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264 relations: Abadan Island, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Afonso Pena, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Agnes Grey, Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander III of Russia, Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Alexis-Xyste Bernard, American Medical Association, Anandamohan Bose, Andrey Selivanov, Anesthetic, Anne Brontë, Annie Besant, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Aqueduct (water supply), Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Artillery, August, Augusta Holmès, Aurilla Furber, Émile Faguet, Barbara Wilberforce, Barbarita Nieves, Battle for Mexico City, Battle of Buena Vista, Battle of Churubusco, Beer, Birkenhead, Birkenhead Park, Blackpool, Booths, Bram Stoker, Brigham Young, British Army, California, Cantons of Switzerland, Capital punishment, Carl Josef Bayer, Carlsberg Group, Cartier (jeweler), Caspar F. Goodrich, Castro Alves, Catholic Church, Cayetano Arellano, Charles Bent, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, ... Expand index (214 more) »
Abadan Island
Abadan Island is an island in the delta of the Shatt al-Arab in Iran and is the site of the city of Abadan.
Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov (Abbasqulu ağa Bakıxanov) (Amirjan – January 1847, Wadi Fatimah, near Jeddah), Abbas Qoli Bakikhanov, or Abbas-Qoli ibn Mirza Mohammad (Taghi) Khan Badkubi was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher.
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Afonso Pena
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena (30 November 1847 – 14 June 1909), often referred to as Afonso Pena, was a Brazilian lawyer, professor and politician who served as the 6th president of Brazil from 1906 until his death in 1909.
Agathe Backer Grøndahl
Agathe Ursula Backer Grøndahl (1 December 1847 – 4 June 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer.
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Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey, A Novel is the first novel by English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of "Acton Bell"), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
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Alexander III of Russia
Alexander III (r; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.
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Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Alexander Meyrick Broadley (19 July 1847 – 16 April 1916), also known as Broadley Pasha, was a British barrister, author, company promoter and social figure.
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Alexis-Xyste Bernard
Alexis-Xyste Bernard (December 29, 1847 – June 17, 1923) was Bishop of St. Hyacinthe, Canada.
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American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.
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Anandamohan Bose
Ananda Mohan Bose (আনন্দমোহন বসু) (23 September 1847 – 20 August 1906) was an Indian politician, academician, social reformer, and lawyer during the British Raj.
Andrey Selivanov
Andrey Nikolayevich Selivanov (5 August 1847 – 15 July 1917) was a Russian politician and general notable for capturing Przemyśl during World War I.
Anesthetic
An anesthetic (American English) or anaesthetic (British English; see spelling differences) is a drug used to induce anesthesia — in other words, to result in a temporary loss of sensation or awareness.
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (commonly; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
Annie Besant
Annie Besant (Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist, and campaigner for Indian nationalism.
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,", Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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Aqueduct (water supply)
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.
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Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen; 5 September 177130 April 1847) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain.
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Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895.
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Architectural Association School of Architecture
The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest private school of architecture in the UK.
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Artillery
Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.
August
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Augusta Holmès
Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent.
Aurilla Furber
Aurilla Furber (October 19, 1847 – April 13, 1898) was a 19th-century American author, editor, and activist from Minnesota.
Émile Faguet
Auguste Émile Faguet (17 December 18477 June 1916) was a French author and literary critic.
Barbara Wilberforce
Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce.
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Barbarita Nieves
Barbarita Nieves (1803–14 December 1847) was the mistress of José Antonio Páez, during his time as Commandant General of the Gran Colombia Department of Venezuela and then his first two periods as President of Venezuela.
Battle for Mexico City
The Battle for Mexico City refers to the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City during the Mexican–American War.
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Battle of Buena Vista
The Battle of Buena Vista (February 22–23, 1847), known as the Battle of La Angostura in Mexico, and sometimes as Battle of Buena Vista/La Angostura, was a battle of the Mexican–American War.
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Battle of Churubusco
The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, while Santa Anna's army was in retreat from the Battle of Contreras or Battle of Padierna during the Mexican–American War.
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Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.
Birkenhead Park
Birkenhead Park is a major public park located in the centre of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England.
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.
