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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 repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery ...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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