11) Melendez, Luis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...throughout Italy, he returned to work for his father as an illustrator of choirbooks. In the 1760s, the subject of his paintings changed from portraits to still lifes.... 12) literary frauds. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...(1704) under an assumed name, George Psalmanazar (his real name is not known). In the 1760s James Macpherson wrote a group of poems that he claimed were translations... 13) 1753. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History ...for sweeping parliamentary reform, including a significant broadening of the franchise. 6 1760s Bread and Corn Riots. Lower classes protested the increased cost of... 14) caucus. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...To assemble or canvass (members of a caucus). After the Caucus Club of Boston (in the 1760s), possibly from Medieval Latin caucus, drinking vessel.... 15) Corpus Christi, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001 ...was named instead by the first settlers, who arrived from the lower Rio Grande valley in the 1760s. In 1839, Col. H. L. Kinney founded a trading post, and traders... 16) Great Awakening. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Presbyterians of Virginia, with the great success of the Baptists in North Carolina in the 1760s, and with the rapid spread of Methodism shortly before the American... 17) Lafayette. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...thoroughbred racetrack to N. Longfellow Evangeline State Commemorative Area to SE. Settled 1760s by Acadians; inc. 1836.... 18) Reform Acts. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Corruption and the sale of seats flourished. Reform agitation, beginning to develop in the 1760s, was supported by William Pitt and others, but the emergency period... 19) Corpus Christi. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...was named instead by the 1st settlers, who arrived from the lower Rio Grande valley in the 1760s. In 1839, Col. H. L. Kinney founded a trading post there, and traders,... 20) Rockville. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 ...the novelist, and his wife, Zelda, are buried in a local Catholic cemetry. Settled in the 1760s.; inc. as a city in 1860.... |