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  • buffalo, and continued property loss, in 1856 the Omaha sold the last of ... area at 283,970. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster ...
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  • on the High Seas. Book Sales, 2004. ISBN 0-7858-1856-1 * Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the ...
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  • changes in fashion and taste. The discovery in 1856 of mauveine, the first aniline dye, was a forerunner for the development of hundreds of synthetic ...
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  • of self-preservation... (Periodical Letter II 1856) Warren's observations on the reasons for the community's failure led to the development ...
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  • revolt (1862-1877) and the Panthay rebellion 1856-1873) in Yunnan. The Manchu government suppressed these little-known revolts in a manner that amounts ...
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  • countries, rises from time to time. In 1856-1857 the region successfully established a military coalition to repel an invasion by U.S. adventurer ...
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  • * Charles Waring Darwin (December 6, 1856 – June 28, 1858). ... In the spring of 1856, Lyell read a paper on the Introduction of species ...
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  • Potlatch to Pulpit in 1933 by William Henry Pierce (1856-1948). He was a member of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia and the first Tsimshian missionary ...
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  • refrigeration in the United States by 1856. [[Image:SS Dunedin by Frederick Tudgay.JPG|thumb|left|[[Dunedin (ship)|Dunedin]], the first commercially ...
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  • mixture were experimentally confirmed by Maxwell in 1856. Young's theory of color sensations, like so much else that this marvelous investigator ...
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  • [[Image:Louis Haghe The New Ballroom 1856.jpg|thumb|400px|The State Ballroom, pictured in 1856, is the largest room at Buckingham Palace. It ...
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  • City) fell pregnant, and on April 27, 1856, she gave birth to Zaichun ... On April 27, 1856, Yehenara gave birth to a son, the only son of Xianfeng ...
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  • as a significant change; they preferred the 1856 constitution, the Hatt-ı Hümayun and 1839 Hatt-ı Şerif of Gülhane, but questioned whether ...
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  • 300px|Portrait of Pisemsky by Sergei Levitsky, 1856.]] In the early ... In 1856 Pisemsky, along with several other writers, was commissioned ...
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  • * The Gurney Stove, another invention which he patented in 1856, was extensively used to heat a wide variety of buildings. The stove's most ...
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  • dated 394-366 B.C.E., before excavation in 1852-1856 Image:Sulm valley tumulus.jpg|Hallstatt-era tumulus in the Sulm valley necropolis ...
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  • monopoly in the Faroe Islands was abolished in 1856. The national awakening since 1888 was first based on a struggle for the Faroese language ...
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  • century the city was bombarded by the British. In 1856 the ramparts were pulled down allowing for growth and expansion. With the completion of the transnational ...
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  • " In Journal of Economic Literature no. 4. (1856-90). *__________. 2005. Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek. ...
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  • At the end of the Crimean War, in 1856, by the Treaty of Paris, two districts of southern Bessarabia were returned to Moldavia, and The Russian ...
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  • of American Literature. C. Scribner, 1856. * Samons, Loren J., II and Charles W. Fornara. Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles. Berkeley: University ...
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  • The name "New Granada" was used until 1856, when it became the Grenadine Confederation. After a two-year civil war, in 1863, the United ...
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  • The first bridge across the Mississippi River was built in 1856. It spanned the river between Arsenal Island at Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport ...
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  • The first Waldensian settlers from Italy arrived in South America in 1856 and today the Waldensian Church of the Río de La Plata (which forms ...
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  • In 1856, Chinese soldiers boarded The Arrow, a Chinese-owned ship registered in Hong Kong that was flying the British flag and was suspected ...
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  • him came many Arabs who invigorated the economy. In 1856, the sultanate of Zanzibar was separated from the sultanate of Oman; the island of Pemba as well ...
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  • Cours familier de littérature] (1856) ==Notes== ==References== * Behdad, Ali. Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the age of colonial dissolution ...
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  • as his business logo. Kafka's mother, Julie (1856—1934), was the daughter of Jakob Löwy, a prosperous brewer in Poděbrady, and was better educated ...
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  • between 1842 and 1856. The couple's last four children, two daughters and two sons, were born in Seneca Falls. Stanton asserted that her ...
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  • ther/james6.htm Chambers, Robert. (1856). Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. "James VI." London: Blackie and Son.] ...
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  • a sport as French pioneers began competing. In 1856, Dr. William George Beers, a Canadian dentist, founded Montreal Lacrosse Club and in 1867 he codified ...
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  • #039;s daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia in 1856 and is still popular today. However, Bernard Shaw condemned his music for its association with ...
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  • with the court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, 1847-1856. There are three types of thumri: Punjabi, Lucknavi and poorab ang thumri. The lyrics are typically ...
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  • Neanderthal fossils were discovered in 1856, but at the time it was not clear that they represented a different species from modern humans. ...
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  • Girl.jpg|thumb|152px|The Blind Girl, oil painting (1856) by John Everett Millais. The rainbow – one of the beauties of nature that the blind girl cannot ...
