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Slavery Abolition Act
In 1805 the House of Commons passed a bill that made it unlawful for any British subject to capture and transport slaves, but the measure was blocked by the House of Lord... |
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Robert E. Lee, General Confederate Army
Robert Edward Lee was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. Lee was the son of Major General Henry... |
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified... |
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Faust, Goethe
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here... |
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III
Louis was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte whom he clearly modeled himself after. He took up an early career as a military adventurer in Italy and tried on two occasions... |
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Andrew Johnson, 17th US President
Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), gives truth to the saying that in America, anyone can grow up to become President. Born in a log cabin in... |
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Felix Mendelssohn has sometimes been called the "classical romantic." Born in 1809 in the first generation of romantic composers, Mendelssohn's music is the most conserva... |
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Edgar Allan Poe
Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art.... |
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Louis Braille, Inventor of Braille - 1821
Louis Braille was the inventor of braille, a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing one's finger... |
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
This pictorial history of Abraham Lincoln has been published by students of Berwick Academy Class of 2008. Lincoln took the oath of office to become President of the Unit... |
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Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States (1861-1865), guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history-the CIVIL WAR (18... |
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Charles Darwin, Evolution Theory - 1859
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, thro... |
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Alfred Tennyson, Poet
Alfred Tennyson, English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.
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William Gladstone, British Prime Minister
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94). He was a champion of the Home Rule Bill... |
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Symmetric Color Circle, Goethe
As an epitome of his research, Goethe proposed a symmetric color circle that applied in all areas he had studied. By contrast, Newton's color circle, with seven colors su... |
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