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| | Timeline 1879-1882 |
 | | 1882 In Egypt a military coup against the Khedive furnished a pretext for a British invasion. | | | 1882 The Knights of Columbus, a benevolent society of Roman Catholic men, was founded in the US. | | | 1882 Ignatius Donnelly wrote "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World." |
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http://timelines.ws/1879_1882.HTML
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| | Spring Grove Minutes - 1882 |
| | Matilda Steward and Harriet Grewell are appointed to visit Julia Griffin on account of the appearance and conduct and report the result of their labors to next meeting. | | | Certificates were received from West Grove Monthly Meeting, _____ County, Indiana dated 2nd month 1882 for Elizabeth Griffin, Julia Griffin and Martha A. Griffin. | | | The committee on meeting house made a report which was satisfactory and are continued and directed to report in 9th month. |
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http://www.sgmm.org/history/minutes/1882.html
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| | Today in History: September 5 |
| | McGuire had proposed his idea for a holiday honoring American workers at a labor meeting in early 1882. | | | Ford hoped to claim the $10,000 offered for James's capture but received only a fraction of the reward. | | | This first Labor Day celebration was initiated by Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader who a year earlier cofounded the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, a precursor of the American Federation of Labor. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep05.html
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| | History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel |
| | There are "2805 [documented] victims of lynch mobs killed between 1882 and 1930 in ten southern states. | | | How many men were lynched based on false allegations? | | | Although mobs murdered almost 300 white men and women, the vast majorityóalmost 2,500óof lynch victims were African-American. |
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http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/USLynch.html
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| | GrantCountyBirths1882 |
| | Coffman, unnamed male born March 1882 parents: George W. and Ellen Coffman, Henry Berg, neighbor. | | | Lyon, Edward, born 1882 parents: Augustus and Elizabeth Lyon. | | | Shirk, Aaron W. born June 06, 1882 parents: Israel and Elizabeth Shirk. |
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http://www.geocities.com/gchgs/GrantCountyBirths1882.html
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| | The1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa. |
| | This document had to be included in the observing report and is apparently kept in the National Archives in Washington DC today and I am currently trying to get hold of a copy. | | | This telescope was housed in a building which had an octahedral base and a square pyramid-shaped roof which could turn through 360° and contained a vertical slit which could be opened. | | | Prof Newcomb was put in charge of reducing the observations but had a most frustrating time accomplishing this with the US Treasury Department who kept re-allocating his funds, forcing him to repeatedly fire and re-appoint staff to do the work. |
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http://www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/tovwell.html
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| | 1882 News |
| | The upper floor of the building is let out to various lodges, the members of which are quite adverse to the Jews remaining on the premises. | | | It was ascertained that the boy was first sent to the House of Refuge at the instance of neighbors who compained that he had acquired a taste for drink by being frequently sent for liquor by his mother, and that he was regularly intoxicated several times a week. | | | ADAMS 'Little Visitors A Swedish woman, who said he name was Sophia PETERSON, called at the residence of Mrs. |
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http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Newspaper/BSU/1882.News.html
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| | I Dream of Genealogy Databases - Monmouth Co. New Jersey Marriages |
| | POLING, Alfred T. of Keyport and WEBER, Catherine of Matawan, by Rev. F.A. Slater at Matawan 29 May 1882 | | | BRAND, Charles W. and CHAMBERS, Ella A., both of Ocean Grove by Rev. H.B. Beegle at Ocean Grove 29 Dec 1881 | | | UPHAM, Burr of New York and WHITLOCK, Addie of Keyport, at New York 28 Jun 1882 |
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http://www.idreamof.com/marriage/nj/monmouth/red_bank.htm
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| | Background Reading: History |
| | Their resources, including a substantial archive of historical documents, will appear online at the | | | There have been 52 transits of Venus across the Sun between 2000 B.C and 1882 A.D. Humans could only have noticed this event if they were watching the sun near the horizon at exactly the right time. | | | But all they could conclude, and wrongly, was that there seemed to be a lot of water in the atmosphere. |
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http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2004/vt_edu2004_venus_back_his.htm
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| | Robert Patterson, Jr.'s 1882 excerpt from "History of Washington Co." |
| | Lambdin, of Irvington, N.Y., widow of the late J. Harrison Lambdin, in response to some inquiries as to her recollections of Rigdon and others, writes under date of Jan. 15, 1882: "I am sorry to say I shall not be able to give you any information relative to the persons you name. | | | They were perhaps donated to the Presbyterian seminary in Pittsburgh after his death in 1911, but, if so, are not among the cataloged collections of that institution. | | | Williams, Howe, and Hurlbut are still living (March 4, 1882). |
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http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/1882PatA.htm
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| | 1882 |
| | April 28, 1882 Friday/ Plowing for oats, Billy got Mells mare to plow with, | | | April 17, 1882 Monday/ Commenced sowing wheat, sowed 18 bushels, Mell brought his colt here | | | April 21, 1882 Friday/ Jim moved to his place, cold south wind, plowing, Murphy gone to town for Mrs. |
