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  • The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving ...
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  • adjutant general of the state militia. In 1820, Adair was elected governor ... of 1819. In the gubernatorial election of 1820, Adair ran on a platform of ...
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  • Monroe was a popular president who ran unopposed for a second term ... of nations in the Western hemisphere. The 1820 Missouri Compromise addressed ...
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  • rule over China. When he came to power in 1820, he inherited a declining ... The Daoguang Emperor ascended to the throne in 1820, and inherited ...
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  • other professionals in the decade 1810-1820, including Moscheles, considered ... |Margherita d’Anjou|| 14 November, 1820 ||Milan || |- ...
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  • women in the style of his master until 1820. He used the same signature ... style, and took over the gō Utamaro until 1820; these are now referred to ...
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  • not repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the new law did deem it ... repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery ...
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  • Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869), born near ... Livingston County, New York on January 24, 1820. He graduated from the University ...
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  • Wollaston was appointed temporary president of the Royal Society in ... In 1820, Wollaston performed experiments based on the discovery of ...
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  • Sir John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 – February 25, 1914) was an ... John Tenniel was born on February 28, 1820, in London and educated ...
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  • Alexander Cartwright II (April 17, 1820–July 12, 1892) was officially credited by the United States Congress on June 3, 1953, with inventing ...
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  • it, electrodynamics. On September 11, 1820 he heard of H. C. Ørsted ... since he first put forward his analysis in 1820. He was elected a member of ...
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  • against Calvinism delivered and printed in 1820, and Unitarian Christianity ... In 1820, Channing organized a conference of Unitarian ministers, which ...
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  • * Piano Concerto No. 6 in C, H. 49 (1819, revised 1820) * Piano Concerto No. 7 in C minor, H. 58 (1822, revised 1822-32) Among his solo piano ...
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  • *Journal of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 *My Second Tour in Scotland, 1822 ... and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years: 1812-1820, 2000 ...
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  • culture of the capital, St. Petersburg. In 1820, he gained public recognition ... the capital. He went first to Kishinev in 1820, where he stayed until 1823 ...
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  • awakened pride among Scots, while Ivanhoe (1820) was influential in renewing ... George IV made the Scottish writer a baronet in 1820. From being one ...
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  • While preparing for an evening lecture on April 21, 1820, Hans Christian ... effect did not become widely known until 1820, when Ørsted performed a ...
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  • Big Foot (Si Thanka ) (ca 1820/1825 - December 29, 1890), also known as Spotted Elk, was a Minneconjou-Teton Sioux chief. He is not to be confused ...
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  • Court after the murder of the Duc de Berry (1820), served as ambassador to ... *Mémoires sur la vie et la mort du duc de Berry (1820) ...
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  • Afanasy Afanasievich Fet (Афанасий Афанасьевич Фет, December 5, 1820—December 3, 1892), or Foeth, later changed his name ...
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  • Curtius' younger brother Georg Curtius (1820-1885) was an eminent philologist, and his grandson the literary historian Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956). ...
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  • backer of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which attempted to resolve ... In 1820 a dispute erupted over the extension of slavery in Missouri ...
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  • In 1820, the young poet made his acquaintance with Anton Delvig, who rallied his falling spirits and introduced him to the literary press. Soon ...
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  • due to church opposition. However, between 1820 and 1840 numerous phrenological ... America, where it became very popular from 1820 to 1850. The misuse of Gall ...
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  • Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN 0674954653 * Willard, Frances ...
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  • timber and the Indians have the game (Neptune 1820). all—no difference of color" (Neptune 1820), and made their requests ...
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  • Britain and Ireland and Hanover from January 29, 1820 until his death. He had earlier served as The Prince Regent when his father, George III, suffered ...
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  • Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 – August 5, 1895), a nineteenth century German political philosopher, collaborated closely with Karl Marx ...
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  • expedition launched by the Russians in 1820. Wrangel Island belongs administratively ... coordinates, set off on an expedition (1820–1824) to discover the island ...
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  • * Maometto secondo - 1820 * Matilde Shabran (Matilde di Shabran, or ... * Andante e tema con variazioni per arpa e violino (1820) ...
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  • Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In ...
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  • George III (George William Frederick; June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from October 25, 1760 ...
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  • producing his first book, Precaution (1820), a novel of the fashionable ... |1820 |[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10365 Precaution: A Novel] ...
