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May 13, 2016 · IF THERE’S ONE film that all Irish nineties kids loved, it was War of the Buttons. The film tells the stories of two rival gangs of schoolboys in West Cork who enter into an epic battle that ...
In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences. 4. September Dawn. A love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers and a renegade Mormon group.
- Great Exhibition. Designed to be a showcase of everything the British Empire had to offer, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was hosted at the Crystal Palace and had displays of science, industry, and the arts from throughout the empire.
- Dr. David Livingstone Begins Exhibition of Zambesi. The man for whom the phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” was created, Dr. David Livingstone, was a physician, missionary, and explorer.
- Crimean War Begins. The Crimean War was quite possibly the seminal conflict of the Victorian Period. The war resulted from Russian expansion into Europe and Turkey, which led to a coalition of the Ottoman Empire, France, Sardinia, and the United Kingdom opposing Russia.
- Dr. Snow Discovers Cholera Origins. Dr. John Snow is most well known for his discovery of the origins of a cholera epidemic in London in 1854. By tracking the source of the outbreak to a tainted well in Soho, he helped to establish cholera as a waterborne virus.
Feb 1, 2010 · Buttons were not made in England before the 15th century; until then all clothing had been fastened using just a tie-string. It took a man who began his career as a soldier from the Cotswolds to make his adopted county a renowned centre for button-making, though he was not the first buttoner in Wessex.
How could Napoleon, the man of war and pioneering military strategist, meekly accept being locked up on a storm-lashed rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? What system of defence, and thus of attack, can he dream up to loosen his jailers' grip?
Yes, movies were made in the 1800s. While the concept of motion pictures dates back to the early 19th century, it was not until the late 1800s that the technology for creating and projecting films became more developed.
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Crimean War (1853–56) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire.
