The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference: A million of facts [The book of facts, by Samuel L. Knapp, William C. Redfield, and othersC.C. Childs, 1850 |
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... British Claudius succeeded Caligula 41 nobles 475 Claudius visited Britain Nero succeeded Claudius 541 43 Rome taken by Odoacer , and he made King of Italy , which Boadicea defeated 61 put an end to the Roman Em Seneca and Lucan put to ...
... British Claudius succeeded Caligula 41 nobles 475 Claudius visited Britain Nero succeeded Claudius 541 43 Rome taken by Odoacer , and he made King of Italy , which Boadicea defeated 61 put an end to the Roman Em Seneca and Lucan put to ...
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... British Museum established . 1768 Steam Engines improved . 1771 Cook's First Voyage . 1773 Cotton Spinning Machinery . 1778 Linnæus died . 1784 Euler died . 1788 Galvanism discovered . 1797 Priestley died . 1798 Vaccination announced ...
... British Museum established . 1768 Steam Engines improved . 1771 Cook's First Voyage . 1773 Cotton Spinning Machinery . 1778 Linnæus died . 1784 Euler died . 1788 Galvanism discovered . 1797 Priestley died . 1798 Vaccination announced ...
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... British birds build domed nests . The voluntary act of emptying the stomach is possessed by some birds , as the pigeon , who has an organ for secreting milk in its sto- mach , as Mr. Hunter observed : and it softens the food for its ...
... British birds build domed nests . The voluntary act of emptying the stomach is possessed by some birds , as the pigeon , who has an organ for secreting milk in its sto- mach , as Mr. Hunter observed : and it softens the food for its ...
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... British shells is by Donovan . In univalves , in some species , the cavity is divided into chambers , with a pipe of com- munication ; the base is the mouth and opposite is the apex . The con- volutions are called whorls . The hinge in ...
... British shells is by Donovan . In univalves , in some species , the cavity is divided into chambers , with a pipe of com- munication ; the base is the mouth and opposite is the apex . The con- volutions are called whorls . The hinge in ...
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... British tribes ate human flesh ; and the Scots from Galloway killed and ate the English in the reign of Henry I. The Scythians were drink- ers of human blood . Columbus found cannibals in America . The aborigi- nes of the Caribbee ...
... British tribes ate human flesh ; and the Scots from Galloway killed and ate the English in the reign of Henry I. The Scythians were drink- ers of human blood . Columbus found cannibals in America . The aborigi- nes of the Caribbee ...
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Page 97 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 162 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 257 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 282 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 97 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 30 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 312 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Page 282 - For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
Page 284 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 154 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.