James Clark Ross - James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross (April 15, 1800 - April 3, 1862), a British naval officer and explorer, explored the Arctic with Sir William Parry from 1819 to 1827. In 1831, Ross and his uncle, Sir John Ross, located the North Magnetic Pole as part of a magnetic survey. In 1839 - 1843 James Ross led an Antarctic expedition (1839-43) which charted much of the coastline of the continent. In 1841, he discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Erebus (a volcano named after one of his ships). The Victoria Barrier later gained the name "Ross Ice Shelf" in his honour. A blue plaque marks Ross's home in Blackheath, London..
Ross Dependency - Ross Dependency The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica between the Ross Sea and the South Pole that the British government took possession of in 1923 and entrusted to the administration of New Zealand. It lies between longitudes 160 degrees east and 150 degrees west and to the south of the Antarctic circle. The Dependency takes its name from Sir James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea. The Dependency includes most of the Ross Ice Shelf. The scientific bases of Scott Base (New Zealand) and McMurdo Station (USA) currently form the only permanently occupied human habitations in the area - unless one includes the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The Dependency has an ice runway at Williams Field, normally only suitable for landing ski-equipped aircraft.
Ross Island - Ross Island Ross Island is a volcanic island in the Ross Sea by Antarctica, on the coast of Victoria Land. Sir James Clark Ross discovered it in 1841, and the island was later named in honor of him by Robert F. Scott. The volcanoes Terror and Erebus (4023 m) are situated on the island. They were named by Ross after his ships HHS Erebus and HHS Terror. Ross Island was the base for many of the early expeditions to Antarctica. It was and still is the southernmost island reachable by sea. Huts built by Scott's and Shackleton's expeditions are still standing on the island, preserved as historical sights. Today Ross Island is home to New Zealand's Scott Base and the largest Antarctic settlement, the U.S. Antarctic.
Ross's Gull - Ross's Gull Ross's Gull Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Laridae Genus: Rhodostethia Species: rosea Binomial name Rhodostethia rosea Ross's Gull, Rhodostethia rosea, is a small gull. It breeds in the high arctic of northernmost North America, and northeast Siberia. It migrates only short distances south in autumn, most of the population wintering in northern latitudes at the edge of the pack ice, although some birds reach more temperate areas, such as north west Europe. This small bird is similar in size and some plumage characteristics to Little Gull. It is slightly larger and longer winged than that species, and has a pointed tail. Its legs are red. Summer adults are pale grey above and white below, with a pink flush.
Joseph Dalton Hooker - Jackson Hooker. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.D. degree there in 1839 joined Sir James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition, receiving a commission as assistant-surgeon on the Erebus. The botanical fruits of the three years he thus spent in the Southern Seas were the Flora Antarctica, Flora Novae Zelandiae and Flora Tasmanica, which he published on his return. His next expedition was to the northern frontiers of India (1847-1851), and the expenses in this case also were partially defrayed by the government. The party had its full share of adventure. Hooker and his friend Dr Archibald Campbell were detained in prison for some time by the raja of Sikkim, but nevertheless they were able to bring back important results, both geographical and botanical. Their survey.
June 1 - War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property 1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States. 1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States 1812 - War of 1812: President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom 1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula 1840 - Samuel Cunard completes passage of a 700 ton wooden paddlewheel steamer from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery 1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns 1898 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
History of Antarctica - covered with ice since approximately the beginning of the Pliocene, about 5 million years ago. Captain James Cook and the crews of the Resolution and Adventure crossed the Antarctic Circle three times between 1772 and 1775, dispelling the myth of Terra Australis, although ice packs prevented him from seeing the continent itself. The first confirmed sighting of Antarctica can not be accurately attributed to one single person. It can, however, be narrowed down to three individuals. According to the National Science Foundation[1], US House of Representatives' Peter DeFazio[2], NASA[3] and the University of California San Diego[4] Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy; Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut, all sighted Antarctica within days or weeks of.
History of the United States (1945-1964) - a new, dynamic and reformist Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, was broadening Moscow's policy by establishing new relations with India and other key non-aligned, noncommunist states in the Third World. Eisenhower increased Soviet power by developing a hydrogen bomb and, in 1957, by launching the first earth satellite. To stabilize his European position, Khrushchev created the Warsaw Pact in 1955 (to counter West German rearmament) and built the Berlin Wall in 1961 (to stop the Germans from leaving the communist East). While the Berlin Wall was a propaganda setback, the Soviets garnered a huge victory when Khrushchev formed an alliance with Cuba after Fidel Castro's successful revolution in 1959. Also to the annoyance of the United States the revolution lives on to this day 90 miles from the shore of the greatest.
