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David de Pury, the Glossary

David de Pury, Baron de Pury (19 January 1709 – 31 May 1786) was a Swiss banker, merchant, and philanthropist.^[1]

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18th-century Swiss nobility
18th-century merchants
Bankers from the Kingdom of Prussia
De Pury family
People from the Principality of Neuchâtel
South Sea Bubble
Swiss merchants
Swiss philanthropists

Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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British Cemetery, Lisbon

The British Cemetery (Cemitério dos Ingleses) in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon was established in the early 18th century.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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David d'Angers

Pierre-Jean David (12 March 1788 – 4 January 1856) was a French sculptor, medalist and active freemason.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. David de Pury and Frederick the Great are 1786 deaths.

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Freiherr (male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc. David de Pury and Freiherr are German barons.

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Green Party of Switzerland

The Green Party of Switzerland (GRÜNE Schweiz; Les VERT-E-S suisses; VERDI svizzeri; VERDA svizra) is a green political party in Switzerland.

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Jacaranda

Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas while cultivated around the world.

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Jean-Pierre Pury

Jean-Pierre Pury (1675 – 1736) was an explorer, geographer and colonist from the Principality of Neuchâtel, a Prussian principality in modern-day Switzerland. David de Pury and Jean-Pierre Pury are de Pury family and people from the Principality of Neuchâtel.

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Joseph I of Portugal

Dom Joseph I (José Francisco António Inácio Norberto Agostinho,; 6 June 1714 – 24 February 1777), known as the Reformer (Portuguese: o Reformador), was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777.

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Joseph Mellish

Joseph Mellish (c. 1717 - 7 December 1790) was a British Member of Parliament.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests

. Failure to do either will break the table and turn it into an impossible-to-navigate mess--> During the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice were vandalized, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced.

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Mahogany

Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel (Neuenburg) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Protestantism in Switzerland

The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel (Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gallen,(Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France.

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Purrysburg, South Carolina

Purrysburg is an unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina.

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Robert Johnson (governor)

Robert Johnson (1682–1735) served as the governor of South Carolina from 1717 to 1719 and from 1729 to 1735.

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Slave rebellion

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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South Sea Company

The South Sea Company (officially: The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America and for the encouragement of the Fishery) was a British joint-stock company founded in January 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. David de Pury and South Sea Company are south Sea Bubble.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_de_Pury

Also known as Baron de Pury, Freiherr von Pury.

David de Pury, the Glossary

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See also

18th-century Swiss nobility

18th-century merchants

Bankers from the Kingdom of Prussia

De Pury family

People from the Principality of Neuchâtel

South Sea Bubble

Swiss merchants

Swiss philanthropists

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