Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1803 - Events. January 4 - William Symington demostrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat". January 30 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase. February 21 - Edward Despard and six others are ...

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1873 - January-March. January 2 - Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1897) January 7 - Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976) January 10 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958) January 12 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940) January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) January 28 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954) February 2 - Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961) ...

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1873 - January - April. January 71 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California March 1 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start prod ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1882 - Events. January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust. February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing champi ...

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1 Ceres ([ˈsi.riz], Latin Cerēs) was the first asteroid to be discovered. It was discovered on January 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi. With a diameter of about 950 km it is by far the largest and most massive asteroid in the asteroid belt: It is over half as massive as the rest of the belt put together. 1 Ceres - Name. Ceres was originally named Ceres Ferdinandea after both the mythological figure Ceres (Roman goddess of plants and motherly ...

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1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1953 - Events. January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 12 - Estonian emigres find a government in exile in Oslo January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) ...

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The Canton of Zürich (German: Kanton Zürich) has a population of about 1.2 million. The canton is located in the northeast of Switzerland and the city of Zürich is its capital. The official language is German, but people speak the local Swiss German dialect called Züritüütsch (in German). In English the name of the canton is often written without umlauts: Canton of Zurich. Canton of Zürich - Geography. The canton of Zürich is situated north of the Alps. Its neighbo ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). 1873 - Events. January 71 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Re ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1853 - Events. January 6 - American President-Elect Franklin Pierce, wife Jane, and son Ben are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survive but eleven-year-old Ben is killed. January 19 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome January 2 ...

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Cape Hatteras is a cape on the coast of North Carolina. It is the point that protrudes the furthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the Atlantic coast of North America, making it a key point for navigation along the eastern seaboard. So many ships have been lost around it that the area is known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic". The nearby shoals are known as Diamond Shoals. The cape is actually a bend in Hatteras Island, one of the long thin barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. The fi ...

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1 Dutch was the sole official language until 1806, when the British officially replaced Dutch with English. Dutch was reincluded as a second official language in 1882. The Cape Colony was a part of South Africa under British rule during the 19th century. It stretched from the Atlantic Ocean eastwards: the final eastern boundary, after several wars against the Xhosa, stood at the Fish River. In the north, the Orange River, also known as the Gariep River, served for a long time as the boundary, although ...

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Zug (-German; French: Zoug; Italian: Zugo) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. It is located in central Switzerland and its capital is Zug. The canton of Zug is one of the smallest cantons, both in size and population, its total area is only 239 km². Canton of Zug - Geography. The canton of Zug is located in central Switzerland. The canton of Lucerne and Canton of Aargau lie to its west. To the north, the canton is bond by the Canton of Zurich, whereas to the west an ...

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Chaim Volozhin (or Chaim Volozhiner or Chaim of Volozhin) (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as Reb Chaim Volozhiner, or simply Reb Chaim, he was born in Vałožyn, near Vilnia, Lithuania and died there. One of the most prominent disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Reb Chaim Volozhiner established the Volozhin yeshiva. It was in operation for nearly 100 years (1803-1892), becoming the "mother of all Lithuanian-style yeshivas". He continued to teach the Vilna G ...

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Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (May 24, 1803 – July 29, 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew of Emperor Napoleon. Bonaparte was raised in Italy and, after his marriage to his cousin Zenaida on June 29, 1822 in Brussels, travelled to the United States. Before leaving Italy he had already discovered a warbler new to science, the Moustached Warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel. On arrival in the United States he presented a paper ...

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Zwickau is a city of Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony (Sachsen), situated in a valley at the foot of the Erzgebirge, on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, 130 km (82 miles) southwest of Dresden, south of Leipzig and south west of Chemnitz. (Population: slightly above 100,000). It is accessed by nearest autobahnen, the A72 and A4 along with a train station. Zwickau - Boundaries. Zwickau is bounded by Mülsen, Reinsdorf, Wilkau-Haßlau, Hirschfeld (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Kirchberg), Lichtentanne, ...

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Cerium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ce and atomic number 58. Cerium - Notable characteristics. Cerium is a silvery metallic element, belonging to the lanthanide group. It is used in some rare-earth alloys. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air. Only europium is more reactive than cerium among rare earth elements. Alkali solutions and dilute and concentrated acids attack the metal rapidly. ...

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Daniel D[ecius?] Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States. He was born in Fox Meadows (later Scarsdale), Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City, in 1795. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1797, practicing in New York City;. Tompkins was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1801, a member of the state Assembly in 1803, and was elected to ...

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Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted felon as a punishment for a crime (often called a capital offence or a capital crime). Historically the judicial execution of criminals and political opponents was a phenomenon of nearly all societies and it was often used as a means to suppress political enemies. It was also seen as the ultimate deterrent to crime. The majority of democratic countries in Europe and Latin America have abolished capital punishment over the la ...

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Boudh is a district of Orissa, India. The early history of Boudh is still in obscurity. However, the discovery of remarkable Buddhist statues from Boudh led some scholars to believe that Boudh was an important Buddhist centre of Orissa. From the epigraphic records it is known that in the middle of Eighth Century A.D., Boudh region was under the occupation of the Bhanja rulers and was a part of Khinjali Mandala. The earliest known ruler of this Bhanja family was Nettabhanja who was ruling over the Dhenkanal region ...

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