Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1839 - Events. January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for ...

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1839 in rail transport - June births. June 24 - Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Company which pioneered the use of refrigerator cars in late 19th century America (d. 1903) 1839 in rail transport - December births. December 8 - Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1899–1906 (d. 1906). ...

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Boxing, nicknamed the "sweet science" and also called pugilism or prizefighting, is a sport where two participants of similar weight attack each other with their fists in a series of two to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Amateur and Professional divisions, the combatants (called boxers or fighters) avoid their opponent's punches whilst trying to land punches of their own. Points are awarded for clean, solid blows to the legal area on the front of the opponent's body above the waistline, with hits to the ...

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• Boxing - Medical concerns
• Boxing - Impact of boxing on the English language
• Boxing - Boxing in popular culture
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A map is a simplified depiction of a space, a navigational aid which highlights relations between objects within that space. Most usually a map is a two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representation of a three-dimensional space. The science and art of map-making is cartography. Map - Introduction. Map-making dates back to the Stone Age and appears to predate written language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps is painted on a wall of the Catal Huyuk settlement in south-central ...

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The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. It was integral to the Second Party System and operated from 1832 to 1856 and was formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party he had founded. In particular, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Executive Branch and favored a program of modernization and economic development. Their name was chosen to echo the British Whig Party, who had opposed a strong monarchy, just as the American ...

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• Whig Party United States - Death throes 1852–56
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The Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Britain in 1823. Its official name was the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. This campaign came to fruition with the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. In 1839, a new Anti-Slavery Society, called the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was founded. The aim was to campaign against slavery world-wide. ...

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List of cities and towns in Finland - Towns founded. Alajärvi (1986) Alavus (Alavo in Swedish) (1977) Anjalankoski (1977) Espoo (Esbo in Swedish) (1972) Forssa (1964) Haapajärvi (Aspsjö In Swedish) (1977) Haapavesi Hamina (Fredrikshamn in Swedish) (1653) Hanko (Hangö in Swedish) (1874) Harjavalta (1977) Heinola (1839) Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish) (1550) Huittinen (Vittis in Swedish) (1977)Including:

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Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the style of a French chateau between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898). The Baron, a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty, chose as his architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur. Today Waddesdon is owned by the National Trust, but in recent years, following an extensive restoration, it been administered by a Rothschild family tr ...

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Aaron Bancroft (10 November 1755 - 19 August 1839) was an American clergyman. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts. He began his studies during the American Revolution, and served as a minuteman, and was present, at the battles of both Lexington and Bunker Hill. He graduated from Harvard in 1778 and subsequently taught, studied theology and spent three years as a missionary in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1785 he settled in Worcester as pastor of the Congregational Church, and remained in the same post until his death. During the ...

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Abd-ul-Mejid (also with various alternate spellings, including Abd ül-Mecid and Abdülmecit; in Arabic عبد المجيد الأول ) (April 23, 1823 – June 25, 1861) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on July 2, 1839. His reign was notable for being enervated by internal nationalism and the incursions of European powers. When Abd-ul-Mejid succeeded to the throne, the affairs of the Ottoman Empire were in an extremely critical state. At the very time his father died, the n ...

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The temple of Ħaġar Qim [1], excavated for the first time in 1839, dates from the Tarxien phase (c.3200-2500 BC). It stands on a hilltop on the southern edge of the island of Malta overlooking the sea and the islet of Filfla and lies some 2km south-west of the village of Qrendi. Adjacent to Ħaġar Qim, further towards the cliff face, lies another remarkable temple site, Mnajdra. The surrounding area, which is typical of Mediterranean garrigue and spectacular in its stark ...

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The University of Missouri System is one of two public state university systems in the state of Missouri. There are four campuses in the system: University of Missouri - Columbia University of Missouri - Kansas City University of Missouri - Rolla University of Missouri - St. Louis Degrees from all four campuses are conferred through the University of Missouri. University of Missouri - History. The University of Missouri was founded in 1839 in Col ...

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Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (1832 - after 1888) is most well known as the Union soldier who shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was born in England in 1832. Along with his family, he moved to New York City in 1839. He eventually became a hatter in Troy, New York. There has been speculation that the use of mercury as part of the hatter's trade was a cause of Corbett's later mental problems. Corbett married, but his wife died in childbirth. Following her death, he moved to Boston and continued working ...

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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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Anti-Slavery International is a charity and lobby group, based in the United Kingdom. It was founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839. It was established to campaign against the modern practice of slavery. It is the UK affiliate of Free the Slaves and works entirely combating Slavery and related abuse. The organisation lobbies governments of countries with slavery to act against it. The organisation lobbies governments and international agencies to increase the priority of combating ...

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇　芳年) was the last great master - and one of the great innovative and creative geniuses - of the Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e. holding back the night with its increasing brilliance the summer moon -- Yoshitoshi's death poem His career spanned two eras - the last years of the old feudal Japan, and the first years of the new modern Japan. Like many Japanese, while in ...

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Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French painter who represents the bridge from impressionism to cubism. Considered the father of modern art, Paul Cézanne's work shows his need for formal design, geometrical composition and balance. His work often tied the foreground and background together to create patterns. By using colored planes and geometric patterns, Cézanne ...

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William Wilson is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839. It is one of the most famous of doppelgänger tales. It tells of a man 'William Wilson' who is schoolmate to a boy with the same name and birthday. The protagonist becomes alarmed as the second 'Wilson' gradually imitates him and eventually starts foiling his every chance of success. The climax of the story takes part in Rome, where the protagonist takes it upon himself to duel with 'Wilson'. This results in the death of the imitator, who ...

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Dr. William Price (1800 – 23 January 1893) of Pontypridd, South Wales, was a physician and a famous eccentric, best known for introducing cremation to the United Kingdom. He was a prominent Welsh Chartist and was forced to flee to Paris, France, after his part in the Newport Rising of 1839. He was an equally prominent Druid and exponent of 19th-century Druidic traditions, appointing himself as archdruid. As a child, Price caused consternation by walking the hills naked. In later life, his list of eccentric behaviours i ...

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