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  • Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels ...
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  • Robert Sessions Woodworth (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was ... Robert Sessions Woodworth was born on October 17, 1869, in Belchertown ...
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  • aldehydes with publications in 1864 and 1869, and found himself competing ... E-flat Major, which was first performed in 1869, with Balakirev conducting ...
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  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own ...
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  • Nechayev participated in student activism in 1868-1869, leading a ... In January of 1869, Nechayev spread false rumors of his arrest in ...
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  • philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran in 1869, and houses one of the most ... Founded in 1869 by William Wilson Corcoran, the co-founder of Riggs ...
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  • cabinet post, in 1861 and he served until 1869. For the remainder of Lincoln ... * Alaska. Speech of William H. Seward at Sitka, August 12, 1869 (1869; ...
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  • trip down the Green and Colorado rivers in 1869, which included the first ... around the Green and Colorado rivers. In 1869, he set out to explore Colorado ...
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  • Rebecca Gratz (March 4, 1781 – August 27, 1869) was an American ... Rebecca Gratz died on August 27, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
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  • Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency ...
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  • In 1869, he was appointed director of the Museum in the Essex Institute, a duty he continued until 1873. He also served from 1859 to 1868 as ...
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  • during a three-year period from 1866 to 1869 that traversed the end of ... Ezo, but this came to an early end in May, 1869, with the siege of Hakodate ...
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  • * Portrait of Edma Pontillion, 1869, (Young Woman Seated at a Window ... * Marine, 1869, (The Harbor at Larient), oil. * La Lecture, 1869-70 ...
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  • that ever lived" (Peirce, 1869). A pioneer of nominalism ... from the Harvard University Lectures of 1869–1870. Peirce Edition Project ...
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  • Later, in August 1869, Parisian bicycle mechanic Jules Suriray received ... first bicycle road race, Paris-Rouen, in November 1869. ...
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  • Arts in 1857. He later obtained a degree in law, in 1869. ... His next romance, Mrinalini (1869), marks his first attempt to set ...
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  • McLennan (1869-1870) also wrote on totemism, suggesting that the worship ... J. Ferguson McLennan (Fortnightly Review 1869-70). ... McLennan (1865) ingeniously ...
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  • Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869), born near ... career, until his death on June 18, 1869. There are several stories ...
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  • popular story called Cast up by the Sea. In 1869, he traveled with King Edward ... In 1869, at the request of the khedive Ismail, Baker undertook the ...
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  • Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860 ...
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