Hollywood Walk of Fame - Renée Adorée Gracie Allen Julie Andrews Louis Armstrong Desi Arnaz (2 stars) Fred Astaire Gene Autry (5 stars) Lauren Bacall Lucille Ball Tallulah Bankhead Bob Barker Lionel Barrymore The Beach Boys The Beatles Jack Benny Ingrid Bergman Milton Berle (2 stars) Big Bird Humphrey Bogart Ray Bolger (2 stars) Marlon Brando Walter Brennan Garth Brooks Carol Burnett George Burns Raymond Burr Nicolas Cage Frank Capra James Cagney Maria Callas Johnny Carson Johnny Cash Lon Chaney Charles Chaplin Ray Charles Chevy Chase Maurice Chevalier Al Christie Charles Christie Patsy Cline Nat King Cole Tim Conway Gary Cooper Roger Corman Bill Cosby Lou Costello (3 stars) Joan Crawford Bing Crosby Tom Cruise Billy Crystal Jamie Lee Curtis Rodney Dangerfield Bette Davis Sammy Davis Jr Doris Day Cecil B. DeMille (2 stars) James Dean.
Gettysburg Confederate Order of Battle - Staff and Inspector General, Col R. H. Chilton Chief of Artillery, BG William N. Pendleton Medical Director, Dr. Lafayette Guild Chief of Ordinance, Ltc Briscoe G. Baldwin Chief of Commissary, Ltc Robert G. Cole Chief Quartermaster, Ltc James L. Corley Judge Advocate General, Maj H. E. Young Military Secretary and Acting Asst. Chief of Artillery, Col A. L. Long Aide de Camp and Asst. Adjutant General, Ltc Walter H. Taylor Aide de Camp and Asst. Military Secretary, Maj Charles Marshall Aide de Camp and Asst. Inspector General, Maj Charles S. Vanable Engineer, Capt S. R. Johnston Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 * Military Rank Abbreviations Used 2 First Army Corps 3 Second Army Corps 4 Third Army Corps 5 Cavalry Units * Military Rank Abbreviations Used Gen = General LTG =.
Fourteenth United States Congress - (Representative), Republican, NY George Baer, Jr (Representative), Federalist, MD Ezra Baker (Representative), Republican, NJ James Barbour (Senator), Republican, VA Philip Pendleton Barbour (Representative), Republican, VA David Bard (Representative), Republican, PA William Taylor Barry (Senator), Republican, KY Burwell Bassett (Representative), Republican, VA Ephraim Bateman (Representative), -, NJ William Baylies (Representative), Federalist, MA Benjamin Bennet (Representative), Republican, NJ Samuel Rossiter Betts (Representative), Republican, NY William Wyatt Bibb (Senator), Republican, GA James Birdsall (Representative), Republican, NY Victory Birdseye (Representative), Republican, NY William Grainger Blount (Representative), Republican, TN John Linscom Boss, Jr (Representative), Federalist, RI George Bradbury (Representative), Federalist, MA James Breckinridge (Representative), Federalist, VA Elijah Brigham (Representative), Federalist, MA Micah Brooks (Representative), Republican, NY Benjamin Brown (Representative), Federalist, MA James Brown (Senator), Republican, LA Joseph Hunter Bryan (Representative), Republican, NC Thomas Burnside (Representative), Republican,.
Francis Beaufort - finest yet submitted to the Admiralty. While thus surveying, Beaufort incurred nineteen wounds during capture of an enemy vessel under the active guns of a Spanish fortress. During his tenure, the great astronomical observatories at Greenwich, England, and Cape of Good Hope, Africa, were placed under Beaufort's administration. Beaufort directed some of the major maritime explorations and experiments of that period. For eight years, Beaufort directed the Arctic Council during it search for the explorer, Sir John Franklin, lost in his last polar voyage to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. As a council member the Royal Society, the Royal Observatory, and the Royal Geographic Society (which he helped found), Beaufort used his position and prestige as a scientist to act a "middleman" for many scientists of his time. Beaufort represented.
Eighty-second United States Congress - VA Thomas Gerstle Abernethy (Representative), Democrat, MS Edwin Ross Adair (Representative), Republican, IN Hugh Joseph Addonizio (Representative), Democrat, NJ George David Aiken (Senator), Republican, VT Carl Bert Albert (Representative), Democrat, OK Asa Leonard Allen (Representative), Democrat, LA John Joseph Allen, Jr (Representative), Republican, CA Leo Elwood Allen (Representative), Republican, IL Herman Carl Andersen (Representative), Republican, MN Clinton Presba Anderson (Senator), Democrat, NM John Zuinglius Anderson (Representative), Republican, CA August Herman Andresen (Representative), Republican, MN George William Andrews (Representative), Democrat, AL Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso (Representative), Democrat, NY Homer Daniel Angell (Representative), Republican, OR Orland Kay Armstrong (Representative), Republican, MO Wayne Norviel Aspinall (Representative), Democrat, CO James Coats Auchincloss (Representative), Republican, NJ William Hanes Ayres (Representative), Republican, OH Cleveland Monroe Bailey (Representative), Democrat, WV Howard Henry Baker (Representative), Republican, TN Claude Ignatius Bakewell.
