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The 19th century began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.
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UK Tories vs Whigs in the 19th century: broad political classification?
As noted in this article from Encylopedia Britannica 1911, the great dividing issue between Whigs and Tories through most of the 18th century was on the role of the crown in the executive of the gover …
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Was there really a navy officer named Picard at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Conclusion from the below, as well as other answers:
There was a senior French naval officer named Picard, who by 1814 was Captain of Vessel (namely Scipion (1813)) equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain …
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What is "chaud melee"?
According to the OED, 1928 edition; a misspelling: as the only entry between Chaud and Chaudpisse is:
Chaud-melle, mella. Sc. Law. [a. OF. chaude mellee (in med. L. calida melleia) 'heated affray or …
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Why did the July Monarchy dispense with Montgaillard's services?
Turns out this fellow was a historian, keeping himself very busy after his retirement from public service by proceeding to write History of France between 1787 and 1825.
Volume 1 was published in Pari …
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Has the American Civil War led to any significant innovations in 19th-century warfare?
Many of the technologies that first saw large-scale action (on the North American continent at least) in the American Civil War - rifled artillery, breech-loading repeating rifles, Gatling guns, iron- …
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Who is this particular inventor from XIX century?
I believe the correct answer is Alfred Nobel, as you already surmised.
.... Finally, [Nobel] tried diatomaceous earth, ..., that he brought from the Elbe River near his factory in Hamburg, which succ …
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Could the anti-Napoleonic forces have done better by uniting earlier before Waterloo?
The Allies knew neither when nor where Napoleon would strike. Quartering troops is an immense strain on both countryside and people, and the Allied armies were disbursed to the greatest extent thought …
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What does "Brown-Bread Eater" mean when used as an insult?
Courtesy of Billy Joel's Uptown Girl:
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
Th …
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Did they really have individual telephone wires going from a central tower to each customer ...
Absolutely - and dedicated point-to-point wiring remained state-of-the-art technology for telephony right into the 1960's, as in the 1960 photograph below of a telephone exchange switchboard:
As th …
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What is this symbol in a financial record from Wisconsin, USA, in 1860?
Having tracked down the Instructions to U.S. Marshals, Instructions to Assistants for the 1860 census I draw attention to these excerpts describing the means of calculating and recording then census:
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What was the route for ships from England to South Africa in 1840?
There are likely too many variables to imagine a single best route. However two key considerations must be kept in mind:
Square-rigged and mixed-rigged vessels of the time struggled to point within 6 …
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What were the criteria for class ranking at West Point prior to the Civil War?
In Volume I of his four volume biography of Robert E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman outlines (Chapter 4, pp 81-82 (html page)) the calculation of Lee's graduating score of 1966.5 out of a maximum 2000 …
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Regional dominance of Sitka library
Philadelphia is 2,881 miles from Sitka, edging out New York City at 2,888 miles distance. When the U.S. Government left in 1800, it had become the new nation's largest and most populous city (67,787 i …
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Who is the man in the red jacket in this painting?
The only French unit I am aware of that wore red uniforms was the Red Lancers, Second Regiment of Light Horse Lancers of the Imperial Guard. The uniform might be that of a Red Lancers officer, but the …
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Range of sailors' ages on a typical Pacific trading ship in 1810
I would use the assumption that the age ranges were approximately normally distributed, and then work on determining:
The mean of the distribution; and
The standard deviation of the distribution.
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