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  • *The provisions of the Act of 1820, known as the Missouri Compromise, were voided as a legislative act because it exceeded the powers of Congress ...
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  • ) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet ... Branwell (1817-1848), Emily, (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849). ...
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  • Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was a renowned English philosopher and sociologist known for applying evolutionary theory ...
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  • , and held the post of Minister to Russia (1820–1830). Williams Middleton, his grandson, while living at Middleton place became active in the ...
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  • The selling of pickles in jars in 1820 by Nicholas Appert represented the first large-scale commercial production (Romanowsky 1996). ...
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  • was discovered at the foot of the tower in 1820. The tower first acquired a lean after the third floor was built in 1178, due to a mere three ...
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  • By the time of the wars of independence (1820-1824), Lima had become one ... Catholic faith. Its abolition dates from 1820. On the external part of this ...
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  • with Representative Documents, vol. II (1820-1960). New York: Charles Scribner ... Finney: New York Revivalism in the 1820-1830s] by John H. Martin ...
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  • In 1820, he led an expedition to the northern part of the territory, in the northern Great Lakes region in present-day northern Minnesota, in ...
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  • *Seller, Maxine. 1994. Women educators in the United States, 1820-1993 a bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN ...
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  • to Francestown Academy in the spring of 1820. Later that year he was transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy to prepare for college. In the fall ...
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  • fifth of seven boys. His eldest brother, John Caird (1820-1898), a well-known preacher and theologian and author of An Introduction to the Philosophy ...
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  • *Painted Coral Snake, Micrurus corallinus (Merrem, 1820) ... *Caatinga Coral Snake, Micrurus ibiboboca (Merrem, 1820) ...
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  • Joseph von Fraunhofer (March 6, 1787 – June 7, 1826) was a German optician who was the first to study and classify the dark lines that appear ...
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  • with The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-1820), in which W. I. Thomas and Znaniecki put forward a biographical approach to understanding culture ...
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  • official approval for his scheme came in 1820, when he produced his Report ... In his “Report to the County of Lanark” (a body of landowners ...
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  • Lee Ha-eung (1820 – 1898), served as the regent, Daewongun, or formally Heungseon Heonui Daewonwang, during much of the later nineteenth century ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...
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  • I, Selivanov regained his liberty, but in 1820 was again incarcerated, this time in a monastery at Suzdal, where he died in 1832 in his hundredth ...
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  • **? †Sinopliosaurus G. Young, 1820 **†Thalassiodracon Storrs & Taylor, 1996 **†Archaeonectrus Novozhilov, 1964 **†Attenborosaurus ...
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  • early explorers followed it westward, and from 1820 to 1846, it served as the boundary between the United States and Mexico. It continues to play an ...
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  • == Administration of Bencoolen, 1820 - 1822 == Raffles returned to ... By early 1820, Tunku Long had firmly established himself as the Sultan ...
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  • * (1820) "Prometheus Unbound" * (1820) "To a Skylark" * (1821) "Adonais" ...
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  • to write and illustrate Jerusalem (1804-1820). George Cumberland introduced ... *1804-1820: Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion ...
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  • Between 1820 and 1850, the non-mechanized factories supplanted the traditional artisanal shops as the predominant form of manufacturing institution ...
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  • In 1819 and 1820 he published The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, which includes his best known stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip ...
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  • received $100,000 from Congress and in January 1820 the first ship, the Elizabeth, sent sail from New York headed for West Africa with three American ...
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  • She was born Belva Ann Bennett in Royalton, New York, on October 24, 1820, the second daughter, and second of five children of farmers Lewis ...
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  • In his later career, Godwin wrote Of Population (1820) criticizing ... Twenty years later, in 1820, Godwin published Of Population: An Enquiry ...
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  • *Le bergère châtelaine (27 January 1820, Opéra Comique, Paris) *Emma, ou La promesse imprudente (7 July 1821, Opéra Comique, Paris) ...
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  • under Nuer control during the 1800s. From circa 1820 to 1860, the Nuer expanded, mostly into regions inhabited by Dinka. Floods may have displaced ...
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  • in his youth before embarking on the Hajj in 1820. After many years of scholarship, in 1826 Umar Tall returned with his new title of "El Hadj ...
