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These and other puzzling facts remained insoluble until the publication, in the year 1840, of Mr. Darwin's famous work on coral reefs; in which a key was given to all the difficult problems connected with the subject, and every difficulty was shown to be capable of solution by deductive reasoning from a happy combination of certain well-established geological and biological truths. Mr.
Illinois had by 1840 two well-developed party organizations, which enveloped the people of the State, as on a large scale they embraced the nation. These parties came to have an enduring, institutional character. Men were born Democrats and Whigs.
The joint board of commissioners created by this convention to examine and decide upon these claims was not organized until the month of August, 1840, and under the terms of the convention they were to terminate their duties within eighteen months from that time.
Stretches of the Avenue The Stretch of Tradition Washington Arch Old Homes and Gardens The Mews and MacDougal Alley In the Fourth Decade A Genial Ruffian of the Olden Time Sailor's Snug Harbor The Miss Green School Andrew H. Green, John Fiske, John Bigelow, Elihu Root, and Others as Teachers The Brevoort Farm The First Hotel of the Avenue A Romance of 1840 "Both Sides of the Avenue."
'Yes, was the reply, 'but I haven't yet quite settled on which side. And when he did make his choice, on the whole he chose rightly. The author of that noble pamphlet 'Chartism, published in 1840, was at least once a Liberal.
In this office Mezzofanti continued till the year 1840, when, in conjunction with the distinguished scholar just named, he was raised to the cardinalate.
Death passes by Life comes. On the 10th of June, 1840, occurred the first mad attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria made as she and Prince Albert were driving up Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace, in a small open phaeton. Prince Albert, in a letter to his grandmamma, gives the clearest account of it.
His method was to coat the wire with pitch inclose it in split rattan, and then wrap the whole with tarred yarn. Wheatstone discussed a Calais-Dover cable in 1840, but it remained for Morse to actually lay an experimental cable. We have already heard of his experiments in New York Harbor in 1842. His insulation was tarred hemp and India rubber.
In the army of the United States, during the period from 1840 to 1854, not including the two years of the Mexican War, there was an average of 9,278 men, or an aggregate of 120,622 years of service, equal to so many men serving one year.
HENRY S. LANE was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, February 24, 1811. After having obtained an academical education, he studied law, and removed to Indiana, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1837 he was elected to the Indiana Legislature. In 1840 he was elected a Representative in Congress from Indiana.
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