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http://crosskin.tripod.com/williamcrossdiaries/id2.html
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| | URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996 |
| | His influence continues to be condemned, supported, and debated after almost 150 years. | | | Shortly after Darwin's death at seventy-four on April 19, 1882, the evangelistic widow of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hope, told a gathering of students at Northfield Seminary in Massachusetts that she had visited Darwin in his last hours and found him reading the Epistle to the Hebrews. | | | Earlier it had pointed that some 25,500 copies of Origin had been published in Britain by the time of Darwin's death in 1882. |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html
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| | ChessBase.com - Chess News - International Chess Tournament Vienna 1882 |
| | Steinitz, on the other hand, had strengthened his reputation as the best player in the world — although his position at the top was not as unchallenged as it had been. | | | In 1876 he played a match against Blackburne, which he won 7-0, and then he concentrated on his work as a chess journalist. | | | While he was playing in Vienna and sending weekly reports on the tournament to The Field, the magazine which Steinitz had helped achieve fresh fame in the chess community with his columns since 1873, a plot was being hatched there against him in his absence. |
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http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2117
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| | Swiss Handguns 1882 |
| | However, by the end of the 1920s, many 1882 had reached the end of their service live. | | | The Model 1882 proved popular enough to continue it's use, despite the fact that the Luger had been in service for many years. | | | Originally, a lighter variation of the 1878 was planned for the Infantry, but with the adoption of 1882, these plans were discarded. |
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http://www.swissrifles.com/pistols
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| | Catechism of the Catholic Church - The person and society |
| | 1882 Certain societies, such as the family and the state, correspond more directly to the nature of man; they are necessary to him. | | | To promote the participation of the greatest number in the life of a society, the creation of voluntary associations and institutions must be encouraged "on both national and international levels, which relate to economic and social goals, to cultural and recreational activities, to sport, to various professions, and to political affairs." |
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http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c2a1.htm
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| | Immigration Station |
| | In reaction to states starting to pass immigration laws, in 1882 the federal government asserted its authority to control immigration and passed the first immigration law, barring lunatics and felons from entering the country. | | | Beginning with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, a series of restrictive laws had prohibited the immigration of certain nationalities and social classes of Asians. | | | During the 1870s, an economic downturn resulted in serious unemployment problems, and led to politically motivated outcries against Asian immigrants who would work for low wages. |
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http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html
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| | The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882, Including San Antonio |
| | Newcomb's statement in his Reminiscences (1903) that the 1882 results were never officially published has been taken to mean that no results were ever produced. | | | Transits of Venus, in which the planet Venus crosses the face of the Sun as seen from Earth, are rare phenomena that occur at intervals of 105.5 years, 8 years, 121.5 years, and 8 years, respectively. | | | The value of the observations made by the 1882 American expeditions also caused considerable dispute. |
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http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html
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| | Native American Documents Project |
| | 2 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882), 199-202, NADP Document D54. | | | Swan to Commissioner, 28 August 1882, in United States, Interior Department, Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Vol. | | | The crop of hay has been gathered in good condition, and is largely in excess over that of last year. |
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http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/d54.htm
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, 1908 |
| | Nor is it in the nature of things that any similar movement should, under the present conditions of Egyptian society, meet with any better success. | | | History, indeed, records some very radical changes in the forms of government to which a state has been subjected without its interests being absolutely and permanently shipwrecked. | | | These latter have, for centuries past, been a subject race. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908cromer.html
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| | 1882 Immigration Act |
| | On 3rd August, 1882, Congress passed a new Immigration Act that stated that a 50 cents tax would be levied on all aliens landing at United States ports. | | | The money collected was to be used to defray the expenses of regulating immigration and for the care of immigrants after landing,. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAE1882A.htm
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| | Game Over Online Magazine - Tombstone 1882 |
| | The premise of Tombstone 1882 is the only good thing about it. | | | In some it was clear the developers tried their hardest to create a good game; in others it was clear the developers were simply out to make a buck. | | | You can’t alias units to hotkeys and you can’t drag-select units, and so it’s difficult to do anything sophisticated with your units (like, oh, attack the enemy); there isn’t a mini-map to help you see what’s going on; and you can’t even save your game during missions! |
