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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.
1 de may. de 2024 · This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1851. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).
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 6 días · Thomson Reuters, Canadian information services company. Founded as the Reuters news agency in Great Britain in 1851, it became one of the leading newswire services in the world. Its headquarters are in Toronto. The agency was established by Paul Julius Reuter, a former bank clerk who in 1847 became a partner in Reuter and Stargardt ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
Hace 1 día · The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper that would avoid sensationalism and report the news in a restrained and objective fashion.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) fue un físico y químico danés, conocido por determinar la primera conexión entre las corrientes eléctricas y los campos magnéticos. Sus estudios experimentales inspiraron a otros científicos contemporáneos, como André-Marie Ampère y Michael Faraday, a desarrollar contribuciones en el campo del ...
