Washington County is a county located in the state of New York. As of 2000, the population is 61,042. It was named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President of the United States) George Washington. The county seat is Hudson Falls.
Washington County New York - History.
When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Washington County was part of Albany County. This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of V ...
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Wiehl is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis which lies in about 41 km to the east of Cologne by air. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof, Waldbröl, Nümbrecht, Much, Engelskirchen and Gummersbach border on the town.
Wiehl - Geography.
Between the highway and Wiehl lies the biggest Weihl industrial area, covering about 81 ha: Wiehl-Bomig. The river of the same name, Wiehl, flows by the town in an east-west direction.
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Wilhelm Müller (October 7, 1794 - September 30, 1827), German lyric poet, was born at Dessau, the son of a shoemaker.
He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the university of Berlin, where he devoted himself to philological and historical studies. In 1813-1814 he took part, as a volunteer, in the national rising against Napoleon. In 1817 he visited Italy, and in ...
William Charles Wells (1757 — 1817), a physician and printer, was the second son of Robert and Mary Wells.
Wells was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was sent to school in Dumfries, Scotland at the age of eleven. After he completed his preparatory school studies he attended the University of Edinburgh.
Wells returned to Charleston in 1771 become a medical apprentice under Dr. Alexander Garden, a naturalist, physician, who himself was a pupil of Charles Alston, Director of the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. Betw ...
Sir William Congreve (May 20, 1772-May 16, 1828), was an English inventor and rocket pioneer.
William Congreve inventor - Biography.
Born and raised in Kent, William Congreve was educated in law at Trinity College, Cambridge.
After the use of gunpowder rockets by Indians against British troops during the later Mysore Wars against Tipu Sultan, he was inspired to work on similar devices for use by the British military. By 1805 he considered his work sufficiently advanced to engage in two Royal ...
William Franklin (1731 – 1813) was the last Royal Governor of New Jersey, and remained loyal to Britain through the Revolutionary War. He was born in Philadelphia, the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin. His mother's identity is unknown: he was raised by his father and Deborah Read. He accompanied his father on several missions, including his trips to England.
William joined the Pennsylvania Company and fought in Albany in the French and Indian War eventually obtaining the rank of Captain. [1] [2]. He completed his educati ...
William Buckland (12 March 1784 - 24 August 1856) was a prominent English geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz.
William Buckland - Early life and university.
Buckland was born at Axminster in Devon, and as a child would accompany his father, the Rector of Templeton and Trusham, on his walks where interest in road improvements led to colle ...
There have been several people known as William Bentinck, including:
Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839), Governor General of India from 1827-1835.
Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709)
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762)
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1768-1854)
William Bentinck (1704-1774), a fellow of the Royal Society
William Bentinck (1764-1813), a fellow of the Royal Society
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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt (June 22, 1767 - April 8, 1835), government functionary, foreign diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität in Berlin, friend of Goethe and especially of Schiller, is especially remembered as a German linguist who introduced a knowledge of the Basque language to European intellectuals. His younger brother Alexand ...
William Benjamin Carpenter (October 29, 1813 - November 10, 1885) was an English physiologist and naturalist.
He was born at Exeter, the eldest son of Dr Lant Carpenter. He attended medical classes at University College London, and then went to the University of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.D. in 1839. The subject of his graduation thesis, "The Physiological Inferences to be Deduced from the Structure of the Nervous System of Invertebrated Animals," indicates a line of research which had fruition in his Principle ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was a U.S. entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. In later life he was known as Commodore Vanderbilt.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York to a family of modest means. His great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson, was a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, the Netherlands, who immigrated to New York as an indenture ...
The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Maria Theresa of Austria succeeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Habsburg dominions in 1740, namely becoming Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, and Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla. For a woman to inherit such vast territories involved many complications, which were perceived long before, and Emperor Charles VI had long anticipated them, getting all the other powers to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. The plan was for her to succeed ...
Das Lied der Deutschen ("The Song of the Germans", also known as Das Deutschlandlied, "The Song of Germany") has been used, wholly or partially, as the national anthem of Germany since 1922. The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797, and as such was the anthem of Austria until 1918. The lyrics were written by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841 on the island of Heligoland, a then British island in the No ...
The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the main governing body of Freemasonry within England, and certain jurisdictions overseas (normally ex-British Empire and Commonwealth countries). It is the oldest Grand Lodge in the world. Together with the Grand Lodge of Ireland and the Grand Lodge of Scotland they are often referred to as “the home Grand Lodges”. Unlike in many other jurisdictions around the world, the governing body of the Royal Arch is also The UGLE although t ...
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Admiral David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813 – February 13, 1891) was a United States naval officer who became one of the most noted naval heroes of the Civil War. He was the son of Commodore David Porter, USN (1780–1843), a hero of the War of 1812, and was the brother-in-law of Carlile Pollock Patterson.
Porter was one of the first U.S. Navy officers to bear the rank of admiral; prior to the Civil War, no officer had held a rank higher than commodore, as admiral was considered to have royalist connotations.
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David Stone (17 February 1770 -- 7 October 1818) was the Democratic-Republican governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1808 to 1810. Both before and after his term as governor, he served as a U.S. senator, between 1801 and 1807 and between 1813 and 1814.
Stone was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, the son of a farmer. He attended Windsor Academy and later the College of New Je ...
Tver (Russian: Тверь) is a city in Russia, an administrative center of Tver Oblast. Formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and the model provinical town of Imperial Russia, it has a population of 453,000 (as of 2003). Tver is located at 56°52′N 35°55′E, at the confluence of Volga and Tvertsa rivers. The city was known as Kalinin (Калинин) from 1931 to 1990.
Tver - Medieval origins.
The first written record of Tver is dated 1164. Origin ...
David Crockett (David de Crocketagne August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) 19th-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy Crockett. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. Congress, served in the Texas rebellion, and died at the Alamo.
Davy Crockett - Early life.
Crockett was born in Greene County, Tennessee, descended mostly from Ulster-Scots. He was the fifth of nine children of John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett. David was named after his paternal grandfather.
Crockett stood ab ...
The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg.
It was merged in 1817 from the University of Halle (founded 1694) and the University of Wittenberg (founded 1502, closed in 1813 by Napoleon).
It is named after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, and is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt with approximately 19,000 students.
The University became a centre of the Reformation under the influence of Philipp Melanchthon an ...
The Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south.
Uzbekistan - History.
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Vampire fiction covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.
The best known work in this genre is of course Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. It was not, however, the first. Myths and legends of blood-imbibing creatures capable of transmogrification predate the novel form. The immediate antecedent of Dracula is Sheridan le Fanu's classic of the genre, Carmilla. This in turn owes more than a little to John William Polidori's The Vampyre; this work was cont ...
