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2 giorni fa · Vauxhall was founded by Alexander Wilson in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer. It was purchased by Andrew Betts Brown in 1863, who began producing travelling cranes under the company, renaming it "Vauxhall Iron Works". The company began manufacturing cars in 1903, and changed its name back around this time.
2 giorni fa · Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes appeared in 1857, and is considered to be the founding book in the school story tradition.: 7–8 However, it was Lewis Carroll's fantasy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 in England, that signaled the change in writing style for children to an imaginative and empathetic one.
2 giorni fa · Voci su unità militari presenti su Wikipedia. La Scuola militare "Nunziatella" di Napoli, fondata il 18 novembre 1787 come Reale accademia militare, è uno dei più antichi istituti di formazione militare d'Italia e del mondo [1] [2] [3]. Ha sede a Pizzofalcone nell'antico edificio, costruito nel 1588, già sede del Noviziato dei Gesuiti, che ...
22 ore fa · During the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the 4,000 members of the native garrison were disarmed without bloodshed; [citation needed] the absence of conflict during the rebellion meant that Peshawar was not affected by the widespread devastation that was experienced throughout the rest of British India and local chieftains sided with the British after the incident.
22 ore fa · The Indian National Congress ( INC ), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. [a] [30] From the late 19th century, and especially ...
3 giorni fa · Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
3 giorni fa · Sapporo [a] (札幌市, Sapporo-shi, [sapːoɾo ɕi] ⓘ) ( Ainu: サッ・ポロ・ペッ, romanized: Satporopet, lit. 'Dry, Great River') [2] is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city in Japan.
