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- 1121: Queen Victoria
- ... 1846. Her post was that the sovereign should at least be consulted on different policy. Palmerston, independent and self-assertive, disregarded the request. Their conflict reached a crucial period in 1851, when the prime minister, Lord John Russell, who was also unhappy with Palmerston's elective methods, removed him from the foreign office. Their altercations with Palmerston, one of the most liked political leaders in the country, caused Victoria and Albert ...
- 1122: King Solomon
- ... the 10th century BC, and to have lasted for some four centuries until it was destroyed by Babylonian soldiers. The Bible frequently refers to the temple by the Hebrew term for "the house of the Lord." But that term has been found complete in only one inscription other than the Bible: a faded shard of sixth-century BC pottery from Arad, an ancient town now in modern-day Israel, according to ...
- 1123: John Keats
- ... I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill," and "Sleep and Poetry," which defended the principles of romanticism as promulgated by Hunt and attacked the practice of romanticism as represented by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Keats's second volume, Endymion, was published in 1818. Based upon the myth of Endymion and the moon goddess, it was attacked by two of the most influential critical magazines of the time, the ...
- 1124: John Dryden
- ... fortune. He was given the opportunity by his father to be educated at Westminster School and at the University of Cambridge. Around 1657 he went to London as a clerk to the chamberlain to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The death of Cromwell in 1659 inspired Dryden to write his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas. After the Restoration Dryden became a Royalist and celebrated the return of kin Charles II. During ...
- 1125: Isaac Asimov
- ... they have to open the air lock hatch there must be air in there or else everyone will die so Mike Shea put his hand to the crack in the door and said' "Thank the Lord, not a sign of a draft' (Asimov 118) On there way to Vesta they had a type of alcohol waiting for this moment. Mike says "Gentlemen, I give you the year's supply of good ...
- 1126: Henry Carey
- ... Malthus. He opposed Malthus on several grounds. The first was because the Malthus theory was in contrast to God's intentions. Carey goes on to explain this by saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' said the Lord, 'and replenish the earth and subdue it', and Carey adds "Can such things be? Can it be. That the creator has been inconsistent with himself? Can it be, that after having instituted throughout the material ...
- 1127: George Washington
- ... from New York State to Virginia in less than five weeks was a masterpiece of execution. Washington sent word ahead to the marquis de Lafayette, commanding American forces in Virginia, to keep the British commander, Lord Cornwallis, from leaving his base of operations at Yorktown. At the end of September the Franco-American army joined Lafayette. Out numbering the British by two to one, and with 36 French ships offshore to ...
- 1128: George Washington
- ... from New York State to Virginia in less than five weeks was a masterpiece of execution. Washington sent word ahead to the marquis de Lafayette, commanding American forces in Virginia, to keep the British commander, Lord Cornwallis, from leaving his base of operations at Yorktown. At the end of September the Franco-American army joined Lafayette. Outnumbering the British by two to one, and with 36 French ships offshore to prevent ...
- 1129: George F. Handel
- ... the Prince Elect of Hannover, crowned George I of England in 1717. Sometimes vows are only "half the prize" and really thwe weaker among the two Saxons had to take refuge under the patronage of Lord Bridges, first Duke of Chandos, to whom between 1717 and 1720 he dedicated those Chandos Anthems (1717-1720), whose beauty, it was said, dispelled any doubts concerning the provenance of the Duke of Chandos wealth ...
- 1130: Gandhi
- ... people were still sceptical. It sounded better than what Britain usually says but they were going to wait and be convinced when the members of the Cabinet arrived and on March 24, 1946 they did. Lord Pethick-Lawrence(the Secretary State for India), Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander arrived in India. The trip was expected to only last a month but instead, they stayed for three. They worked very ...
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