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  • a masterpiece, Les Méditations Poétiques (1820) and awoke to find himself famous. ... * Méditations poétiques (1820) * Nouvelles Méditations (1823) ...
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  • echoing that outcry of the young generation of 1820 which reached its climax in the military insurrection of 1825, and was then sternly silenced by Nicholas ...
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  • of such a lens, which he had already tried out in 1820. A similar system seems to have been devised by Sir David Brewster of England, who published his ...
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  • century architecture after Neo-classicism (c. 1820), although the revivals of styles in that period have, since the 1970s, generally been referred to ...
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  • Volume 239: American Women Prose Writers, 1820-1870. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Katharine Rodier, Marshall University and Amy E ...
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  • Joseph LaFlesche (ca 1820 - 1888), also known as E-sta-mah-za or Iron Eye, was the last recognized chief according to the old rituals of the ...
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  • 36 years. It was rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820. In the early twenty-first ... In 1820, the colony of Cape Breton Island, and Prince Edward Island ...
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  • of Don Juan were written between 1818 and 1820, during which period he made ... *Marino Faliero (1820) *Sardanapalus (1821) *The Two Foscari (1821) ...
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  • and entered Buenos Aires. On February 23, 1820, they signed the Treaty of Pilar, the document that established the Argentine federal system. ...
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  • defeated as a candidate for governor of Ohio in 1820, but served in the Ohio State Senate from 1819 to 1821. In 1824, he was elected to the U.S. Senate ...
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  • Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Dr. Thomas Brook (1778-1820), and Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) further developed the principles of common sense ...
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  • given during the period from 1815 to 1820. The lectures on Locke were ... edition of the works of Proclus (6 vols., 1820-1827), and the works of René ...
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  • line designated by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to the Pacific Coast. The various bills were initially combined into one "omnibus" ...
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  • the term "lobbying" in print as early as 1820: to dissolve the Union" (April 1, 1820, New Hampshire Sentinel). ...
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  • (which until the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was part of Massachusetts). The Monday holiday creates a three-day long weekend. The day is a public ...
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  • Classical chamber music, or music written during the period of 1750-1820, was very airy and light in sound as compared to orchestral music and ...
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  • ix.; an edition with notes by A. Duval appeared in 1820. == References == *Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2. ...
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  • has revealed that she was born in late February 1820, in an area south of Madison, Maryland, called Peter's Neck. Born Araminta Ross, she was ...
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  • | ordo_authority = Temminck, 1820 | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = Megapodiidae Numididae Odontophoridae Phasianidae ...
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  • *1820 Founded the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, September 4 ... championed women's rights. Roy's 1820 book, The Precepts of Jesus ...
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  • Union College, studying law, and graduated in 1820, with high honors. He became an abolitionist, which meant he opposed the expansion of slavery and ...
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  • became the twenty-third state on March 15, 1820 as a component of the Missouri ... became the twenty-third state on March 15, 1820 through the Missouri Compromise ...
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  • In 1820, following a short lived revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Francesco IV started to arrest and imprison suspected patriots ...
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  • win was the most crushing electoral victory since 1820. The overwhelming Roosevelt victory prompted Democratic party boss James Farley to joke, "As ...
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  • quot; catalogue of books printed between 1820 and 1852 were British. By this means the works of the best authors were brought to the doors of ...
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  • probably was the one built at Harvard University in 1820. Although privately owned, it was maintained for the use of the students. Like most of the gymnasiums ...
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  • on the lake’s north shore as a base for his 1820 expedition to the Arctic Coast. The early settlements on the shores of Great Slave Lake were ...
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  • conjoint professor. On the death of Brown in 1820, Stewart retired from the professorship, which was conferred upon John Wilson, better known as "Christopher ...
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  • Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1820, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these ...
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  • In 1820, Telford was appointed the first President of the recently-formed Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held until his death. He ...
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  • *John Tyndall (1820-1893) died of an accidental overdose. *Anna Nicole Smith (1967-2007) died of an accidental combination of chloral hydrate ...
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  • of the Austrian government in Milan in 1820, he was arrested together with Silvio Pellico and Maroncelli on a charge of being implicated in a ...
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  • * The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of Methodism (c. 1820) * A Vision of Judgment (1821) * Life of Cromwell (1821) * Thomas More (1829) ...
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  • to found the Astronomical Society of London in 1820, which in 1831 received a royal charter and became the Royal Astronomical Society. ...
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