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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1831   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
September 22 - UK House of Commons passes the Reform Bill - it is later defeated in the House of Lords
October 30 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /1831   (602 words)

  
 September 15 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1941 - The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act.
1887 - Carlos Dávila, President of Chile and Secretary General of the Organization of American States (d.
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 The Royal Institution of Great Britain
During his tenure generations of officers of the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery learnt their chemistry from him.
This volume, in which just under 60% of the letters were previously unpublished, traces Faraday's early life from near the end of his apprenticeship as a bookbinder in 1812 to 1831, the year he discovered electro-magnetic induction.
Scientific work includes his discovery of electro-magnetic rotations and induction and the liquefaction of chlorine gas as well as a vast amount of professional consultancy work including the project to improve optical glass at the end of the 1820s.
www.rigb.org /rimain/heritage/faradaypage.jsp   (2536 words)

  
 Italy
After 1800, Italy was unified by Napoléon, who crowned himself king of Italy in 1805; but with the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria once again became the dominant power in a disunited Italy.
In April 2005, regional elections had disastrous results for Berlusconi's center-right coalition.
In parliamentary elections held April 2006, the center-left Union coalition led by Romano Prodi won 49.8% of the vote and Berlusconi's House of Liberties coalition won 49.7%—a mere 25,000 vote difference.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107658.html   (1528 words)

  
 Edinburgh University Library: Previously Answered Reference Questions
Then there is the Keele University site Elections and electoral systems around the world offering data by country from several different sources, and the University of California (San Diego) Lijphart Elections Archive.
The term had originally been applied as the name of an Indian tribe and has gone on to be used in naming a river and its area and is also used to denote the particular configuration of main river and tributary.
Thatcher meanwhile had demonstrated that the UK was making a disproportionate contribution to the Community budget as a result of the workings of the Common Agricultural Policy.
www.lib.ed.ac.uk /faqs/parqs.shtml   (12448 words)

  
 NYPL, Databases and Indexes Online
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.
Search for general information on a property in New York City, including block and lot number, census track and landmark status.
From 1831 through 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a "Missing Friends" column with advertisements from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States.
www.nypl.org /databases/index.cfm?act=2&free=yes   (4106 words)

  
 Science in the 19th Century Periodical
General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of all Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 10 vols, London: G. and J. Robinson [and 3 others]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute
To Which is Prefixed, the Report Made to the Academy of Sciences, on the General Results of the Expedition, London: Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttal, jun. and Richter
A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy, Explaining the General Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies, Written Expressly to Accompany Urania's Mirror; or, A View of the Heavens; Consisting of Thirty-two Cards on which are Represented All the Constellations Visible in Great Britain; on a Plan Perfectly Original, Designed by a Lady, London: Samuel Leigh.
www.sciper.org /browse/bib_a.html   (1868 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Belgium
elections: none; the monarchy is hereditary; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the monarch and then approved by Parliament
Supreme Court of Justice or Hof van Cassatie (in Dutch) or Cour de Cassation (in French) (judges are appointed for life by the Government; candidacies have to be submitted by the High Justice Council)
general assessment: highly developed, technologically advanced, and completely automated domestic and international telephone and telegraph facilities
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/be.html   (1186 words)

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