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Bahadur Shah II, Last Mughal Emperor
Bahadur Shah II, also known as Zafar (his name as an Urdu poet), last Mughal emperor of India (183757). A political figurehead, he was completely controlled by the Briti... |
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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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James Buchanan, 15th US President
James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). In the 1850s, the question of slavery divided the United States. Hopes ran high that the new President, "... |
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Millard Fillmore, 13th US President
Born into desperate poverty at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Millard Fillmore, 13th US President (1850-1853), climbed to the highest office in the land -- and inher... |
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Brigham Young, American Moses
Brigham Young was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death. Young was... |
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Franklin Pierce, 14th US President
Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857), came to office during a period of growing tension between the North and South. A politician of limit... |
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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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Siguršsson, Leader Icelandic Independence
Jón Sigurðsson was the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement. Born at Hrafnseyri, near Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords area of Iceland, he was the son... |
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Herman Melville, Writer of Moby Dick
American author, best-known for his novels of the sea and his masterpiece MOBY-DICK (1851), a whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. "I have written a wicked... |
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Cyrus Field, 1st Atlantic Cable - 1858
Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company, the company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the... |
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a legend in her lifetime but the Crimean War years which made her famous were just two out of a life of ninety years.
The Crimean War : In Mar... |
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Gustav Kirchhoff, German Physicist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radia... |
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Sisi, Empress of Austria and Hungary
Elizabeth Amalia Eugenia was born in Munich on the 24th December, 1837, the fourth of nine children to Duke Maximilian in Bavaria and his wife Ludovika. She was born not... |
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Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller's daughter from the town of Lourdes in southern France. From February 11, to July 16, 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a... |
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Crimean War
War fought mainly in the Crimea between the Russians and an alliance consisting of the Ottoman empire, Britain, France, and Sardinia-Piedmont. It arose from the conflict... |
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