Table of Contents
512 relations: Abbott Laboratories, Abraham Joseph Ash, Affirmation (law), Agashe, Alan Goodrich Kirk, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Alphonse Juin, Amateur Athletic Union, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Amsterdam, Anglicanism, Anita Loos, Anna Kingsford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Annie Besant, Annie Chapman, Antoinette Perry, Anton Mauve, Aritomo Gotō, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Ascanio Sobrero, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Atheism, Athens, Auditorium Building, Aurora Quezon, Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, Austin, Texas, Bad Cannstatt, Bangkok, Barry Fitzgerald, Baseball, Battle of Guté Dili, Battle of the Grapevine Creek, Benjamin Harrison, Bertha Benz, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Blues, Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez, Boston University, Bowling (cricket), Brighton Beach, British protectorate, Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, Brussels, Bryant & May, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, C. V. Raman, Camborne School of Mines, ... Expand index (462 more) »
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Green Oaks, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Joseph Ash
Abraham Joseph Ash (c. 1813–1888) was an Orthodox rabbi and Talmudist.
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Affirmation (law)
In law, an affirmation is a solemn declaration allowed to those who conscientiously object to taking an oath.
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Agashe
Agashe (आगाशे; IAST: Āgāśe) is a surname used by Chitpavan Brahmins of the Kaushik gotra in the Marathi-populated Deccan in India and by the Chitpavan Brahmin diaspora across the globe.
See 1888 and Agashe
Alan Goodrich Kirk
Alan Goodrich Kirk (October 30, 1888 – October 15, 1963) was a United States Navy admiral during World War II who most notably served as the senior naval commander during the Normandy landings.
See 1888 and Alan Goodrich Kirk
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Alexander I (Александар I Карађорђевић,; – 9 October 1934), also known as Alexander the Unifier, was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination in 1934.
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Alphonse Juin
Alphonse Pierre Juin (16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967) was a senior French Army general who became Marshal of France.
Amateur Athletic Union
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States.
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American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Anita Loos
Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
Anna Kingsford
Anna Kingsford (16 September 1846 – 22 February 1888) was an English anti-vivisectionist, vegetarianism and women's rights campaigner.
Anna Q. Nilsson
Anna Quirentia Nilsson (March 30, 1888 – February 11, 1974) was a Swedish-American actress who achieved success in American silent movies.
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.
Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman (born Eliza Ann Smith; 25 September 1840 – 8 September 1888) was the second canonical victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated a minimum of five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.
Antoinette Perry
Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry (June 27, 1888June 28, 1946) was an American actress, producer, director and administrator, known for her work in theatre, she was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre Wing and is the namesake of the Tony Awards, presented by that organization for excellence in Broadway theatre.
Anton Mauve
Anthonij "Anton" Rudolf Mauve (18 September 18385 February 1888) was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School.
Aritomo Gotō
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger (February 27, 1888 – October 30, 1965) was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history.
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Ascanio Sobrero
Ascanio Sobrero (12 October 1812 – 26 May 1888) was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Auditorium Building
The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.
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Aurora Quezon
Aurora Antonia Aragon Quezon (born Aurora Antonia Aragón y Molina; February 19, 1888 – April 28, 1949) was the wife of Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon and the First Lady of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944.
Aurora, Cayuga County, New York
Aurora, or Aurora-on-Cayuga, is a village and college town in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, United States, on the shore of Cayuga Lake.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.
Bad Cannstatt
Bad Cannstatt, also called Cannstatt (until July 23, 1933) or Kannstadt (until 1900), is one of the outer stadtbezirke, or city boroughs, of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
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Barry Fitzgerald
William Joseph Shields (10 March 1888 – 4 January 1961), known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film and television actor.
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
Battle of Guté Dili
The Battle of Guté Dili was fought on 14 October 1888 between an alliance of the Shewan forces of Ras Gobana Dacche and Mahdist forces under governor Khalil al-Khuzani near Nejo in the modern Mirab Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, Ethiopia.
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Battle of the Grapevine Creek
The Battle of Grapevine Creek was a short battle in 1888 between two large armed groups of the Hatfield family and the McCoy family which was the last offensive event during the Hatfield–McCoy feud and marked the beginning of the end in the feud between the two families.
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
See 1888 and Benjamin Harrison
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz (3 May 1849 – 5 May 1944) was a German automotive pioneer.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (Bioguide) is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
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Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (December 25, 1888 May 12, 1972), also known as Wa Wa Chaw, Princess Wa Wa Chaw, and Wawa Calac Chaw or "Keep From the Water," was a Native American artist, activist, and writer.
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Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bowling (cricket)
Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batter.
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Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
British protectorate
British protectorates were protectorates—or client states—under protection of the British Empire's armed forces and represented by British diplomats in international arenas, such as the Great Game, in which the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Tibetan Kingdom became protected states for short periods of time.
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Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, (5 February 1888 – 12 February 1981) was a senior Royal Navy officer.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Bryant & May
Bryant & May was a British match manufacturer, which today only exists as a brand name owned by Swedish Match.
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College (Welsh) is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr (from Welsh for 'big hill'), is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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C. V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering.
Camborne School of Mines
Camborne School of Mines (Scoll Balow Cambron), commonly abbreviated to CSM, was founded in 1888.
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Camera
A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
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Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.
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Carl Benz
Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer.
Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman.
Carlo Bergamini (admiral)
Carlo Bergamini (24 October 1888 – 9 September 1943) was an Italian admiral.
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Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola
Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola (12 April 1888 in Guayaquil – 20 February 1952) was President of Ecuador 16 September 1947 to 1 September 1948.
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Carlos Quintanilla
Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga (22 January 1888 – 8 June 1964) was a Bolivian general who served as the 37th president of Bolivia on a provisional basis from 1939 to 1940.
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Caroline Howard Gilman
Caroline Howard Gilman (pen name Mrs. Clarissa Packard; 1794–1888) was an American author.
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Casey at the Bat
"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.
Catherine Eddowes
Catherine Eddowes (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) was the fourth of the canonical five victims of the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have killed and mutilated a minimum of five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.
See 1888 and Catherine Eddowes
Cathleen Nesbitt
Cathleen Nesbitt (born Kathleen Mary Nesbitt; 24 November 18882 August 1982) was an English actress.
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 185326 March 1902) was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Celtic F.C.
The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic, is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.
Chandrashekhar Agashe
Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe (IAST: Candraśekhara Goviṃda Āgāśe; 14 February 1888 – 9 June 1956) was an Indian industrialist and lawyer, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the company from its inception in 1934 till his death in 1956.
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Charles Cros
Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (1 October 1842 – 9 August 1888) was a French poet and inventor.
Charles Rudd
Charles Dunell Rudd (22 October 1844 – 15 November 1916) was the main business associate of Cecil Rhodes.
Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)
Charles Thomas Biass Turner (16 November 1862 – 1 January 1944) was a bowler who is regarded as one of the finest ever produced by Australia.
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
Charles-Valentin Alkan (30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist.
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Chief Justice of the United States
The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary.
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Chitpavan Brahmins
The Chitpavan Brahmin or the Kokanastha Brahmin is a Hindu Maharashtrian Brahmin community inhabiting Konkan, the coastal region of the state of Maharashtra.
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Chulalongkorn
Chulalongkorn, reigning title Phra Chula Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (20 September 1853 – 23 October 1910), was the fifth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama V. He reigned from 1868 until his death in 1910.
Cicero Price
Commodore Cicero Price (2 December 1805 – 24 November 1888) was an officer in the United States Navy.
Civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
The Royal Concertgebouw (het Koninklijk Concertgebouw) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Concession (contract)
A concession or concession agreement is a grant of rights, land, property, or facility by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity.
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Coney Island
Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Cook Strait
Cook Strait (Te Moana-o-Raukawa) is a strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
County borough
County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s.
County council
A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county.
Cyrus Adler
Cyrus Adler (September 13, 1863 – April 7, 1940) was an American educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar.
Dakota Territory
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie (spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
David Dougal Williams
David Dougall Williams FRSA (June 1888 – 27 September 1944) was a Cheshire-born artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Dundee.
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David Oppenheimer
David Oppenheimer (January 1, 1834 – December 31, 1897) was a Canadian businessman, investor, philanthropist, politician, and writer.
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De Beers
The De Beers Group is a South African-British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploitation, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing.
Dear Boss letter
The "Dear Boss" letter was a message allegedly written by the notorious unidentified Victorian serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Delta Delta (ΔΔΔ), also known as Tri Delta, is a global women's fraternity and Greek life organization founded on November 27, 1888 at Boston University.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and President of Argentina.
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Donald B. Beary
Donald Bradford Beary (4 December 1888 – 7 March 1966) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy.
Dora d'Istria
Dora d'Istria, pen name of duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Ghica (Gjika) (22 January 1828, Bucharest – 17 November 1888, Florence), was a Romanian Romantic writer and feminist.
Driver's license
A driver's license, driving licence, or driving permit is a legal authorization, or the official document confirming such an authorization, for a specific individual to operate one or more types of motorized vehicles—such as motorcycles, cars, trucks, or buses—on a public road.
Duffy Lewis
George Edward "Duffy" Lewis (April 18, 1888 – June 17, 1979) was an American professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, and the Washington Senators from 1910 to 1921.
Dufile
Dufile (also Dufilé, Duffli, Duffle, or Dufli) was originally a fort built by Emin Pasha, the Governor of Equatoria, in 1879; it is located on the Albert Nile just inside Uganda, close to a site chosen in 1874 by then-Colonel Charles George Gordon to assemble steamers that were carried there overland.
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Duncan Cameron (British Army officer)
General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, (20 May 18088 June 1888) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars.
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Durham University
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
E. G. Squier
Ephraim George Squier (June 17, 1821 – April 17, 1888), usually cited as E. G. Squier, was an American archaeologist, history writer, painter and newspaper editor.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
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East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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Edith Evans
Dame Edith Mary Evans, (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an English actress.
Edmond Le Bœuf
Edmond Leboeuf (5 December 1809 – 7 June 1888) was a marshal of France.
Edmund Gurney
Edmund Gurney (23 March 184723 June 1888) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist.
Eduard Ritter von Schleich
Eduard-Maria Joseph Ritter von Schleich (9 August 1888 – 15 November 1947), born Schleich, was a high scoring Bavarian flying ace of the First World War.
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Edward King (bishop of Lincoln)
Edward King (29 December 18298 March 1910) was a British Anglican bishop and academic.
