Manual of Useful Information: Embracing More Than 100,000 Facts, Figures and Fancies, Drawn from Every Land and Language, and Carefully Classified for the Ready Reference of Teachers, Students and the Family CircleWerner Company, 1895 - 480 halaman |
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... centuries . Gaelic students claim that St. Brendan , an Irish monk , reached this continent in the sixth century . The first telegraph in operation in America was between Washing- ton and Baltimore , May 27 , 1844 . The largest tree in ...
... centuries . Gaelic students claim that St. Brendan , an Irish monk , reached this continent in the sixth century . The first telegraph in operation in America was between Washing- ton and Baltimore , May 27 , 1844 . The largest tree in ...
Halaman 17
... century and over of national life are the following : Anti- Renters , a New York party which flourished about 1841. They resisted the collection of back rents on the Van Rensselaer manor near Albany . They had strength enough to defeat ...
... century and over of national life are the following : Anti- Renters , a New York party which flourished about 1841. They resisted the collection of back rents on the Van Rensselaer manor near Albany . They had strength enough to defeat ...
Halaman 41
... century . The sun - dial , as a time - measurer , was known in very early ages , and is mentioned in Scripture 713 B.C. A sun - dial only agrees with a clock on four days in the year . It is the science of chronology which arranges the ...
... century . The sun - dial , as a time - measurer , was known in very early ages , and is mentioned in Scripture 713 B.C. A sun - dial only agrees with a clock on four days in the year . It is the science of chronology which arranges the ...
Halaman 42
... century . Clocks with wheels were used in monasteries about the twelfth century , and were made to strike the hour . Pendulum said to have been first applied by Harris , 1641 ; dead - beat pendulum invented , 1700 ; and the compensating ...
... century . Clocks with wheels were used in monasteries about the twelfth century , and were made to strike the hour . Pendulum said to have been first applied by Harris , 1641 ; dead - beat pendulum invented , 1700 ; and the compensating ...
Halaman 48
... century that January was universally adopted by European nations as the first month of the year , although the Romans considered it as such as far back as 251 B.C. February is the name given to the second month , in which were ...
... century that January was universally adopted by European nations as the first month of the year , although the Romans considered it as such as far back as 251 B.C. February is the name given to the second month , in which were ...
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