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4 giorni fa · This university constituency was created by a Royal Charter of 1603. It was abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948 . The constituency was not a geographical area. Its electorate consisted of the graduates of the University of Cambridge. Before 1918 the franchise was restricted to male graduates with a Doctorate or Master ...
2 giorni fa · Empress Eugénie in 1853, after her marriage to Napoleon III, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Soon after becoming emperor, Napoleon III began searching for a wife to give him an heir. [citation needed] He was still attached to his companion Harriet Howard, who attended receptions at the Élysée Palace and traveled around France with him.
4 giorni fa · In response to these criticisms, in 1853 Stowe published A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, an attempt to document the veracity of the novel's depiction of slavery. In the book, Stowe discusses each of the major characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin and cites "real life equivalents" to them while also mounting a more "aggressive attack on slavery in the South than the novel itself had". [34]
19 ore fa · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
19 ore fa · Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary ...
3 giorni fa · On March 1, 1803, Ohio was admitted to the union as the 17th state. Settlement of Ohio was chiefly by migrants from New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Southerners settled along the southern part of the territory, arriving by travel along the Ohio River from the Upper South.
4 giorni fa · Yokohama ( Japanese: 横浜, pronounced [jokohama] ⓘ) is the second-largest city in Japan by population [1] and by area, and the country's most populous municipality. [a] It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the ...
