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Meeting Waterloo -- and loving it Town was a nightmare for Napoleon, but it's fascinating for today's visitor
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WATERLOO, Belgium -- Napoleon slipped here.
But the former emperor, Monsieur Bonaparte, who schlepped here
with 125,000 comrades in arms, slept not at all during his final
nightmare of about nine hours. Napoleonic dreams of reestablishing
his and France's domination of Europe came crashing down around his
muddy boots, detonating in tune with British artillery. On June 18,
1815, this Belgian village became the all-time symbol and buzzword
for a disastrous fall by the mighty.
Waterloo.
That one word has said it all for ambition and ...
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Samuel F.B. Morse: a master of communication. (artist and inventor's life)
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME
; Samuel F.B. Morse: A Master of Communication The inventor of the electromagnetic...art are not opposed," he said. At the age of 47, in 1838, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, one of the country's leading portraitists, put aside his...
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YORK FINE ARTS PROFESSOR TALKS UP SAMUEL F.B. MORSE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...the National Academy of Design in Manhattan on April 29, 2009. York Fine Arts Professor Talks Up Samuel F.B. Morse Samuel Finley Breese Morse - Daguerreotype, c1845 Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Professor Sarah Kate Gillespie...
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160 YEARS AGO, MORSE DOTTED THE 'I'S OF HIS INVENTION.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...on that memorable occasion Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) formally demonstrated...contribution to the event that Morse obligingly tapped out after he...the original strip generated by Finley Breese Morse's telegraph. The coded dots...
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Robert Morse, longtime Redlander active in the community, dies at 87
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts
; ...causes in Redlands. He was 87. Morse was born June 3, 1920, in Franklin...Livingston and Marion Bottomley Morse. The family's genealogy includes Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the inventor of the telegraph...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Dots and dashes; Morse's demo wrought revolution.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...America's greatest inventors, and Samuel Finley Breese Morse will fall fairly low on the list...words by wire a mere 40 miles, as Morse did on this date in 1844, would...birth of the next? For another, Morse doesn't really fit our culture...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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After 160 years helping to save lives at sea, the Morse Code is finally scuppered.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...based radio communications. Morse was used to help capture murderer...more lives can be saved at sea." Morse - officially dropped by Britain...1997 - was devised in 1840 by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, a 49-year-old US portrait...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Q. Was Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, born in Boston? T.G., Hanson A. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in 1791 in a house at 195 Main St. in Charlestown...
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New technology signals the end of an era
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...in the early 1980s to phase out Morse by the end of the century. The...more lives can be saved at sea." Morse was invented by an American portrait painter, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, in 1840. Morse, an early pioneer...
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Breaking communication barriers
Newspaper article from: South Wales Evening Post
; Morse code is a type of character encoding...given message. Originally created for Samuel Finley Breese Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, Morse code was also extensively used for early...
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Rock groups live, record by the code
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...gluttonous cat from the cat food commercials. Morse is the name you want here - as in Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the radiotelegraph signals system known as Morse Code International. And while we're doing...
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