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John Hookham Frere
John Hookham Frere 1769-1846, British writer and diplomat. He was a member of Parliament (1796-1802) and with his friend George Canning wrote effective parodies and satires for the political newspaper, the Anti-Jacobin. He was undersecretary of state (1799-1800) and minister to Lisbon (1800-180... Read more
Stow
Stow , city (1990 pop. 27,702), Summit co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Akron; settled 1802, inc. as a city 1960. Chiefly residential, it has some light industry. ... Read more
James Ballantyne
James Ballantyne , 1772-1833, Scottish editor and publisher. Ballantyne and his brother John set up a publishing business in Edinburgh with the aid of Sir Walter Scott . The firm published Scott's works, beginning in 1802 with Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. ... Read more
Pallas
Pallas , in astronomy, 2d asteroid to be discovered. It was found in 1802 by H. Olbers. The second largest asteroid, it has a diameter of c.300 mi (480 km). Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 2.78 astronomical units and a period of 1,684 days. ... Read more
Lord William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck
Lord William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck 1802-48, English politician and sportsman, known as Lord George. Although he entered Parliament in 1826, he was known primarily for his horse-racing activities until in 1846 he emerged as a leading opponent of the repeal of the corn laws. His brillia... Read more
Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon 1802-81, American Congregational minister, b. Detroit, Mich. He served for 41 years as pastor of the First Church of New Haven, one of the leading Congregational churches in the country. Bacon was a noted antislavery leader, although not an abolitionist. His Slavery Discussed in Occa... Read more
Edward Law Ellenborough, 1st Baron
Edward Law Ellenborough, 1st Baron 1750-1818, British jurist and statesman. He achieved fame through his successful defense of Warren Hastings in the impeachment trial (1788-95), but his principal influence on England lay in his lifelong conservatism. As attorney general (1801) and lord chief jus... Read more
Grangemouth
Grangemouth , town (1981 pop. 21,744), Falkirk, central Scotland, on the Forth River at the eastern terminus of the Forth and Clyde canal. Grangemouth is an important oil and container port, with oil refineries and large chemical works. Imports include timber, wood pulp, rubber, and large quantities... Read more
Richard Henry Horne
Richard Henry Horne or Richard Hengist Horne, 1802-84, English author. His chief work was the allegorical poem Orion (1843). A New Spirit of the Age (1844), written with Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and others, contains social and literary studies. His correspondence... Read more
John Playfair
John Playfair 1748-1819, Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist. He was educated at St. Andrews and Edinburgh and taught first mathematics and then physics and astronomy at the latter university. His Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802) elucidated the methods and pr... Read more

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Judiciary Acts of 1801 and 1802
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Judiciary Acts of 1801 and 1802 Ratification of the Constitution provoked...Extensive congressional debate in 1802 over repeal of the 1801 act raised many...behavior. The Repeal Act, passed 8 March 1802, restored the former judicial system...
Dumas, Alexandre (1802–1870)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Dumas, Alexandre (1802 – 1870) The French novelist and dramatist commonly known as...Villers-Cotter ê ts, a small town in northern France, in 1802. Dumas's own colorful life reads like a novel. His father, a general...
Quimby, Phineas P(arkhurst) (1802-1866)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Quimby, Phineas P(arkhurst) (1802-1866) An early influential exponent of Mind Cure, later known as New Thought. Born February 16, 1802 in Lebanon, New Hampshire, he became a clockmaker before becoming interested in Mesmerism in 1838...
Brofferio, Angelo (1802-1866)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Brofferio, Angelo (1802-1866) Italian scientist who was converted to Spiritualism by Eusapia Palladino 's mediumship. His first book, Per lo Spiritismo (Milan, 1892), endorsed the spirit hypothesis.
Chambers, Robert (1802-1871)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Chambers, Robert (1802-1871) British writer and publisher who played no public part in Spiritualism but whose conversion and anonymous activity, especially...
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) The great French romantic novelist. He was keenly interested in Spiritism. He wrote, "To avoid phenomena, to make...
Novalis (Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg; 1772–1802)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Leopold von Hardenberg; 1772 – 1802) NOVALIS (Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg; 1772 – 1802), German poet, aphorist, theoretician...unfinished novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802), and the mystical-political essay...
Mamluks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...influence. Sulayman Agha (1780 – 1802), known as "the Great," restored the...His immediate successors, Ali Pasha (1802 – 1807), Sulayman the Little...Tribal Shaykhs and Local Rule between 1802 and 1831. The Hague and Boston: M. Nijhoff...
Harriet Martineau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), an English writer and an adherent...Martineau was born in Norwich on June 12, 1802. Her life is the story of adversity overcome...Harriet Martineau, the woman and her work, 1802-76, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...
Thompson, Benjamin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Philosophical (4 vols., 1796–1802). In Munich (1796–98) he...Common Purposes of Life (1799). After 1802 he lived in France, where he married Madame...reports published in Philosophical Papers (1802).

