Judicature Act 1873 - Judicature Act 1873 The Judicature Act 1873 was a law passed by the British Parliament in 1873. It reorganized the English court system to establish the High Court and the Court of Appeal. It also originally provided for the abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords with respect to England (although under the act it would have retained those functions in relation to Scotland and Northern Ireland for the time being.) However, the Gladstone government fell in 1874 before its entry into force, and the succeeding Disraeli government suspended the entry into force of the Act by means of acts passed in 1874 and 1875. The Lord Chancellor in the Disraeli government sought to remove the House of Lords jurisdiction for Scottish and Irish appeals.
Karl Schenk - Affairs (1864) Political Department (1865) Department of Home Affairs (1866 - 1870) Political Department (1871) Department of Home Affairs (1872) Department of Finance (1872) Department of Home Affairs (1873) Political Department (1874) Department of Railway and Trade (1875 - 1877) Political Department (1878) Department of Home Affairs (1879 - 1884) Political Department (1885) Department of Home Affairs (1886 - 1895) He was president of Switzerland six times in 1865, 1871, 1874, 1878, 1885 and 1893. Predecessor: Jakob Stämpfli Successor: Eduard Müller.
Karl Schwarzschild - Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild (October 9, 1873 - May 11, 1916) was a noted German physicist and astronomer. He was born in Frankfurt am Main. Something of a child prodigy he had a paper on orbits published when he was only sixteen. He studied at Strasbourg and Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1896 for a work on Jules Henri Poincaré's theories. From 1897 on he worked as assistant at the Kufner Sternwarte in Vienna, where he developed a formula to calculate the properties of photographic material involving an exponent now know as the Schwarzschild-exponent (p in formula below). From 1901 until 1909 he was a professor at the prestigious institute at Göttingen, where he had the opportunity to work with some significant figures including David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. He moved.
Karl Schwarz - extraordinarius, and later received a number of distinctions (in 1858 chief court preacher, etc.). Schwarz took an important part in the founding and directing of the German Protestantenverein and became an eminent exponent of liberal theology. His work Zur Geschichte der neuesten Theologie (1856, 4th ed. 1869) is a valuable source for the history of theology in Germany. His other works include Lessing als Theologe (1854) and Grundriss der christ. Lehre (1873, 5th ed. 1876). In his memory a Karl-Schwarz-Stiftung was founded in connexion with the theologica1 faculty at the University of Jena. See G Rudloff, Karl Schwarz (1887); F Hummel, Zur Bedeutung der Schrift von Karl Schwarz: Uber das Wesen der Religion (1890); and Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Karl Rudolf Hagenbach - recently been appointed to a theological chair, he distinguished himself greatly by his trial-dissertation, Observationes historico-hermeneuticae circa Origenis methodum interpretendae sacrae Scripturae; in 1824 he became professor extraordinarius, and in 1829 professor ordinarius of theology. Apart from his academic labours in connexion with the history of dogma and of the church, he lived a life of great and varied usefulness as a theologian, a preacher and a citizen; and at his jubilee in 1873, not only the university and town of Basel but also the various churches of Switzerland united to do him honour. He died at Basel on the 7th of June 1874. Hagenbach was a voluminous author in many departments, but he is specially distinguished as a writer on church history. Though neither so learned and condensed as the.
Karl Philipp, prince zu Schwarzenberg - that colour when contrasted with those of his principal subordinate, the fiery Blücher, but critics often forget that Schwarzenberg was an Austrian general first of all, that his army was practically the whole force that Austria could put into the field in Central Europe, and was therefore not lightly to be risked, and that the motives of his pusillanimity should be sought in the political archives of Vienna rather than in the text-books of strategical theory. In any case his victory, however achieved, was as complete as Austria desired, and his rewards were many, the grand crosses of the Maria Theresa and of many foreign orders, an estate, the position of president of the Hofkriegsrath, and, as a specially remarkable honour, the right to bear the arms of Austria as an.
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - is false. He was not employed for some years, but in 1804, when the war party in the Austrian court needed a general to oppose the peace policy of the Archduke Charles, Mack was made quartermaster-general of the army, with instructions to prepare for a war with France. He did all that was possible within the available time to reform the army, and on the opening of the war of 1805 he was made quartermaster-general to the titular commander-in-chief in Germany, the Archduke Ferdinand. He was the real responsible commander of the army which opposed Napoleon in Bavaria, but his position was ill-defined and his authority treated with slight respect by the other general officers. For the events of the Ulm campaign and an estimate of Mack's responsibility for the disaster..
Yalobusha - could not obtain the property they wanted. Residents of the fledging town of Water Valley offered to donate the needed land to the railroad; therefore, the shops were located there, and Water Valley quickly became the largest town in the county. It was officially chartered in 1858, and at that time had a population of 300. In 1860, the county's population was 16,952. Water Valley had become a thriving community with two hotels and several churches. The first church built in Water Valley was the Presbyterian Church built in 1843. Two years later, the First Methodist Church was organized, and in 1860 the First Baptist Church of Water Valley was organized. With the completion of the railroad from New Orleans to the Ohio River, and because the ICRR's shops were located.
Karl Jatho - and inventor, performer and public servant of the city of Hanover (February 3, 1873 - December 8, 1933). On August 18, 1903 he flew with his self-made motored gliding airplane, 4 months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers. His first attempts he made with a plane having three lifting surfaces, but switched to two surfaces soon. They were modelled after the Zanonia seed, a seed that was known for its gliding capability. In contrast to the Wright Brother's plane, the wings were flat in profile and not curved. He had four witnesses for his flight. The plane was equipped with a single-cylinder 10 horsepower Buchet engine driving a two-bladed pusher propeller and made hops of up to 200 feet (60 meters), flying up to 10 feet (3-4 meters) high..