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Edward Lear
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
Edwin Hamilton Davis
Edwin Hamilton Davis (January 22, 1811 – May 15, 1888) was an American physician and self taught archaeologist who completed pioneering investigations of the mound builders in the Mississippi Valley.
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El Llanquihue
El Llanquihue is a Chilean daily newspaper published in the city of Puerto Montt.
Elizabeth Stride
Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride (Gustafsdotter; 27 November 1843 – 30 September 1888) is believed to have been the third victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.
Elsa Brändström
Elsa Brändström (26 March 1888 – 4 March 1948) was a Swedish nurse and philanthropist.
Emil Czyrniański
Emilian (also Emil) Czyrniański (Lemko Емілиян Чырняньскій; January 26, 1824 – April 14, 1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning.
Emin Pasha
Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile.
Emma Elizabeth Smith
Emma Elizabeth Smith (1843 – 4 April 1888) was a murder victim of mysterious origins in late-19th century London.
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Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828.
Enea Bossi Sr.
Enea Bossi Sr. (March 29, 1888January 9, 1963) was an Italian-American aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer.
Eneos
, formerly, or NOC or Shin-Nisseki (新日石) is a Japanese petroleum company.
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Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
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England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
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English Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.
Epoch
In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era.
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Equatoria
Equatoria is the southernmost region of South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the White Nile and the border between South Sudan and Uganda.
Ernest Thayer
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan.".
Ernst Heinkel
Dr.
Ernst Kretschmer
Ernst Kretschmer (8 October 18888 February 1964) was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.
Evadne Price
Evadne Price (28 August 1888 – 17 April 1985), probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality.
F. W. Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter.
Famines in Ethiopia
Famines in Ethiopia have occurred periodically throughout the history of the country.
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February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher.
First ladies and gentlemen of the Philippines
The first lady or first gentleman of the Philippines (Unang Ginang o Unang Ginoó ng Pilipinas) is the courtesy title given to the host or hostess of Malacañang Palace, the residence of the head of state and head of government of the Philippines.
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Fjords and channels of Chile
The southern coast of Chile presents a large number of fjords and fjord-like channels from the latitudes of Cape Horn (55° S) to Reloncaví Estuary (42° S).
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Flag of South Dakota
The current flag of South Dakota was adopted in 1992 to represent the U.S. state of South Dakota.
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Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie (born Florence Russ; April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American-Canadian actress in the early days of the silent film era.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (lit or label) is shared by two Native American tribes, the A'aninin (Gros Ventre) and the Nakoda (Assiniboine).
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Founding fathers of the European Union
The founding fathers of the European Union are men who are considered to be major contributors to European unity and the development of what is now the European Union.
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François Achille Bazaine
François Achille Bazaine (13 February 181123 September 1888) was an officer of the French army.
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Francesco Baracca
Count Francesco Baracca (9 May 1888 – 19 June 1918) was Italy's top fighter ace of World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories.
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Francesco Faà di Bruno
Francesco Faà di Bruno (7 March 1825 – 25 March 1888) was an Italian priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician.
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Frank Edward McGurrin
Frank Edward McGurrin (April 2, 1861 – August 17, 1933) invented touch typing in 1888.
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Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish author.
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Frederick III, German Emperor
Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 183115 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors.
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Frederick Lane
Frederick Claude Vivian Lane (2 February 1880 – 14 May 1969) was an Australian swimmer who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Frederick Miller
Frederick John Miller (November 24, 1824 – May 11, 1888) was a brewery owner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Friedrich Hermann Wölfert
Friedrich Hermann Wölfert (17 November 1850 in Riethnordhausen, Kreis Sangerhausen – 12 June 1897 in Tempelhof (in Berlin) was a German publisher and aviation pioneer.Schulz.
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Friedrich Olbricht
Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944) was a German general during World War II.
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Frits Zernike
Frits Zernike (16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
Fritz Reiner
Frederick Martin Reiner (Reiner Frigyes; December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was an American conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.
Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (Fukushima-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.
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G.D. Searle, LLC
G.D. Searle, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer.
General Conesa, Río Negro
General Conesa (Río Negro) is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina.
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George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was an Anglo-Irish peer and military officer.
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George Eastman
George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.
George Grossmith
George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.
Georges Bernanos
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos (20 February 1888 – 5 July 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism.
Georgios Papandreou
Georgios Papandreou (Geórgios Papandréou; 13 February 1888 – 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty.
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Gerhard Ritter
Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, in Freiburg) was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956.
German Emperor
The German Emperor (Deutscher Kaiser) was the official title of the head of state and hereditary ruler of the German Empire.
German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Gideon Daniel Searle
Gideon Daniel Searle (February 13, 1846 Randolph County, Indiana - January 22, 1917 Chicago, Illinois) was a druggist and the founder of pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle, LLC.
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Giorgio de Chirico
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico (10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece.
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Gladys Cooper
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
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Gobana Dacche
Ras Gobena Dache (ራስ ጎበና, Goobanaa Daaccee; c. 1821 – July 1889) was an Ethiopian military commander under Menelik II and during his reign.