Booths
E.H.Booth & Co.,Limited, trading as Booths, is a chain of high-end supermarkets in Northern England.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician.
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Carl Josef Bayer
Carl Josef Bayer (also Karl Bayer, 4 March 1847 – 4 October 1904) was a chemist from Austria-Hungary who invented the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite, essential to this day to the economical production of aluminium.
Carlsberg Group
Carlsberg A/S is a Danish multinational brewer.
Cartier (jeweler)
Cartier International SNC, or simply Cartier, is a French luxury-goods conglomerate that designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery, leather goods, watches, sunglasses and eyeglasses.
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Caspar F. Goodrich
Caspar Frederick Goodrich (7 January 1847 – 26 January 1925) was an admiral of the United States Navy, who served in the Spanish–American War and World War I.
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Castro Alves
Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (14 March 1847 – 6 July 1871) was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cayetano Arellano
Cayetano Simplicio Arellano y Lonzón (March 2, 1847 – December 23, 1920) was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government.
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Charles Bent
Charles Bent (November 11, 1799 – January 19, 1847) was an American businessman and politician who served as the first civilian United States governor of the New Mexico Territory, newly invaded and occupied by the United States during the Mexican-American War by the Military Governor, Stephen Watts Kearny, in September 1846.
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell (2 April 1847, Alexandria – 5 April 1911, London) was a British journalist and newspaper editor.
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Charles Hatchett
Charles Hatchett FRS FRSE (2 January 1765 – 10 March 1847) was an English mineralogist and analytical chemist who discovered the element niobium, for which he proposed the name "columbium".
Charles Stillman Sperry
Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry (September 3, 1847February 1, 1911) was an officer in the United States Navy.
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Charlie Bassett
Charles E. Bassett (October 30, 1847 – January 5, 1896) was a lawman and saloon owner in the American Old West in Dodge City.
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
Chiquinha Gonzaga
Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, better known as Chiquinha Gonzaga (October 17, 1847 – February 28, 1935) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor in Brazil.
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Chloroform
Chloroform, or trichloromethane (often abbreviated as TCM), is an organochloride with the formula and a common solvent.
Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Communist League
The Communist League (German: Bund der Kommunisten) was an international political party established on 1 June 1847 in London, England.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Cumberland School of Law
Cumberland School of Law is an ABA-accredited law school at Samford University in Homewood, Alabama, United States.
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Cumberland University
Cumberland University is a private university in Lebanon, Tennessee.
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Damian Sawczak
Damian Sawczak (Дем'я́н Савча́к; 13 July 1847 – 29 December 1912) was a Ukrainian judge in Halychyna (Zalishchyky, Khodoriv, Husiatyn).
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel(I) O’Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century.
Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry, is the largest city in County Londonderry, the second-largest in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland.
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Donner Party
The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest.
Dorothy Ann Thrupp
Dorothy Ann Thrupp (pseudonyms Iota and D.A.T.; 20 June 1779 – 14 December 1847) was a British psalmist, hymnwriter, and translator.
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Dorus Rijkers
Theodorus "Dorus" Rijkers (27 January 1847 – 19 April 1928) was a famous Dutch lifeboat captain and folk hero, most famous for his sea rescues of 487 shipwrecked victims over a total of 38 rescue operations, and at least 25 before joining the lifeboat-service.
Dracula
Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
Edmund Gurney
Edmund Gurney (23 March 184723 June 1888) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist.
Electrical telegraph
Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century.
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Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
Emir Abdelkader
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; عبد القادر ابن محي الدين), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abd al-Qadir al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century.
Emma Albani
Dame Emma Albani, DBE (born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse; 1 November 18473 April 1930) was a Canadian-British operatic first coloratura soprano then spinto soprano and dramatic soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, and the first Canadian singer to become an international star.
Emma Irene Åström
Emma Irene Åström (27 April 1847 – 3 July 1934) was a Finnish teacher and Finland's first female university graduate.
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Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy
Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (23 October 176629 May 1847) was a French military leader who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Enrique Almaraz y Santos
Enrique Almaraz y Santos S.T.D. (22 September 1847 – 22 January 1922) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Seville and, later, Archbishop of Toledo and so Primate of Spain.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was known as Fanny Hensel after her marriage.
