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Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research.
84 visits
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John Harvey Kellogg
102 visits
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Born in Warren, Mass., July 2, 1759. Died near Belfast, Me., January 20, 1849.
Graduated from Harvard College in 1781, Read was a tutor at Harvard for four years. In 1788 he began experimenting to discover some way of utilizing the steam engine for propelling boats and carriages.
313 visits
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Oliver Evans
Born in 1755 or 1756, in Newport, Del. Died in Philadelphia, April 21, 1819.
Little has been preserved respecting the early history of Oliver Evans, who has been aptly styled “The Watt of America.” His parents were farming people, and he had only an ordinary common-school education. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a wheelwright or wagonmaker, and continued his meager education by studying at night time by the light that he made by burning chips and shavings in the fireplace.
242 visits
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Richard Trevithick
Born in Illogan, in the west of Cornwall, England, April 13, 1771. Died in Dartford, Kent, April 22, 1833.
In 1780 he built a double-acting high-pressure engine with a crank, for Cook’s Kitchen mine. This was known as the Puffer, from the noise that it made, and it soon came into general use in Cornwall and South Wales, a successful rival of the low-pressure steam vacuum engine of Watt.
322 visits
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Thomas Blanchard
Born in Sutton, Mass., June 24, 1788. Died, April 16, 1864.
Blanchard was a prolific inventor, having taken out no less than thirty or forty patents for as many different inventions. He did not reap great benefit from his labors, for many of his inventions scarcely paid the cost of getting them up, while others were appropriated without payment to him, or even giving him credit.
295 visits
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William Murdock
Born in Bellow Mill, near Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, August 21, 1754. Died at Sycamore Hill, November 15, 1839.
When he was twenty-three years of age he entered the employment of the famous engineering firm of Boulton & Watt, at Soho, and there remained throughout his active life.
Watt recognized in him a valuable assistant, and his services were jealously regarded. On his part he devoted himself unreservedly to the interests of his employers.
359 visits
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Carl Benz
Born, November 26, 1844, at Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany.
Died, April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany
In 1880 he began to commercialize a two-cycle stationary engine. In 1883 he organized his business as Benz & Co., and produced his first vehicle in 1884. In the beginning of 1885 his three-wheeled vehicle ran through the streets of Mannheim, Germany, attracting much attention with its noisy exhaust. This was the subject of his patent dated January 29, 1886, claimed by him to be the first German patent on a light oil motor vehicle. This embodied a horizontal flywheel belt transmission through a differential and two chains to the wheels; but it is noteworthy primarily as having embodied a four-cycle, water jacketed, three-quarter horse-power engine, with electric ignition.
218 visits
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Pierre Mille
185 visits
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Queen Victoria
151 visits
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Lyman Trumbull
532 visits
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Alexander H. Stephens
312 visits
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Edwin M. Stanton
559 visits
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Image 8073
294 visits
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Image 7875
199 visits
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Image 7876
134 visits
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John Jay
234 visits
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Image 7873
125 visits
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Image 7872
120 visits
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Image 7870
141 visits
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Image 7871
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Image 7869
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Image 7868
143 visits
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Abraham Lincoln
341 visits
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Image 7865
149 visits
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Image 7866
118 visits
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Ludwig van Beethoven
764 visits
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Image 7518
321 visits
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Image 7519
359 visits
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Image 7517
329 visits
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Image 7516
299 visits
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Image 7515
289 visits
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Image 7514
278 visits
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Image 7125
141 visits
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Edmund John Millington Synge
409 visits
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Image 7010
602 visits
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Bródy Sándor
369 visits
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Abraham Lincoln
1932 visits
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Image 6711
521 visits
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Image 6710
587 visits
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Image 6706
433 visits
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Image 6707
653 visits
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Image 6703
161 visits
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Image 6704
145 visits
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Image 6705
137 visits
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Image 6701
166 visits
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Image 6702
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Image 6699
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Dante
540 visits
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The orations of Cato are unhappily lost. But Cicero, a master of eloquence, and well enabled to compare them with similar compositions, passes upon them the highest eulogiums. The eloquence of Cato has been compared, for its force and energy, to the eloquence of that Demosthenes before whom Philip of Macedon quailed, and whose tremendous orations have given the name of Philippics to all sarcastic and vehement invectives.
354 visits
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Image 6698
127 visits
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Image 6695
144 visits
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Image 6696
128 visits
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Image 6693
137 visits
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Image 6694
145 visits
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J C Coleman
621 visits
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John Montgomery Ward of the New York Base-Ball Club
371 visits
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Tthorwalden's statue of John Gutenberg
442 visits
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Queen Victorias first council - Kensington Palace June 20 1837
The year 1837, except for the death of the old King and the accession of the young Queen, was a tolerably insignificant year. It was on June 20 that the King died. He was buried on the evening of July 9 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor; on the 10th the Queen dissolved Parliament; on the 13th she went to Buckingham Palace; and on November 9 she visited the City, where they gave her a magnificent banquet, served in Guildhall at half past five, the Lord Mayor and City magnates humbly taking their modest meal at a lower table.
918 visits
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
582 visits
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Billy the Kid
443 visits
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William Ewart Gladstone
453 visits
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Simon Bolivar
507 visits
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Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet
656 visits
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Robert Herrick
464 visits
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Otto von Bismarck
617 visits
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Nicola the magician
572 visits
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Marshall Jofre
596 visits
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Marshall Foch
473 visits
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Lorado Taft
453 visits
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Lafayette
511 visits
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Josef Lhevinne
468 visits
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John Masefield
478 visits
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Jack Dempsey
493 visits
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Howard Thurston
412 visits
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Howard Thurston - Magician
403 visits
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Giovanni Martinelli
469 visits
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Georges Clemenceau
462 visits
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Garet Garrett
466 visits
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Frederick the Great
452 visits