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Franz Berwald
Franz Berwald , 1796-1868, Swedish composer. His music, which is highly original in its use of rhythm, harmony, and orchestration, had little popular success. Best known for his four surviving symphonies, he also wrote several concertos, chamber works, and operas. ... Read more
Memorial Day
Memorial Day holiday in the United States observed in late May. Previously designated Decoration Day, it was inaugurated in 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans and has since become a day on which all war dead are commemorated. ... Read more
Felix Slade
Felix Slade 1790-1868, English art collector and philanthropist. He endowed the Slade professorships of fine arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and at University College, London, which also received six Slade scholarships in art. His fine collections of glass, books, and engravings were give... Read more
University of the South
University of the South called Sewanee, at Sewanee, Tenn.; Episcopal; coeducational; chartered 1858, opened 1868. It has a college of arts and sciences and a theological school. The university publishes the Sewanee Review, an influential literary magazine. Bibliography: See history by A... Read more
Daniel Pierce Thompson
Daniel Pierce Thompson 1795-1868, American novelist, b. Charlestown, Mass. He wrote adventure novels, many of which deal with life in Vermont. His notable work is The Green Mountain Boys (1839). ... Read more
Yokosuka
Yokosuka , city (1990 pop. 433,358), Kanagawa prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan. It has an important naval base (founded 1868) and shipyards. It is a major fishing and trade port. Yokosuka is also known for the tomb of William Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan. ... Read more
Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs , 1832-97, German botanist. A professor at the Univ. of Würzburg from 1868, he was a founder of experimental plant physiology. He demonstrated the importance of transpiration in plants and the role of chlorophyll; his researches on plant metabolism were a major contribution. He... Read more
Black Kettle
Black Kettle d. 1868, chief of the southern Cheyenne in Colorado. His attempt to make peace (1864) with the white men ended in the massacre of about half his people at Sand Creek . Despite this treachery on the part of the whites, he continued to seek peace with them, and in 1865 he signed the T... Read more
William Butterfield
William Butterfield 1814-1900, English Gothic-revival architect. Favored by the Ecclesiological Society for his Puginlike correctness in recalling Gothic forms, Butterfield rose to prominence in the middle of the 19th cent. The brilliant polychromy that he created through his combinations of brick,... Read more
aspartic acid
aspartic acid , organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer participates in the biosynthesis of proteins. Its acidic side chain adds a negative charge and hence a greater degree of water-solubility to proteins in neutral solution and h... Read more

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Elliotson, John (1791-1868)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Elliotson, John (1791-1868) President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical...according to the Morning Post of August 3, 1868 " … he expressed his conviction...Elliotson died the next year on July 29, 1868, in London.
Bennett, Ernest (Nathaniel) (1868-1947)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Bennett, Ernest (Nathaniel) (1868-1947) British politician and writer on psychic phenomena. Born December 8, 1868, at Rede, Suffolk, England, he was educated at Durham School and Hertford College, Oxford, and in 1915 he married Marguerite...
Geley, Gustav (1868-1924)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Geley, Gustav (1868-1924) Distinguished French psychical researcher. Geley was born in 1868 at Montceau-les-Mines, France, and became a physician. In his first book, l'Etre Subconscient (1899), he expounded a theory of "dynamo...
Meyrink, Gustav (1868-1932)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Meyrink, Gustav (1868-1932) Pseudonym of German novelist Gustav Meyer, famous for his occult...in Europe before and during World War I. Meyrink was born June 19, 1868 in Vienna but was later taken by his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia...
Pepper, May S. (1868-?)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Pepper, May S. (1868-?) Pastor of the First Spiritualist Church of Brooklyn, whose powers...considerable time. She was born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, in May 1868. When only 16 years old, after the death of her mother, she became...
De Tonquedec, Joseph (1868-1962)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology De Tonquedec, Joseph (1868-1962) Jesuit priest and writer on parapsychology. De Tonquedec was born December 27, 1868, at Morlaix (Finist è re), France. He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1899 and his doctorate in theology...