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Faustin Soulouque
Faustin-Élie Soulouque (15 August 1782 – 3 August 1867) was a Haitian politician and military commander who served as President of Haiti from 1847 to 1849 and Emperor of Haiti from 1849 to 1859.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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First Lady of the United States
First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is the title held by the hostess of the White House, usually the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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František Vladislav Hek
František Vladislav Hek (11 April 1769 – 4 September 1847) was a Czech writer, composer, and patriot active in the early phases of the Czech National Revival.
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Fraternities and sororities
In North America, fraternities and sororities (fraternitas and sororitas|lit.
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Frederick William Borden
Sir Frederick William Borden, (May 14, 1847 – January 6, 1917) was a Canadian politician.
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Frigate
A frigate is a type of warship.
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Garret Barry (piper)
Garret(t) Barry (Irish: Gearóid de Barra; 27 March 1847 – 6 April 1899) was a blind Irish uilleann piper from Inagh, County Clare, among the most famous players of the 19th century.
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George Grossmith
George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.
Georges Sorel
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 – 29 August 1922) was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist.
Gina Krog
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog (20 June 1847 – 14 April 1916) was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Goldsboro, originally Goldsborough, is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.
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Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.
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Guillaume Henri Dufour
Guillaume Henri Dufour (15 September 178714 July 1875) was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
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Hale Johnson
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902) was an American attorney and politician who served as the Prohibition Party's vice presidential nominee in 1896 and ran for its presidential nomination in 1900.
Henriette Herz
Henriette Julie Herz (née de Lemos) (September 5, 1764 – October 22, 1847) is best known for the "salonnieres" or literary salons that she started with a group of emancipated Jews in Prussia.
Hugh Price Hughes
Hugh Price Hughes (8 February 1847 – 17 November 1902) was a Welsh Methodist clergyman and religious reformer.
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Ida Saxton McKinley
Ida McKinley (née Saxton; June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907) was the first lady of the United States from 1897 until 1901, as the wife of President William McKinley.
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Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City is the county seat and largest city of Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
Isaac Barr
Isaac Montgomery Barr (March 2, 1847 – January 18, 1937) was an Anglican clergyman and promoter of British colonial settlement schemes, most notably the Barr Colony which became Lloydminster and District in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada.
Islay
Islay (Ìle, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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James Young Simpson
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870), was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine.
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Jean Casimir-Perier
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (8 November 1847 – 11 March 1907) was a French politician who served as President of France for six months in 1894-1895.
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Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin
Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (7 March 1775 – 14 June 1847) was a French balloonist and parachutist.
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Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang.
João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal
João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos (his surname also graphed Aires de Campos in contemporary Portuguese), 1st Count of Ameal, GCC, CvNSC, OOPA (Coimbra, 5 February 1847 – 13 July 1920) was a Portuguese politician and antiquarian, best known as a great art collector, maecenas and bibliophile.
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Johann Georg Halske
Johann Georg Halske (30 July 1814 – 18 March 1890) was a German master mechanic.
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John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician.
John Chard
Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British armed forces.
John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, (3 August 1847 – 7 March 1934) was a British politician.
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John I. Beggs
John Irvin Beggs (September 17, 1847 – October 17, 1925) was an American businessman.
John Peter Altgeld
John Peter Altgeld (December 30, 1847 – March 12, 1902) was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897.
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José Antonio Páez
José Antonio Páez Herrera (13 June 1790 – 6 May 1873) was a Venezuelan leader who fought against the Spanish Crown for Simón Bolívar during the Venezuelan War of Independence.
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Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Joseph Bucklin Bishop (September 5, 1847 – December 13, 1928), was an American newspaper editor (1870–1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission in Washington, D.C., and Panama (1905–1914), and authorized biographer and close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (born Pulitzer József,; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
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June
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars—the latter the most widely used calendar in the world.
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Karl Friedrich Burdach
Karl Friedrich Burdach (12 June 1776 – 16 July 1847) was a German physiologist.
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Koos de la Rey
Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey (22 October 1847 – 15 September 1914), better known as Koos de la Rey, was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War.
