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Origin of Species, Darwin
It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and inf... |
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2nd Italian War of Independence
The Second War of Italian Independence, Franco-Austrian War, or Austro-Sardinian War was fought by Napoleon III of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia against the... |
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Billy the Kid, Outlaw
Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murde... |
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Georges Seurat
Seurat's first official exhibition at the Salon in Paris took place in 1883, but the next year his painting "Une Baignade, Asnieres" was refused by the jury. As a result,... |
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Doyle, Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, born in Edinburgh. Educated at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he received a medical degree in 18... |
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Wilhelm II, Last Emperor of Germany
Wilhelm, the son of Emperor Frederick III and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was born in Berlin in 1859. He received a strict military and academic education at th... |
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Max Havelaar, Multatuli
When Max Havelaar was first published in Holland in 1860, it ignited a major political and social brouhaha. The novel, written by a former official of the Dutch East Indi... |
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U.S. Civil War - The History Place
At The History Place, an easy to use Timeline with many photos and interesting quotes... |
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Anton Chekhov, Russian Playwright
Anton Chekhov wrote both plays and short stories. He is generally listed in the first rank of Russian playwrights and in the high second rank (a notch below Pushkin and T... |
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Gustav Mahler
Mahler was a composer of symphonies and lieder cycles. However, during his lifetime, he was known, for the most part, as one of the world's greatest conductors. Mahler... |
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J. M. Barrie, Creator of Peter Pan
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the b... |
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Douglas Hyde, 1st President of Ireland
Douglas Hyde was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most infl... |
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Great Expectations, Dickens
In what may be Dickens’s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman—and one day, under sudd... |
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Italy, United
Italy (Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sar... |
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Civil War Timeline
Timeline of the American Civil War year by year overview of events of the war... |
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