Fleming, Alice Kipling (1868-1948)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Fleming, Alice Kipling (1868-1948) Sister of British author Rudyard Kipling who became a well...automatic writing under the name "Mrs. Holland." Born June 11, 1868, Alice Kipling was privately educated. She went to India at age 16...
David-Neel, Alexandra (1868-1969)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology David-Neel, Alexandra (1868-1969) French traveler, author, and Tibetan scholar. Born in the Paris suburb of Saint-Mand é on October 24, 1868, Alexandra David-Neel had a lonely childhood and spent much of her...
Percival, Harold Waldwin (1868-1953)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Percival, Harold Waldwin (1868-1953) Harold W. Percival, Theosophist and founder of the Word Foundation, was born April 15, 1868, at his parents' plantation near Bridgetown, Barbados, in the British West Indies. He lived on Barbados...
Cubberley, Ellwood (1868–1941)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD (1868 – 1941) An influential educator in the field of educational...of the twentieth century. Education and Career Cubberley was born in 1868 in Antioch (later to be named Andrews), Indiana. He graduated from...

Dictionary entries related to "1868"

Laramie, Fort, Treaty of (1868)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History LARAMIE, FORT, TREATY OF (1868) LARAMIE, FORT, TREATY OF (1868). Established in 1863 and running through some of the...unwilling to support a protracted Indian war. In 1867 and 1868 commissioners were sent out to attempt to end the conflict...
Marcinowski, Johannes (Jaroslaw) (1868-1935)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis MARCINOWSKI, JOHANNES (JAROSLAW) (1868-1935) Johannes (Jaroslaw) Marcinowski, a German neurologist, was born in Breslau, Poland, on November 13, 1868, and died in T ü bingen-Waldhausen, Germany, on February 13, 1935...
Stekel, Wilhelm (1868-1940)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis STEKEL, WILHELM (1868-1940) An Austrian physician and psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Stekel was born on March 18, 1868, at Boyan, Bukovina. He died on June 25, 1940, in London. After matriculating from a German secondary school in Czernowitz...
Emden, Jan Egbert Gustaaf van (1868-1950)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EMDEN, JAN EGBERT GUSTAAF VAN (1868-1950) Jan van Emden, Dutch physician and psychoanalyst, was born in Paramaribo, Surinam, on August 5, 1868, and died in the Hague on March 23, 1950, aged 82. He was trained as a medical doctor at...
Powalky, Karl Rudolph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1861), Mercury to Neptune (1862-1868), Jupiter to Neptune (1871-1872...1875), Saturn ’ s rings (1868-1870, 1873-1875), eclipses (1871...x2019; s Tabulae reductionum , 1862-1868), and stellar occultations (1868-1876...
Bizet, (Alexandre Césare Léopold)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...fragmentary form are La Coupe du Roi de Thule (1868), Grisélidis (1870–...rev. 1871); Marche funèbre (1868–9); Petite Suite (1871...Variations Chromatiques de Concert (1868); Nocturne in D (1868); Jeux d'enfants...
La Primera Carga al Machete
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...the poetic into a reconstruction of the 1868 uprising against Spanish colonials and...cinema verité had been available in 1868. Light hand-held cameras and portable...the work tool which became a weapon in 1868 and the weapon of 1868 which is today the...
Kaiser, Frederik
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Annalen der Sternwarte in Leiden , 1 [1868], intro.) Kaiser ’ s staff...observations. In volume 1 of the Annalen (1868) he fully explained his methods and recorded...Annalen der Sternwarte in Leiden , 1 (1868), 2 (1870), and 3 (1872). See also...
Davis, Imprisonment and Trial of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...which were held from March to May in 1868, and the constitutional requirement that...delayed Davis's trial. In early December 1868 the government was prepared to go forward on an indictment for treason issued in March 1868 under a 1790 law that carried a mandatory...
