Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1814 - Events. January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania, as part of the Treaty of Kiel January 29 - French army of Emperor Napoleon I wins the Battle of Brienne January 31 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. February - Congress ...

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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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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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Ain is a département named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France bordering Switzerland. Ain - History. The département was one of the 83 départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from four former provinces: Bresse, Bugey, Dombres, and Gex, and part of a fifth: Franc-Lyonnais. The area was originally part of the ancient kingdom of Burgundy, before it was ceded to France by the dukes of Savoy in 1601. From 1798 to 1814, ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1894 - Events. January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois causes a good deal of damage. January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington ...

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1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. 1900 - Events. January 2 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 - Chicago Canal opens. January 5 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. January 6 - It is reported that millions are starving in India. January 6 - Boers attack Ladysmith - over 1000 people were killed. January 8 - United States President William McKinley ...

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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 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1854 - Events. January 4 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. January 13 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. January 21 - Loss of the Tayleur - 380 drowned, later dubbed "the first Titanic" February 11 - Major stree ...

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Put simply, causal determinism expresses the belief that every effect has a cause, and therefore science, pursued diligently enough, will explain all natural phenomena and thus produce a TOE (Theory of Everything). This idea goes hand in hand with materialism. Scientists and skeptics may implicitly favour causal determinism because it does not allow for any supernatural explanations of reality. As Pierre-Simon Laplace noted around 1814, such a theory would also grant a sufficiently powerful being the ability to determine ...

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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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Of Corsican origin, the Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) family is the family of Napoleon I, who was elected as first consul of France on November 10, 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud. Napoleon I was crowned Emperor of France 1804-1814, 1815; the Bonaparte family also provided kings of Spain, Naples, Holland and Westphalia, and a second French Emperor, Napoleon III. Supporters of the Bonaparte family's claim to the throne of France are known as ...

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Cattaraugus County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2000, the population was 83,955. The county name comes from a Seneca Indian word meaning "bad smelling banks," referring to the odor of natural gas which leaked from seams in rock formations. The county seat is Little Valley. Cattaraugus County New York - History. When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Cattaraugus County was part of Albany County. This was an enormous county, including the northern par ...

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The Chagos Archipelago is a group of six atolls with more than 600 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, that lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and 1600 km (1000 miles) southwest of India, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. Comprising the British Indian Ocean Territory, only Diego Garcia remains in British Juridiction as a 2004 treaty transferred the other atolls to Mauritius. Chagos Archipelago - Geography. The entire land area of the islands is a me ...

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The Charles River is a small, relatively short Massachusetts (USA) river that separates Boston from Cambridge and Charlestown. It is fed by some 80 brooks and streams, and several major aquifers, as it flows snakelike for 80 miles, starting at Echo Lake in Hopkinton, through 58 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, before emptying into Boston Harbor. Its watershed contains 33 lakes and ponds, mostly manmade. Despite the river's length, and relatively large drainage area (308 squar ...

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Charles XIII (Swe: Karl XIII) (October 7, 1748 – 1818), was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway (where he was known as Charles II) from 1814 until his death. He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great. Charles XIII of Sweden - Life and politics. In 1772 he co-operated in the revolutionary plans of his brother Gustav III of Sweden. On the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distincti ...

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Charles X, King of France and of Navarre (October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles. He was the grandson of Louis XV and his Polish queen, Marie Leszczynska, and youngest son of Louis, dauphin de France, who never reigned, and his German wife Marie-Josèphe of Saxony. He was crowned King of France in 1824 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until the French Revolution of 1830 when he abdicated rather than become a constitutional monarch. He was the ...

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Youth Day is a holiday dedicated to the youths of a country. Youth Day - Angola. On the 14 April Angola celebrates Youth Day. Youth Day - China. Youth Day (青年节) in the People's Republic of China is on May 4. It commemorates the beginning of the May Fourth Movement in 1919. This day is known as Literary Day (文藝節) in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Youth Day (青年節) in the Republic of China is on March 29. Youth Day - Moro ...

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838) was a French diplomat. He worked successfully from the regime of Louis XVI, through the revolution and then under Napoleon I, Louis XVIII and Louis-Philippe. Known since the turn of the 19th century simply by the name Talleyrand, he is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and influential diplomats in European history, although he was known to accept bribes from other European powers, especially while serving under Napoleon. Charles M ...

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Charles Mackay (1814‑1889) was a British poet and journalist, son of a naval officer, born at Perth, and educated at the Royal Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent much of his early life in France. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in journalism, published Songs and Poems (1834), wrote a History of London, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and a romance, Longbeard. His fame, however, chiefly rests upon his songs, some of which, including Cheer, Boys, Cheer

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Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times other forms of media, such as gramophone records, CDs and video tapes, have also been ceremoniously burned or shredded. The practice, often carried out publicly, is usually motivated by moral, political or religious objections to the material. "Burning books and killing scholars" in 212 BC is count ...

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