Lake Chalco
Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico, and was important for Mesoamerican cultural development in central Mexico.
Lake Xochimilco
Lake Xochimilco (Xōchimīlco) is an ancient endorheic lake, located in the present-day Borough of Xochimilco in southern Mexico City.
Lebanon, Tennessee
Lebanon is the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee, United States.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts
This is a list of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.
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List of Portuguese royal consorts
Portugal had only two queens regnant: Maria I and Maria II (and, arguably, two more: Beatriz for a short period of time in the 14th century; and Teresa, in the 12th century, which technically makes her the first ruler and first queen of Portugal).
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Lord William Beresford
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford (20 July 1847 – 30 December 1900) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Lotta Crabtree
Charlotte Mignon "Lotta" Crabtree (November 7, 1847 – September 25, 1924), also known mononymously as Lotta, was an American actress, entertainer, comedian, and philanthropist.
Luella Dowd Smith
Luella Dowd Smith (Dowd; June 16, 1847 – July 4, 1941) was an American educator and author of prose and verse.
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Luis José de Orbegoso
Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada-Galindo, de Burutarán y Morales (August 25, 1795 – February 5, 1847), was an aristocratic Peruvian soldier and politician, who served as the 5th President of Peru as well as the first President of North Peru.
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Luxury goods
In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a more significant proportion of overall spending.
Macbeth (Verdi)
Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name.
Manuel José Arce
Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga (1 January 1787 – 14 December 1847) was a Salvadoran statesman and military officer who served as the first president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1825 to 1829.
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand
He studied at the École Polytechnique, and beginning in 1869 he attended the Ecole des Mines de Paris.
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March
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
Maria Feodorovna (translit; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III.
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Maria Pia of Savoy
Dona Maria Pia (16 October 1847 – 5 July 1911) was by birth an Italian princess of the House of Savoy and by marriage Queen of Portugal as the spouse of King Luís I of Portugal.
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Marie Duplessis
Marie Duplessis (born Alphonsine Rose Plessis; 15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men.
Mary Anning
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.
Maurice Bailloud
Maurice Camille Bailloud (Tours, 13 October 1847 – 1 July 1921) was a French general.
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe.
May
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Merseyside
Merseyside is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England.
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.
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Michel-Joseph Maunoury
Michel-Joseph Maunoury (17 December 1847 – 28 March 1923) was a commander of French forces in the early days of World War I who was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
Mifflin E. Bell
Mifflin Emlen Bell (October 20, 1847 – May 31, 1904), often known as M.E. Bell, was an American architect who served from 1883 to 1886 as Supervising Architect of the US Treasury Department.
Millicent Fawcett
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer.
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Mormon pioneers
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
Mount Guntur
Mount Guntur (Gunung Guntur) is an active stratovolcano in western Java.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars (Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.
Nicolas Oudinot
Nicolas Charles Oudinot, comte d'Oudinot, duc de Reggio (25 April 1767 in Bar-le-Duc – 13 September 1847 in Paris), was a Marshal of the Empire.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
North Carolina General Assembly
The North Carolina General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the state government of North Carolina.
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North Island
The North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui, 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait.
Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
October
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Oku Yasukata
Count was a Japanese field marshal and leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army.
Oleksander Barvinsky
Oleksander Barvinsky (Олександр Барвiнський.) (June 8, 1847 – December 25, 1926) was an important western Ukrainian cultural figure and politician, a founder of the Christian Social Party in western Ukraine.
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Otto Blehr
Otto Albert Blehr (17 February 1847 – 13 July 1927) was a Norwegian statesman, attorney and newspaper editor who was the 8th prime minister of Norway from 1902 to 1903 during the Union between Sweden and Norway and from 1921 to 1923 following the Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
Otto Wallach
Otto Wallach (27 March 1847 – 26 February 1931) was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.
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Paul Langerhans
Paul Langerhans (25 July 1847 – 20 July 1888) was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans.
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (abbreviated; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I. He later became president of Germany from 1925 until his death.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Philipp Scharwenka
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (16 February 1847, in Szamotuły, Grand Duchy of Posen – 16 July 1917, in Bad Nauheim) was a Polish-German composer and teacher of music.
