La Martinière College is an elite private educational institution located in Lucknow, the capital of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The college consists of two schools on different campuses for boys and girls. La Martinière College (for boys) was founded in 1845 and La Martinière Girls' College was established in 1869.

The Alaska Purchase (Russian: Продажа Аляски, romanized: Prodazha Alyaski, lit. 'Sale of Alaska') was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire.Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867, through a treaty ratified by the United States Senate.. Russia had established a presence in North America during the first half …

Carl Czerny (German: [ˈtʃɛʁniː]; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching.

Biographie. Eichendorff naît au château de Lubowitz, près de Ratibor, en Silésie.Ses parents sont le baron Adolf von Eichendorff (de), un officier prussien, et la baronne Karoline von Kloche, issue d’une famille aristocratique catholique.De 1793 à 1801, il est élevé à la maison avec son frère Wilhelm (de).En octobre 1801, les deux frères sont envoyés au gymnasium catholique de ...

Ferdinand de Saussure, né à Genève le 26 novembre 1857 et mort à Vufflens-le-Château le 22 février 1913, est un linguiste suisse.Reconnu comme le précurseur du structuralisme en linguistique, il s'est aussi distingué par ses travaux sur les langues indo-européennes.. On estime (surtout en Europe) qu'il a fondé la linguistique moderne et établi les bases de la sémiologie.

Un libro electrónico, [1] libro digital o ciberlibro, conocido en inglés como e-book o eBook, es la publicación electrónica o digital de un libro.Es importante diferenciar el libro electrónico o digital de uno de los dispositivos más popularizados para su lectura: el lector de libros electrónicos, o e-reader, en su versión inglesa.. Aunque a veces se define como "una versión ...

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 sought to end Company Rule in India. On 11 May, the mutineers reached and captured Delhi, and declared Bahadur Shah Zafar II the Emperor of India, and the Emperor held his first court in many years. However, the British returned and laid siege to Delhi on 8 June 1857. On 21 September, Delhi finally fell into the ...

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɑːr / (); 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, …

Eugène-François Vidocq (French: [øʒɛn fʁɑ̃nswa vidɔk]; 24 July 1775 – 11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe and Honoré de Balzac.The former criminal became the founder and first director of the crime-detection Sûreté nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective ...

Construction and design. In the early 1850s the museum library was in need of a larger reading room and the then-Keeper of Printed Books, Antonio Panizzi, following an earlier competition idea by William Hosking, came up with the thought of a round room in the central courtyard.The building was designed by Sydney Smirke and was constructed between 1854 and 1857.

Simon Boccanegra (Italian: [siˈmom ˌbokkaˈneːɡra]) is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play El trovador had been the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, Il trovatore.. Simon Boccanegra was first performed at Teatro La Fenice …

Contemporary Mexican society experiences gun homicide at a higher rate than many other nations, despite strict gun laws. Firearms have played a significant role in the History of Mexico, and the country was founded with a strong presence and adhesion to arms, though Mexico has a long history of passing gun restriction laws. Mexican Golden Age films often depicted the …

Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, DL (/ ˈ b eɪ d ən ˈ p oʊ əl / BAY-dən POH-əl; (Commonly pronounced by others as / ˈ p aʊ ə l / POW-əl) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his …

Karl Pearson (Londres, 27 de marzo de 1857-ib., 27 de abril de 1936) fue un prominente científico, matemático y pensador socialista británico, que estableció la disciplina de la estadística matemática.Sus estudios son irritantes y molestos. Todo y eso desarrolló una intensa investigación sobre la aplicación de los métodos estadísticos en la biología y fue el fundador …