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  • Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is ...
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  • In a message to Congress on January 24, 1856, President Franklin Pierce ... On May 21, 1856, a group of border ruffians entered the Free-State ...
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  • The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas ...
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  • Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute mystic who founded the Ghost Dance movement. ...
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  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after ...
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  • the List of the Birds of Essex County (1856). Through this work he was invited to become curator of ornithology in the Essex Institute, a position ...
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  • ==Election of 1856== [[Image:ElectoralCollege1856-Large.png|300px|thumb ... The Democrats nominated Buchanan in 1856 largely because he was in ...
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  • In 1856, the year he began his 100 Famous Views of Edo, Hiroshige ... 1837), and “One Hundred Views of Edo” (1856–58). He repeatedly executed ...
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  • (New York: William Reed & Co., 1856). ==Political influence== ... php Biography by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, 1856] *[http://famousamericans ...
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  • Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited with ...
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  • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Russian: Михаил Александрович Врубель; March 17, 1856 - April 14, 1910, all n.s.) is ...
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  • presidential nomination in 1852 and 1856. ==Personal and family== ... was Robert M. Douglas). On November 20, 1856, he married 20-year-old Adele ...
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  • will its economical culture be developed. (List 1856) ===Stages of ... and is nevertheless a public blessing" (List 1856). ...
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  • * Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) * Eugène Vallin (1856-1922) * Henry Van de Velde (1863-1957) ...
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  • to raise more money. He stayed there until 1856, becoming owner and editor ... In 1856, Gardner and his family moved to the United States. Learning ...
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  • The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United ...
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  • Slavery Down the Throat of a FreesoilerAn 1856 cartoon depicts a giant [ ... against Kansas." The same day, May 21, 1856, a mob of pro-slavery settlers ...
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  • an opéra comique with a tragic end (1856), and revisions of Le cheval ... *Manon Lescaut (23 February 1856, Opéra Comique, Paris) ...
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  • Caterino Kavos, an opera composer, and reopened in 1856. During World War II, the theater was damaged by a bomb but was promptly repaired. ...
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  • enjoying moderate success. Between 1854 and 1856, his work appeared in the ... In 1856, he published his first piece of work under the name that ...
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