God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
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Golam Ali Chowdhury
Mia Golam Ali Chowdhury Sahib (মিঞা গোলাম আলী চৌধুরী সাহেব; 1824 – 7 January 1888), also known as Chowdhuri Golam Ali (চৌধুরী গোলাম আলী), was a 19th-century Bengali Muslim zamindar and philanthropist from Faridpur in eastern Bengal.
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Gotra
In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage.
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Government of Japan
The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan.
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Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in south-west Germany on the east bank of the Rhine.
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Great Blizzard of 1888
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history.
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Gregg shorthand
Gregg shorthand is a system of shorthand developed by John Robert Gregg in 1888.
Grey Owl
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular writer, public speaker and conservationist.
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.
Gunichi Mikawa
was a vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.
Hans Richter (artist)
Hans (Johannes Siegfried) Richter (6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian.
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Hanukkah
Hanukkah (Ḥănukkā) is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.
Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (15 November 1888 – 21 August 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist.
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Harold H. Burton
Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer.
Harpo Marx
Arthur "Harpo" Marx (born Adolph Marx; November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers.
Hastings Rashdall
Hastings Rashdall (24 June 1858 – 9 February 1924) was an English philosopher, theologian, historian, and Anglican priest.
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Hatfield–McCoy feud
The Hatfield–McCoy Feud involved two American families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River from 1863 to 1891.
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Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
Heinrich Anton de Bary
Heinrich Anton de Bary (26 January 183119 January 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology).
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Heinrich Schlusnus
Heinrich Schlusnus (6 August 1888 – 18 June 1952) was Germany's foremost lyric baritone of the interwar period.
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Heinz Guderian
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who, after the war, became a successful memoirist.
Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Henry Bergh
Henry Bergh (August 29, 1813 – March 12, 1888) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States was passed into law by the New York State Legislature.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian.
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Henry Richard
Henry Richard (3 April 1812 – 20 August 1888) was a Congregational minister and Welsh Member of Parliament between 1868–1888.
Herbert Spencer Gasser
Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.
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Hippolyte Carnot
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (6 October 1801, Saint-Omer – 16 March 1888) was a French politician.
Horatio Spafford
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem) was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder.
Horsecar
A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
Hospital in Arles
Hospital at Arles is the subject of two paintings that Vincent van Gogh made of the hospital in which he stayed in December 1888 and again in January 1889.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hubert Wilkins
Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 188830 November 1958), commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer.
Ibrahim Hashem
Ibrahim Hashem (إبراهيمهاشم; 1886 – 14 July 1958) was a Jordanian politician and judge, known primarily for serving five terms as Prime Minister.
Ida McNeil
Ida McNeil (Anding; September 8, 1888August 13, 1974) was an American broadcaster and the designer of the first state flag of South Dakota.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Ilo Wallace
Ilo Wallace (née Browne; March 10, 1888 – February 22, 1981) was the wife of Henry A. Wallace, the 33rd vice president of the United States.
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi (عنایت اللہ خاں مشرقی; August 1888 27 August 1963), also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi, was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement.
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Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann (13 May 1888 – 21 February 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who is known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth.
International Council of Women
The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women.
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International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry
The International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry was the first of 4 international exhibitions held in Glasgow, Scotland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter.
Israel in Egypt
Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel.
J. Frank Dobie
James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 – September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range.
J. T. Hearne
John Thomas Hearne (3 May 1867 – 17 April 1944) (known as Jack Hearne, J. T. Hearne or Old Jack Hearne to avoid confusion with J. W. Hearne to whom he was distantly related) was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler.
Jack Holt (actor)
Charles John Holt, Jr. (May 31, 1888 – January 18, 1951) was an American motion picture actor who was prominent in both silent and sound movies, particularly Westerns.
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.
James Rochfort Maguire
James Rochfort Maguire (4 October 1855 – 18 April 1925) was a British imperialist and Irish Nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
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 Monnet
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator.
Jerry Dawson (footballer, born 1888)
Jeremiah Dawson (18 March 1888 – 8 August 1970) was an English professional football goalkeeper.
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Jinichi Kusaka
, was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Johannes Brand
Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, (popularly known as Sir Jan Brand and sometimes as Sir John Henry Brand or Jan Henrick Brand; 6 December 1823 – 14 July 1888) was a lawyer and politician who served as the fourth state president of the Orange Free State, from 2 February 1864 until his death in 1888.
John Bosco
John Melchior Bosco, SDB (Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 181531 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco (IPA), was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century.
John Boyd Dunlop
John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland.
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959.
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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird (13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.
John Martin Crawford (scholar)
John Martin Crawford (October 18, 1845 – 1916) was an American physician and scholar who translated the Finnish epic Kalevala into English based on a previous German translation by Franz Anton Schiefner published in 1852, to be published for the first time in 1888.
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John Painter (supercentenarian)
John George Painter (20 September 1888 – 1 March 2001) was an American supercentenarian who was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran.
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John Robert Gregg
John Robert Gregg (17 June 1867 – 23 February 1948) was an Irish educator, publisher, humanitarian, and the inventor of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand.
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John Stith Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola.
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John Warren Davis (college president)
John Warren Davis (February 11, 1888July 12, 1980) was an American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader.
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John Wentworth (Illinois politician)
John Wentworth (March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888), nicknamed Long John, was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, publisher of an extensive Wentworth family genealogy, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.
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John Westcott (politician)
John Westcott (June 16, 1807 – December 31, 1888) was an American surveyor and politician from the state of Florida.
