Leading Military and Technological Milestones in History
A compendium of major battles and events from 1805 to 1874 including Austerlitz Trafalgar and Waterloo, Napoleonic era unfoldings, the Indian Mutiny 1867, Italian unification, the American Civil War, Franco-Prussian War, naval and technological advances such as the electric telegraph and the phonograph, and early international peace efforts.
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Austerlitz
Napoleon
Trafalgar
Nelson
Moscow
England
United States
Waterloo
Navarino
Great Britain
France
Sardinia
Russia
Garibaldi
Italy
America
Lee
Grant
Appomattox
Sadowa
Sedan
German Empire
Pleya
Condensed History of Major Global Events and Publications
A compact timeline listing events and works from 1408 to 1900, including Faust and Les Misérables publications, Darwin's Origin of Species, missionary organizations and public schools, railways and canals, Arctic and polar exploration, revolutions and assassinations, trials of empires, epidemics, and notable political shifts. Key items mention Galveston 1909 tidal wave, world fairs, and the Venezuela boundary dispute threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goethe
Faust
Victor Hugo
Thomas Carlyle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Ruskin
Whittier
Harriet Beecher Stawe
Darwin
Ethelyn Leslie Huston A Prolific Canadian Born Writer
Ethelyn Leslie Huston born in Toronto and based in Chicago emerges as a leading independent thinker and prolific writer. Her early precocity, critique of clergy, and role as associate editor of the Iconoclast in Waco are noted, along with her cosmopolitan life and influence in American publications. The Vanderbilt property case is discussed separately, highlighting a 73 million dollar estate with significant railroad stock and bonds yielding about 3.28 percent. Severe autumn storms disrupt navigation on seas and lakes, causing losses and fatalities. Huston is described as vice president of the Independent Pen Woman's club, fostering a Bohemian literary circle in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Huston
Nebraska College
Cleveland
Leslie
W. C. Brann
Waco Texas
Huston
Chicago
Vanderbilt
Lst
The
New York Times
Tate
Atlantic
Ethelyn Leslie Huston
Penwoman's Club
Long List of 19th Century World Events and Figures
A sweeping chronology lists major wars, empires, revolutions, explorations, inventions, and notable leaders from 1882 through 1900. It covers British actions in Egypt, Sino-Japanese conflicts, American-Spanish war, European revolutions, unifications of Italy, Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, Livingstone and Speke, early steam and rail progress, gas lighting, the Red Cross and WCTU, college settlements, major earthquakes and famines, philanthropy, Chicago fire, Johnstown flood, Inquisition abolition, Salvation Army, Bible revisions, and political figures like Monroe, Lincoln, Sherman, Gladstone and Cavour.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Manila
Santiago
Great Britain
France
Europe
Rome
Italy
Sir John Franklin
de Long
Qreely
Peary
Nansen
Duke of the Abrogal
Speke
Grant
America
John C. Fremont
Pacific
New York
Albany
Atlantic
Savannah
Stockton and
Darlington
England
Baltimore & Ohio
London
Dlaon
Divisioia
Indigo
Canton
China
Calabria
San Domingo
Quito
Mendoza
South America
Arequipa and District
San Jose
Colombia
Solo
Qasgamicclola
Charleston
S. C
In the Riviera
Japan
Ireland
Russia
India
Christian Herald
Dverett
Chicago
Johnstown
Young killer linked to late Alexander Stewart tale
The article notes Alexander Stewart the murderer, condemned to twenty years, as a relative of the late merchant prince Alexander T. Stewart, amid estate litigations. It discusses juvenile crime, moral suasion, and the harsh penalties for youth, then shifts to Lord Cranborne’s political role and anecdotes about Victorian figures, including Lord Rosebery and Edna May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Stewart
Sling Sing
Edward Plesel
Alexander T. Stewart
Exander Stewart
Sing Sing
Extravascance in College Sport and Reform Calls
Opinion argues college athletics may overtake academics and drain funds. It advocates reform to ensure students receive adequate exercise without the distractions of team rivalries and violent sports.
New Revenue Commissioner Nominee John W Yerkes
John W Yerkes of Kentucky has been nominated by the president to be commissioner of internal revenue. A lawyer of uncommon ability, he previously served in the department and three years ago was Kentucky internal revenue collector. He succeeds William O Bradley on the Republican national committee and is noted as a prominent Republican aged 46.
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Lord Salisbury
Viscount Cranborne
Henry Norman
Young Cranborne
Oxford
John W. Yerkes
Kentucky
Ofice
Revenue
United States
Yerkes
Internal Revenue
William O. Bradley
Republican National Committee
Pecks Millennium Scheme to Absorb U S Government
A Lewiston Maine financier named Mr. Peck proposes a vast trust to absorb the United States government and administer it to abolish vice ignorance and poverty. The idea reflects late nineteenth century reform currents alongside Marx Henry George Bellamy writings and other utopian schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
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McCormick Reaper
Howe
Samuel F. B. Marge
Edison
Menlo Park
Daguerre
Morse
Alexander II
Lincoln
Hyde Park
Alabama
Congress
Galveston
Tex
Bes
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
First Sunday School Union
American
British and Foreign Bible Society
American Bible Society
First
Young Men's Christian Association
George Williams
Lantapike
Union’ Pacific
Issa
Sues
Alaska
Parliament
United Canada
Australias
Maximilian
Mexico
Brazil
Garfield
Carnot
Shah
Persia
King Humbert
Armenia
Prof
Andree
North Pole
Hague
the Red Cross Society
Geneva
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Salvation Army
Ecumenical Council
First Young People’s Society of Christan Bedeavor
Order of King’s Daughters
Monroe
Sir Robert Peal
John Sherman
U. 8
Treasury
Abraham Lincoln
W. B. Gladstone
Bramarck
Prussla
Count Cavour
Hungary
Australia
Slongiks
Trangvaal
Mogt
Alala
Cranborne
Rochester
Roseberry
Lord Rosebery
Eding May
Edna May
Religue&s
William Clarke
Hingland
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