Kanichi Asakawa - Kanichi Asakawa Kanichi Asakawa (1873 - 1948) was a historian. He became a graduate of Dartmouth and the Yale Graduate School. As a member of the Yale faculty, he became the first Japanese professor at a major university in the United States. He dedicated himself to serving as a bridge between the United States and Japan to promote amicable relations. Some of his remains are also interred at Konjiki cemetery at his hometown of Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan, and others are interred at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut..
Karl Lehrs - emendatiora (1848) Populare Aufsatze aus dem Altertum (1856, 2nd much enlarged ed., 1875), his best known work Horatius Flaccus (1869), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as spurious Die Pindarscholien (1873). Lehrs was a man of very decided opinions, one of the most masculine of German scholars; his enthusiasm for everything Greek led him to adhere firmly to the undivided authorship of the Iliad; comparative mythology and the symbolical interpretation of myths he regarded as a species of sacrilege. See the exhaustive article by L Friedländer in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii.; F Rammer in Conrad Bursian's Jahresbericht (1879); A Jung, Zur Erinnerung an Karl Lehrs (progr. Meseritz, 1880); A Ludwich edited Lehr's select correspondence (1894) and his Kleine Schriften (1902). Reference This entry incorporates public domain.
Veracruz (city) - on Mexico's east coast. A natural harbor, Veracruz has been fought over throughout its history, and boasts the title "Four Times Heroic" in reference to the expulsion of the Spanish in 1815, the 1838 expulsion of the French Navy in the Pastry War, and resistance to the United States's occupations of 1847 and 1914. During the Mexican-American War, US forces led by General Winfield Scott took the city on March 29, 1847 after a siege. It was caputred by France in 1838 and again in 1861. In 1914 it was occupied by the United States for 7 months. The railroad connecting Veracruz to Mexico City, 264 miles inland over mountain ranges, was constructed in the administration of Benito Juarez, inagurated in 1873. The city is known for its rich traditions of.
Kew Bridge - 7 timber arches in between. These proved costly to maintain and it only lasted 30 years. In 1782 Robert Tunstall junior, son of the builder of the first bridge, obtained consent to replace the bridge and work began on 4 June 1783, the anniversary date of the first bridge opening to the public. The new bridge was designed by James Paine who had been responsible for Richmond Bridge in 1777. The cost was £16,500 which was raised by means of a tontine. (Subscribers take out an annuity during their lifetime and this is increase as each one dies until one is the winner??) The second bridge was built alongside the first, to avoid hindrance to traffic during construction work, and this time was built entirely of stone. It was opened on.
Kitab-i-Aqdas - Kitab-i-Aqdas Written around 1873 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is the Most Holy Book of the Bahais. It is their primary book of laws..
Kirkcudbrightshire - The Galloway chiefs hesitated for a time whether to throw in their lot with the Northumbrians or with Malcolm; but language, race and the situation of their country at length induced them to become lieges of the Scottish king. By the close of the 11th century the boundary between England and Scotland was roughly delimited on what became permanent lines. The feudal system ultimately destroyed the power of the Galloway chiefs, who resisted the innovation to the last. Several of the lords or "kings" of Galloway, a line said to have been founded by Fergus, the greatest of them all, asserted in vain their independence of the Scottish crown; and in 1234 the line became extinct in the male branch on the death of Fergus’s great-grandson Alan. One of Alan’s daughters,.
Vernonia, Oregon - the community came up, and Cherrington suggested the name of his daughter in Ohio, which was adopted. Unfortunately, since he had left Ohio around 1873, he misremembered his daughter's name, which was Vernona, so the town is not actually named after her. Cherrington died of a farming accident in 1894, having never seen his daughter since his departure from Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,228. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Geography 2 Demographics 3 History Geography Vernonia is located at 45°51'35" North, 123°11'21" West (45.859846, -123.189125)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²). 4.0 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total.
Kimberley - on the slopes of Colesburg Kopje, and led to the first diamond rush into the area. As miners arrived in their thousands, the hill disappeared, and became known as the Big Hole. A town, New Rush, was formed in the area, renamed to Kimberley in 1873, after the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Kimberley..
King of Morocco - Sultan. Yazid (1790 - 1792) Slimane of Morroco (1792 - 1822) Abderrahmane (1822 - 1859) Mohammed IV (1859 - 1873) Hassan I (1873 - 1894) Abdelazis (1894 - 1908) Abdelhafid (1908 - 1912) Youssef (1912 - 1927) Mohammed V (1927 -1961) Hassan II (1961 - 1999) Mohammed VI (1999 - ) See also: History of Morocco, Politics of Morocco..
Kladno - Kladno was the historical birthplace of Bohemian heavy industries in the past. The mining industry began here in 1842. Anton Cermak, later mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born here (as Antonín Čermák) in 1873..
Knights of Labor - nine tailors, led by Uriah S. Stephens. Initially a secretive organization, it grew rapidly after 1872 and the collapse of the National Labor Union in 1873. The membership peaked in 1886, under Terence V. Powderly, with a total of over 700,000. The Knights aided various strikes and boycotts, winning important actions against Union Pacific in 1884 and on the Wabash Railroad in 1885. However, failure in the Missouri Pacific strike in 1886 and violence by strikers, including the Haymarket Square riot, led to disputes between the craft unionists and the advocates of all-inclusive unionism. With the additional problems of an autocratic structure, mismanagement, further unsuccessful strikes, and the emergence of the American Federation of Labor in 1886 under Samuel Gompers the organization quickly shrank from its 1886 peak. By 1890 membership.