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Poor relief regulation of 1847
The Poor relief regulation of 1847 (Swedish: 1847 års fattigvårdförordning) was a Swedish Poor Law which organized the public poor relief system in Sweden.
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Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail).
President of Germany
The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland),The official title within Germany is Bundespräsident, with der Bundesrepublik Deutschland being added in international correspondence; the official English title is President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the head of state of Germany.
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President of Peru
The President of Peru (Presidente del Perú), officially called the Constitutional President of the Republic of Peru (presidente constitucional de la República del Perú), is the head of state and head of government of Peru.
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Prime Minister of Norway
The prime minister of Norway (statsminister, which directly translates to "minister of state") is the head of government and chief executive of Norway.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.
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Public school (United Kingdom)
In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.
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Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (translit; 1789–1925) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe.
Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Radley College
Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or the College of St.
Radomir Putnik
Radomir Putnik (Радомир Путник;; 24 January 1847 – 17 May 1917) was the first Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War.
Ralph Albert Blakelock
Ralph Albert Blakelock (October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919) was a romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement.
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Remus von Woyrsch
Martin Wilhelm Remus von Woyrsch (4 February 1847 – 6 August 1920) was a Prussian field marshal, a member of the Prussian House of Lords from 1908 to 1918, and an Ehrenkommendator or Honorary Commander of the Order of St. John.
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Revolver
A revolver is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing.
Robert Fuchs (composer)
Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher.
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Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 7), also known as the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, removed the sacramental tests that barred Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom from Parliament and from higher offices of the judiciary and state.
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Roskilde
Roskilde is a city west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Sahle Selassie
Sahle Selassie (Amharic: ሣህለ ሥላሴ, 1795 – 22 October 1847) was the King of Shewa from 1813 to 1847.
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.
Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah.
Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.
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Shewa
Shewa (ሸዋ; Shawaa; Somali: Shawa), formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa (Scioà in Italian), is a historical region of Ethiopia which was formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire.
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Siege
A siege (lit) is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault.
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Siemens & Halske
Siemens & Halske AG (or Siemens-Halske) was a German electrical engineering company that later became part of Siemens.
Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet
Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, PC (13 October 18479 October 1926) was a Liberal politician and political author.
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Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet (13 February 1847 – 3 November 1934) was a Scottish businessman who founded the British construction firm which is now known as Sir Robert McAlpine.
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Sonderbund War
The Sonderbund War (Sonderbundskrieg, Guerre du Sonderbund., Guerra del Sonderbund) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons.
Sorelle Rocks
The Sorelle Rocks (also called the Sorelle Reef and the Sorelli Rocks) are two submerged rocks approximately west of the Galite Islands of Tunisia, at approximately.
St. Anthony Hall
St.
Teatro della Pergola
The Teatro della Pergola, sometimes known as just La Pergola, is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy.
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Temperance movement in the United States
In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, from 1920 to 1933.
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The Knickerbocker
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865.
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The Lawrence School, Sanawar
The Lawrence School, Sanawar, is the oldest private boarding school in Himachal Pradesh, which is located near Solan city.
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Theta Delta Chi
Theta Delta Chi (ΘΔΧ) is a social fraternity that was founded in 1847 at Union College, New York, United States.
Thomas Brock
Sir Thomas Brock (1 March 184722 August 1922) was an English sculptor and medallist, notable for the creation of several large public sculptures and monuments in Britain and abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Thomas Carpenter (glassmaker)
Thomas Carpenter (November 2, 1752 at Salem, New Jersey – July 7, 1847 at Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey) was an early American glassmaker and devout Quaker who, at significant spiritual and personal risk, found an important way to assist the American Revolutionary War, serving in the militia and the New Jersey Continental Line as what would today be called a logistics officer and earning the title of "Fighting Quaker." After the war, he contributed significantly to the rise of New Jersey glass production.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.
Thomas F. Porter
Thomas Freeman Porter (October 30, 1847 – July 12, 1927) was an American politician who served as the 32nd Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
Treaties of Erzurum
The Treaties of Erzurum were two treaties that were ratified in 1823 and 1847 which settled boundary disputes between the Ottoman Empire and Persia.
