Actualités ac463/1879
Inventeur de l'ampoule électrique
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:00:00 GMT
L'invention de l'ampoule est généralement attribuée à Thomas Edison, qui conçoit puis commercialise, le 21 octobre 1879, une ampoule dont le filament est une fibre de coton carbonisée. Mais c'est en ...
Tranter Model 1879 revolver
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:07:00 GMT
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Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:10:00 GMT
Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879 in Yanovka, Ukraine, then part of Russia. His father was a prosperous Jewish farmer. Trotsky became involved in underground activities ...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 'The Skiff (La Yole)', 1875
Thu, 16 May 2024 08:53:00 GMT
Although routinely dated to 1879–80, the picture was probably executed in 1875, the same year Renoir painted Luncheon at La Fournaise (Art Institute of Chicago), which has similar soft feathery ...
Sahih Bukhari 1879
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:30:00 GMT
Narrated Abu Bakra: The Prophet said, The terror caused by Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal will not enter Medina and at that time Medina will have seven gates and there will be ...
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, 'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando', 1879
Fri, 08 Apr 2016 08:27:00 GMT
After it was finished, the painting was shown at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1879. Hanging from the ceiling by her teeth, is trapeze artist and aerialist Miss La La. She performed ...
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 08:04:00 GMT
Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal ...
Sir Matthew Smith
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:10:00 GMT
Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of ...
Sarah Faraday (1800–1879)
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:22:00 GMT
Louisa Charlotte Hamilton married John Tyndall, then Superintendent of the House and Director of the Laboratory at the Royal Institution, in Westminster Abbey on 29 February 1876, when he was in the ...
Lighting a Revolution
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:27:00 GMT
By the fall of 1879 the pieces began to fall into place, and on New Years Eve Edison invited the world to Menlo Park to see the new invention. This exhibition, opened to commemorate the centennial of ...
The Battle of Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
Sun, 23 Jan 2022 03:04:00 GMT
He was captured following the Battle of Ulundi on the 4th of July 1879. He was exiled first to Cape Town, and then to London. His gentle nature charmed many in that city, and his treatment by Bartle ...