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1883 St. Louis Browns season

The St. Louis Browns 1883 season was the team's 2nd season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 2nd season in the American Association.

1889 Cleveland Spiders season

Before the 1889 season, the Cleveland Blues switched from the American Association to the National League.

1890 Baltimore Orioles season

The Baltimore Orioles team left the American Association after the 1889 season and started playing in the minor Atlantic Association.

1890 Brooklyn Gladiators season

They were replaced by the resurrected Baltimore Orioles franchise, which had left the league at the end of the 1889 season.

1891 Philadelphia Athletics season

The team, which had played the 1890 season in the defunct Players' League, joined the American Association as a replacement for the previous version of the Philadelphia Athletics, who were expelled after the 1890 season.

1892 Baltimore Orioles season

With the demise of the American Association, the Baltimore Orioles joined the more established National League for the 1892 season.

1892 St. Louis Browns season

The Browns joined the National League when the American Association folded after the 1891 season and have remained a member ever since.

1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season

The Cleveland Spiders were dissolved after winning only 20 games and losing 134 in the 1899 season along with the Louisville Colonels, Baltimore Orioles, and the Washington Senators, leaving the National League with eight teams to begin the 1900 season.

66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

Abraham G. Mills

In 1888, Mills called an assembly of representatives from the three professional leagues—the National League, American Association, and Northwestern League—in what was dubbed as the "Harmony Conference."

Andrea Aguyar

Andrea Aguyar, nicknamed Andrea il Moro, (?, Montevideo, Uruguay - June 30, 1849, Rome, Italy) was a former Black slave from Uruguay who became a follower of Garibaldi in both South America and Italy, and who died in defence of the revolutionary Roman Republic of 1849.

Bank Street Grounds

A new Reds franchise was formed as an American Association club in 1882.

Ben Tincup

Born in Adair, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Tincup was a member of both the original Cherokee Nation and its modern counterpart.

Bill Smiley

William B. Smiley (born in 1856 in Baltimore, Maryland – died July 11, 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a professional baseball player who primarily played second base in the American Association for the St. Louis Brown Stockings and the Baltimore Orioles for one season in 1882.

Billy Barnie

In 1883 he became manager of the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association; he appeared as a backup catcher that season, and also played two games in 1886, but otherwise did not take the field.

Brooklyn Atlantics

A remnant Atlantic was invited to join the upstart American Association in 1882 but failed to satisfy the requirements for doing so.

Charles Oudinot

Oudinot is chiefly known as the commander of the French expedition that besieged and took Rome in 1849, crushing the short-lived revolutionary Roman Republic and re-establishing the temporal power of Pope Pius IX, under the protection of French arms.

Charlie Bastian

The light-hitting Bastian toiled for a total of six teams in the Union League, National League, Players League, and American Association during an eight-year career.

Dan McGann

The Senators traded McGann with Gene DeMontreville and Doc McJames to the Baltimore Orioles of the NL for Doc Amole, Jack Doyle and Heinie Reitz that December.

Duckpin bowling

One possible origin is that duckpin bowling began in Baltimore around 1900, at a bowling, billiards and pool hall owned by future baseball Hall of Famers John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson, both of the then Baltimore Orioles.

Fernando Fernández de Córdova, 2nd Marquis of Mendigorría

In May 1849 he was sent to Italy to help to protect Pope Pius IX against the Italian Revolution of 1848.

Haytor

Haytor granite was used in the reconstruction of London Bridge which opened in 1831 and was moved in 1970 to Lake Havasu City in Arizona.

Highams Park Lake, Waltham Forest, London

Highams Park Lake was formed in the early 19th century by the famous Landscape gardener Sir Humphry Repton, who diverted the Ching and flooded the excavation he and his team had made.

J. Earl Wagner

Instead, Wagner settled for his own Athletics being admitted to the American Association for the 1891 season.

Jack Gleason

He then played in the American Association for the St. Louis Browns in 1882 and the beginning of 1883 and the Louisville Eclipse for the majority of 1883.

Jefferson Street Grounds

Later it was home to the American Association Athletics beginning 1883, moving in from Oakdale Park, until 1890.

Joe Crotty

Crotty played from 18821886 in the American Association for the Louisville Eclipses, St. Louis Brown Stockings, and New York Metropolitans and for the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds in the Union Association.

John Roll McLean

McLean was also a one-time partner in the ownership of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team of the American Association and also the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the Union Association.

John T. Brush

He built a ballpark in 1882, and it became home to the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the American Association for their only major league season in 1884; they played in the Western League before that circuit folded after the 1885 campaign.

Louisville Colonels

The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891, first as the Louisville Eclipse (1882–1884) and later as the Louisville Colonels (1885–1891), the latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels.

