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Lakota - Dakota - Sioux Nation
In North America the territory of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nation covers some 200,000 km2 in the present day state of South Dakota and neighboring states. The Lakota... |
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Goodyear, Vulcanization Rubber - 1839
Charles Goodyear was the inventor of vulcanization, a process that makes rubber harder, less soluble, and more durable. It is at the heart of rubber compounding, which pl... |
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Millard Fillmore, 13th US President
Born into desperate poverty at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Millard Fillmore, 13th US President (1850-1853), climbed to the highest office in the land -- and inher... |
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The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) began in 1990 as an effort by researchers from around the world to map and sequence the human genome - the totality of human DNA - as well... |
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Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini, Vincenzo, Italian opera composer. He acquired his musical training from his grandfather and father, and began composing religious and secular music in his childh... |
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Brigham Young, American Moses
Brigham Young was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death. Young was... |
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Jan van Speyk, Dutch Hero
Jan Carolus Josephus van Speijk, also written Van Speyk, was a Dutch naval lieutenant who became a hero to the Dutch people for his efforts in suppressing the Belgian Rev... |
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Alexandre Dumas, French Writer
Alexandre Dumas was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. Dumas is best known for historical adventure novels like The Three Musketeers and The Count... |
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Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of the most important of French Romantic writers. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831... |
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Short History of Freemasonry in South Australia & Northern Territory
Narrative history of the development of Freemasonry in South Australia and Northern Territory and of the Grand Lodge... |
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Christian Doppler, Physicist
Austrian physicist who first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This phenome... |
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Robert Stephenson, Engineer
Robert Stephenson is chiefly remembered for his role in the birth of the railways. His refinements to the steam engine made steam locomotion a viable form of transport, w... |
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Hector Berlioz, Composer
As a boy he learnt the flute, guitar and, from treatises alone, harmony (he never studied the piano); his first compositions were romances and small chamber pieces. After... |
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Emerson, Founder Transcendentalism
Philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was founder of transcendentalism, Emerson believed in the power of intuition over scientific reason and in the strength of nature... |
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Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail
In May, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory. On March 6, 1801, Lewis, as a young Army Captain in Pitt... |
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