Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1855 - Events. January 1 - London, Ontario is incorporated as a city. January 23 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. January 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the s ...

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1855 in rail transport - October births. October 24 - Richard Deeley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 (d. 1944). 1855 in rail transport - November births. November 5 - Eugene V. Debs, labor leader, founding member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, founder of the American Railway Union, arrested during the Pull ...

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On the night of May 15, 1855, three London firms sent a box of gold bars and coins each from London Bridge station for Paris via the South Eastern Railway. The gold bars alone were worth £12.000. The boxes were placed in traveling safes with double locks and were guarded all through the journey over the English Channel. When the boxes were weighted in Boulogne, one weighed 40 lbs (23 kg) less than it should have but they were transferred to a train on its way to Paris. When the Paris officials opened them, they noticed that t ...

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In August 1855 Edward Agar, professional criminal and associate of crooked barrister James Townsend Saward, was arrested for false cheque; in fact, he had been set up by a rival. Agar was sentenced for penal transportation to Australia for life and meanwhile sent to Pentonville prison. From prison Agar wrote to Fanny Kay, mother of his illegitimate child, and mentioned that William Pierce, former railway employee, had supposed to pay her £7000. Pierce, in fact, had left her no money. Kay grew suspicious and the summer of 1856 visited the governor of Newgate prison. Governor contacted Mr Rees, the ...

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Fanny Kay was taken to lodge in the house of police inspector Thorton for safekeeping. Further investigation corroborated Agar's story. Rees recovered gold worth £2000. Some railway employees Agar had dealt with recognized him. William Pierce and James Burgess were arrested in London in November 1856. William Tester, who had left to work as a general manager for Swedish Railways, was arrested when he visited relatives in England. The trial in the Old Bailey began January 10, 1857. The main witnesses were Agar and Kay. On Janua ...

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For the 1855 Exposition Universelle de Paris, Emperor Napoleon III requested a classification system for France's best Bordeaux wines which were to be on display for visitors from around the world. Brokers from the wine industry ranked the wines according to a château's reputation and trading price, which at that time was directly related to quality. The result was the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. The wines were ranked in importance from first to fifth growths (crus). All of the red wines that made it on the ...

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Agar had met Pierce years earlier when Pierce had worked as a ticket printer and discussed the possible theft of gold shipments between London and Paris. When Agar had returned to England after a brief stay in USA, Pierce had described his plan and his associates, train car guard James Burgess and station master William Tester. Agar and Pierce spent two weeks in Folkestone watching the train traffic and aroused suspicions of the South Eastern Railway Police. When Agar stayed to try to befriend a man who was responsible for the keys of the traveling safes, railway police ...

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA: [ˈsœːɔn ˈkʰiɔ̯g̊əˌg̊ɔːˀ]), May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855), a 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian, is generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. Philosophically, he bridged the gap that existed between Hegelian philosophy and what was to become Existentialism. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelian philosophy of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of h ...

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Søren Kierkegaard - Indirect communication and pseudonymous authorship Søren Kierkegaard - The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard on Schelling Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard on Schopenhauer Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard on Hegel Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard and Christendom Søren Kierkegaard - Kierkegaard in contemporary ethical theory Søren Kierkegaard - Important elements of Kierkegaard's philosophy
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Tsar Alexander II, who succeeded Nicholas I in 1855, was a conservative who saw no alternative but to implement change. Alexander initiated substantial reforms in education, the government, the judiciary, and the military. In 1861 he proclaimed the emancipation of about 20 million privately held serfs. Local commissions, which were dominated by landlords, effected emancipation by giving land and limited freedom to the serfs. The former serfs usually remained in the village commune, but they were required to make redemption payments to the government over a period of almost fifty years. Th ...

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The Babri Mosque (also Babri Masjid بابری مسجد) was a mosque constructed by order of the first Mugal emperor of India, Babur, in Ayodhya in the 16th century. Before the 1940s, the Mosque was called Masjid-i Janmasthan ("mosque of the birthplace"). The mosque stood on the Ramkot ("Rama's fort") hill (also called Janamsthan ("birthplace"). It was destroyed in a r ...

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Babri Mosque - Babur Babri Mosque - The Ayodhya Debate

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Wine fraud has probably existed since the earliest trading and commerce in wine, but it appears to increase when there is widespread prosperity and the prices of some wines become very high. However, wine fraud can involve less expensive wines if they are sold in large volumes. One form of fraud involves affixing counterfeit labels of expensive wines to bottles of less expensive wine. For example, counterfeit bottles of world famous 1982 Chateau Lafite were widely sold in China in 2002. In Hong Kong, authorities discovered a fraud ...

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Sir Charles James Napier (August 10, 1782 – August 29, 1853) was a British general and Commander-in-Chief in India. The city of Napier, New Zealand, is named after him. He is famous for conquering Sindh province now in present-day Pakistan. A quote for which Napier is famous involves a delegation of Hindu locals approaching him and complaining about prohibition of Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities. This was the custom of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Th ...

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Adolf Eugen Fick (1829 – 1901) was a German physiologist and inventor. He is best known for his 1887 invention of the contact lens. In 1855 he introduced Fick's law of diffusion, which governs the diffusion of a gas across a fluid membrane. In 1870 he was the first to devise a technique for measuring cardiac output, called the Fick Principle. Fick managed to double-publish his law of diffusion, as it applied equally to physiology and physics. Other related archives1829, 1855, 1870, 1

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A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam through whistles, originally locomotive whistles. Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts invented the calliope, patented October 9, 1855. The calliope is also known as a "steam organ" or "steam piano." It was often played on riverboats and in circuses, where it was sometimes mounted on a carved, painted and gilded hor ...

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Alfred Watkins (1855–April 15, 1935) is noted as being a scholar of ley lines. Watkins was born in Hereford to a family which had moved to the town in 1820 to establish a milling and brewing business. Watkins travelled across Herefordshire as an outrider representing the family business. He was also a respected photographer making some cameras himself and manufacturing the Watkins exposure meter ...

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CSS Virginia was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War (built using the remains of the scuttled USS Merrimack). She was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads in March, 1862 opposite the USS Monitor. The battle is chiefly significant in naval history as the first battle between two powered ironclad wa ...

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Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825–30 June 1917) was a Parsi intellectual and educator, and an early Indian political leader. He was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP. The son of Maneckbai and Naoroji Palanji Dordi, a poor Athornan Parsi family, Naoroji was educated at Elphinstone College and later became a teacher. By 1855 he was Professor of Mathematics and Natural philosophy. He moved to England in 1855, first working in business, later becom ...

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Abithana Chitamani is an encyclopedia on Tamil Literature written by A. Singaravelu Mudaliar (1855-1931). It is said that this is the first encyclopedia on Tamil Literature. The first edition, which contains a recommendation dated 1899 by V. Kanakasabai Pillai, appeared in 1910 and contained 1050 pages. The second edition, containing 1634 pages, appeared posthumously in 1934, with a ...

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Wallis can stand for: German name for the Valais canton of Switzerland Wallis Island, an island in the French territory Wallis and Futuna Samuel Wallis (1720 – 1795), an English navigator, who Wallis Island is named after John Wallis (1616 - 1703), an English mathematician Henry Wallis (1830 - 1916), an English painter Alfred Wallis (1855 - 1942), an English artist Barnes Wallis (1887 - 1979), an British scientist

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