Marcello Massarenti

Don Marcello Massarenti (Budrio, 1817 — 1905), a Vatican official who helped Pope Pius IX escape from Rome at the time of the Roman republican uprising of 1849, rose to become Almoner of the Pope.

Michael Linning Melville

Married to Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Randall William McDonnell Callander (died 1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas House, Argyle, and had issue (1) Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, and Ashford Hall Salops), (2) Elizabeth (married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon), and (3) Barbara (died young).

Nicolás Mihanovich

An ongoing rivalry with Saturnino Ribes' Las Mensajerías (so named for its prominence in the mail transport business) led to a trust arrangement between the two, whereby Mihanovich ceded control of Uruguay River shipping to Ribes, who was given control of the Paraná.

O. P. Caylor

Oliver Perry Caylor (December 14, 1849 – October 19, 1897) was an American baseball newspaper columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Commercial before becoming one of the principal figures in the founding of the American Association in 1881 as well as the catalyst in the formation of the modern-day Cincinnati Reds.

Pope Pius IX and Judaism

But after the attempted republican liberal revolution in Rome in 1848, Pius changed his mind: like most conservatives at this time, he associated the Jews with radicalism and revolution.

Sam Nicholl

He played for the Pittsburg Alleghenys of the National League during the 1888 baseball season and the Columbus Solons of the American Association during the 1890 season.

The Conduct of Life

When Walt Whitman came to Boston in March 1860 to meet the publishers for his third edition of Leaves of Grass, he spent a day with Emerson, who had been one of Whitman’s earliest supporters, to discuss his new poems.


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19th-century French art

The Romantic tendencies continued throughout the century: both idealized landscape painting and Naturalism have their seeds in Romanticism: both Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon school are logical developments, as is too the late 19th century Symbolism of such painters at Gustave Moreau (the professor of Matisse and Rouault) or Odilon Redon.

American Missionary Fellowship

Several people influential in the United States during the 19th century, including Francis Scott Key, Associate Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington, and U.S. Mint Director James Pollock, served as officers of the mission; many others supported the mission in other ways.

Behavior Cemetery

The African American cemetery is believed to date to before the American Civil War although the earliest marker is dated to the late 19th century.

Bolobo

Bolobo was visited by Henry Morton Stanley on his trip down the Congo river in the 19th century.

Carolina Rifles Armory

, Charleston, South Carolina, was a late 19th-century headquarters for a semi-private military group, but today only the façade remains, facing an annex for the Charleston Library Society.

Charles Conn

Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) the 19th century U.S. Representative from Indiana and the namesake of the musical instrument company C.G. Conn Inc.

Chuck Collins

He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U.S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

Chuck Knipp

He's also said that "many people thought that Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was and still is perceived as racist, despite being the probable artistic genesis of emotional support against slavery in the 19th century."

Circle, Alaska

Circle was named by miners in the late 19th century who believed that the town was on the Arctic Circle.

Contardo Barbieri

He graduated from the Brera Academy in 1921 and in his youthful works he re-elaborated the late 19th-century Lombard figurative tradition, attracted by the researches into light and colour carried out by Emilio Gola, Daniele Ranzoni and Emilio Longoni.

Divača

A tree of heaven plantation stands near the railroad station; it was used to cultivate eri silkworms in the 19th century.

Education in Malaysia

Present-day Malaysia introduced Western style school uniforms (pakaian seragam sekolah) in the late 19th century during the British colonial era.

Edward Dendy

Edward Stephen Dendy (1812-1864), long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms during the 19th Century

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

Euler–Bernoulli beam theory

Bridges and buildings continued to be designed by precedent until the late 19th century, when the Eiffel Tower and Ferris wheel demonstrated the validity of the theory on large scales.

French Trotter

The French Trotter is a horse breed from Normandy, France, developed in the 19th century from Norman horses with the addition of some English Thoroughbred and Norfolk Trotter blood.

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (born November 14, 1811 in Elbing, † April 30, 1886 in Berlin) was a 19th-century German conductor, composer and music writer who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga.

Guerreras y Centauros

The telenovela will be set in the 19th century against the background of the Battle of Carabobo.

Historical climatology

The River Thames was made more narrow and flowed faster after old London Bridge was demolished in 1831, and the river was embanked in stages during the 19th century, both of which made the river less liable to freezing.

History of the Jews in North East England

The community was established at the end of the 19th century when Eastern European Jewish refugees, Eliezer Adler and Zachariah Bernstone chose to leave the Newcastle upon Tyne congregation, which they viewed as too lenient in religious matters, and crossed the river to set up a new synagogue.

Holzgau

The Simms waterfall was created in the 19th century by the British industrialist Frederick Richard Simms.

