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1690s
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The decade from 1690 to 1699.
en 1994 July Notes and Records of the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science John Gedde's bee-house and the Royal Society DJ Bryden 48 2 Certainly Sibbald's account of Falkland makes no mention of Gedde's apifacture in the Royal Park, nor is there any physical sign of it in Slezer's view of the Palace and surrounding countryside drawn in the early 1690s
en 2012 Faramerz Dabhoiwala The Origins of Sex 63 Penguin 2013 In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
en 2017-05-03 Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record Mark Carnall w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/03/zombies-ghosts-elvis-fossil-record Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct. https://web.archive.org/web/20261013081818/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/03/zombies-ghosts-elvis-fossil-record 13 October 2026
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