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Maxwell, Light is an Electromagnetic Wave
James Maxwell's most important achievement was his extension and mathematical formulation of Michael Faraday's theories of electricity and magnetic lines of force. In his... |
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James A. Garfield, 20th US President
James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (1881), is remembered as one of the four "lost Presidents" who served rather uneventfully after the Civil War. Of t... |
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Frederick III, German Emperor
Frederick III was German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling for 99 days until his death in 1888. He was the son and successor of William I. In 1858 he married Victoria,... |
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Madame Blavatsky, Founder of Theosophy
Helena Petrovna Hahn, better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy. Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrine... |
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Eduard Suess, Discovery Supercontinent
Eduard Suess was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for discovering two of the Earth's major now-lost geographical features, th... |
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Edouard Manet, Impressionist
French painter and printmaker who in his own work accomplished the transition from the realism of Gustave Courbet to Impressionism. Manet broke new ground in choosing su... |
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Lewis Carroll, Author Alice in Wonderland
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. H... |
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Gustave Eiffel, Engineer
An engineer by training, Eiffel founded and developed a company specializing in metal structural work, whose crowning achievement was the Eiffel Tower.
His outstandin... |
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Alfred Nobel, Inventor of Dynamite
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great... |
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms felt that Schubert was the last composer to be born at a truly propitious time. Brahms' artistic credo was expressed by his famous statement that, "If we... |
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer of the Romantic period. He was born in Hamburg and about a year later settled in Vienna, Austria.... |
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Benjamin Harrison, 23rd US President
Benjamin Harrison was the twenty-third President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to I... |
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First ten years of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship
Events of the first ten years of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship... |
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Mendeleev, Creator Table of Elements
Dimitri Mendeleev, was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Unlike other contributors to... |
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Edgar Degas, Impressionist Painter
Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he re... |
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