Jackson Bandits

The team was renamed the Jackson Bandits in reference to outlaws famous for robbing wealthy travelers along the Natchez Trace in the 19th century.

Jansgeleen Castle

The castle, already in a bad shape at the end of the 19th century, and further damaged by the mine galleries of the nearby big Maurits mine at Geleen in the 1920s, was finally demolished in the 1930s.

Jone o Grinfilt

They were probably printed in the mid 19th century; the poem was also printed in John Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (three editions: 1865, 1875 and 1882).

Latin American revolutions

Latin American wars of independence, the 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary wars against European colonial rule that led to the independence of the Latin American states.

Lawrence Krader

For his study of the roots of the theory of evolution in the 19th century he received support from the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) during 1963-1975.

Légal Trap

Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1924), a British master and one of the world's top five players in the latter part of the 19th century, set the trap on many occasions.

Little Syria, Manhattan

The overwhelming majority of the residents were Arabic-speaking Christians, Melkite and Maronite immigrants from present-day Syria and Lebanon who settled in the area in the late 19th century, escaping religious persecution and poverty in their homelands – which were then under control of the Ottoman Empire – and answering the call of American missionaries to escape their difficulties by traveling to New York City.

Lost Dakota

Lost Dakota is a portion of land that was left over after the division of the Dakota Territory into other states in the late 19th century.

Luce Memorial Chapel

It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.

Luís Vaz de Torres

The original official manuscript account reappeared in the collections of Sir Thomas Phillips during the 19th century.

Mount Fentale

The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th century explorer William Cornwallis Harris, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842.

Oskar Wasastjerna

Jakob Frans Oskar Wasastjerna (1819–1889) was a 19th-century Finnish-Swedish historian and author.

Panionium

Theodor Wiegand discovered a site at the end of the 19th century, and it was excavated in 1958 by Kleiner, Hommel and Müller-Wiener.

Panther Hollow

The neighborhood was settled in late 19th century mostly by Italian immigrants from Pizzoferrato and Gamberale, Italy.

Revenge for Honour

"Revenge for Honour" was believed up to the 20th century to have been written by George Chapman, appearing in volumes of his works in the 19th century, but the current consensus appears to favor authorship by Glapthorne since J.H. Walter's article in The Review of English Studies (1937).

Richardsville, Virginia

It was the site of many of Virginia's gold mines in the early 19th century and the site of many troop movements and skirmishes during the Civil War.

Rise of nationalism in Europe

The Polish attempts to win independence from Russia had previously proved to be unsuccessful, with Poland being the only country in Europe whose autonomy was gradually limited rather than expanded throughout the 19th century, as a punishment for the failed uprisings; in 1831 Poland lost its status as a formally independent state and was merged into Russia as a real union country and in 1867 she became nothing more than just another Russian province.

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

An impressive collection of 19th century French porcelain, including large numbers of Sèvres vases, and German porcelain produced in Berlin and Vienna are among the most valuable items in the collection.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Located east of the Potomac River, Sharpsburg attracted industry in the early 19th century, especially after the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was extended to Sharpsburg in 1836.

Sony Masterworks

The label owns rights to famous recordings dating from the 20th century and late 19th century, by artists such as Enrico Caruso, Arturo Toscanini, Mario Lanza, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Eugene Ormandy and Van Cliburn as well as from more recent performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, and Joshua Bell.

St Martin's, Shropshire

In the 19th century a canal was constructed through St Martin's Moor by Thomas Telford linking the industrial areas around Ruabon to the canal network.

St Mary Magdalen Woolwich

To its basic nave, galleried aisles and west-end tower have been added a chancel (1894, by J.O. Scott, with Bath stone buttress capping and band courses), a Lady Chapel (containing the tomb of Henry Maudslay, designed by himself), organ chamber and sanctuary, all in the 19th century.

Tarkhany

The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is located in the village of Lermontovo (formerly Tarkhany) in the Belinsky District of Penza Oblast.

Vasily Blyukher

Despite his German surname, he was not of German descent as is sometimes written: the name was given to his family by a 19th-century landlord after a famous Prussian Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

Wall gun

Bolt action wall guns firing metallic cartridges were used in India and China in the late 19th century.

Wallace, California

John Wallace was also an elder brother of Alfred Russel Wallace, a leading 19th century British naturalist who independently developed a theory of natural selection around the same time as Charles Darwin.

Weimaraner

Today's breed standards are alleged to have developed in the late 18th and early 19th century, although dogs having very similar features to the Weimaraner have supposedly been traced as far back as 13th century in the court of Louis IX of France.

Woodlawn trophy

Considered one of the most valuable trophies in sports, the trophy has its roots at the Woodlawn Race Course, a 19th century race track near Louisville, Kentucky.