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* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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This was inaugurated by Montalembert, but its literary advocates were chiefly Dom Gueranger, a learned Benedictine monk, abbot of Solesmes, and Louis François Veuillot ( 1813 – 1883 ) of the Univers ; and it succeeded in suppressing them everywhere, the last diocese to surrender being Orleans in 1875.
First invented in 1883, the six-stroke engine has seen renewed interest over the last 20 or so years.
* 1883 – American Old West: Self-described " Black Bart the poet " gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
In early systems an order including the grass family did not go by the name Poales but by a descriptive botanical name such as Graminales in the Engler system ( update of 1964 ) and in the Hutchinson system ( first edition, first volume, 1926 ), Glumiflorae in the Wettstein system ( last revised 1935 ) or Glumaceae in the Bentham & Hooker system ( third volume, 1883 ).
The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870s, and the last specimen in captivity, a mare, died on August 12, 1883, at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
In 1883 he returned to Rome and, most notably, Pompeii, where further excavations had taken place since his last visit.
Looking back in 1883, Gladstone wrote that " In principle, perhaps my Coalwhippers Act of 1843 was the most Socialistic measure of the last half century ".
The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.
The last time a lay peer attempted to intervene was in 1883 ; in that case, the Lord's vote was ignored.
His final completed work, Our Song ( 1883 ), is the last of four settings of texts by Josef Srb-Debrnov.
Delibes also composed various operas, the last of which, the lush orientalizing Lakmé ( 1883 ), contains, among many dazzling numbers, the famous coloratura showpiece known as the Légende du Paria or Bell Song (" Où va la jeune Indoue?
The Telos, built in Bangor, Maine in 1883, was reportedly the last brig to join the American merchant marine, and was " considered to be the finest vessel of her class ever constructed in Maine ".
Stokes's mathematical and physical papers ( see external links ) were published in a collected form in five volumes ; the first three ( Cambridge, 1880, 1883, and 1901 ) under his own editorship, and the two last ( Cambridge, 1904 and 1905 ) under that of Sir Joseph Larmor, who also selected and arranged the Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of Stokes published at Cambridge in 1907.
For some time before 1883 he suffered from diabetes with chronic disorder of the heart and liver, but struggled against it ; on March 16, 1883 he sat in court for the last time, and five days later he died at his residence in London, the immediate cause of death being cardiac syncope.
He was the last Republican to represent that state in the U. S. House of Representatives, having served from 1883 to 1885.
Poor health and lack of physical stamina appeared to be one of Zukertort's two long-term weaknesses: some commentators attributed to illness the severity of his defeat in the 1872 match against Steinitz ; aside from the aforementioned tournaments, in the 1883 London tournament he won 22 of his first 23 games, enough to give him an uncatchable lead, but lost his last three games.
He completed the line between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Wallula ( where it connected with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company ’ s line to Portland ), witnessing the driving of the last spike on September 8, 1883.
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