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1866 in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: 1866 MDCCCLXVI: Ab urbe condita: 2619: Armenian calendar: 1315 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԵ: Assyrian calendar: 6616: Baháʼí ...
The Venetian plebiscite of 1866, also known officially as the Plebiscite of Venetian Provinces and Mantua (Italian: Plebiscito di Venezia, delle province venete e di quella di Mantova), was a plebiscite that took place on Sunday 21 and Monday 22 October 1866 to sanction the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy of the lands ceded to France by the Austrian Empire following the Third War of ...
Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hēphaistíōn; fl. 2nd century AD) was a grammarian of Alexandria who flourished in the age of the Antonines.He was the author of a manual (abridged from a larger work in 48 books) of Greek metres, which is most valuable as the only complete treatise on the subject that has been preserved.
Atop this lunette is a cartouche of a shield with a carved eagle and inscriptions of two years in Roman numerals: [3] MDCCCLXVI (1866), when the Brooklyn Trust Company received its charter, and MCMXV (1915), when the building was finished. [24] The shield is topped by a winged helmet, which in turn is flanked by a set of interlocking key ...
The confessio of Santa Francesca Romana is the confessio, the enclosed area below the altar, of the Basilica of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome.. It was built between 1638 and 1649 to a design by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, including a bronze sculptural group of St Frances and the angel.
Matthias W. Baldwin was an American manufacturer and inventor who worked in Philadelphia during the 1800s. [1] While working at a manufacturing firm, he became interested in steam engine technology and, in 1832, he designed and built one of the first successful American steam locomotives, which was nicknamed Old Ironsides. [1]
The eldest son of the Rev. James Esdaile, D.D. (1775–1854), a minister of the Church of Scotland, [2] and Margaret Blair (1781–1843), he was born in Montrose, Angus, Scotland on 6 February 1808.
The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Applications to Human Welfare was a British journal, devoted to the promotion of the theories and practices (and the collection and dissemination of reports of the applications) of the pseudoscientific concepts of mesmerism and phrenology, and the enterprise of "connecting and harmonizing practical science with little ...