That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. ... In the congratulatory rhetoric that surrounded the event, the conservative, retiring queen emerged as the durable symbol of her dynamic, aggressively businesslike realm. ... During the seven decades of her rule, Victoria's calm profile, stamped on currency and displayed in offices and outposts from London to Bombay, presided over the expansion of Britain into ...

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His paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melville, was a participant in the Boston Tea Party, and his maternal grandfather, General Peter Gansevoort, was renowned for leading the defense of Ft. ... This novel is the reputed story of his life among the cannibalistic Typee people for several months in 1842, but is likely a highly fictionalized dramatization of the actual events. Melville's second novel, "Omoo," (1847) details the adventures of another whaling journey in which Melville took part in a mutiny and landed in a Tahitian jail, from which he later easily escaped. ... In August 1847...

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This event instilled a distain for the British by the Iris, adding to ever mounting tensions between the two. ... This event also soured relations between the two isles. ... This event ruptured the prospect of amicable future relations between Ireland and Britain. ... Yet, it was reported in 1847 that the starving Irish where willingly foregoing food and using English charity money to buy arms, and that continuing to give them relief would only "make the people think that the government should do everything-. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1847 the Ontario Agricultural College was founded on a 200 ha farm, in 1922 the Ontario Veterinary College was founded, and most recently, in 1965, the University of Guelph was established. ... Guelph has four major highways: Macdonald Cartier Freeway, also known as highway 401. ... Highway 401 provides a direct route to London, Windsor and Detroit, it also takes you to west Toronto and east Montreal. ... MAJOR INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMY Guelph is one of the fastest growing economic areas in Ontario and Canada, it is growing at a very rapid speed. ...

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But several of the major figures of the Victorian novel are women; and the heroines they created began to throw off the victim's role that male authors had created, from Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Clarissa onwards. Jane Eyre's 'Reader, I married him' close to the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel (1847) that bears the character's name, shows the reversal of roles and the decision-making capacities that the new generation of socially aware women could demonstrate. ... Emily Bronte's only novel Wuthering Heights was published in 1847. ...

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All horror movies employ music to set the mood, create suspense, or even trick the audience into thinking someone is about to get killed. The hybridization of horror and musical, however, is very rare. Two horror-musical films that have achieved great success are Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fl...

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The introduction points out that it is almost never planned events that change the course of history, but random, unexpected ones. ... Major John Mason and Captain Underhill led their troop of seventy English, seventy Mohegans, and five hundred Narragansetts, split in half, two both entrances of the village. ... Major Mason thought that his actions were pleasing to God, and said that, "we had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceeding.... In 1847, Sutter decided it was time to expand New Helvetia and he sent out Marshall to find a spot appropriate for a sawmill by the Americ...

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