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v. t. e. The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda Crisis ( French: Crise de Fachoda ), was the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring between 10 July to 3 November 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin and ...
Foxit PDF Reader. Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF ( Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. [3] Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. [4]
A campaign hat used by the Legion of Frontiersmen, c. 1910s. A campaign hat, sometimes called campaign cover, is a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat, with a high crown, pinched symmetrically at the four corners. The campaign hat is occasionally referred to as a Stetson, derived from its origin in the company's Boss of the Plains model in the late ...
November 10 – The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898: A coup d'état by white supremacists. November 26 – A 2-day blizzard known as the Portland Gale piles snow in Boston, Massachusetts, and severely impacts the Massachusetts fishing industry and several coastal New England towns. December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the ...
On August 23, 1898, the flag of Hawaii over Iolani Palace was lowered and the United States flag raised to signify annexation. The Newlands Resolution, 30 Stat. 750, was a joint resolution passed on July 7, 1898, by the United States Congress to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii. In 1900, Congress created the Territory of Hawaii .
Mandell Creighton (/ ˈ m æ n d əl ˈ k r aɪ t ən /; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) [a] was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England.A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship established around the time that history was emerging as an independent ...
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