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The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" is an idiom that means "passing a point of no return". [1]Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon from the north by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC.
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is a species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century.
These new surroundings hastened the development of an existing idea: an adding machine. His new job gave him the opportunity to build his prototype. Accuracy was the foundation of his work. He made his design drawings on metal plates to prevent distortion. Burroughs filed his first patent for the invention of a "calculating machine" in 1885. It ...
The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other associations sought to recruit [for] themselves from the great mother societies .... Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers.
In contrast, this process was hastened with the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, which formally bound the Emperor to accept all decisions made by the Diet, in effect depriving him of his few remaining powers. Nonetheless, the Emperor still had substantial influence in the Diet.
Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (c.1894). Gelert (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡɛlɛrt]) is a legendary hound in a Welsh folk-tale.He is associated with the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd in north-west Wales, the name of which was formerly believed to mean "Gelert's grave". [1]
Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing following her death.
James Gillray (13 August 1756 [1] [2] – 1 June 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.