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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1815 - Events. January 2 - Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham. January 3 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. January 8 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans February 3 - The first commercial cheese factor ...

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King William I of the Netherlands was born as Willem Frederik on 25 August 1772 in The Hague, and died December 12, 1843 in Berlin, Germany. He was named 'Sovereign Prince' of the Netherlands in 1813, proclaimed himself King in 1815, and abdicated in 1840. William I was also the grand duke of Luxembourg and count of Nassau. William I of the Netherlands - Biography. King William I's parents were the last stadtholder William V of Orange and his wife Wilhelmina of Prussia. Until 1813, William wa ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1880 - Events. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to pra ...

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1880 - May - August. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe. 1880 - September - December. September 5 - First successful test of an electric Tram in the ...

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The New Age movement is hardly novel! Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions, often based on mystical experiences, each within a different context.

Part I of II, written by Michael Rogge

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Father: Samuel Beňovský, from the noble Beňovský family. At the time of Móric's birth, he was an Austrian colonel. Mother: Rozália Beňovský (original name: Révaiová), her father was the Bishop of Spiš, this was her second marriage. Wife: Zuzana Beňovská (original name: Hönschová) (1750-1815), daughter of a butcher. She stayed in Baltimore in 1784 and after Móric's death she and her daughters departed America in 1786 and returned to Beňovský's castle in the Slovak town of Beckovská Vieska, where Countess Beňovská died in 1825 (They definitively did ...

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Charles Babbage was born in England most likely at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London. There is quite a discrepancy over the date of Babbage's birth. It was first published in The Times obituary as December 26, 1792. However, days later a nephew of Babbage wrote to say that Babbage was born precisely one year earlier, in 1791. Later evidence, from St. Mary's Newington, London, proved that Babbage was born on January 6, 1792. The reliabi ...

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Neolithic tools found in the Kathmandu Valley indicate that people have been living in the Himalayan region for at least 9,000 years. It appears that people who were probably of Tibeto-Burman ethnicity lived in Nepal 2,500 years ago. Indo-Iranian / Aryan tribes entered the valley around 1500 BCE. Around 1000 BCE, small kingdoms and confederations of clans arose in the region. One of the princes of the Sakya confederation was Siddharta Gautama (563–483 BCE), who renounced his royalty to lead an ascetic life and came to be known as the Bu ...

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The young Peel entered politics at the young age of 21 as MP for the Irish rotten borough of Cashel City, Tipperary. With a scant twenty-four voters on the rolls, he was elected unopposed. More importantly, his sponsor for the election (besides his father) was Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, with whom Peel's political career would be entwined for the next twenty-five years. His maiden speech in the Commons was a sensation, and famously described by the Speaker of the House of Commons as "th ...

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Thomas Jefferson - Appearance and temperament. Jefferson was six feet, two-and-one-half inches (189 cm) in height, large-boned, slender, erect and sinewy. He had angular features, very poor posture, a very ruddy complexion, strawberry blonde hair and hazel-flecked, grey eyes. In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing. There was grace, nevertheless, in his manners; and his frank and earnest address, his quick sympathy (though he seemed cold to strangers), and his vivacious, desultory, in ...

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Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground some 22 yards long, called the pitch. At each end of the pitch stand a set of wooden poles called a wicket (traditionally made from the wood of the ash tree). A player from one team (the bowler) propels a hard, fist-sized ball from one wicket towards the other. A player from the opposing team (the batsman) attempts to defend the ball ...

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• Cricket - Test cricket
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