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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1893 - Events. January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting. January 17 - Intervention by the ...

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Image:Front-4.jpg Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are today the three most famous contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Clark Ashton Smith - Biography. Cl ...

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• Clark Ashton Smith - Weird Fiction: 1926-1935
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Selected plays Twenty Five (1903) Spreading the News (1904) Kincora: A Play in Three Acts (1905) The White Cockade: A Comedy in Three Acts (1905) Hyacinth Halvey (1906) The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1906) The Canavans (1906) The Rising of the Moon (1907) Dervorgilla (1907) The Workhouse Ward (1908) The Rogueries of Scapin (1908) The Miser ( ...

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Augusta, Lady Gregory, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Early life and marriage, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Early writings, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Cultural nationalism, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Founding of the Abbey, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Later career, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Retirement and death, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Works, Augusta, Lady Gregory - Online texts

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April 12 - 599 BC to 1899. 599 BC - Mahavira, Indian founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC) 812 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Arabian Shia Imam (d. 835) 1484 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546) 1500 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574) 1526 - Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585) 1550 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604) 1577 - King Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648) 1713 - Guillaume Thomas ...

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During his return from a ministerial tour of the western and southwestern United States, the already ill Pastor Russell died from the result of multiple ailments on the night of October 31, 1916 in a train car as it approached Pampa, Texas. His death was a major front-page headline in many newspapers across the globe. He was buried in Rosemont United Cemetery, Pittsburgh. The gravesite is marked by both a headstone, and an eight-foot tall pyramid memorial gifted f ...

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Bassoon - Early history. The bassoon was developed from its precursor, most often referred to as the dulcian, a wooden instrument all in one piece. Used and developed greatly in the 16th century to add a stronger bass to the wind band then consisting largely of shawms and recorders, the dulcian's origins are unknown. Scattered evidence exists for its creation at various places and times, and few early examples survive. There were eventually eight members of the dulcian family of ...

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When the Lê emperor Lê Long Đĩnh died in his twenties, a court general named Lý Công Uẩn took the chance to take over the throne and founded the Lý dynasty. This event is regarded as the beginning of a golden era in Vietnamese history, with great dynasties following one another. Lý Công Uẩn (commonly called Lý Thái Tổ - Lý the Founding Emperor) changed the country's name to Đại Việt, established the capital in present-day Hanoi and called it Thăng Long (Ascending Dragon) under the pretext of seeing a dragon when he wa ...

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History of Vietnam, History of Vietnam - Origins, History of Vietnam - Early Independence, History of Vietnam - Dynastic Period, History of Vietnam - The Changing Names, History of Vietnam - Colonization, History of Vietnam - Post World War II Period, History of Vietnam - Aftermath of the Vietnam War and Reunification, History of Vietnam - Cambodia and the Sino-Vietnamese War, History of Vietnam - 1980s, History of Vietnam - Reforms

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On January 22, 1901, Queen Victoria died, and the Duchess of York's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as King Edward VII. For the rest of that year, May was styled Duchess of Cornwall and York, until November 9, 1901, when George was created Prince of Wales, and she was then styled Princess of Wales. King Edward VII wished his son to be more prepared for the role of King, given Queen Victoria's exclusion of Edward from state affairs. However, the Prince of Wales was not of the highest intellect, and May was required to help him read ...

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1893 - Exact month/day of event unknown. New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote. American Council on Alcohol Problems established. Global financial panic (Panic of 1893) Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law France conquers Vietnam. General strike in Belgium American Temperance University opened. Milbank Penitentiary in Britain demolished US President Cleveland operated on in secret The Weng ...

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