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  • In 1842, an American physician, John Gorrie, designed the first system for refrigerating water to produce ice. He also conceived the idea of ...
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  • on his voyage on the whaler Acushnet in 1841–1842. Melville left no other account of his career as a whaler, so we can only guess as to the extent ...
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  • | established_date1 = 29 August 1842 | established_event2 = Japanese ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...
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  • Oratory by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842–1923). Demosthenes used to study in an underground room he constructed himself. He also used to talk ...
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  • *The Kingdom of Christ (1842) *Christmas Day and Other Sermons (1843) *The Unity of the New Testament (1844) *The Epistle to the Hebrews (1846) ...
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  • class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the rich should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation ...
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  • cards, first popularized in London in 1842, to friends and family members. Cards are also produced with secular generic messages such as "season ...
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  • * Polka Ze studentského života (On Student Life) – 1842 * Polka Vzpomínka na Plzeň (Memory of Plzen) – 1844 * Šest charakteristických ...
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  • [[Image:Urville-Viti-Lebouka2.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Levuka, 1842]] But on December 5, 2006, Commodore Bainimarama executed Fiji’s fourth coup ...
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  • visit by a sovereign prince would not occur until 1842. [[Image:Schlossvaduz.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Schloss Vaduz, overlooking the capital, is ...
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  • Soekmono (1976), 6. The main stupa stood empty. In 1842, Hartmann investigated the main dome although what he discovered remains unknown. The Dutch East ...
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  • Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1842), 394. Retrieved January 16, 2023. == Legacy == [[File:Verses of Abu Nawas, copied by Mirza Kuchik Visal ...
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  • later developed by people such as William James (1842-1910) as a midpoint between materialism and idealism, holds that the one category of being, in ...
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  • supplied Afghan Pashtun tribesmen during the 1842 retreat from Kabul. The Second Anglo-Afghan War led to the British debacle at Maiwand in 1880, the siege ...
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  • charter was used as the state constitution until 1842. The relationship between the New Englanders and the Native Americans was strained, and ...
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  • Hesse's mother, Marie Gundert, was born in 1842. Hesse's father, Johannes Hesse, was born in 1847, in Estonia, the son of a doctor. The Hesse ...
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  • William James (1842-1910), around the beginning of the twentieth century, coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot ...
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  • Gladstone was re-elected in 1841. In September 1842 he lost the forefinger of his left hand in an accident while reloading a gun; thereafter ...
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  • Dostoevsky was made a lieutenant in 1842, and left the Engineering Academy the following year. He completed a translation into Russian of Balzac ...
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  • #039;s Excursions Daguerriennes, published 1842: the first photograph of the acropolis.Jenifer Neils. The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present ...
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