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From 1880 to 1889, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had successfully built the Suez Canal, attempted to construct a sea-level canal in the same general area as the present Panama Canal.
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From 1880 to 1883, Wells had an unhappy apprenticeship as a draper at the Southsea Drapery Emporium, Hyde's.
From 1880 to 1884, Gibbs worked on developing the exterior algebra of Hermann Grassmann into a vector calculus well-suited to the needs of physicists.
From 1880 until his death, Sousa began focusing exclusively on conducting and wrote marches during this time.
From 1717 until 1880, three successive Islamic dynasties — the Nasiri, Afshar and Najafi — all related by bloodlines, ruled Bengal:
From 1880 to 1882, he attended the artillery school at Fontainebleau to receive more specialized training as an artillery officer.
From 1880 to 1882 the cause of abstinence was revived by the Gospel Temperance or Blue Ribbon movement, based in America.
From 1880 to 1885, as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad was under construction, active steamboat riverports like Wittsburg, Arkansas, at that time the county seat of Cross County, were deserted for the railroads.
From 1876 to 1880, it was the seat of lumber operations for Alger, Smith & Company, then the largest pine timber producers in the world.
From 1880 the number of bulb growers and bulb fields grew to 250 and 252 hectares respectively, by the end of the 19th century.
From 1830 to 1880, more than two hundred vessels were built along the Great Egg Harbor River with lumber from native forests and iron from Weymouth foundries.
From 1880 to 1920, an estimated 4 million Italian immigrants arrived in the United States, the majority from 1900 to 1914.
From 1880 to 1883, the notorious Robert Clay Allison ranched with his two brothers, John William and Jeremiah Monroe, twelve miles northeast of town, at the junction of the Washita River and Gageby Creek.
From this time he was engaged in writing novels, including Richard Arbour or the Family Scapegrace ( 1861 ), Married Beneath Him ( 1865 ), Carlyon's Year ( 1868 ), A County Family ( 1869 ), By Proxy ( 1878 ), A Confidential Agent ( 1880 ), A Grape from a Thorn, The Talk of the Town ( 1885 ), and The Heir of the Ages ( 1886 ).
From 1879 to 1894 the Ingalls family lived in De Smet and the family homestead, a house in town built by Charles Ingalls, the Brewster School where Wilder taught, and the surveyor's home the family lived in between 1879 and 1880 are open to visitors.
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From 1882 to 1889, Gibbs wrote five papers on physical optics, in which he investigated birefringence and other optical phenomena and defended Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light against the mechanical theories of Kelvin and others.
From 1889 to 1932, dwindling membership led to the closing of eleven Shaker villages and consolidation of members at the remaining sites.
From 1886 to 1889, at the same time that Zaharoff got the machine gun Maxim, he managed to appropriate Isaac Peral's submarine ; although these facts are less well known.
From 1889 to 1903, Cornell operated the New York State College of Forestry, until the Governor vetoed its annual appropriation.
From 1889 to 1930, a narrow gauge railroad called the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company ran up the whole peninsula.
From 1889 through the late 1920s several brickyards operated in Brickton, collectively producing as many as 20, 000, 000 bricks per year.
From 1889, Barrès ' activism overshadowed his literary activities, although he tried to maintain both.
From 1889 to 1892, while still a student, he played in the orchestra of the Folies Bergère ; he later said to George Gershwin that his rhythmic sense was formed during the experience of playing popular dance music there.
From 1889 lieutenancy counties in England and Wales were to correspond to groupings of administrative counties and county boroughs established by the Local Government Act 1888.
From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the Council of India, being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India on his retirement.
From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county, County of York, West Riding ( abbreviated: " County of York ( W. R .)") ( the area under the control of West Riding County Council ), was based closely on the historic boundaries.
From 1885 to 1889 he lived and worked in Tokyo in Japan as a law professor of the Law School of the Society for German Sciences.
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