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http://www.game-over.net/reviews.php?id=836
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| | Transit of Venus Plates |
| | Only 11 plates survive from the American 1882 expeditions; none of the plates from the American 1874 transit expeditions has survived. | | | The site where these plates were taken is unknown. | | | The Naval Observatory and Transit of Venus Commission sent 8 parties around the world to observe each of the transits; the results were important for determining the scale of the solar system. |
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http://www.venus-transit.de/1882/plates
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| | Marriages 1882 |
| | 30 Sept 1882 5667 Triggs, Alonzo Marlow, Annie 27 Sept 1882 by Jas. | | | 7 Dec 1882 5771 Cosgrove, Joseph T. Griffin, Lauretta 8 Dec 1882 by Not listed Witness: H. Tuttle m. | | | 19 Oct 1882 5695 Baus, Peter Donnelly, Ella 18 Oct 1882 by M. Snyder, J. Witness: Edward Hill 5696 Jones, Mark A. Jones, Louisa E. 18 Oct 1882 by Wm. |
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http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/1882marriagesjuldec.htm
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| | Emmy Noether |
| | Emmy Noether was born in Erlangen, Germany on March 23, 1882. | | | She was named Amalie, but always called "Emmy". |
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http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm
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| | Statistics |
| | First general immigration law, established a system of central control of immigration through State Boards under the Secretary of the Treasury. | | | Introduced a tax of 50 cents on each passenger brought to the United States. | | | Immigration Act of August 3, 1882 (22 Statutes-at-Large 214) |
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http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/legishist/451.htm
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| | George Reynolds Articles in Juvenile Instructor, 1882 |
| | Unacquainted with the deceptions, which are more or less practiced in large towns and cities, they possessed the open honesty and simplicity so generally characteristic of country people. | | | You have heard about the Spaulding romance; and some claim that it is nothing but the books of the Bible that were rejected by the compilers of the Bible; but all this don't prove that Smith never got any plates." | | | Those who are so strongly opposed to Mormonism can accept whichever horn of the dilemma they choose. |
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http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/1882ReyA.htm
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| | IHAS: Poet |
| | There he lived quietly until his death into his seventy-ninth year, struggling with a waning memory, but persevering with his daughters' help, in editing his papers and publishing his last two volumes, PARNASSUS and LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS. | | | The tiny New England town tolled the bell for each of his years, shrouded itself in black, and prepared for the onslaught of mourners who came from far and near to accompany Emerson to his rest on Poets' Knoll in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. | | | On April 27, 1882, the great thinker died of pneumonia, caught some weeks before after a rain-soaked walk through his beloved Concord woods. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/emerson.html
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| | Charles Darwin British Naturalist |
| | After publication of Origin of Species, Darwin continued to write on botany, geology, and zoology until his death in 1882. | | | He set these theories forth in his book called, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" (1859) or "The Origin of Species" for short. | | | Darwin's work had a tremendous impact on religious thought. |
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http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96feb/darwin.html
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| | Edmund Dulac Biography |
| | Edmund Dulac was born in 1882, 15 years after | | | There are two pages of rare Dulac color pictures in issue four and a six-page article and images in issue six of |
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http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/dulac.htm
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| | Braque 1 |
| | Braque was born May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, near Paris; he grew up there and in the port city of Le Havre. | | | In 1899, following in his father's occupation, he apprenticed himself as a house painter. | | | French painter, who, with Pablo Picasso, originated cubism and the cubist style, to become one of the major figures of 20th-century art. |
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http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Braque.html
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| | FDR: The American Experience - The Center of the World, 1882 - 1921 | | | The History Channel Presents The War of 1812 | | | Gorham Antique-Engraved No. 8 (Sterling, 1880) 8 1/2' Tablespoon (Serving Spoon) (HRT 1882) |
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http://www.pricegig.com/1882.html
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| | R. Nathaniel Dett, African American Composer & Pianist |
| | Robert Nathaniel Dett, who called himself R. Nathaniel, was born to African American parents in Drummondville, Ontario (which is now part of Niagara Falls, Ontario), Canada on October 11, 1882. |
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http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Dett.html
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| | This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. | | | Network Working Group B. Hancock Request for Comments: 1882 Network-1 Software and Technology, Inc. Category: Informational December 1995 The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. | | | L-A-R-S!) Hancock Informational [Page 3] RFC 1882 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas December 1995 On the tenth day of Christmas, technology gave to me: Ten SNMP alerts flashing (What is that Godawful beeping?) Nine lady executives with attitude (No, it used to be a mens room? |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1882.txt