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José María Díaz
José María Díaz de la Torre (July 1813 – 13 November 1888) was a Spanish romanticist journalist, playwright, poet, and politician.
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician.
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Josif Pančić
Josif Pančić (Јосиф Панчић; April 17, 1814 – February 25, 1888) was a Serbian botanist, a doctor of medicine, a lecturer at the Great School (the future University of Belgrade), and the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy.
Joyce Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official.
Julius Eisenstein
Julius (Judah David) Eisenstein (November 12, 1854 – May 17, 1956) (יהודה דוד אייזנשטיין) was a Polish-Jewish-American anthologist, diarist, encyclopedist, Hebraist, historian, philanthropist, and Orthodox polemicist born in Międzyrzec Podlaski (known in Yiddish as Mezritch d'Lita), a town with a large Jewish majority in what was then Congress Poland.
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Julius Rockwell
Julius Rockwell (April 26, 1805May 19, 1888) was a United States politician from Massachusetts, and the father of Francis Williams Rockwell.
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
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Kaarel Eenpalu
Kaarel Eenpalu (until 1935 Karl August Einbund; – 27 January 1942) was an Estonian journalist, politician and head of state, who served as 7th Prime Minister of Estonia.
Kalevala
The Kalevala is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.
Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Karl von Prantl
Karl von Prantl (aka Carl von Prantl) (28 January 1820 – 14 September 1888) (after 1872: Karl, Ritter von Prantl) was a German philosopher and philologist.
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement.
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Katz's Delicatessen
Katz's Delicatessen, also known as Katz's of New York City, is a kosher-style delicatessen at 205 East Houston Street, on the southwest corner of Houston and Ludlow Streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Kaushik
Kaushik (कौशिक) or Kaushike (कौशिक) or Koushik/Kousik is a surname and gotra of Brahmins named after Brahmarishi Vishvamitra.
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Kelvingrove Park
Kelvingrove Park is a public park located on the River Kelvin in the West End of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, containing the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Kimberley, Northern Cape
Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
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Kingdom of Sedang
The Kingdom of Sedang (Royaume des Sedangs; Vietnamese: Vương quốc Xơ Đăng; sometimes referred to in English as the Kingdom of the Sedang) was an ephemeral political entity established in the latter part of the 19th century by a French adventurer, Charles-Marie David de Mayréna, in part of what is present-day Vietnam.
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Knute Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne (/kəˈnuːt/ ''kə-NOOT'', though commonly pronounced; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.
Kodak
The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak, is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography.
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Kornwestheim
Kornwestheim (Swabian: Kornweschte) is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Kulavruttanta
A Kulavruttanta or a Kul-vrttant (कुलवृत्तांत; IAST: Kula-vr̥ttānta), is a genealogical almanac and biographical dictionary, a format of genealogical record keeping predominantly found in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces ("the crosses") is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County.
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Lawn Tennis Association
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man founded in 1888.
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Lead Belly
Huddie William Ledbetter (January 1888 or 1889 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines", "Goodnight, Irene", "Midnight Special", "Cotton Fields", and "Boll Weevil".
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.
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Leeds Bridge
Leeds Bridge is a historic river crossing in Leeds, England.
Lei Áurea
The Lei Áurea (Golden Law), officially Law No.
Lester Cuneo
Lester H. Cuneo (October 25, 1888 – November 1, 1925) was an American stage and silent film actor.
Lester Wallack
John Johnstone Wallack (January 1, 1820, New York City – September 6, 1888, Stamford, Connecticut), was an American actor-manager and son of James William Wallack and Susan Johnstone.
Levi P. Morton
Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
Lick Observatory
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California.
List of vice presidents of the United States
There have been 49 vice presidents of the United States since the office was created in 1789.
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Lobengula
Lobengula Khumalo (c. 1835 – c. 1894) was the second and last official king of the Northern Ndebele people (historically called Matabele in English).
Local Government Act 1888
The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales.
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Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
Logan, Utah
Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lotte Lehmann
Charlotte "Lotte" Pauline Sophie Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German-American lyric soprano noted for her successful performances with international opera houses, on the recital stage and in teaching.
Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).
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Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.
Lyric Theatre, London
The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Mahdi
The Mahdi (lit) is a figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the End of Times to rid the world of evil and injustice.
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Maiden of Ludmir
The Maiden of Ludmir (Ludmirer Moyd, HabBeṭulah milLuḏmir), Hannah Rachel Vermermacher (Hane Rokhl Verbermakher, 1805–1888),The Library of Congress authority file gives her dates as 1815–1892 also known rarely as the Ludmirer Rebbe, was the only independent female rebbe in the history of Hasidic Judaism.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Mannheim
Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) is a learned society with a scientific laboratory that undertakes research in marine biology.
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Marshal of France
Marshal of France (Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements.
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Martha Tabram
Martha Tabram (née White; 10 May 1849 – 7 August 1888) was an English woman killed in a spate of violent murders in and around the Whitechapel district of East London between 1888 and 1891.
Mary Ann Nichols
Mary Ann Nichols, known as Polly Nichols (née Walker; 26 August 184531 August 1888), was the first canonical victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have murdered and mutilated at least five women in and around the Whitechapel district of London from late August to early November 1888.