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Cels, Jacques-Philippe-Martin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and fruit trees. In 1800 – 1802 É tienne Ventenat published Description...grasses (1799) and the Astragologia (1802) of Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, and in the Liliac é es (1802 – 1816) of P. J. Redout...
Jussieu, Antoine-Laurent De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...from monasteries and private homes. Until 1802 much of the scientists ’ time...the resumption of scienctific activity in 1802, Jussieu ” published six memoirs...d ’ histoire naturelle, 1 (1802), 1-14; 2 (1803), 1-16; 3...
Barton, Benjamin Smith
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Lisbon (his doctoral thesis?) and in 1802 in German in G ö ttingen. Barton...Society ’ s curators, and from 1802 to 1815 as one of its vice-presidents...visited Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in 1802, and revisited Virginia in 1805. Barton...
Louisiana Purchase
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...territory might be averted. The Purchase In 1802 it seemed that Jefferson's fears were...had been weak. Accordingly, in April 1802 Jefferson and other leaders instructed...attempted to regain control of Haiti in 1802; however, despite some successes, thousands...
Judiciary Act of 1801
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...circuit courts in the Judiciary Act of 1802 and revert to the provisions of the Judiciary...sought to rally his fellows to declare the 1802 act unconstitutional in that it removed...the Supreme Court declined to rule the 1802 law unconstitutional. The expanded jurisdiction...
Chenevix, Richard
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and of sapphire, ruby, and corundum (1802). The publication of Remarks Upon Chemical...the Principles of the French Nelogists in 1802 won for him the reputation of a pioneer...Priniciples of the French Neologists (London, 1802); and “ Sur quelques m...
Rondelet, Jean-Baptiste
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...ois Soufflot (before 1764–1802) ) directing the works. He altered...Treatise on the Art of Building—1802–17), although he also published...and Watkin (1987); Rondelet (1790, 1802–17, 1852)
Ibn Al-‘Awwām Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā Ibn Muḥammad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Enlightenment, advised by Pedro Campomanes (1723 – 1802), incited the Arabists of the period ot publish its translation...autor el doctor excelente Abu Zacaria ...,2 vols. (Madrid, 1802). There is also a r é sum é of this translation...
Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2014; in the tower of the Michaelis Church in Hamburg in 1802, and in a mine shaft in Schlebusch, in the Earldom of Mark...geographischen L ä nge durch Sternschnuppen (Hamburg, 1802), Versuche ü ber das Gesetz des Falls, ü ber...
Brodie, Benjamin Collins
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Hospital. He entered the Windmill Street School of Anatomy in 1802 and in 1803 became surgical pupil of Everard Home, enrolling...Promoting Knowledge of Animal Chemistry, which had been founded ca . 1802 and of which Humphry Davy was a member. Physiology in England...

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Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...became homophones. By the early nineteenth century, it was possible to engage in wordplay between the words—as in an 1802 cartoon (“Neddy [a donkey] Paces at Tunbridge Wells [in Kent, England]”), in which one female rider...

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1802: Jane Austen and her world 200 years ago.(Conference Papers)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...but that it would be fun to take the year 1802 and describe what was happening in Jane...and of course necessary, parameters. 1802 is a pivotal year in more ways than one...Austen, I shall argue, the events of 1802 conspired to set her path for life. It...
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802 & Wordsworth: A Poet's History.
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802. (Yale University Press, 2001), viii...the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802--seems sharply different yet consistently...although most significant, year--1802 and, even more intriguing, six months...
Intermec ScanPlus 1800 and 1802 Bar Code Scanners Now Support RSS Bar Codes; Free Flash Software Upgrade for Popular Scanners Lets Retailers Easily Migrate to New Symbology.
Business Wire; 7/3/2002; 700+ words ; ...seven variations. New ScanPlus 1800 and 1802 scanners support all linear versions of...Current owners of ScanPlus 1800 and ScanPlus 1802 scanners can upgrade their units with a...computers." The ScanPlus 1800 and cordless 1802 are high-performance, compact, and...
Ballard & Tighe English Language Development Products Approved by the State of California for Purchase Under AB 1802.
Business Wire; 2/15/2008; 700+ words ; ...funds made available through California Assembly Bill 1802. AB 1802 provides $30 million for California schools to purchase...surprise that our products have been approved under AB 1802," said Mark Espinola, CEO of Ballard & Tighe...
My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802-1804. George Nelson. Laura Peers and...an introduction, the two journals (1802-03, 1803-04), and a collection of...title "First Winter in the Northwest, 1802-03" by Peers and Schenck, is not a...
John Wilson to William Wordsworth (1802): a new text.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Lyrical Ballads. At age sixteen in June, 1802, he wrote a remarkably insightful letter...Wordsworth's Letter to John Wilson, 1802: A Corrected Version," ed. John O...poet's intention. In his Preface to the 1802 edition of Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth makes...
Amiens 1802: the phoney peace: David Johnson reconsiders the nature of the peace treaty between Britain and France and the tarnished reputation of prime minister Addington.(Column)
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Britain and France at Amiens on March 27th, 1802, was welcomed on both sides of the English...Consul for life by plebiscite in August 1802, was persistently acting against the spirit...overseas. The final peace terms in March 1802 were even harsher to Britain than the preliminaries...
Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...come to be known as the Easter Plot of 1802, a vast conspiracy involving several counties...Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Using a daunting array of sources, Egerton...chapters constitute "Part Two: Halifax 1802." Chapters 8 and 9 treat the Easter Plot...
White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892. Lawrence: University Press of...picks up the story of the alcohol trade in 1802. His "Indian Country," a territory...takes up the story of the alcohol trade in 1802, thirty years after the end of the period...
JOHNSON ANNOUNCES SUBCOMMITTEE ACTION ON H.R. 1802, THE "FOSTER CARE INDEPENDENCE ACT OF 1999"
Transcript from: Capitol Hill Press Releases; 5/21/1999; 700+ words ; ...Announces Subcommittee Action on H.R. 1802, the ``Foster Care Independence Act...the full Committee, as amended, H.R. 1802, the ``Foster Care Independence Act...by voice vote. DESCRIPTION OF H.R. 1802 AS APPROVED: Title I - Improved Independent...