Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 6 días · Edward Hargraves, returning the salute of the gold miners, 1851, Thomas Balcombe. Edward Hargraves, accompanied by John Lister, found five specks of alluvial gold at Ophir near Orange in February 1851. In April 1851, John Lister and William Tom, trained by Edward Hargraves, found 120 grams of gold.
- prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange
- Gold rush
- May 1851 – c. 1914
- Australia
Hace 5 días · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
Hace 2 días · Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Names. Background. 1851–1853: Outbreak and initial stages. 1851–1860: Control of Nanjing and expeditions. 1861–1864: Faltering and collapse. Aftermath. Policies. Military. Total war. Legacy. In popular culture. Relationship with the Western powers. See also. Notes. Citations. Sources.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Moby Dick is a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne . Moby Dick is generally regarded as Melville’s magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels.
- The action of Moby Dick takes place largely on Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, while sailing in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
- When Moby Dick was first published, the public was unimpressed. It sold fewer than 4,000 copies in total, including fewer than 600 in the United Ki...
- The whale Moby Dick has been interpreted as a metaphor for a great many things, from the Judeo-Christian God to atheism and everything in between....
- Moby Dick gained recognition as an important American novel in the 1920s, more than half a century after its publication. Its fame subsequently gre...
16 de abr. de 2024 · Uncle Tom’s Cabin, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852. An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.
5 de may. de 2024 · A scholarly history of the Great Exhibition these days is both a welcome and a brave undertaking. Welcome, because despite the fact that the event has been a commonplace of school history teaching and a recognisable landmark for historians of the nineteenth century, it has not been appreciated in a three-dimensional manner.
Hace 2 días · The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper that would avoid sensationalism and report the news in a restrained and objective fashion.
