WebRoger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers.. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from London with an Arts degree, he became interested in painting and later developed a keen interest in the new technology of photography after seeing early …

WebBaháʼí Faith. Abortion, merely for the purpose of eliminating an unwanted child, is strongly deprecated in the Baháʼí Faith, though medical reasons may warrant it.Among the possible reasons for terminating a pregnancy are rape, incest, lack of viability of the fetus, and health of the mother. Though Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, considered the …

WebThe Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were baseball's first all-professional team, with ten salaried players. The Cincinnati Base Ball Club formed in 1866 and fielded competitive teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) 1867–1870, a time of a transition that ambitious Cincinnati businessmen and English-born ballplayer Harry …

WebThe Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget It measured 61 by 31 cm (24 by 12 in) and was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, about 14.6 kilometres (9 miles) north-west of Dunolly. Discovery. At the time of the discovery, there were no scales capable of weighing a …

WebAlgernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's." ...

WebJacques Marquette, né le 1 er juin 1637 à Laon, Aisne et mort le 18 mai 1675, sur le bord du lac Michigan (Amérique du Nord), était prêtre et missionnaire jésuite français, et explorateur du Midwest, la région centre-nord des États-Unis.. Lui sont attribuées la découverte des sources du Mississippi et celle, avec Louis Jolliet, du pays de l’Illinois

WebFreehold is a borough and the county seat of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Known for its Victorian era homes and rich colonial history, the borough is located in the Raritan Valley region within the New York Metropolitan Area, located about 33 miles (53 km) from Manhattan and 17 miles (27 km) from Staten Island. The borough has grown to …

WebCragside is a Victorian country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England.It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm. An industrial magnate, scientist, philanthropist and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong gun, Armstrong also displayed his …