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Modern Medical Discoveries post-1800
Medical research progressed by leaps and bounds by the turn of the 1800. Microorganisms were discovered and so were vitamins. It was the era of scientific stalwarts like Louis Pasteur, Alexander Flemi... |
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Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac, prolific French journalist and author wrote La Comédie Humaine (“The Human Comedy”). While Balzac also had ambitions for life in the theatre and politics, he is best known for rankin... |
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Lakota - Dakota - Sioux Nation
In North America the territory of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nation covers some 200,000 km2 in the present day state of South Dakota and neighboring states. The Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nation (al... |
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Goodyear, Vulcanization Rubber - 1839
Charles Goodyear was the inventor of vulcanization, a process that makes rubber harder, less soluble, and more durable. It is at the heart of rubber compounding, which played a key role at the onset o... |
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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 inherited a nation breaking into fr... |
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The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) began in 1990 as an effort by researchers from around the world to map and sequence the human genome - the totality of human DNA - as well as the genomes of important ex... |
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Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini, Vincenzo, Italian opera composer. He acquired his musical training from his grandfather and father, and began composing religious and secular music in his childhood. His first opera, Adelson... |
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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 also the first governor of the... |
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Jan van Speyk, Dutch Hero
Jan Carolus Josephus van Speijk, also written Van Speyk, was a Dutch naval lieutenant who became a hero to the Dutch people for his efforts in suppressing the Belgian Revolution (1831).
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Alexandre Dumas, French Writer
Alexandre Dumas was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. Dumas is best known for historical adventure novels like The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both written... |
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Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of the most important of French Romantic writers. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831) and Les Misrables(1862).... |
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Short History of Freemasonry in South Australia & Northern Territory
Narrative history of the development of Freemasonry in South Australia and Northern Territory and of the Grand Lodge... |
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Christian Doppler, Physicist
Austrian physicist who first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This phenomenon became known as the Dopple... |
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Robert Stephenson, Engineer
Robert Stephenson is chiefly remembered for his role in the birth of the railways. His refinements to the steam engine made steam locomotion a viable form of transport, which he demonstrated in 1829 w... |
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Hector Berlioz, Composer
As a boy he learnt the flute, guitar and, from treatises alone, harmony (he never studied the piano); his first compositions were romances and small chamber pieces. After two unhappy years as a medica... |
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