Mary Jane Kelly
Mary Jane Kelly (– 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.
Mashonaland
Mashonaland is a region in northeastern Zimbabwe.
Matabeleland
Matabeleland is a region located in southwestern Zimbabwe that is divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matabeleland South.
Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire.
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Matchgirls' strike
In July 1888, the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, London, England went on strike.
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Matt Moore (actor)
Matt Moore (January 8, 1888 – January 20, 1960) was an Irish-born American actor and director.
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.
Maurice Boyau
Maurice Jean-Paul Boyau (8 May 1888 – 16 September 1918) was a French rugby union player and a leading French ace of the First World War with 35 victories, and one of the most successful balloon busters.
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer.
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Max Steiner
Maximilian Raoul Steiner (10 May 1888 – 28 December 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers.
Medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado.
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MI6
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.
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Michiyo Tsujimura
was a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist whose research focused on the components of green tea.
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Mikhail Kaganovich
Mikhail Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Михаи́л Моисе́евич Кагано́вич; 16 October 1888 – 1 July 1941) was a Soviet politician.
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Mikhail Loris-Melikov
Count Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov (Միքայել Լոռու-Մելիքյան; – 24 December 1888) was a Russian-Armenian statesman, General of the Cavalry, and Adjutant General of H. I. M. Retinue.
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Miles Malleson
William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s.
Millard Harmon
Millard Fillmore Harmon Jr. (January 19, 1888 – February 26, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaign in World War II.
Milton Allen
Sir Milton Pentonville Allen OBE (22 June 1888 – 17 September 1981) was the Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1969 to 1975.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Monty Woolley
Edgar Montilion "Monty" Woolley (August 17, 1888May 6, 1963) was an American film and theater actor.
Morrison Waite
Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was an American attorney, jurist, and politician from Ohio who served as the seventh chief justice of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Namık Kemal
Namık Kemal (translit,; 21 December 1840 – 2 December 1888) was an Ottoman writer, poet, democrat, intellectual, reformer, journalist, playwright, and political activist who was influential in the formation of the Young Ottomans and their struggle for governmental reform in the Ottoman Empire during the late Tanzimat period, which would lead to the First Constitutional Era in the Empire in 1876.
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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National Library of Greece
The National Library of Greece (Ethnikí Vivliothíki tis Elládos) is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens.
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Nauru
Nauru (or; Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru (Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, part of Oceania in the Central Pacific.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Nestor Makhno
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno (Нестор Івaнович Махно,; 7 November 1888 – 25 July 1934), also known as Bat'ko Makhno (батько Махно), was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Neville Cardus
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE (2 April 188828 February 1975) was an English writer and critic.
New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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New Year's Day
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.
Niigata Prefecture
is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan.
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Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (p; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist.
Nikolay Przhevalsky
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky; –) was a Russian geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia.
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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.
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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North Borneo
North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo, (present-day Sabah).
North Borneo Chartered Company
The North Borneo Chartered Company (NBCC), also known as the British North Borneo Company (BNBC) was a British chartered company formed on 1 November 1881 to administer and exploit the resources of North Borneo (present-day Sabah in Malaysia).
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Oath of allegiance
An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to a monarch or a country.
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Oaths Act 1888
The Oaths Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 46) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing that all required oaths (including the oath of allegiance taken to the Sovereign, required in order to sit in Parliament) may be solemnly affirmed rather than sworn to God.
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks.
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.
Orange Free State
The Orange Free State (Oranje Vrijstaat; Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.
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Oswald Rayner
Oswald Theodore Rayner (29 November 1888, in Smethwick, Staffordshire, England – 6 March 1961, in Botley, Oxfordshire, England)England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 was a British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) field agent who operated covertly in the Russian Empire during the First World War.
Otto Stern
Otto Stern (17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.
Painting
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").
Patagonian sheep farming boom
In late 19th and early 20th centuries, sheep farming expanded across the Patagonian grasslands making the southern regions of Argentina and Chile one of the world's foremost sheep farming areas.
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Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
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Paul Bernays
Paul Isaac Bernays (17 October 1888 – 18 September 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics.
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
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 Popenoe
Paul Bowman Popenoe (October 16, 1888 – June 19, 1979) was an American marriage counselor, eugenicist and agricultural explorer.
Paul Ramadier
Paul Ramadier (17 March 1888 – 14 October 1961) was a French statesman.
Peak Tram
The Peak Tram is a funicular railway in Hong Kong, which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island.
Pedro Ñancúpel
Pedro María Ñancúpel Alarcón (c. 1837 – 6 November 1888) was a pirate and outlaw of Huilliche descent active in the archipelagoes of Chiloé, Guaitecas and other places in the fjords and channels of Patagonia in the 1880s, forming part of the pirate crew led by José Domingo Nahuelhuén.
Peg Leg Howell
Joshua Barnes Howell, known as Peg Leg Howell (March 5, 1888 – August 11, 1966), was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later 12-bar style.
Pelorus Jack
Pelorus Jack (fl. 1888 – April 1912; pronounced) was a Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) that was famous for meeting and escorting ships through a stretch of water in Cook Strait, New Zealand.
Percy Kilbride
Percy William Kilbride (July 16, 1888 – December 11, 1964) was an American character actor.
Pforzheim
Pforzheim is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany.
