WebLooking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1888.. The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies." In 2021 The New York Times published "In the 19th-century United States, only Uncle …

Web1887 naar onderwerp: Lijst van landen: Atlantisch orkaanseizoen: Juliaanse kalender van 1887: Gregoriaanse kalender van 1887: Henry Morton Stanley. Eiffeltoren. Wasdag op de plantage, (Rudolf Eickemeyer jr., 1887). Het jaar 1887 is het 87e jaar in de 19e eeuw volgens de christelijke jaartelling.

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WebHMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy.On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon, during manoeuvres and quickly sank, killing 358 crew members, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. One of the survivors was executive …

WebJean de Bourbon, comte de Montizón, né au palais royal d'Aranjuez le 15 mai 1822 et mort à Hove (près de Brighton), Sussex (Grande-Bretagne) le 18 novembre 1887, est un membre de la branche espagnole de la maison de Bourbon.Il est, de 1861 à 1868, le prétendant carliste à la Couronne d’Espagne sous le nom de Jean III, puis de 1883 à 1887 le …

WebGraaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.It is the oldest town in the province. It is also the sixth-oldest town in South Africa, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Simon's Town, Paarl and Swellendam. The town was the centre of a short-lived republic in the late 18th century. The town was a starting point for Great Trek groups led by Gerrit …

WebThe 1887 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a legal document prepared by anti-monarchists to strip the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, initiating a transfer of power to American, European and native Hawaiian elites. It became known as the Bayonet Constitution for the use of intimidation by the armed militia which forced King Kalākaua to …

WebSylvia Beach (14 March 1887 – 5 October 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's book, …

WebEl gramófono (del griego: gramma, escritura; fono, sonido) fue el primer sistema de grabación y reproducción de sonido que utilizó un disco plano, a diferencia del fonógrafo que grababa sobre un cilindro. Asimismo fue el dispositivo más común para reproducir sonido grabado desde la década de 1890 hasta mediados de la década de 1950, cuando …

WebSrinivasa Ramanujan FRS (/ ˈ s r iː n ɪ v ɑː s ə r ɑː ˈ m ɑː n ʊ dʒ ən /; born Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar, IPA: [sriːniʋaːsa ɾaːmaːnud͡ʑan ajːaŋgar]; 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, …

WebHerman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the …

WebThe 1887 Yellow River flood in Qing China began in September 1887 and killed at least 930,000 people. It was the single deadliest flood in China, in turn making it one of the largest disasters in China by death toll. History. For centuries, the farmers living near the ...

WebThe Canon de 305 mm Modèle 1887 was a heavy naval gun used as the main armament of a number of French pre-dreadnoughts and coastal defense ships during World War I. Eight were converted to railway artillery in World War I and four were used during World War II Construction. The Canon de 305 mm Modèle 1887 45 ...

WebNikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] (); 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of ...