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  Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum Education
Wagons that had wheels the widths of the grooves were pulled over the roads by horses.
One day in 1803, a man named Samuel Homfray and several companions were watching a horse pull three loaded wagons along a tramway in Wales.
Talk turned from the quality of the horse to speculation about the suitability of steam for the same purpose.
www.berkshirescenicrailroad.com /education.php   (7600 words)

  
 Ming Empire 1368-1644 by Sanderson Beck
During a struggle for power in Annam (northern Vietnam) a Ming army of 215,000 invaded in 1406, and it was declared a Chinese province; but a liberation movement began in 1408, accelerated in 1418, and was a problem Yongle left to his successors.
Korea sent horses and oxen occasionally as tribute starting in 1403, but the heaviest burden was the 150 ounces of gold and 700 ounces of silver sent annually.
The Chinese used an embargo of the silk road in 1497 to restrain the Turfanese.
www.san.beck.org /3-7-MingEmpire.html   (23715 words)

  
 Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That November, Thatcher was challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Sir Anthony Meyer.
As Meyer was a virtually unknown backbench MP, he was viewed as a stalking horse candidate for more prominent members of the party.
Thatcher easily defeated Meyer's challenge, but there were sixty ballot papers either cast for Meyer or abstaining, a surprisingly large number for a sitting Prime Minister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Thatcher   (7946 words)

  
 Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots
The first iron ore deposits to attract serious attention, in the late 1930s, were on islands off the North West coast, Cockatoo and Koolan.
The embargo took effect from 1 July 1938 and cost Nippon Mining Company, which had already contracted to buy one million tons of ore a year from Koolan Island, £500,000, arousing great resentment among the Japanese.
Nippon Mining Company's Chief Geologist wrote to the Australian Government suggesting that if a proper survey were done, 'especially in Western Australia', the existence of an enormous amount of iron ore would be established, sufficient to guarantee supplies for hundreds of years.
www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots   (9972 words)

  
 The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
If there is, we must conjecture its purpose; we must conjecture the words, the definitions, the etymologies, the synonyms, from the secret dictionary of God.
La imposibilidad de penetrar el esquema divino del universo no puede, sin embargo, disuadirnos de planear esquemas humanos, aunque nos conste que éstos son provisorios.
cree, sin embargo, que esos tintes, en todas sus fusiones y conversiones, son representables con precisión por un mecanismo arbitrario de gruñidos y de chillidos.
www.crockford.com /wrrrld/wilkins.html   (1993 words)

  
 February 3 Events in History
February 3, 1994 President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam
February 3, 1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
February 3, 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
www.brainyhistory.com /days/february_3.html   (1811 words)

  
 Mallary Auction Sale
Four-column text of Robert Wright (Maryland) speech in the U.S. House, denouncing Federalists for opposition to Embargo, War of 1812, appropriations for military; singles out Isaac Tichenor and Martin Chittenden of Vermont as among the worst offenders.
With 1860 Lincoln speech The Republican Party Vindicated (Washington, 1860), 16 pp., bound in at back; woodcut port.
12mo, 340 pp., front., plates, ads, Morgan horse in gilt on front cover.
www.parkinsonbooks.com /04auction/04uvm.html   (9767 words)

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