Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1821 - Events. March 25 - The Orthodox Metropolitan Germanos of Patras proclaims national uprising. Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence. June 19 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia). Including:

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1861 - January. January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States January 9 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War. January 10 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the United States January 11 - American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the U ...

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1867 - January—April. January 1 - The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 - Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again January 30 - Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of Japan. January 31 – Maronite national ...

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An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. The accordion is played by compression and expansion of a bellows, which generates air flow across reeds; a keyboard controls which reeds receive air flow and therefore the tones produced. For a full description of the sound-producing mechanism, see Free reed aerophone. Accordion - Physical description. Modern accordions consists of a ...

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• Accordion - Physical description
• Accordion - History
• Accordion - Piano accordions
• Accordion - Button accordions
• Accordion - Stradella bass system
• Accordion - Free bass systems
• Accordion - Audio samples
• Accordion - Related instruments
• Accordion - Other free-reeds

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A Red, Red Rose is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose or Red, Red Rose and is often published as a poem. A Red, Red Rose - The Full Text of My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose. O, my luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June O, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune As fair art thou, my bonie las ...

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• A Red, Red Rose - The Full Text of My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose
• A Red, Red Rose - Origins of the song
• A Red, Red Rose - Musical performances
• A Red, Red Rose - Footnotes
• A Red, Red Rose - Bibliography

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Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of calculus in a rigorous manner and was thus an early pioneer of analysis. He also gave several important theorems in complex analysis and initiated the study of permutation groups. A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. His writings cov ...

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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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• 1894 - Events
• 1894 - Births
• 1894 - April-June
• 1894 - July-September
• 1894 - October-December
• 1894 - Unknown date
• 1894 - Deaths
• 1894 - Marriages
• 1894 - Fictional events of the year

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1896 - Events. January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 - H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited ...

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• 1896 - Events
• 1896 - May - August
• 1896 - September - December
• 1896 - Unknown dates
• 1896 - Births
• 1896 - Deaths
• 1896 - Marriages

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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 - Events
• 1880 - September - December
• 1880 - Unknown date
• 1880 - Births
• 1880 - Unknown Birth Dates
• 1880 - Deaths

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1867 - Events. January 1 - The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world January 8 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 - Benito Juárez becomes ...

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• 1867 - Events
• 1867 - May—August
• 1867 - September—December
• 1867 - Month/day unknown
• 1867 - Births
• 1867 - Deaths

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO 8601 calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention du Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year. 1875 - Events. January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor ...

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• 1875 - Events
• 1875 - May - August
• 1875 - September - December
• 1875 - Unknown date
• 1875 - Births
• 1875 - January
• 1875 - February
• 1875 - March
• 1875 - April
• 1875 - May
• 1875 - June
• 1875 - July
• 1875 - August
• 1875 - September
• 1875 - October
• 1875 - December
• 1875 - Deaths

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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. 1910 - Events. January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution. January 15 - In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in ...

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• 1910 - Events
• 1910 - May-July
• 1910 - August-October
• 1910 - November-December
• 1910 - Unknown dates
• 1910 - Births
• 1910 - January-April
• 1910 - May-August
• 1910 - September-December
• 1910 - Deaths
• 1910 - Nobel Prizes

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1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1861 - Events. January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States January 9 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding t ...

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• 1861 - Events
• 1861 - February
• 1861 - March-April
• 1861 - May-June
• 1861 - July-August
• 1861 - September-October
• 1861 - November
• 1861 - Unknown dates
• 1861 - Births
• 1861 - Deaths

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1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See 1696. 1903 - Events. January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India January 6 - Mileva Maric married Albert Einstein. February 11 - The Oxnard Strike of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. h ...

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• 1903 - Events
• 1903 - Births
• 1903 - January
• 1903 - February
• 1903 - March
• 1903 - April
• 1903 - May
• 1903 - June
• 1903 - July
• 1903 - August
• 1903 - September
• 1903 - October
• 1903 - November
• 1903 - December
• 1903 - Month/Day unknown
• 1903 - Deaths
• 1903 - January-June
• 1903 - July-December
• 1903 - Nobel Prizes

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In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of the Intermediate Area located between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions. This has recently been redefined to include the Isthmo-Colombian area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke Chibchan languages. These groups are also believed to have created the Stone spheres of Costa Rica, between 200 BC and AD 1600. The native people of the Mayans and Aztecs were conquered by Spain in the 16th century. Costa Rica was then the southernmost province in the Spanish territory ...

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Costa Rica, Costa Rica - History of Costa Rica, Costa Rica - Geography, Costa Rica - Politics, Costa Rica - Provinces, Costa Rica - Economy, Costa Rica - Flora and Fauna, Costa Rica - Demographics, Costa Rica - Culture, Costa Rica - Famous Costa Ricans, Costa Rica - Reference

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Yates County is a county located in the state of New York. As of 2000, the population is 24,621. The county seat is Penn Yan. The name is in honor of Joseph C. Yates, who as Governor of New York signed the act establishing the county. Yates County New York - History. When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Yates 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 Vermont and, in theo ...

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• Yates County New York - History
• Yates County New York - Geography
• Yates County New York - Demographics
• Yates County New York - Cities and towns
• Yates County New York - Additional county information

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Xanten is a town in the North Rhine-Westphalia state of Germany, located in the district of Wesel. Xanten - Geography. Xanten is made up of three districts: Hochbruch, Niederbruch and the city centre. More localities, which belong to the city of Xanten, are divided into 6 urban districts: Birten, Lüttingen, Marienbaum, Vynen (with Obermörmter), Wardt (with Mörmter and Willich) and Xanten (with Beek and Ursel). Parts of a protected area called Bislicher Insel belong to the city. The city is limited ...

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• Xanten - Geography
• Xanten - History
• Xanten - Antique
• Xanten - The Middle Ages
• Xanten - Modern times
• Xanten - Bibliography

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Wyoming County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2000, the population is 43,424. The county seat is Warsaw. The name is from a modified Delaware Indian word meaning "broad bottom lands." Wyoming County was formed from Genesee County in 1841. Wyoming County New York - History. When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Wyoming 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 pre ...

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• Wyoming County New York - History
• Wyoming County New York - Points of Interest
• Wyoming County New York - Geography
• Wyoming County New York - Demographics
• Wyoming County New York - Towns and Villages
• Wyoming County New York - Adjacent counties and areas

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Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the trio of Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. Brontë was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving her five daughters and a son to th ...

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Yucatán is the name of one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. The term The Yucatán is also used in Mexico to refer to the three states on the peninsula: Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; all three modern states were formerly part of the larger historic state of Yucatán in the 19th century. This Mexican state borders the states of Campeche to the south west, Quintana Roo to the east and southeast ...

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• Yucatán - History
• Yucatán - Prehistory
• Yucatán - Pre-Columbian era
• Yucatán - Arrival of the Spanish
• Yucatán - Independence and the turbulent 1840s
• Yucatán - Mid 19th century through mid 20th century
• Yucatán - Late 20th century: An end to relative isolation
• Yucatán - Footnotes

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