Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1881 - Events. 1881 - January - April. January 16-January 24 - Siege of Geok Tepe - Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 24 - William Edward Forster, the chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill - it goes through a long debate before it is ...

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1881 in South Africa - January. 28 January - The Battle of Laing's Nek during the first Boer War 1881 in South Africa - February. 27 February - Battle of Majuba Hill during the first Boer War 1881 in South Africa - March. 21 March - Peace is declared and Britain recognizes the South African Republic 26 March - Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge i ...

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Applesauce (or apple sauce) is made from stewed and mashed apples, sweetened to taste with sugar or high fructose corn syrup. It can use peeled or unpeeled apples and a variety of spices or additives like cinnamon. Applesauce can be fine or coarse textured, even to including large chunks of apple. It is easily produced at home, and commercial versions are readily available in the supermarket as a common food or as a snack for children. Unsweetened applesauce is a good food for babies ...

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The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. Its rail network stretches from Vancouver to Montreal, and also serves major cities in the United States such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Its headquarters are in Calgary, Alberta. The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885, fulfilling a pr ...

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Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (*January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; † November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German Biologist. Ernst Mayr ranks him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann advocated the germ plasm theory, stating that a multicellular organism consists of germ cells that pass on hereditary information, and somatic cells that perform body functions. The germ cells are not affected by anything the body learns or any ability it acquires duri ...

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The Welsh rugby union team, as the highest level of Welsh rugby union, represent Wales at the national sport of rugby union. Wales compete annually in the Six Nations Championship (which they have won 23 times outright and are the 2005 champions) and in the World Cup every four years (best result so far: 3rd in 1987), which they also hosted in 1999. They also form a quarter of the British and Irish Lions. Historically, Wales have been known as one of the best rugby union teams, with the key players of their 1970s teams i ...

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A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. Portraits are often simple head shots or mug shots and are not usually overly elaborate. The intent is to show the basic appearance of the person, and occasionally some artistic insight into his or her personality. The art of the portrait flourished in Roman sculptures, where sitters demanded realistic portraits, even unflattering ones. During the 4th century, the portrait began to retreat in favor of an idealized symbol of what th ...

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Benjamin Tucker (April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was the leading proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century. Benjamin Tucker - Summary. Benjamin Ricketson Tucker's contribution to American individualist anarchism was as much through his publishing as his own writing. In editing and publishing the anarchist periodical Liberty, Tucker both filtered and integrated the theories of such European thinkers as Herbert Spencer and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon with the thinking of Ame ...

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Cincinnati Art Museum - History. The Cincinnati Art Museum was founded in 1881 and opened in 1886. The museum is located in the Mt. Adams area of Cincinnati. ...

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Clinton Joseph Davisson (22 October 1881–1 February 1958), was an American physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 with George Paget Thomson for the discovery of electron diffraction. His son was US physicist Richard Davisson. ...

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An army unit consisting of mounted soldiers is commonly known as cavalry. Cavalry fight from the backs of their mounts, which most often are horses or camels. Infantry travelling by horse and fighting on foot are instead known as mounted infantry or dragoons. Historically cavalry improved mobility, an "instrument which multiplied the fighting value of even the smallest forces, allowing them to outflank and avoid, to surprise and overpower, to retreat and escape according to the requirements of the moment." In some modern milita ...

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Clareson Nott Potter (1825 - 1882), was a American civil engineer, then (1848-1868) a practising lawyer in New York City, and in 1869-1875 and in 1877-1881 a Democratic member of the National House of Representatives. See also. List of former members of the U.S. House of Representatives ...

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Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (Анна Павловна Павлова) (January 31, 1881 (Old Style)/February 12, 1881 (New Style) - January 23, 1931) was a famous ballet dancer of the early 20th century. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia to a poor peasant family, she trained at the Imperial Ballet School until she graduated at age 18. Pavlova then danced with the Mariinsky Theatre. In the first years of the Ballets Russes she worked briefly for Serge Diaghilev before founding her own company and performing throughout the world. ...

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1881 in rail transport - July births. July 8 - Mantis James Van Sweringen, American financier who, with his brother Oris, controlled the Nickel Plate Road and other eastern railroads (d. 1935). 1881 in rail transport - October births. October 30 - Charles E. Johnston, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928-1938 (d. 1951). 1881 in rail transport - Unknown date births. Martin W. Clement, president of the Pe ...

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Léon Charles Albert Calmette (July 12, 1863 – October 29, 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenin for snake venom, the Calmette's serum. Calmette was born in Nice, France. He wanted to serve in the Navy and be a physician, so in 1881 he joined the School of Naval Physicians at Brest in 1881 ...

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Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Rodgers for John Rodgers (1772-1838), his son, John Rodgers (1812-1882) and his great grandson, John Rodgers (1881-1926). The first Rodgers was a steam whaler launched in 1879 as Mary and Helen. She was purchased by the Navy in 1881 and was lost in an accidental fire later that same year. The second Rodgers (TB-4) was commissioned in 1898 and decommissioned in 1919. The third Rodgers (DD-254) was a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1919 and transferred to the Royal ...

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1881 in rail transport - January events. January 17 - Regular train service over the Prince of Wales Bridge on the Québec, Montréal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway begins.[1] 1881 in rail transport - February events. February 3 - The Seney Syndicate met at Seney's New York bank and organized the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company (which would later become the Nickel Plate Road). February 17 - The first train operates between Norwood, Ohio, and Lebanon, ...

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England played Ireland for the first time. Their 13-0 victory is still the team's largest ever win. * England score given first Key H = Home match A = Away match F = Friendly ...

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