Ute
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and the Black Hawk War (1863 – 1868) — were responses to this subsistence...established in eastern Utah in 1861. Between 1868 and 1877, battered Utah Utes moved to...encroaching miners. Treaties in 1863 and 1868, and an 1873 agreement reduced their homelands...

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1868 Crows at Fort Laramie.(feature photographs by Alexander Gardner at the Fort Laramie Treaty proceedings in the spring of 1868)
Magazine article from: Whispering Wind; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Laramie Treaty proceedings in the Spring of 1868. A delegation of Crow people attended the 1868 treaty proceedings at Ft. Laramie, somewhat...of mostly Mountain Crow agreed to return in 1868, but they made a hurried trip, not even bringing...
THE 1868 HAYWARD EARTHQUAKE: 139 YEARS AND COUNTING..
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/17/2007; 681 words ; ...map showing the shaking produced by the 1868 Hayward earthquake, the 12th most deadly...earthquake in U.S. history. A repeat of the 1868 earthquake on the Hayward Fault would produce...prepared the new map, "the October 21, 1868 earthquake struck Hayward the hardest of...
1868 quake on Hayward Fault was bigger than previously thought. The Big One in future may also be stronger than predicted.
Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA); 2/6/2007; 700+ words ; ...translates into much more damage. Assessing the 1868 quake is important because a repeat of...early-morning earthquake of Oct. 21, 1868, killed 30 people and toppled homes...felt between Santa Rosa and Gilroy. "The 1868 earthquake gives us an idea of what may...
Individual Rights Under State Constitutions when the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified in 1868: What Rights Are Deeply Rooted in American History and Tradition?
Magazine article from: Texas Law Review; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Fourteenth Amendment was enacted into law in 1868? If, as Judge McConnell argues, the...such rights did most Americans have in 1868? Put another way, what were the privileges or immunities that most Americans had in 1868? To shed light on this question, we decided...
Original 1868 Navajo Treaty returns to Land of The Dine
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 6/1/1998; 569 words ; ...Lakota Times) 06-01-1998 Original 1868 Navajo treaty returns to land of the Dine...the original Navajo-U.S. Treaty of 1868 has returned to Arizona -- the land of...130th anniversary of the signing of the 1868 treaty. The Navajo Nation Council approved...
Understanding the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
Newspaper article from: The Native Voice; 4/5/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...to maintain it (Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868, Ratified: February 16, 1869; Proclaimed...years later) They say the Fort Laramie 1868 treaty is bad, fatally bad, is the cry...which infringes on such a belief. Is the 1868 treaty that bad? The unresolved argument...
Fed: ACB under pressure to recognise 1868 Aboriginal team
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/29/2003; 567 words ; ...0000 Fed: ACB under pressure to recognise 1868 Aboriginal team By Sharon Mathieson and...Aboriginal side that toured England in 1868 to be included among Australia's 380...Lawrence played 47 matches in England in 1868, winning 14, losing 14 and drawing 19...
ENGINEERS OF FORT ONTARIO; HISTORIC OSWEGO SITE RE-CREATES THEIR OFFICE FROM 1868.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 4/15/2005; 700+ words ; ...engineers' office during the summer of 1868. "Contractors and people who were supplying...been furnished and appears as it did in 1868. "You're walking into another world...It's like it was in the old days, in 1868." The walls are whitewashed, the trim...
PARALLELS TO 1868 IMPEACHMENT.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/18/1998; 700+ words ; ...GARRY WILLS For anyone looking back on the 1868 impeachment (and near-conviction) of...a murder (that of Vince Foster). In 1868, Rep. Ben Butler thought Andrew Johnson...impeachment trial before the Senate. The 1868 impeachment also had its Webb Hubbell...
Crow 1868 treaty abrogated
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 11/10/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Today (Lakota Times) 11-10-1994 Crow 1868 treaty abrogated. By Avis Little Eagle...because it rules a tribe who signed the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty does not maintain treaty...could affect many tribes who signed 1868 treaties with the federal government...