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Treaty of Cahuenga
The Treaty of Cahuenga (Tratado de Cahuenga), also called the Capitulation of Cahuenga (Capitulación de Cahuenga), was an 1847 agreement that ended the Conquest of California, resulting in a ceasefire between Californios and Americans.
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Turtle Bunbury
James Alexander Hugh McClintock-Bunbury (born 21 February 1972), known as Turtle Bunbury, is an Irish author, historian, and television presenter.
Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
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Ugo Balzani
Count Ugo Balzani (6 November 1847 – 27 February 1916) was an Italian historian, born in Rome and educated there in the universities of that city.
Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York, United States.
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
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Vegetarian Society
The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom (VSUK) is a British registered charity.
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Veracruz (city)
Veracruz, also known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and the most populous city in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
Vicente Rocafuerte
Vicente Rocafuerte y Bejarano (1 May 1783 – 16 May 1847) was an influential figure in Ecuadorian politics and President of Ecuador from 10 September 1834 to 31 January 1839.
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Warington Baden-Powell
Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell KC (3 February 1847 – 24 April 1921), known as Warington, was a British admiralty lawyer, master mariner and canoeist.
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Wayne County, North Carolina
Wayne County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Welfare in Sweden
Social welfare in Sweden is made up of several organizations and systems dealing with welfare.
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Werner von Siemens
Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888;;; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist.
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West Java
West Java (Jawa Barat, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪|Jawa Kulon) is an Indonesian province on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung.
West London Methodist Mission
The West London Methodist Mission was established in 1887 under the leadership of Hugh Price Hughes, a leading voice in Methodism and in Non-Conformity, and has a long track record as a Methodist ministry and as a spiritual home for "good works".
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Whanganui
Whanganui, also spelt Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand.
Whanganui campaign
The Whanganui campaign was a brief round of hostilities in the North Island of New Zealand as indigenous Māori fought British settlers and military forces in 1847.
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" is a common riddle joke with the answer being, "To get to the other side." It is commonly seen as an example of anti-humor, in that the curious setup of the joke leads the listener to expect a traditional punchline, but they are instead given a simple statement of fact.
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Wilgelm Vitgeft
Wilhelm Withöft (Вильгельм Карлович Витгефт, tr.; October 14, 1847 – August 10, 1904), more commonly known as Wilgelm Vitgeft, was a Russo-German admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, noted for his service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
Wilhelmina Drucker
Wilhelmina Drucker (née Wilhelmina Elizabeth Lensing; 30 September 1847 in Amsterdam – 5 December 1925 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch politician and writer.
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William O'Connell Bradley
William O'Connell Bradley (March 18, 1847May 23, 1914) was an American politician from the state of Kentucky.
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Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate.
Wong Fei-hung
Wong Fei-hung (born Wong Sek-cheung with the courtesy name Tat-wun; 19 August 1847 – 17 April 1925) was a Chinese martial artist, physician, and folk hero.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell".
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Yale Corporation
The Yale Corporation, officially The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (יהודה אריה ליב אלתר, 15 April 1847 – 11 January 1905), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes (Ashkenazic Pronunciation) or Sefat Emet (Modern Hebrew), was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the Av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger), and succeeded Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim.
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Yerba Buena, California
Yerba Buena was the original name of the settlement that later became San Francisco.
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850.
Zebulon Crocker
Zebulon Crocker (March 8, 1802 – November 18, 1847) was a Congregationalist pastor and educator.
1752
In the British Empire, it was the only year with 355 days (11 days were dropped), as September 3–13 were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.
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1775
The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement on April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's ride.
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1805
After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar.
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1847 Zenkoji earthquake
The occurred at about 21:30 local time on 8 May at Nagano, Japan.
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1892
In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated.
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1900
As of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100.
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1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.
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1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
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1912
This year is notable for the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15th.
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1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
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1916
Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.
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1917
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
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1923
In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days was skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar.
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1926
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days.
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1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
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1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
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30th United States Congress
The 30th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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