Melville left little direct information about the events of this 18-month cruise, although his whaling romance, Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale, probably gives many pictures of life on board the Acushnet.

Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale has become Melville's most famous work and is often considered one of the greatest literary works of all time.

* November 14 – Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick ; or The Whale is published in the U. S. by Harper & Brothers, New York, after being first published on October 18 in London by Richard Bentley, in 3 volumes as The Whale.

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Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick refers to Cato in the first paragraph: " With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword ; I quietly take to the ship.

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" The mixture of journalism, history, and fiction ; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters ; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature — all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby-Dick.

The genre also influenced other forms of literature and theatre ; the portions of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick that are in dialogue form are at least a casual allusion to closet drama.

Herman Melville alluded to the bridge in describing Moby-Dick: " But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water ; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural Bridge ..." William Cullen Bryant, another American literary figure, said that Natural Bridge and Niagara Falls were the two most remarkable features of North America.

This famous whale also came to the attention of Herman Melville, who published his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851: " at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale ... Sir Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout ; so that like a great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his long cavities — spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan — and swing all day upon his lower jaw.

In this house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Melville wrote some of his major work: the novels Moby-Dick, Pierre ( dedicated to nearby Mount Greylock ), The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter ; a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales including " Benito Cereno " and " Bartleby the Scrivener "; all the other magazine stories, such as " I and My Chimney " and " The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids "; and some of his poetry.

It was at Arrowhead where Melville wrote his novel Moby-Dick ; though the work was not recognized during the author's lifetime, it has since become known as one of the greatest American literary masterpieces.

He costarred with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello in a silent film adaptation of Moby-Dick called The Sea Beast playing Barrymore's evil half-brother ; O ' Hara was aptly cast as he bore a resemblance to the legendary actor.

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, a popular maritime novel, is laced with the term, although the narrator Ishmael seldom uses the word: " This man interested me at once ; and since the sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate ( though but a sleeping partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned ), I will here venture upon a little description of him.

* 1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

One example can be found in the book Moby-Dick or, The Whale, by Herman Melville.

Title page of the first U. S. edition of Moby-Dick, 1851

* 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story ).

" For 19th century readers, his career seemed to decline afterward, but during the early 20th century it was seen as the beginning of a career that peaked with Moby-Dick ( 1851 ).

* The Pequod, the fictional 19th century Nantucket whaling ship featured in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick ( 1851 ), is ostensibly named after the Pequot tribe.

* November 20-An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story ).

Ishmael is the narrator ( and arguably the protagonist ) of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U. S. author Herman Melville.

In Moby-Dick by Herman Melville ( 1851 ), Captain Ahab is a monomaniac, as shown by his quest to kill Moby Dick.

Queequeg is a fictional character presented in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U. S. author Herman Melville.

In Moby-Dick ( 1851 ), Herman Melville describes the inside of a whale's mouth:

* 1851: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

* Herman Melville recounts the discovery of the Alabama Basilosaurus and the subsequent discovery that it was a marine cetacean in chapters 104-105 of Moby-Dick ( 1851 ).

* Ahab ( Moby-Dick ), the captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick

In 1851, Sheridan Le Fanu published Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery, Herman Melville published Moby-Dick and James Fenimore Cooper died 14 September.

Major works from those years include Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men ( 1850, though most of Emerson's best-known texts were published earlier ), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ( 1850 ) and The House of the Seven Gables ( 1851 ), Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1851 ), Henry David Thoreau's Walden ( 1854 ), and Walt Whitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass ( 1855 ).

Mocha Dick was the inspiration for the fictional whale Moby Dick in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

Unlike most sperm whales, Mocha Dick was white, and was the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.

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The cetology of Moby-Dick is the zoological classification and study of the properties of whales ( i. e. cetology ) introduced by United States author Herman Melville in his 1851 novel Moby-Dick.

* Pequod ( Moby-Dick ), a fictional whaleship that appears in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick

Hawksbill Turtle ( Eretmocheyls imbricata )-KNOWN ; Leatherback Turtle ( Dermochelys coriacea )-POSSIBLE ; Green Turtle ( Chelonia mydas )-KNOWN ; Olive Ridley Turtle ( Lepidochelys oliveacea )-POSSIBLE ; Sperm Whale ( Physeter macrocephalus )-POSSIBLE ; Sei Whale ( Balaeonoptera borealis )-POSSIBLE ;

Finback Whale ( Balaeonoptera physalus )-POSSIBLE ; Brydes Whale ( Balaeonoptera edeni )-POSSIBLE ; Blue Whale ( Balaeonoptera musculus )-POSSIBLE ; Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae )-POSSIBLE.

This confused arrangement ended with Granby's resignation in 1851 ; Disraeli effectively ignored the two men regardless.

López's fourth expedition landed in Pinar del Río province with around 400 men in August 1851 ; the invaders were defeated by Spanish troops and López was executed.

Besides this may be mentioned editions of the New Testament apocrypha, De Evangeliorum apocryphorum origine et usu ( 1851 ); Acta Apostolorum apocrypha ( 1851 ); Evangelia apocrypha ( 1853 ; 2nd ed., 1876 ); Apocalypses apocryphae ( 1866 ), and various minor writings, partly of an apologetic character, such as Wann wurden unsere Evangelien verfasst?

His father was born into slavery in 1851 in Pittsboro, North Carolina ; after the Civil War, he graduated from St. Augustine's College and became a prominent minister and founder of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.

The articles comprising London Labour and the London Poor were initially collected into three volumes in 1851 ; the 1861 edition included a fourth volume, co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday, on the lives of prostitutes, thieves and beggars.

* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 – 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush

The children were: Jenny Caroline ( m. Longuet ; 1844 – 83 ); Jenny Laura ( m. Lafargue ; 1845 – 1911 ); Edgar ( 1847 – 1855 ); Henry Edward Guy (" Guido "; 1849 – 1850 ); Jenny Eveline Frances (" Franziska "; 1851 – 52 ); Jenny Julia Eleanor ( 1855 – 98 ) and one more who died before being named ( July 1857 ).

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Berlin, 1851 ; 2d ed., Leipsic, 1881 – 88.

Berlin, 1851 ; 2d ed., Leipsic, 1881 – 88.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

It was intended that the boy would become a lawyer ; but in 1851 at the age of fifteen he suffered a physical and mental breakdown.

Gould proposed that much of the research was based more upon the racial and social prejudices of the researchers than upon their scientific objectivity ; that on occasion, researchers such as Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ), Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), and Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), committed the methodological fallacy of including their personal ( a priori ) expectations to the conclusions, as part of their analytical reasoning.

The Great London Exhibition of 1851 clearly demonstrated Britain's dominance in engineering and industry ; that lasted until the rise of the United States and Germany in the 1890s ..