http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3Danecdote;f2-date%3D1803 Results for your query: expand=subject;f1-subject=anecdote;f2-date=1803 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xml Sir Benjamin employed the four first years of his abode at Mu- nich in acquiring the political and statistical knowledge necessary for realizing the plans which his phi- lanthropy suggested to him for im- proving the condition of the lower orders. He did not neglect in the meantime his favourite studies and it was in the year 1786, in a jour- ney to Manheim, that he made his first experiments on heat. Politi- cal and literary honours poured in upon him during that interval. In 1785 he was made Chamberlain of the Elector, and admitted a mem- ber of the academies of science of Munich and Manheim. In 1786 he received from the King of Poland the order of St. Stanislaus; in 1787 he made a journey to Prussia, dur- ing which he was elected a member of the academy of Berlin. In 1788 he was appointed major-general of cavalry and privy counsellor of state. He was placed at the head of the war department, and parti- cularly charged with the execution of the plans which he had proposed for improving the ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-12211.xml Thu, 01 Dec 1803 12:00:00 GMT