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  • In 1878 the brothers moved the factory from its then too-crowded site in Bridge Street in the City of Birmingham, purchasing 14 acres (57,000 ...
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  • language and came to admire Hermann Lotze. In 1878, the new Johns Hopkins University awarded him one of its first four doctorates, in philosophy. He then ...
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  • [[Image:Medusa.jpg|thumb|right|Medusa, by Arnold Böcklin (1878).]] The most famous legend involving the Gorgons was the story of how Perseus ...
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  • currency. Throughout the depression from 1873-1878, he said that usury was the foremost political problem of the day. He strongly advocated a credit-based ...
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  • land utilization and irrigation projects. In his 1878 Report on the Lands of the Arid Region, and related magazine articles now published in Seeing ...
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  • (tr. New proofs of the rotation of the earth). From 1878 to 1882 he was assistant to Johannes Bosscha , the director of the Polytechnic in Delft, for ...
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  • In 1878, the Bolivian government of President Hilarión Daza decreed a backdated 1874 tax increase on Chilean companies, over protests by the ...
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  • *Madame Charpentier and Her Children (1878) *Jeanne Samary (1879) *Acrobats at the Circus Fernando (1879) *On the Terrace (1881) *Luncheon of ...
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  • movement. Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) founded many schools for ... Old-Town Folks (1869), and Poganuc People (1878) were partly based on her ...
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  • In 1878, he published a scathing review of paintings by James McNeill ... *Pearls for Young Ladies (1878) *Review of Paintings by James McNeill ...
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  • In 1878, on the occasion of the Berlin Congress, he received the Grand Cross of the Bath. ===Later life=== Layard retired to Venice, Italy where ...
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  • possibly in the 1840s, and died on January 8, 1878. Little is known about Antonio Gil, except that the gaucho was an outlaw who was probably executed ...
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  • – Yevgeny Onegin), Op. 24 – 1877–1878 :Premiered in March 1879 ... дева – Orleanskaya deva) – 1878–1879 :Premiered in February ...
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  • Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer (1860; 2nd ed., 1878). For Klopstock's correspondence, see: *K. Schmidt, Klopstock und seine Freunde (1810) ...
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  • * Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968)—The Jungle (1906), U.S. meat-packing industry, and the books in the "Dead Hand" series that critique ...
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  • at 17 Kinta Road (off Serangoon Road) in 1875. In 1878, U Thar Hnin, a Burmese traditional physician, donated the temple to U Kyaw Gaung. The temple ...
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  • to Boston, where she ran a boarding house. In 1878, Jacobs moved Washington, DC with her daughter. She remained there until her death at age 84 ...
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  • the newly-founded states of Romania (1859 - 1878) and Serbia. ... the Russians defeated the Ottoman Turks in 1878. An international congress ...
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  • held by Columbus is clearly evidenced by an 1878 editorial from the Connecticut ... World." Connecticut Catholic III (May 25, 1878). * Francis, Theo ...
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  • He immigrated with his father at the age of four on July 3, 1878, on the SS Fresia. On June 6, 1882, his father, Rabbi Weiss became an American ...
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