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The child whose town rejected vaccines
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The poor child’s nurse
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The nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris, for the year 1787. Published by order of the commissioners of longitude.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Corrected to the 20th of November, new and correct lists of both Houses of parliament: summoned to meet for their fifth session the 14th of November, 1751. Containing, I. A list of the lordss spiritual and temporal, with the posts they hold under the government; the titles of their eldest sons, their residence both in town and country, and the dates of their respective creations. 2. A list of the countries, boroughs, &c. With the names of the members return'd for each, the places they posses, and their country seats. 3. An alphabetical list of the peers of Great-Britain and Ireland. 4. An alphabetical list of the members of the house of commons, the place each is chosen for, and their residence in town. 5. An alphabethical list of the countries, cities, and baroughs, with the pages where their representatives are to be found; and several other useful partuculars and distinctions throughout the whole.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: [1751]- Books
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The gentleman's and dealer's Cork almanack For the Year 1778, Being second after leap year, And the eighteenth year of King George III. Reign, Until the Twenty-Fifth of October, containing The Sun's Rising and Setting; Day Break; Eclipses; Moon's Age, Rising, Setting, and Southing; Lunations; Solar Ingresses; Terms; High Water at Cork; Bankers and Custom House Holidays; Several very Useful Tables; New Rates of Coaches and Chaises; A Correct List of the fairs in the Kingdom; Mathematical Questions; Enigmas; and Rebuses, for the Improvement of the Sciences; Calculated for the Meridian of the City of Cork, in Latitude 51- 49- North, and 9- 10- West Longitude, from the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich. By Patrick Aher, Philomath.
Aher, Patrick.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the year of Our Lord God, 1787. Being the third after bissextile, or leap year. Common notes and moveable feasts in 1787. Dominical letter - - G golden Number - - - 2 cycle of the sun - - 4 epact - - - - - - 11 Roman indiction - - 5 shrove Sunday 18 Feb. Easter Day - 8 April. Whit Sunday - 27 May. Trinity Sunday 3 June. Advent Sunday 2 Dec. Venus will be a morning Star till the 18th of October, afterwards an evening Star to the year's end. Jupiter is an evening Star till May 24, then a morning Star till Dec. 13, and then an evening Star to the year's end. Six Eclipses will happen this year: I. Jan. 3, moon eclipsed, visible; from 10 at Night, till 35 m. past one in the morning of Jan. 4. II. Jan. 19, sun eclipsed, visible; from 54 m. past nine, till 12 m. past eleven morning. III. June 15, sun eclipsed, visible; from 12 m. past four, till 47 m. past five in the afternoon. IV. June 30, moon eclipsed, invisible; at one in the afternoon. V. Dec. 9, sun eclipsed, invisible; at a Quarter past four in the afternoon. VI. Dec. 24, moon eclipsed, visible; from 42 min. past one, till 32 min. past four in the afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1787]- Books
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The Aberdeen almanack for the year 1794, Being the second after leap year, and of the Julian period 6507. Inscribed, with the greatest respect, to Jn. Abercrombie, Esq; provost Mess. George Adam, William Shepherd, Peter Duguid, William Littlejohn, Alexr. More, dean of Guild, Ch. Farquharson, treasurer; and the remanent members of the town-council of the city of Aberdeen, by their obliged humble servants, J. Chalmers & Co [.]
Date: [1800]