Philip Henry Gosse
Philip Henry Gosse (6 April 1810 – 23 August 1888), known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, an early improver of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology.
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Philip Sheridan
Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
Plymouth Hoe
Plymouth Hoe, referred to locally as the Hoe, is a large south-facing open public space in the English coastal city of Plymouth.
President of Bolivia
The president of Bolivia (Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the captain general of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
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President of India
The president of India (IAST) is the head of state of the Republic of India.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
Punch (magazine)
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.
Pune
Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.
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Raj of Sarawak
The Raj of Sarawak, also the Kingdom of Sarawak or State of Sarawak, located in the northwestern part of the island of Borneo, was an independent state founded in 1841, in a treaty of protection with the United Kingdom starting from 1888.
Ralph Hartley
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley (November 30, 1888 – May 1, 1970) was an American electronics researcher.
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.
Ras (title)
Ras (compare with Arabic Rais or Hebrew Rosh), is a royal title in the Ethiopian Semitic languages.
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
Renya Mutaguchi
was a Japanese military officer, lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and field commander of the IJA forces during the Battle of Imphal.
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Rhodesia (region)
Rhodesia, known initially as Zambesia, is a historical region in southern Africa whose formal boundaries evolved between the 1890s and 1980.
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Richard Wetherill
Richard Wetherill (1858–1910), a member of a Colorado ranching family, was an amateur archaeologist who discovered, researched and excavated sites associated with the Ancient Pueblo People.
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Ritual
A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.
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Robert Moses
Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century.
Roland Garros (aviator)
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros (6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918) was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot.
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Roundhay
Roundhay is a large suburb in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Roundhay Garden Scene
Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Northern England on 14 October 1888.
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Rudd Concession
The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe, was granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of the South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, on 30 October 1888.
Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics.
Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Sabah
Sabah, or given nickname Sabah Bumi Di Bawah Bayu (means Sabah Land Below The Wind) is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia.
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Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales, is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youngsters during the Industrial Revolution.
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Samson Raphael Hirsch
Samson Raphael Hirsch (June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism.
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San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.
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Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Santa Cruz Province (Provincia de Santa Cruz,, "Holy Cross") is a province of Argentina, located in the southern part of the country, in Patagonia.
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September 188817 April 1975; natively Radhakrishnayya) was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967.
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Schiffers & Co.
Schiffers & Co. was a silver manufacturer from Warsaw, Poland.
Schoolhouse Blizzard
The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, or Children's Blizzard, hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888.
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester (28 September 1888 – 13 June 1959) was an Irish diplomat who was the last secretary-general of the League of Nations from 31 August 1940 to 18 April 1946.
Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States
The second gentleman or second lady of the United States (SGOTUS or SLOTUS) is the informal title held by the spouse of the vice president of the United States, concurrent with the vice president's term of office.
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Selman Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish Ukrainian inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.
Seth Kinman
Seth Kinman (September 29, 1815 – February 24, 1888) was an early settler of Humboldt County, California, a hunter based in Fort Humboldt, a famous chair maker, and a nationally recognized entertainer.
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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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
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Sikkim
Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.
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Sikkim expedition
The Sikkim expedition was an 1888 British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from the Kingdom of Sikkim.
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SNAC
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) is an online project for discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records in regard to individual people, families, and organizations.
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Sofia University
Sofia University "St.
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
South Dakota State Historical Society
The South Dakota State Historical Society is South Dakota's official state historical society and operates statewide but is headquartered in Pierre, South Dakota at 900 Governors Drive.
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Squizzy Taylor
Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor (29 June 1888 – 27 October 1927) was an Australian gangster from Melbourne.
St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
St Cuthbert's Society, colloquially known as Cuth's, is a college of Durham University.
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St V
italic (French), italic (Dutch) or St V are the commonly used names for a holiday for freethinking university students in Brussels, Belgium.
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Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a public park in British Columbia, Canada, that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay.
Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
T. E. Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.
Taher Saifuddin
Taher Saifuddin (4 August 1888 – 12 November 1965), also known as Tahir Sayf al-Din, was the 51st and longest serving Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras.
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia.
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Tôn Đức Thắng
Tôn Đức Thắng (August 20, 1888 – March 30, 1980) was the second president of Vietnam under the leadership of General Secretary Lê Duẩn.
Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr.
Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr. (April 1, 1888 – September 12, 1969) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Texas State Capitol
The Texas State Capitol is the capitol and seat of government of the U.S. state of Texas.
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Thai solar calendar
The Thai solar calendar (ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย,, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal Thai calendar (though the latter is still also used, especially for traditional and religious events).
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Thanksgiving (United States)
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
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The Baldwin School
The Baldwin School (simply referred to as Baldwin School or Baldwin) is a private school for girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (14 September 18174 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet.
Theodore Stark Wilkinson
Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson (December 22, 1888 – February 21, 1946) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy during World War II.
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Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid (3 April 1888 – 17 November 1972) was an admiral in the United States Navy, known for his service during World War II.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.
Thomas Russell Crampton
Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE (6 August 1816 – 19 April 1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway.
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Thomas Sopwith
Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS (18 January 1888 – 27 January 1989) was a British aviation pioneer, businessman and yachtsman.
Tich Freeman
Alfred Percy "Tich" Freeman (17 May 1888 – 28 January 1965) was an English first-class cricketer.
