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• We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green.
• The upper part of the gablet over the centre doorway is of the seventeenth century, and bears the shield of Sir George Hay of Kinfauns, who rented the lands of the bishopric about the beginning of the seventeenth century, the crozier being added to the shield in connection with the lands of the see. [ Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
• The cembalo was the favorite instrument in Italy during the seventeenth century, and in England it had a great currency under the name of harpsichord. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
• In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
• The central theme of Sugar and Slaves is the rise of the big slave-owning sugar planters who completely dominated their island societies by the late seventeenth century.
• Louis Jordan, a historian with a strong interest in numismatic issues, has written what is undoubtedly the definitive history of Massachusetts' seventeenth-century mint.
• It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.
• From this latter practice arose their name — CONDOTTIERI; a term formidable all over Italy, for a period, which concluded in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, but of which it is not so easy to ascertain the commencement. The Mysteries of Udolpho
• The clearest single advance in technique was the introduction in the mid seventeenth century of preservation in spirits of wine.