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  • * 1856- 1857, Perry published three volume set: Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan * 1858 (March ...
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  • issue at sea. After limes were substituted in 1856, British sailors began to be known as “limeys.” [[Image:GyorgyiNIH.jpg|thumb|150px|left ...
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  • Another American staying in England, John Singer Sargeant, 1856-1925, known primarily as a portraitist, was also an excellent realist, landscape ...
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  • under the leadership of editor Isaac Hill. In 1856 the new Republican Party headed by Amos Tuck produced a political revolution. The first public ...
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  • Valentino was born to Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin (1856 - 1919), who was French, and Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fidele Guglielmi (1853-1906 ...
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  • were born in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland, in 1856. John A. Feeney's grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of a local ...
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  • German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz (in 1856) and Canadian astronomer Simon Newcomb (in 1892) contributed their own calculations of 22 and ...
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  • they were willing to recognize. Between 1848 and 1856 they took over six states, causing considerable unrest. In March 1854, the British awarded the ...
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  • After an 1856 exploration, mountain man James Bridger reported observing boiling springs, spouting water, and a mountain of glass and yellow ...
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  • school, he began to compose anthems and songs. In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn Prize and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Leipzig ...
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  • of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1846—1856. In extreme cases this event can cause the white dwarf to exceed the Chandrasekhar limit and trigger ...
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  • island pursuant to its own Guano Islands Act of 1856. Haiti's lowest elevation is at sea level; its highest point is Pic la Selle at 2,680 ...
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  • European situation after the Peace Treaty of 1856 and an 1858 essay on the Bible. In 1859, he published his own translation of the Septuagint, under the ...
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  • The U.S. had passed legislation in 1856, enabling its citizens to take possession of unoccupied islands containing guano. Spain had seized Peruvian ...
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  • Life (10 vols., Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1850-1856 * Butterfield, L. H. et al., eds., The Adams Papers Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press ...
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  • Wynehamer v. New York, 13 N.Y. 378, 418 (N.Y. 1856) However, the rationale of Wynehamer was subsequently rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
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  • Eliza Farnham's 1856 account of the Donner Party was based largely on an interview with Margaret Breen. Her version details the ordeals ...
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  • from an uncle of Jenny, and her mother, who died in 1856, permitted the Marx family to move to healthier lodgings in Kentish Town, a new, London suburb ...
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  • edition of The World as Will and Representation (1856), Schopenhauer adds an appendix to his chapter on the "Metaphysics of Sexual Love." Since ...
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  • popular in their day and were read extensively. In 1856, his popularity allowed him to buy Gad's Hill Place. This large house in Higham, Kent was ...
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  • finally fell during a great storm on August 21, 1856.]] Neither the establishment of the Connecticut Colony nor the Quinnipiack Colony were done ...
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  • autonomy, discussed in Turkey after the Crimean war (1856). ===Medicine=== Armenian medical institutions and physicians are mentioned in the Armenian ...
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  • Before the Coming of the Muslims. (original 1856, London, 1956) ACLS History E-Book Project, 1999. ISBN 1597400084 * Goldman, Robert P. The Ramayana ...
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  • now exists, but a revised version from circa 1856 is held in the library of Shrewsbury School. Cambridge rules clearly favored the "kicking ...
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  • years later by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In 1856, as part of the Tanzimat reforms, all Ottoman subjects became equal under the law. ...
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  • probably the device by Heinrich Geissler who in 1856 obtained a bluish glow from a gas that was sealed in a tube and excited with an induction coil. ...
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  • weakened bakufu. In the Ansei Reform (1854–1856), Abe tried to strengthen the regime by ordering Dutch warships and armaments from the Netherlands and ...
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  • a doctor was able to revive her. On February 24, 1856, the divorce appeal went to court, with Ellet and Stephens providing lengthy testimony against Griswold ...
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  • and it signed the Declaration of Paris in April, 1856). Before the war, the United States had successfully pressed claims for damages in British courts ...
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  • in an Egypto-Doric style utilizing Brownstone (in 1856 the first wing was completed, in 1903 the second wing, 1911 the Neo-Gothic towers in rear garden ...
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  • Another prominent author of this time period is Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), who in many ways represented opposite views from Du Bois ...
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  • Joseph Heco, (Narrative Writer) and James Murdoch (born 1856, Editor), The Narrative of a Japanese: What He Has Seen and the People He Has Met ...
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  • During the Second Opium War (known in the West as the Arrow War, 1856-1860), the Government of Qing Dynasty was compelled to sign Treaties of ...
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  • nature, and his eccentric traits. In 1856, a group of alumni attempted to have Jackson removed from his position. www.vmi.edu, [http://www.vmi ...
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  • was by French psychiatrist Louis Delasiauve in 1856, and by the 1860s it was appearing in medical dictionaries to refer to a physiological and metaphorical ...
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  • * The psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is an important reference for much of deconstruction: The Postcard (La Carte Postale de Socrate ...
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  • Events such as the Second Opium War (1856-1860) and the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) had caused disruption of agriculture and economic activities ...
