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    2 days ago · John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

  2. 5 days ago · In 1679, Titus Oates's fabrication of a supposed Popish Plot sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, had become a Catholic. The crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties.

  3. May 21, 2024 · Arranging the marriage was Don Juan's last significant act; he died shortly before it took place in November 1679. In February 1680, the Duke of Medinaceli became the new valido.

  4. May 21, 2024 · Sir John Birkenhead or Berkenhead (c.1617 – 4 December 1679) was a British political writer and journalist, imprisoned several times during the Commonwealth for his obtrusive royalism. Birkenhead was the supposed son of Randall Birkenhead (c.1580 – 1636) and Margaret Middleton (d. 1669).

  5. May 20, 2024 · John Mayow (born May 24, 1640, London, Eng.—died October 1679, London) was an English chemist and physiologist who, about a hundred years before Joseph Priestley and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, identified spiritus nitroaereus as a distinct atmospheric entity.

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  6. May 22, 2024 · Dr. John is currently undergoing one of his periodic revivals of interest, thanks to his excellent new album Tribal – a return to the style of his Louisiana heyday – and a regular slot on the US TV series Treme.

  7. May 22, 2024 · Dr. John, the legendary New Orleans singer-songwriter whose music came to define the sound of his city, died June 6 of a heart attack. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and six-time Grammy winner was 77.

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