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  • In 1857 a Kansas constitutional convention was convened, which drafted what has become known as the Lecompton Constitution, a pro-slavery document ...
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  • Norton & Company, 2000, ISBN 039304758X), 1857-1858. ... Constitution for the Kansas Territory in 1857. Stephens did not run ...
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  • The emigrants who arrived from 1855 to 1857 traveled by railroad to Iowa ... ==1857–60: Last five companies== The church enacted many changes ...
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  • |1857 |- !Representatives |65 |69 |105 |141 |182 |183 |185 |187 |213 |240 |242 |223 |225 |227 |233 |234 |237 |} {| class="wikitable" ...
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  • On May 10, 1857 soldiers of the British Indian Army (known as "sepoys ... — entitled East India (Torture) 1855–1857 — that were laid before ...
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  • ; December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet ... Alfred de Musset died in his sleep in Paris in 1857. The cause was ...
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  • Van der Waals found the inspiration for his thesis after reading the 1857 treatise by Rudolf Clausius entitled Über die Art der Bewegung welche ...
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  • Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (February 22, 1857 – January 8, 1941), also known as B-P, ...
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  • ;1857 : The Indian Mutiny, a widespread revolt in India against the ... there were 8,600 in London alone in 1857), it is enough to say that ...
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  • morale de Nicole, ed. Silvestre de Saci (Paris, 1857). Nicole's life is told at length in the fourth volume of Sainte-Beuve's Port-Royal. ...
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  • Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938) was an American ... Clarence Seward Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio, on April 18, 1857 ...
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  • years before becoming a freelance illustrator in 1857. Soon he was a major contributor to such popular magazines as Harper’s Weekly. In 1859, he ...
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  • Railroad. The Pierce administration ended in 1857. The president lost the Democratic nomination, which went instead to James Buchanan. Davis's term ...
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  • On March 17, 1857, Reuter was naturalized as a British subject. On September 7, 1871, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conferred on him the rank ...
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  • world a better place.” Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), in addition to writing her mother's biography, continued to support racial justice ...
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  • Journal Kept in Turkey and Greece in the Autumn of 1857 and the Beginning of 1858. Arno Press. ISBN 0405097204 * Senior, William N. 1990. (original ...
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  • to teach in a grammar school in St. Louis, Missouri (1857-1859). On December 27, 1858, he married his childhood friend Sarah Tully Bugbee. ...
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  • first wife, Mary Holgate, in 1935. She died in 1857. His second marriage was to Isabella Masters in 1861. With Isabella he had two sons, Alfred and Ernest. ...
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  • part of Syracuse University in Lima, New York, in 1857. During her years at college, Lockwood converted to Methodism and became an advocate of temperance ...
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  • Review. He soon became the editor of the paper. In 1857, he met James Wilson, founder and editor of The Economist, a political and financial weekly ...
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