Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1846 - Events. January 5 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom February 5 - The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States. February 10 - Many Mormons begin their migration west ...

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1800 - Ongoing events. French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of slavery into federal territories, and his victory in the 1860 presidential election further polarized an already divided nation. Before his inauguration in March of 1861, seven southern slave st ...

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Celje (German Cilli, Hungarian Cille) (46.24° North, 15.27° East (WG), 241 m, mean height above sea level (MSL) 304 m) is the third largest city in Slovenia. It is a regional center of the Southwestern Lower Styria (Jugozahodna Spodnja Štajerska) and the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name. It is located under the Upper Celje Castle (407 m) at the confluence of the rivers Savinja (also in some older English texts Sann), Ložnica and Voglajna (with its tributary Hudinja) in the lowest part of the Savinja valley. ...

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• Celje - Mayor or City Executive
• Celje - Communications
• Celje - Miscellaneous
• Celje - Funny things about Celje
• Celje - Famous Celje citizens or people born in Celje

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1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1931 - Events. January 4 - Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia January 25 - Mohandas Gandhi released again January 27 - Pierre Laval forms a government in France February 3 - Napier earthquake - mu ...

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• 1931 - Month/day unknown
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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1899 - Events. January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. ...

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• 1899 - Deaths

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1800 - Events. March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope as Pius VII. March 21 - Pius VII is ordained. April 24 - U.S. Library of Congress founded. May 5 - Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January ...

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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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• 1920 - April
• 1920 - May
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• 1920 - August-December
• 1920 - Date unknown
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• 1920 - Nobel Prizes

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1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1923 - Events. January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments 1923 - February. February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the ...

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• 1923 - Unknown dates
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• 1923 - January
• 1923 - February
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• 1923 - July
• 1923 - August
• 1923 - September
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• 1923 - December
• 1923 - Deaths
• 1923 - January
• 1923 - February
• 1923 - March
• 1923 - April
• 1923 - June
• 1923 - August
• 1923 - October
• 1923 - December
• 1923 - Nobel Prizes

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1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) 1916 - Events. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'. January 5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli January 13/14 - ...

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Batavia is a city located in Genesee County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 16,256. The name Batavia is the Latin name for part of the Netherlands. The city is situated within the Town of Batavia. Its UN/LOCODE is USBIA. The City of Batavia is located near the middle of Genesse County and in the western part of the Town of Batavia. The New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) passes north of the city. The town hosts ...

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Bahá'u'lláh's family covers Bahá'u'lláh's family, in particular his three wives and his children. Bahá'u'lláh (بهاءالله "The Glory of God" in Arabic) was the founder and prophet of the Bahá'í Faith. He was born to a Persian nobleman in 1817 and went out to be a leader in the Bábí movement, and then established the Bahá'í Faith in 1863. Bahá'u'lláh's family - Titles of descendents. One of Bahá'u'lláh's titles is "Sadratu'l-Muntahá", which translates from Arabic as the tree beyond ...

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• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Gawhar Khanum
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Controversy and Confusion
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Facts
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Range of different possibilities
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Possible rebuttals

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BT Group plc (formerly known as British Telecommunications) which trades as BT (and previously as British Telecom) is the privatised former UK state telecommunications operator . It is still the dominant fixed line telecommunications provider in the United Kingdom. BT Group plc - Businesses. BT owns and runs the telephone exchanges, trunk network and local loop connections for the vast majority of British fixed-line telephones. Currently BT is responsible for approximately 25 million te ...

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• BT Group plc - BT as it is today
• BT Group plc - Financial performance
• BT Group plc - Market Position & Power
• BT Group plc - Future
• BT Group plc - BT's Web patent

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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth Century. He was also an important critic, and translator. Charles Baudelaire - Life and work. Baude ...

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Benguet is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is La Trinidad and borders, clockwise from the south, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya. Baguio City, a popular tourist destination in the country, is in the interior of the province, however, the city is independent of the province. Benguet - People and culture. Benguet - Demographics. Based on the May 2000 census, ...

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• Benguet - Economy
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Benjamin McCulloch (November 11, 1811–March 7, 1862) was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, U.S. marshal, and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Benjamin McCulloch - Early life. He was born 11 November 1811 in Rutherford County, Tennessee, one of twelve children and the fourth son of Alexander McCulloch and Frances Fisher LeNoir. His father, a Yale University graduate, was an officer on Brig. Gen. John Coffee's staff during the Creek War of ...

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Benjamin Robert Haydon (January 26, 1786 - June 22, 1846) was an English historical painter and writer. He was born at Plymouth. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Cobley, rector of Dodbrook, Devon. Her brother, General Sir Thomas Cobley, was renowned for his part in the siege of Ismail. Benjamin's father, a prosperous printer, stationer and publisher, was well known in Plymouth. Haydon, an only son, at an early date showed an aptitude for study, which was carefully fostered by his mother. At the age of six he was ...

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Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan and Bangladesh. Immigrants from Assam have carried the language with them to other parts of the world. The eastern most of Indo-European languages, it is spoken by over 20 million people. As ...

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• Assamese language - Middle Assamese 17th to 19th Century AD
• Assamese language - Modern Assamese

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The one-humped dromedary Australian (non-native) camels were imported to provide transport through inland Australia and they have since made it their domain. While they do not appear to be as destructive as other introduced herbivores, their increasing numbers may affect native vegetation, and they are also minor agricultural pests. Many different types and breeds of camels were brought into Australia, but most were from India. They included the large, fleece-bearing, two-humped Bactrian camel of China and Mongolia, the elite Bishari ...

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In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few hundred stars and the most easily visible planets had names. Over the last few hundred years, the number of identified astronomical objects has risen from hundreds to over a billion, and more are discovered every year. Astronomers need to be able to assign systematic designations to unambiguously identify all of these objects, and at the same time give names to the mo ...

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• Astronomical naming conventions - Comets
• Astronomical naming conventions - Designations for extra-solar planets

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