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Hace 4 días · In early 20th-century America, political bombings became a constant menace — but then helped give rise to law enforcement as we know it.
Hace 4 días · In Steven Johnson's new book, he looks at the birth of dynamite in era of political upheaval. July 5, 1915. Police headquarters, Centre Street, Manhattan. The bombs came in all kinds of packages. Often they arrived in tin cans, emptied of the olive oil or soap or preserves the cans had originally been manufactured to contain, now wedged tight ...
Hace 2 días · Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant position in continental Europe, which appeared in question following the decisive Prussian victory over Austria in 1866.
Hace 5 días · The Andrew Johnson Impeachment. On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” as he was charged under the eleventh article of impeachment. Ten days later, on May 26, the Senate also failed by the same margin ...
Hace 3 días · Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; [d] 18 May [ O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
Hace 2 días · The 1864 United States presidential election was the 20th quadrennial presidential election.It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. Near the end of the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
Alfred Nobel, the namesake of the well known Nobel prize for people have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind, Invented afew things in his life, but His biggest accomplishment was that he was the first person to invent dynamite in 1866. When he was doing his testing of this explosive he adopted a safety practice that is still used to this day.
