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Biographical Sketch of Spencer Fullerton Baird [PDF]

, 1996
Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1823. In 1834 he was sent to a Quaker boarding-school kept by Dr. McGraw, at Port Deposit, Maryland, and the year following to the Reading Grammar School. In 1836 he entered Dickinson
Goode, George Brown
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PRESERVE FROM OBLIVION - POLISH CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE SOCIAL SPACE OF THE POLES IN PIEDMONT [PDF]

, 2016
Cultural heritage of any nation will aff ect both the supporting national identity, as well as creates collective memory, is shaping it, enriches and makes the material expression.
Henczel-Wróblewska, Ligia
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The Secular Beyond: Free Religious Dissent and Debates over the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century Germany [PDF]

, 2008
The 1830s and 1840s saw the proliferating usage of “the Beyond” (Jenseits) as a choice term for the afterlife in German public discourse. This linguistic innovation coincided with the rise of empiricism in natural science.
Weir, Todd H.
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The potato murrain on the European continent and the revolutions of 1848 [PDF]

, 2008
The tale of the Irish Famine, 1845¿1849, following the outbreak of potato late blight, has been told repeatedly, but the parallel story of the Continental Famine, 1845¿1847, has not yet been recorded. The Continental Famine was caused by poor harvests of
Zadoks, J.C.
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1848: European revolutions [PDF]

, 2012
Discusses the various ways in which the European revolutions of 1848-9 contributed to the shaping of modern democratic ideas and practices.
Rapport, M.
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Railroads and micro-regional growth in Prussia [PDF]

, 2012
We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using GIS techniques, we match triennial population data for roughly 1000 cities in nineteenth-century Prussia to georeferenced maps of the German railroad network.
Hornung, Erik
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By the Numbers: Makassar's Trade, Centralized Statistics and Local Realities [PDF]

, 2013
The valuable trade statistics provided by the Netherlands Indies government are a boonto researchers, but should not be accepted at face value. The extent to which shippersavoided registration is indicated by a comparison of Makassar's trade figures ...
Sutherland, H. (Heather)
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An analysis of the dates found in seven fifth grade American history textbooks [PDF]

, 1950
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston ...
Savignano, Leonard Joseph
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Malte et deux ecrivains francais [PDF]

, 1994
L' on sait que Gustave Flaubert et Maxime Du Camp [rrent une breve escale a Malte le 7 et le 8 novembre 1849 au debut de leur grand tour d'Orient Peu de jours apres d' Alexandrie, Flaubert ecrivit a sa mere: "Si tu veux connaitre Malte lis dans le volume
Spiteri, Richard
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‘The Greatest Bubble in History’: Stock Prices during the British Railway Mania [PDF]

Although the British Railway Mania has been described as one of the greatest bubbles in history, it has been largely neglected by academics. This paper attempts to redress this neglect by creating a daily stock price index for the 1843-50 period and by ...
Campbell, Gareth, Turner, John
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