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- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
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- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
- hired as full professor at the University of Ghent, then in 1867 was called to Bonn, where he remained for the rest of his career. ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- Count Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium to a wealthy ... his law studies at the University of Ghent in 1885, he spent a few months ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, born in Ghent and raised in the Netherlands ... ===Pacification of Ghent=== Being unable to deal with the rebellion ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- advantages for the peace negotiations in Ghent. Governor-General Sir George ... back to the United States by the Treaty of Ghent. The British did not leave ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Euklid2.jpg|thumb|300px|Euclid as depicted by Justus van Ghent, c. fifteenth-century]] Pre-Socratic philosophers, the first philosophers ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- [[Image:Signing of Treaty of Ghent (1812).jpg|thumb|250px|Signing ... *Treaty of Ghent (1814) ended the War of 1812. *Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- He was born in either 1457 or 1458, the only son of Ghent city trumpeter Willem Obrecht and Lijsbette Gheeraerts. His mother died in 1460 at ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- there he went to visiting positions in Oxford and Ghent Universities. In 1940, he received an invitation to help establish an Institute for Advanced ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- *Bidez, J. Vie de Porphyre. Ghent, 1913. *Ebbesen, S. “Porphyry's legacy to logic”. In R. Sorabji, Aristotle Transformed—The Ancient ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- Kekulé who had meanwhile become professor at Ghent. A study of uric acid, which also led him to the discovery of barbituric acid, provided the thesis ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- it did contribute to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent later that year. ==Notes== ==References== * Pack, A. James. The Man Who Burned The White ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- and Boethius from the Consolation (Ghent, 1485)]] === Consolation of Philosophy === Boethius’ final work, Consolation of Philosophy, was written ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- Indies but intensively cultivated in and near Ghent since 1860. ==Notes== ==References== *Goedleven, Edgard. The Grand Place in Brussels: centre ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- where President Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812. The house also served as the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- *John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-99), was born in Ghent then called "Gaunt," who supported his weak nephew Richard II until ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- was defended by theologians such as Henry of Ghent, was criticized by Duns Scotus. Duns Scotus denounced Henry’s theory as leading to skepticism ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Ancient Indian Mathematics by Western Historians, Ghent University, Belgium.] Retrieved May 5, 2008. ==Diophantine analysis== Today, Diophantine ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- **"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" **"The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- When the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the War of 1812, a significant portion of the Maliseet/Passamaquoddy territory was ceded from British ...16 KB (2,389 words) - 06:38, 5 November 2022
- The altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb, Ghent The Cathedral of Ghent contains this sublime masterpiece of the altarpiece ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- genome. In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- of Quebec, established by Treaty of Ghent after the War of 1812. In 1843, Thompson completed his atlas of the region from Hudson Bay to the Pacific ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- of the U.S. commission for the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and minister to the Court of St. James (United Kingdom of Great Britain) from 1815 until 1817. ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 03:49, 3 May 2024
- in the Jay Treaty of 1794 and the Treaty of Ghent of 1814. Rickard founded the Indian Defense League of America, which sponsors the Celebration ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 00:36, 3 May 2023
- to the Bourbons, following them into exile to Ghent during the Hundred Days, and became Peer of France (1815). However, his criticism of King Louis ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- [[Image:Euklid2.jpg|thumb|Euclid as depicted by Justus van Ghent, c. fifteenth-century; no likeness or description of Euclid's physical ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Walter Fiers and his team at the University of Ghent determined the complete nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage MS2-RNA (Fiers et al. 1976). ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- that discussed secession. In 1814, the Treaty of Ghent ended the war. The treaty nullified any territorial gains on either side, returning the countries ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- fifteenth and sixteenth centuries), Ypres, Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, and Antwerp ... the eighteenth century. Mechanization made Ghent (cotton mills) and Verviers ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- 516,090 in Brussels, 445,582 in Venice, 436,450 in Ghent and 237,731 in Paris. Το Αγιον Ορος (The Holy Mountain), (Athens, 1903; reprinted ...22 KB (3,738 words) - 18:26, 2 May 2023
- before=Robert of Ghent title=Lord Chancellor | years=1155–1162 after=Geoffrey Ridel before=Theobald of Bec title=Archbishop of Canterbury | ...22 KB (3,489 words) - 20:22, 31 October 2022
- Clay helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent and signed it on December 24, 1814. In 1815, while still in Europe, he helped negotiate a commerce ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Despite this outcome, the Treaty of Ghent forced the British to return the island and surrounding mainland to the U.S. in 1815. The United States ...24 KB (3,463 words) - 22:57, 7 May 2023
- he made excursions to Cologne, Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, and Zeeland. In Brussels he saw "the things which have been sent to the king from the golden ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- returned to Upper Canada until the Treaty of Ghent, which implemented the policy of "Status Quo Ante Bellum" or "Just as Things Were Before ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- health, and the initial loss of Bruges and Ghent to French forces, the Duke ... December 10); he also re-took Bruges and Ghent, but the Duke and Godolphin ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- in the boom economy of the thirteenth century. In Ghent as in Florence the woolen textile industry developed as a congeries of specialized guilds. The ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- stop on the trade route from Bruges (Brugge) and Ghent to Cologne. The village benefited from this favorable position and, as it grew to a population ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
- He even spent a week (January 17-26, 1848) in Ghent to establish a branch of the Democratic Association there. Subsequently, having not heard from ...44 KB (6,124 words) - 22:56, 14 September 2023
- and many placenames (such as Pen-y-Ghent in Yorkshire). The influx of Irish immigrants into English cities such as Manchester (where 35 percent ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- Noli was published in Berlin (1887) and Fili in Ghent (1891) with funds borrowed largely from Rizal's friends. As Blumentritt had warned, these ...46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
- to the appraisal of Gilbert Raes of the Ghent Institute of Textile Technology in Belgium. Flury-Lemberg stated, "The linen cloth of the ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- Louis XIV led his army to besiege and capture Ghent, an action which dissuaded Charles II and his English Parliament from declaring war upon France ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- including the important cities of Ghent and Luxembourg. The war revealed to Europe how vulnerable and backward the Spanish defenses and bureaucracy ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