Tiddlywinks
Tiddlywinks is a game played on a flat felt mat with sets of small discs called "winks", a pot, which is the target, and a collection of squidgers, which are also discs.
Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips, (19 February 1888 – 10 December 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars.
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Tom Richardson (cricketer)
Tom Richardson (11 August 1870 – 2 July 1912) was an English cricketer.
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Tony Awards
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
Touch typing
Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.
Trams in Tallinn
The Tram System of Tallinn (Trammiliiklus Tallinnas) is the only tram system in Estonia.
Tris Speaker
Tristram Edgar Speaker (April 4, 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed "the Gray Eagle", was an American professional baseball player and manager.
Tsunami
A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
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Turkish people
Turkish people or Turks (Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Electoral College
In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president.
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United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Utah State University
Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Logan, Utah.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
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Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer.
Victor Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (27 January 1888 – 20 March 1947) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
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Viliami Tungī Mailefihi
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi CBE (1 November 1888 – 20 July 1941) was a Tongan high chieftain and Prince consort of Tonga as the husband of Queen Sālote Tupou III.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
W. O. Bentley
Walter Owen Bentley, (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971 was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraft and automobile engines, Bentley established his own firm in 1919. He built the firm into one of the world's premier luxury and performance auto manufacturers, and led the marque to multiple victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
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Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States, victorious commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783 in the American Revolutionary War, and the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
Weedon Grossmith
Walter Weedon Grossmith (9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919), better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) with his brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star George Grossmith.
Wellington Koo
Koo Vi Kyuin (January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a Chinese diplomat and statesman.
Wells College
Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, located in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
West Orange, New Jersey
West Orange is a suburban township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.
Westminster School (Connecticut)
The Westminster School is a private, coeducational college-preparatory, boarding and day school located in Simsbury, Connecticut, United States, accepting around 20% of applicants.
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White Rajahs
The White Rajahs were a hereditary monarchy of the Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Raj of Sarawak as a sovereign state, located on the north west coast of the island of Borneo in maritime Southeast Asia, from 1841 to 1946.
Whitechapel murders
The Whitechapel murders were committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891.
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Whitehall Mystery
The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder that took place in London in 1888.
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Wilfred Rhodes
Wilfred Rhodes (29 October 1877 – 8 July 1973) was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930.
Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
Will Hay
William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings.
William Buckingham Curtis
William Buckingham "Father Bill" Curtis (January 17, 1837 – June 30, 1900) was one of the most important proponents of organized athletics in the late 1800s in America.
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William E. Le Roy
William Edgar Le Roy (March 24, 1818 – December 10, 1888) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in the Mexican War, on the African Slave Trade Patrol, and in the American Civil War.
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William Hood Simpson
General William Hood Simpson (18 May 1888 – 15 August 1980) was a senior United States Army officer who served with distinction in both World War I and World War II.
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William I, German Emperor
William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888.
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William L. Laurence
William Leonard Laurence (March 7, 1888 – March 19, 1977) was a Jewish American science journalist best known for his work at The New York Times.
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William McGregor (football)
William McGregor (1846 – 1911) was a Scottish association football administrator in the Victorian era who was the founder of the Football League (now English Football League), the first organised association football league in the world.
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William Pitt Ballinger
William Pitt Ballinger (September 25, 1825 – January 20, 1888) was an American lawyer and statesman in Texas.
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William T. Hamilton
William Thomas Hamilton (September 8, 1820October 26, 1888), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 38th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1880 to 1884.
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Willis Augustus Lee
Willis Augustus "Ching" Lee Jr. (May 11, 1888 – August 25, 1945) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy during World War II.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.
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Year of the Three Emperors
The Year of the Three Emperors, or the Year of the Three Kaisers (Dreikaiserjahr), refers to the year 1888 during the German Empire in German history.
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Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (יצחק הלוי הרצוג; 3 December 1888 – 25 July 1959), also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936.
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Zack Wheat
Zachariah Davis Wheat (May 23, 1888 – March 11, 1972), nicknamed "Buck", was an American professional baseball player.
Zeng Junchen
Zeng Junchen (6 September 1888 – 6 July 1964), courtesy name Yun'an, art name Zhengran, was a Chinese businessman and opium kingpin from Sichuan.
1800
As of March 1 (O.S. February 18), 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 12 days until February 28 (O.S. February 16), 1900.
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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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1816
This year was known as the Year Without a Summer, because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations. 1888 and 1816 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1888 eruption of Mount Bandai
The 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai was a major volcanic eruption which occurred during the Meiji period of the Empire of Japan.
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1888 Republican National Convention
The 1888 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois, on June 19–25, 1888.
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1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami
On the morning of March 13, 1888, an explosion took place on Ritter Island, a small volcanic island in the Bismarck and Solomon Seas, between New Britain and Umboi Island.
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1888 United States presidential election
The 1888 United States presidential election was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888.
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1890s African rinderpest epizootic
In the 1890s, an epizootic of the rinderpest virus struck all across Africa, but primarily in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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1917
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
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1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year.
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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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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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1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.
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1943
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
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1944
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. 1888 and 1944 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
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1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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1957
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. 1888 and 1960 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1969
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
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1971
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
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1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. 1888 and 1972 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.
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1975
It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
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1978
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1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
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1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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1993
1993 was designated as.
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2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
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