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  More info about: Vincenzo Bellini
  Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini, Vincenzo, Italian opera composer. He acquired his musical training from his grandfather and father, and began composing religious and secular music in his childh...
         
  More info about: Brigham Young, American Moses
  Brigham Young, American Moses
Brigham Young was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death. Young was...
         
  More info about: Jan van Speyk, Dutch Hero
  Jan van Speyk, Dutch Hero
Jan Carolus Josephus van Speijk, also written Van Speyk, was a Dutch naval lieutenant who became a hero to the Dutch people for his efforts in suppressing the Belgian Rev...
         
  More info about: Alexandre Dumas, French Writer
  Alexandre Dumas, French Writer
Alexandre Dumas was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. Dumas is best known for historical adventure novels like The Three Musketeers and The Count...
         
  More info about: Victor Hugo
  Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of the most important of French Romantic writers. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831...
         
  More info about: Short History of Freemasonry in South Australia & Northern Territory
  Short History of Freemasonry in South Australia & Northern Territory
Narrative history of the development of Freemasonry in South Australia and Northern Territory and of the Grand Lodge...
         
  More info about: Christian Doppler, Physicist
  Christian Doppler, Physicist
Austrian physicist who first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This phenome...
         
  More info about: Robert Stephenson, Engineer
  Robert Stephenson, Engineer
Robert Stephenson is chiefly remembered for his role in the birth of the railways. His refinements to the steam engine made steam locomotion a viable form of transport, w...
         
  More info about: Hector Berlioz, Composer
  Hector Berlioz, Composer
As a boy he learnt the flute, guitar and, from treatises alone, harmony (he never studied the piano); his first compositions were romances and small chamber pieces. After...
         
  More info about: Emerson, Founder Transcendentalism
  Emerson, Founder Transcendentalism
Philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was founder of transcendentalism, Emerson believed in the power of intuition over scientific reason and in the strength of nature...
         
  More info about: Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail
  Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail
In May, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory. On March 6, 1801, Lewis, as a young Army Captain in Pitt...
         
  More info about: Johann Strauss I, Austrian Composer
  Johann Strauss I, Austrian Composer
Austrian violinist and composer of waltzes and other works, notably Redetzky March (1848). His son Johann (1825–1899), known as “the Younger,” is sometimes called “the Wa...
         
  More info about: Franklin Pierce, 14th US President
  Franklin Pierce, 14th US President
Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857), came to office during a period of growing tension between the North and South. A politician of limit...
         
  More info about: The Battle of Trafalgar
  The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar, fought on 21 October 1805, is part of the War of the Third Coalition assembled by Britain against France. It was the most significant naval battl...
         
  More info about: Joseph Smith, Founder Mormonism
  Joseph Smith, Founder Mormonism
Joseph Smith, Jr. was the American religious figure who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism. Smith's followers declared him to be the first lat...
         
         
 
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