Charles Darwin {1860-1870}

The nineteenth century was a fascinating time for scientific theory and new discoveries, from Russian, Dmitri Mendeleev's Periodic Table, (which arranged all the known elements according to their atomic weight), to Louis Pasteur's discovery that microscopic organisms caused disease, exciting progress was being made in all areas of science.  Perhaps the most well known, not to mention…

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Nineteenth Century World History: 1800-1810 {Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition}

There was a whole heap of interesting stuff going on in the early 1800's.  Great Britain was indeed great and steaming forth as leaders in the industrial revolution (steaming?  Geddit?!); the East India company is growing, increasing Britain's influence over the world; Napoleon becomes known as an invincible leader; Morphine is isolated, making opium a lot…

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