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  • #039;s largest present-day cities: Sioux Falls in 1856 and Yankton in 1859. In 1861, Dakota Territory was recognized by the United States government ...
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  • Fillmore (the territorial capital between 1850 and 1856), Nephi, Levan, Spanish Fork, Springville, Provo Bench (renamed Orem), and many others. Young ...
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  • George Eliot wrote in her essay in 1856: The greatest benefits we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our ...
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  • 1852, following unrest in Montreal and later 1856-1858 after which Quebec became capital until just a year prior to Confederation. Since Confederation ...
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  • name New Granada was adopted, which it kept until 1856 when it became the Grenadine Confederation. After a two-year civil war, in 1863, the United States ...
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  • | align="left"| 1856 || align="right" | 56,875 |- | align="left"| 1872 || align="right" | 56,753 ...
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  • was known as the Watermelon War of 1856, where U.S. soldiers mistreated locals, causing large-scale race riots that U.S. Marines eventually put down. ...
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  • and King's College London, graduating in 1856. He applied for a military commission in the Gordon Highlanders, but, with the unexpected end ...
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  • founded as the Maryland Agricultural College in 1856 and became a public land grant college in 1864. The majority of public universities in the state ...
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  • pioneers set up Saint Paul's first synagogue in 1856. Minnesota is home to more than 30 mosques, mostly in the Twin Cities metro area. The Temple ...
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  • governor, John W. Geary, arrived in 1856 and was able to re-establish order, sporadic skirmishes continued till the end of the Civil War. Prominent ...
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  • On February 18, 1856, another edict was issued called Hatt-i Humayan, which built upon the 1839 edict. It came about partly as a result of pressure ...
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  • a more liberal constitution, which replaced in 1856. In 1866 the German Confederation was dissolved, and Luxembourg became a sovereign nation, though ...
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  • , Muslim Rebellion (1862-1877), Panthay Rebellion (1856-1873) and the Miao Rebellion (1854-1873). Robert Darrah Jenks, Insurgency and Social Disorder ...
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  • Russians were occupied with the Crimean War (1854-1856). But the Russians used larger forces in their later campaigns, Shamil was captured in 1859, and ...
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  • Isma'il Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, in 1854-1856, to build the Suez Canal. During the decade of work, over 1.5 million Egyptians were forced to ...
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  • was one Édouard Bernhardt. On May 21, 1856, when she was baptized, she ... her first communion as a Roman Catholic in 1856, and thereafter she was fervently ...
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  • ** (1856) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) ** (1871) Siegfried (previously entitled Jung-Siegfried or Young Siegfried, and Der junge Siegfried or The ...
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  • Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence") was the political and social movement that unified different states ...
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  • Lesson of their Lives. London: W. and F. G. Cash, 1856. 2192179 *Cosslett, Tess. "Fabulous Histories and Papillonades." Talking Animals ...
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  • poet of the German language, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a Jew and, "his ghostly presence, right at the centre of German literature, drove the ...
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  • On March 4, 1856, Nicholas sold his Iowa farm and returned to Monmouth, Illinois, but was unable to find work as a cooper or farmer, the work ...
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  • nominee for the new Republican Party, in 1856. ==History== ... in the recession-free period of 1841–1856 primarily to "a boom ...
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  • century, in the work of William Hamilton (1788-1856) (Danziger 1997). ==Early Psychological Thought== Many cultures throughout history have speculated ...
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  • country. Walker appointed himself as president in 1856. Fearing the possibility of his plans for expansion, several Central American countries united ...
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  • man" (the eponymous skeleton was found in 1856, but there had been finds elsewhere since 1830). However, fossils of Neanderthal's were ...
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  • a dish of the poor or rural; in the December 21, 1856 edition of San Francisco's newspaper The Golden Era, raccoon is among the specialties advertised ...
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  • in 1829 and ultimately became the Bank of Spain in 1856. Pablo Martín-Aceña, [https://www.bde.es/f/webbde/SES/Secciones/Publicaciones/PublicacionesSe ...
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  • Russian alliance during the Crimean War (1854-1856). In 1862, part of the Greek army revolted. He was eventually dethroned in 1863 and replaced by Prince ...
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  • Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh (1856), competed with prose novels. Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986), composed of 590 Onegin stanzas ...
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  • Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge, Hiroshige, 1856]] Woodblock prints: The school of art best known in the West is that of the ukiyo-e ("floating ...
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  • On June 22, the aged Marshal Philippe Pétain (1856-1951) surrendered to Germany. About two-thirds of French territory was occupied by German forces ...
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  • unpopular throughout her reign. In 1856, she attempted to form a pan-national coalition, the Union Liberal, under the leadership of Leopoldo ...
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  • until the outbreak of the Crimean War (1853-1856) in which Britain and France ... (electromagnetism), J. J. Thomson (1856–1940) (electron), Ernest ...
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  • DCCXVI to MLVII. |author=George Finlay |year=1856 |access-date=14 August 2011 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026 ...
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