Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1829 - Events. January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres March 4 - USA: Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United States of America. March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Gr ...

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1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1906 - Events. January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20. January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale). February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party. March 10 - Explosion in coalmine in Courrières, Fra ...

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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1907 - Events. January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. January 23 - Charles Curtis fr ...

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1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1909 - Events. January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. February 23 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the ...

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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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1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...

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Catholic Emancipation was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws. Requirements to abjure the spiritual authority of the Pope and transubstantiation placed major burdens on Roman Catholics, though some received p ...

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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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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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Burnham-on-Sea is a town in Somerset, England, at the mouth of the River Parrett and Bridgwater Bay. It suffered a major flood in 1607, and remained a small village until the late eighteenth century. It forms part of the parish of Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge. According to the 2001 census the total population for the whole built-up area was 21,476, up 9.6% from the 1991 figure of 19,558. The town is notable for its collection of lighthouses, including the Round Tower lighthouse of 1829, the Pillar Lighthouse and the Lighthouse on legs. Burnham is now a popular seaside ...

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The London Bus is one of London's principal icons, with the archetypal red, rear entrance, double deck, Routemaster bus being recognised world-wide. Buses in London - History. Buses in London - Organisation. Buses have been used on the streets of London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating his horse drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the city. The London General Omnibus Company or LGOC was founded in 1855 to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn om ...

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• Buses in London - Airport buses
• Buses in London - Terrorist incidents

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- at 2002 - Density  inh/km² Brăila (pronunciation in Romanian: /brə'i.la/) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Brăila County, in the close vecinity of Galaţi. Brăila currently has a population of 216,929. Brăila - History. A settlement at this location on the left bank of the Danube (in Wallachia) appears with the name Drinago in a circa 1350 Spa ...

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Bohol is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. Its capital is Tagbilaran City. To the west of Bohol is Cebu, to the northeast is the island of Leyte and to the south, across the Bohol Sea is Mindanao. Bohol is a popular tourist destination with its beaches and resorts. The Chocolate Hills, numerous mounds of limestone formations, is the most popular attraction. The island of Panglao, located just south of Tagbilaran City, is home to some of the finest beaches in the country. The Philippine Tarsier, considered by some to be the sm ...

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• Bohol - Early history
• Bohol - Spanish Colonial Period
• Bohol - U.S. Intervention and Occupation
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The House of Bernadotte, the current Royal House of the Kingdom of Sweden, has reigned since 1818. Between 1818 and 1905 it was also the Royal House of Norway. Following the Finnish War in 1809 Sweden suffered the traumatic loss of Finland, which had constituted the eastern half of the Swedish realm. The agony and resentment towards King Gustav IV Adolf precipitated a coup d'état and Gustav Adolf's uncle, the childless Charles XIII replaced him. This was merely a temporary solution and in 1810 the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates chose the Marshal of France, Jean-Baptiste B ...

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Benjamin Lundy (January 4, 1789 - August 22, 1839) was a Quaker abolitionist who started and worked on many anti-slavery newspapers. He traveled widely seeking to limit the expansion of slavery, and in seeking to establish a colony to which freed slaves might be located, outside of the United States. He was born in Sussex County, New Jersey. When he turned nineteen, he moved to Wheeling, Virginia, and spent the first eighteen months working as a saddlemaker's apprentice. After his apprenticeship, he married. Four years later, h ...

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Male ranges Sopranist Alto Tenor Baritenor Baritone Bass-baritone Bass A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. Therefore, their voices never deepen. This practice began in the 16th century. Due to Catholicism's traditional ban on females singing in church, castrati were employed as chu ...

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The Zoological Society of London (sometimes known by the abbreviation ZSL) is a learned society founded in April 1826 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors and other eminent naturalists. Raffles was also the first President, but died shortly after assuming this office in July 1826. He was succeeded by the Marquess of Lansdowne, who obtained a parcel of land in Regent's Park from the Crown at a nominal rent, and who supervised the building of the first animal h ...

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Booth may mean various open types of cabins and similar light constructions, often temporary or inside a building: Telephone booth (or the movie Phone Booth) Polling booth, see polling station Photo booth Ticket booth (see also box office) Toll booth, see toll road Booth in a restaurant Booth in a trade fair Spanking booth, kissing booth - attractions in a carnival, a fair, etc. See spanking Isolation booth on a TV show Suicide booth, a fictional machine in the animated series Futurama Agony booth, a fictional de ...

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Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. The ensuing period is called the Restauration, following French usage, and is characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church as a power in French politics. Bourbon Dynasty Restored - Louis XVIII 1814-1824. Louis XVIII's restoration to the throne in 1814 was effected largely through the support of Napoleon's former foreign min ...

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• Bourbon Dynasty Restored - Louis-Phillipe and the House of Orleans
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A castaway is a person that is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island either to evade their captors or the world in general. Alternatively a person or item can be cast away, meaning rejected or discarded. The provisions and resources available to castaways allow them to live on the island until other people arrive to take them off the island. However, such rescue missions may never happen if the person is not known to still be ...

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• Castaway - Philip Ashton
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