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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
John Harvey Kellogg 102 visits
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pierre Mille 185 visits
Queen Victoria 151 visits
Lyman Trumbull 532 visits
Alexander H. Stephens 312 visits
Edwin M. Stanton 559 visits
Image 8073 294 visits
Image 7875 199 visits
Image 7876 134 visits
John Jay 234 visits
Image 7873 125 visits
Image 7872 120 visits
Image 7870 141 visits
Image 7871 143 visits
Image 7869 111 visits
Image 7868 143 visits
Abraham Lincoln 341 visits
Image 7865 149 visits
Image 7866 118 visits
Ludwig van Beethoven 764 visits
Image 7518 321 visits
Image 7519 359 visits
Image 7517 329 visits
Image 7516 299 visits
Image 7515 289 visits
Image 7514 278 visits
Image 7125 141 visits
Edmund John Millington Synge 409 visits
Image 7010 602 visits
Bródy Sándor 369 visits
Abraham Lincoln 1932 visits
Image 6711 521 visits
Image 6710 587 visits
Image 6706 433 visits
Image 6707 653 visits
Image 6703 161 visits
Image 6704 145 visits
Image 6705 137 visits
Image 6701 166 visits
Image 6702 116 visits
Image 6699 132 visits
Dante 540 visits
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
Image 6698 127 visits
Image 6695 144 visits
Image 6696 128 visits
Image 6693 137 visits
Image 6694 145 visits
J C Coleman 621 visits
John Montgomery Ward of the New York Base-Ball Club 371 visits
Tthorwalden's statue of John Gutenberg 442 visits
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
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 582 visits
Billy the Kid 443 visits
William Ewart Gladstone 453 visits
Simon Bolivar 507 visits
Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet 656 visits
Robert Herrick 464 visits
Otto von Bismarck 617 visits
Nicola the magician 572 visits
Marshall Jofre 596 visits
Marshall Foch 473 visits
Lorado Taft 453 visits
Lafayette 511 visits
Josef Lhevinne 468 visits
John Masefield 478 visits
Jack Dempsey 493 visits
Howard Thurston 412 visits
Howard Thurston - Magician 403 visits
Giovanni Martinelli 469 visits
Georges Clemenceau 462 visits
Garet Garrett 466 visits
Frederick the Great 452 visits

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