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| | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography and Works |
| | He made his last tour abroad in 1872-1873, and then withdrew more and more from public life. | | | Emerson died on April 27, 1882 in Concord. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/emerson
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| | World War I, The Triple Alliance |
| | (L.S.) C. The Royal Italian Government declares that the provisions of the secret Treaty concluded May 20, 1882, between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany, cannot, as has been previously agreed, in any case be regarded as being directed against England. | | | Done at Vienna, the twentieth day of the month of May of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. |
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http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/tripally.html
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| | Marriages 1882 |
| | 16 Mar 1882 5474 Meridith, W. Means, Anny Elizabeth 15 Mar 1882 by Saml W. Heald Witness: J. Means 5475 Morris, Charlie N. Preston, Maria 15 Mar 1882 by Robert Edger Witness: Jno J. Morris m. | | | 17 May 1882 5534 Shea, Morris Copley, Rebecca A. 15 May 1882 by A. Williams Witness: Robt Murdock m. | | | 6 Apr 1882 5492 Johnson, Frederick Mangels, Christine 3 Apr 1882 by B. Foelsch, Past. |
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http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/1882marriagesjanjun.htm
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| | By 1879 North had acquired so many paintings of natural life that she began seeking a permanent home for her work. | | | In 1882 she visited South Africa, where her health began to fail. | | | Born in Brooklyn, New York, Katherine Sophie Dreier sought throughout her life to combine her commitment to social reform with her attraction to the arts. |
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http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/travbio.htm
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| | 1882 Aleksander House Bed & Breakfast - Louisville, Kentucky - BBOnline.com / Introduction |
| | The 1882 Aleksander House Bed & Breakfast, a Victorian Italianate home built in 1882, has been restored to its former elegance, complete with antiques and decor which reflect the period. | | | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the three story home features 12-foot ceilings, original hardwood floors and moldings and five fireplaces. | | | 1882 Aleksander House Bed & Breakfast is a member of the following associations: |
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http://www.bbonline.com/ky/aleksander
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| | Al Beagan's "Genealogy Notes" of PEI, 1882-1993 |
| | James Began of Pictou Ddm deBonisnon, Dec. 8, 1882, file 1721. | | | Barnabas (married Flynn ?) had James Robert age 28 and Jane age 26 both in US child 2 John, not heard of for 20 years | | | Jame s who died Aug. 10, 1882 had a daughter Mary Ann Began. |
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http://users.adelphia.net/~abeagan/pei1882.htm
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| | Lyrics and Music |
| | In fact, for two years after it was written it was sung to just about any popular or folk tune that would fit with the lyrics, with "Auld Lang Syne" being the most notable of those. | | | In addition to those changes in the words, it is notable that the poem was not always sung to the tune presented on this website ("Materna," composed by Samuel A. Ward in 1882, nearly a decade before the poem was written). | | | Bates revised the lyrics in 1904 and again in 1913. |
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http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/america.htm
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| | 1882 Transit of Venus |
| | Venus crossed the disc of the Sun on 1882 December 6 | | | In 1890, Newcomb determined a value for the solar parallax of 8.79 arcseconds from observations made in 1874 and 1882 which compares very favourably to current best estimates. | | | The map above shows the visibility of the event. |
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http://www.nao.rl.ac.uk/nao/transit/V_1882
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| | Newell Convers Wyeth Biography |
| | An inveterate "drawer" as a child, Wyeth began his formal art training very sporadically, jumping from school to school (including a short stay at the Eric Pape School) and instructor to instructor until, at age 20, he was accepted into the Howard Pyle School for the 1902 sessions. | | | He was born in 1882 - the same year as | | | He was the father of Andrew, Henriette and Carolyn Wyeth, the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, the father-in-law of Peter Hurd, and the list goes on. |
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http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wyeth.htm
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| | The Music of Henry Tucker (1826-1882) |
| | His most popular songs were Weeping Sad and Lonely, or, When This Cruel War Is Over (1863), Jeff in Petticoats (1865), and Sweet Genevieve (1869). | | | Henry Tucker was born in 1826 and died at 55 on 10 February 1882 in Brooklyn, NY. | | | During 1850 to 1882 he wrote approximately 121 songs and one cantata, Joseph in Egypt, in 1870. |
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http://www.pdmusic.org/tucker.html
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| | Internet Public Library: POTUS |
| | All other links lead to sites elsewhere on the Web. | | | Born: January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York | | | Died: April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fdroosevelt.html
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| | 1882 Providence Grays Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com |
| | Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org. | | | You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Providence Grays > 1882 Statistics |
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PRO/1882.shtml
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| | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| | Longfellow died in Cambridge on March 24, 1882. | | | In London his marble image is seen in Westminster Abbey, in the Poet's Corner. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/long.htm
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