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A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation is a 1989 American feature film dramatizing the events of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.The film was produced by Brigham Young University to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the drafting of the United States Constitution, and many professors from BYU's School of Fine Arts and Communications were involved in its production either as actors ...
James Weddell FRSE (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.
James Weddell (1787–1834), English navigator and Antarctic explorer; Robert Weddell (1882–1951), Australian soldier and government administrator; Places.
1834 – James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (b. 1787) 1841 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (b. 1778) 1891 – Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813) 1893 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (b. 1807)
August 24 – James Weddell (died 1834), Flemish-born Anglo-Scots seal hunter and Antarctic explorer. September 5 – François Sulpice Beudant (died 1850), French mineralogist et geologist. September 15 – Guillaume-Henri Dufour (died 1875), Swiss engineer et topographer. November 5 – John Richardson (died 1865), Scottish naturalist ...
'Publius' (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) – The Federalist papers (serial publication begins with Hamilton's "Federalist No. 1 – General Introduction" in The Independent Journal (New York City), October 27) [11] Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1; Mary Wollstonecraft – Thoughts on the Education of Daughters [12]
Ellis constructed his book by assessing certain events during the decade following the 1787 Constitutional Convention, . He chooses to do this not in any systematic or comprehensive manner, but by focusing on a half-dozen political personages (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr) and a handful of revealing episodes that would test ...
Bowen draws much of her information from notes and journals of the Framers, especially James Madison. It contains vivid description of many founders including George Washington , Benjamin Franklin , James Madison , Alexander Hamilton , George Mason , and Gouverneur Morris , important compromises such as the Great Compromise , and controversial ...