint Peter Repentant 1823 25 , Goya Contrition or contriteness[1] (from the Latin contritus ground to pieces, i.e. crushed by guilt) is sincere and complete remorse (i.e. regret with a sense of guilt) for sins one has committed. The remorseful… …   Wikipedia

• Buddhism — Buddh redirects here, for the Race Circuit, see Buddh International Circuit Standing Buddha. One of the earliest known representations of the Buddha, 1st 2nd century CE, Gandhara …   Wikipedia

• ABSOLU — Le sens de ce terme paraît, d’entrée de jeu, nécessairement équivoque et polémique. L’absolu est le corrélat et le contraire du relatif, c’est donc une négation. Mais une notion d’où l’idée de rapport est absente est soustraite aux limitations,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• San Juan, Puerto Rico — San Juan Bautista   Municipality   …   Wikipedia