Pig War may refer to the following conflicts: . Saukrieg ("Pig War") 1555–58 feud between the Bishop of Meissen and the family of his predecessor; Pig War (1859), a largely bloodless border confrontation between the United States and the British Colony of Vancouver Island Pig War (1906–1908), a trade war between the Austria-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia

Early life. Ferris was born on February 14, 1859, in Galesburg, Illinois, the town founded by his namesake, George Washington Gale.His parents were George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. and Martha Edgerton Hyde. He had an older brother named Frederick Hyde, born in 1843. In 1864, five years after Ferris was born, his family sold their dairy farm and moved to Nevada.

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Horace Mann, (born May 4, 1796, Franklin, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 2, 1859, Yellow Springs, Ohio), American educator, the first great American advocate of public education who believed that, in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, nonsectarian, democratic in method, and reliant on well-trained professional teachers. Mann grew up in an …

May 03, 2019 · Timeline of Battery History . 1748—Benjamin Franklin first coined the term "battery" to describe an array of charged glass plates.; 1780 to 1786—Luigi Galvani demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses and provided the cornerstone of research for later inventors like Volta to create batteries.; 1800 Voltaic …

The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that granted US citizenship to the indigenous peoples of the United States.While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines a citizen as any persons born in the United States and subject to its laws and jurisdiction, the amendment had …