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  • became a standard character in minstrel shows. By 1837, Jim Crow was also used to refer to racial segregation generally. It was not until 1954 ...
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  • * Trois marches militaires (1837) * Scherzo (1843) * Tema originale di Rossini variato per violino da Giovacchino Giovacchini (1845) ...
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  • means of communication. Beginning in 1837, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone operated electric telegraphs in England, which also controlled ...
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  • * Virginia Oldoini, Countess de Castiglioni, (1837-1899) sent by Camillo ... * Countess Louise de Mercy-Argenteau, (1837-1890), likely a platonic ...
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  • German missionaries settled at Zions Hill, Nundah, as early as 1837, five years before Brisbane was officially declared a free settlement. The ...
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  • College in 1831. The Mystical 7 at Wesleyan (1837) expanded to Emory University and the University of Georgia in the early 1840s, spreading the concept ...
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  • Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759-1837), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service, including ...
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  • The area wasn't formally named the Adirondacks until 1837; an English map from 1761 labels it simply "Deer Hunting Country." ...
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  • In Belgium, the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau (1837-1890) was most influential in making possible the staging there of Prisoner of the Caucasus. In ...
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  • but was killed in a carriage accident in 1835. In 1837, at its first meeting, the Board of Trustees agreed to establish both a "contemplated college ...
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  • Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences (1837) was a chief influence. The reputation of this work is largely due to his analysis of inductive ...
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  • Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August 31 1880 – November 28 1962) was queen regnant of the Netherlands from ...
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  • *Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) *Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) *Arthur Symons (1865-1945) *John Gray (1866-1934) *Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) ...
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  • Burmese rulers commissioned by King Bagyidaw (1819-1837) in 1829, the "traditional" founder of Bagan was Thamudarit (107 – 152 C.E.). The ...
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  • Two Chilean ships had visited the island beginning in 1837. At that time, Chile claimed the largest fleet in the Pacific Ocean. In 1888, a Chilean ...
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  • Spear Hudson began manufacturing a soap powder in 1837, initially by grinding the soap with a mortar and pestle. William Hesketh Lever and his brother ...
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  • first English translation, by J. M. Kemble in 1837. Since then there have been numerous translations of the poem in English. Irish poet Seamus ...
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  • Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (April 17, 1837–May 29, 1906), who died unmarried and childless. She was raised by her mother and by a guardian ...
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  • law, and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1837. That same year, he moved to Springfield and began to practice law with Stephen T. Logan. He became ...
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  • The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, the 1837 English translation of the 1833 Swiss publication Histoire de M. Vieux Bois by Swiss caricaturist ...
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