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Behistun Inscription, Darius I
The Behistun Inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script. It... |
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Freemasonry in Australia and the SW Pacific
Chronology and development of Freemasonry in Australia and New Zealand from 1770 to 1848... |
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William H. Harrison, 9th US President
William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (1841) served the shortest time of any American President -- only thirty-two days. He also was the first Presid... |
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Louis Philippe, Last King of France
Louis Philippe was the last king to rule France, reigning from 1830 to 1848. During the July Revolution of 1830, he was made lieutenant general of the realm and, with the... |
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Martin Van Buren, 8th US President
Martin Van Buren was the first President (1837-1841) not born a British subject, or even of British ancestry. The Van Burens were a large, struggling family of Dutch... |
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Zachary Taylor, 12th US President
At the time he became 12th President of the United States (1849-1850), Zachary Taylor was the most popular man in America, a hero of the Mexican-American War. However, at... |
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John Tyler, 10th US President
John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (1841-1845), signaled the last gasp of the Old Virginia aristocracy in the White House. Born a few years after the America... |
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Michael Faraday, Producing Electricity
Faraday's research into electricity and electrolysis was guided by the belief that electricity is only one of the many manifestations of the unified forces of nature, whi... |
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Morse, Inventor Morse Code - 1836
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of... |
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James Knox Polk, 11th US President
Under James Knox Polk,11th US President (1845-1849), the United States grew by more than a million square miles, across Texas and New Mexico to California and even Oregon... |
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Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen's literary fame grew rapidly from the mid-1830's, when his novels enjoyed widespread circulation in Germany. From 1839 onwards it was the fairy-tales that create... |
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Le Verrier, Co-discovery of Neptune
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French mathematician who, beginning in 1838, studied the causes of perturbations in the Solar System. His work led to improved knowled... |
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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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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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John Adams, Discovered Neptune - 1845
John Adams was an English mathematician and astronomer who predicted the existence of Neptune. While a student at Cambridge he wrote this note (found only after his death... |
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