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3 days ago · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK:...
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Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and...
- Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel...
- Matilda
Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of...
- The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Title page from an 1857 edition of Perkin Warbeck. The...
- Lord Byron
Lord Byron. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22...
- John William Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821)...
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2 days ago · The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812.
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2 days ago · Battle of Bladensburg. James Madison (March 16, 1751 [b] – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the ...
3 days ago · In 1816 these masterpieces of western art were acquired by the British Museum by Act of Parliament and deposited in the museum thereafter. The collections were supplemented by the Bassae frieze from Phigaleia , Greece in 1815.
6 days ago · Introduction. Picture at left: Gallaudet and Clerc, an exceptional dedication (photo Dahmane Soudani). Use the Gallaudet Encyclopedia and The Sage Encyclopedia of Deaf Studies to find more information about Laurent Clerc and Thomas H. Gallaudet. They took a boat voyage on June 18, 1816, for 52 days to help found the American School for the Deaf ...
2 days ago · 1816: René Laennec invents the first Stethoscope. 1816: Francis Ronalds builds the first working electric telegraph using electrostatic means. 1816: Robert Stirling invents the Stirling engine. 1817: Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor to the modern bicycle.
