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Sax, Inventing the Saxophone, 1842
Antoine-Joseph (known as Adolphe) Sax was a Belgian musical instrument designer, best known for inventing the saxophone. Having left school, Sax began to experiment with... |
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The Battle of Waterloo
18th June 1815 Waterloo decisively saw the end of 26 years of fighting between the European powers and France. The French star was eclipsed and the German began its ascen... |
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Mount Tambora, Eruption 1815
Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, on Sumbawa island, Indonesia. Tambora erupted in 1815 with a rating of seven on... |
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Otto, King of Greece
Otto, King of Greece was made the first modern king of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London, whereby Greece became a new independent kingdom under the protection... |
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Macdonald, 1st Primier of Canada
John A. MacDonald was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867-1873 and 1878-1891. He played a crucial role in expanding Canada's territories to include the... |
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Otto von Bismarck, United German Empire
Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, was one of the most prominent European aristocrats and statesmen of the nineteenth century. As Prime Minister... |
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Timeline of Immigration to the US
Learn about Ellis Island Immigrants. See what they went through, when they came, and from what origin. Ellis Island Records create links to millions of immigrant ancestor... |
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Charlotte Brontė, and Sisters
The Brontë sisters were left much to themselves, and they began to write about an imaginary world they had created. This escapist writing, transcribed in tiny script on s... |
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Werner von Siemens
Ernst Werner von Siemens was a German inventor and industrialist. He is world known for his advances in various technologies, and chose to work on perfecting technologies... |
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Buys Ballot, Chemist and Meteorologist
Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.
Buys Ballot tested the Doppler effect for sound wav... |
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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Modern readers must jump through a number of hoops to enjoy this legendary novel. Written between 1816 and 1818, this is very much a novel of its era, and both language a... |
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Alexander II, Tsar of Russia
Alexander II was the Emperor (tsar) of Russia from 1855 until his assassination. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland. He was born the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia... |
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Karl Marx, Founder Communism
Karl Marx, with Friedrich Engels, a founder of modern socialism and communism. The son of a lawyer, he studied law and philosophy; he rejected the idealism of Hegel but w... |
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Ivanhoe, Scott
Ivanhoe was the first of Scott's novels to take place in the middle ages but it is far from being the fantastic, medievalist romance associated (in the critical imaginati... |
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Rip Van Winkle, Irving
A short story by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle tells the tale of a lazy old man who falls asleep for twenty years and returns to his village to find that the world ha... |
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