The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Том 10F. Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... authorities . assign an earlier year . His father , Ariston , traced his ancestry to Codrus , the last King of Athens , and his mother , Peric- tyone , was of the family of Solon . His name was originally Aristocles , but from the width ...
... authorities . assign an earlier year . His father , Ariston , traced his ancestry to Codrus , the last King of Athens , and his mother , Peric- tyone , was of the family of Solon . His name was originally Aristocles , but from the width ...
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... friends desired to erect a monument to him in the church of Santa Croce ; but the authorities would not permit it . His body was buried in an obscure corner of the chapel of SS . Cosimo and Damiano , within the convent GALILEO . 27.
... friends desired to erect a monument to him in the church of Santa Croce ; but the authorities would not permit it . His body was buried in an obscure corner of the chapel of SS . Cosimo and Damiano , within the convent GALILEO . 27.
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... authorities against it . Then came the dawn of the railway era . A money prize was offered by the first railway company for a locomotive to draw twenty tons at the speed of ten miles an hour . Five months were allowed for building the ...
... authorities against it . Then came the dawn of the railway era . A money prize was offered by the first railway company for a locomotive to draw twenty tons at the speed of ten miles an hour . Five months were allowed for building the ...
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... authorities to take up his matured plans for fitting armored vessels with guns below the water - line , but met with the usual rebuffs from red - tape officialdom . He had success- fully established more than a hundred important patents ...
... authorities to take up his matured plans for fitting armored vessels with guns below the water - line , but met with the usual rebuffs from red - tape officialdom . He had success- fully established more than a hundred important patents ...
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... authorities during the War of the Rebellion . Her ever - ready aid was solicited by both sides during the Franco - Prussian War . But the great heart of Florence Nightingale has never waited to be asked for practi- cal sympathy . Enough ...
... authorities during the War of the Rebellion . Her ever - ready aid was solicited by both sides during the Franco - Prussian War . But the great heart of Florence Nightingale has never waited to be asked for practi- cal sympathy . Enough ...
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