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History Fusil de chasse. In France, the manufacturing of arms began as a large industry in Saint-Étienne circa 1535. The first armory was set up in 1669. By 1646, arms manufacturing had begun at Tulle nearby. In 1690 an armory was set up there as well. The flintlock was adopted by France for her armies in 1630.
0172. Website. Official website. Caramagna Piemonte is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Turin and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Cuneo . Caramagna Piemonte borders the following municipal lands: Carmagnola, Racconigi, and Sommariva del Bosco .
William Dunlop, Biography at www.gla.ac.uk. William Dunlop ( c. 1654 – 8 March 1700) was a Covenanter, adventurer, and Principal of the University of Glasgow from 1690 to 1700. An advocate for the use of enslaved labour in America, [1] according to Howe (1859, 653), William Dunlop was the first Presbyterian minister in South Carolina .
Blank slate. Blank slate, or tabula rasa (which means the same thing) was a philosophical idea of John Locke. It had, like much of philosophy, a history which went as far back as Aristotle, but it was Locke who made it known to our modern world: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas.
Intrépide (1864), a 90-gun Algésiras -class steam ship of the line [1] Intrépide, an Aventurier -class destroyer ordered by the Argentine Navy but taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War. She was launched in 1911 and scrapped in 1938. Ships of the French Navy named Intrépide. Intrépide (1864) as the school ship ...
51.645°N 1.438°W. / 51.645; -1.438. Lyford is a small village and civil parish on the River Ock about 4 miles (6 km) north of Wantage. Historically it was part of the ecclesiastical parish of Hanney. [1] Lyford was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
The Safavid occupation of Basra (1697–1701) took place between 26 March 1697 and 9 March 1701. It was the second time that the important Persian Gulf city had fallen to Safavid Iran . Basra, located in present-day Iraq, had already been under Safavid control from 1508 to 1524, when it was lost upon Emperor Ismail I 's death.
