Top Items About 18th Century
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Monosyllables | Leonhard Euler was once invited by Frederick the Great to join his Academy in Berlin. Euler accepted and promptly left... | Anonymous | 567 | |
| Anecdotes | Moderation & the Indian Raj | British officials in the Indian Raj were frequently tempted by the many opportunities for corruption. During... | Anonymous | 556 | |
| Anecdotes | Revolutionary Thought | Despite their outspoken protests against royal corruption and inefficiency, Jeanne Roland and her husband found... | Anonymous | 201 | |
| Anecdotes | British governor of New York grapples with his self-worth | The American colonies were not like those in other parts of the | root | 130 | |
| Anecdotes | 18th Century Dentistry | Dentistry in eighteenth-century Paris was so horribly barbaric that, one day after having several teeth pulled by... | Anonymous | 71 | |
| Anecdotes | Bloody Waste | George Washington died in 1799 after losing about two and a half litres of blood (half the amount possessed by an... | Anonymous | 68 | |
| Anecdotes | Prisoner of Ahlden | When the Elector of Hanover became England`s George I in 1714, his wife did not become the queen of England because she... | Anonymous | 64 | |
| Anecdotes | Robespierre | As an idealistic young man, Maximilien Robespierre was so opposed to the death penalty that he gave up a promising... | Anonymous | 63 | |
| Anecdotes | John Byng | When John Byng was court-martialed and brought before the firing squad (for failing to relieve the island of Minorca... | Anonymous | 54 | |
| Anecdotes | French Revolt? | On July 14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, an angry mob led by Georges Jacques Danton stormed and captured... | Anonymous | 53 |