Eighteenth United States Congress - Mark Alexander (Representative), Jacksonian, VA Robert Allen (Representative), -, TN Samuel Clesson Allen (Representative), Federalist, MA James Allison, Jr (Representative), -, PA William Segar Archer (Representative), Whig, VA John Bailey (Representative), -, MA William Lee Ball (Representative), Republican, VA Noyes Barber (Representative), -, CT James Barbour (Senator), Republican, VA John Strode Barbour (Representative), Jacksonian, VA Philip Pendleton Barbour (Representative), Republican, VA Ichabod Bartlett (Representative), -, NH Mordecai Bartley (Representative), -, OH David Barton (Senator), Adams-Clay Republican, MO Burwell Bassett (Representative), Republican, VA Francis Baylies (Representative), -, MA Philemon Beecher (Representative), -, OH Samuel Bell (Senator), Adams-Clay Republican, NH Thomas Hart Benton (Senator), Jackson Republican, MO John Blair (Representative), Jacksonian, TN Elijah Boardman (Senator), Republican, CT Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny (Senator), Adams-Clay Republican, LA William Czar Bradley (Representative), Republican, VT John Branch.
1839 in science - Technology 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths Biology Theodor Schwann proposes that all living matter is made up of cells Chemistry Carl Mosander discovers lanthanum Exploration James Clark Ross sets off on the first scientific expedition to survey Antarctica Geology Roderick Murchison names the Silurian period Technology January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces theDaguerreotype photography process Invention of the bicycle by Kirkpatrick Macmillan Invention of the fuel cell by William Grove Development of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear Development of Babbitt metal by Isaac Babbitt Awards Copley Medal: Robert Brown Wollaston Medal: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Births February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist (†1903) April 12 - Nikolai Przewalski, explorer (†1888) Deaths April 8 - Pierre Prévost, physicist ( 1751) August 28 - William Smith.
1944 - to be elected to a fourth term. November 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King introduces conscription in Canada (see Conscription Crisis of 1944). December 3 - Civil war breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between Communists and royalists. December 1 - Edward Stettinius Jr becomes becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration, by filling the seat left by the Cordell Hull. December 26 - The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed. December 30 - King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant. In Sweden, the law of 1864 that criminalizes homosexuality is abolished. Swedish author of children's books Astrid Lindgren publishes her first book Pippi Longstocking. In Sweden, Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing invent a way to.
1970 in music - Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. January 7 - Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers January 14 - Diana Ross performs with the Supremes for the last time. January 16 - John Lennon's London Art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs" January 24 - James Shep Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway January 26 - Simon and Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a.
1960 in music - m. Pino Spotti "I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe "I'd Do Anything" w.m. Lionel Bart "If Ever I Would Leave You" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe "I'll Be There" w.m. Bobby Darin "I'm Sorry" w.m. Ronnie Self & Dub Allbritten "Irma La Douce" w. (Eng) Julian More, David Heneker & Monty Norman (Fr) Alexandre Breffort m. Marguerite Monnot "It Depends On What You Pay" w.Tom Jones m. Harvey Schmidt "It's Now Or Never" w.m. adapt. Aaron Schroeder & Wally Gold "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" w. Paul Vance & Lee Pockriss m. Brian Hyland "Jump Over" w.m. Frank C. Slay Jr & Bob Crewe "Just Come Home" w. (Eng) Carl Sigman (Fr) Edith Piaf m. Marguerite Monnot "Kids" w. Lee Adams m. Charles Strouse "Last Date" m. Floyd Cramer "Let's.
1948 in music - Art Mooney "Twelfth Street Rag" by Pee Wee Hunt "Buttons and Bows" by Dinah Shore "A Tree In the Meadow" by Margaret Whiting "Nature Boy" by Nat King Cole "You Call Everybody Darlin' " by Al Trace "Love Somebody" by Doris Day with Buddy Clark "Underneath the Arches" - Andrews Sisters Published popular music ""A" You're Adorable" w.m. Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise & Sidney Lippman "Always True To You In My Fashion" w.m. Cole Porter "Baby, It's Cold Outside" w.m. Frank Loesser "Be A Clown" w.m. Cole Porter "Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Boo (The Magic Song)" w.m. Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston "Black Coffee" w.m. Paul Francis Webster & Sonny Burke "Black Market" w.m. Frederick Hollander "Blue Christmas" w.m. Billy Hayes & Jay Johnson "The Blue Skirt Waltz" w. Mitchell Parish m. Vaclav Blaha "Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes" w.m. Oakley Haldeman,.
1947 in music - Smoke! Smoke!" by Tex Williams "Mam'selle" by Art Lund, also Frank Sinatra "Ballerina" by Vaughn Monroe "Near You" by Francis Craig "Linda" by Ray Noble with Buddy Clark "Peg O' My Heart" by The Harmonicats, also Buddy Clark and The Three Suns "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba" by Perry Como "Huggin' and Chalkin' " by Hoagy Carmichael Published popular music "Across The Alley From The Alamo" w.m. Joe Green "Ah, But It Happens" w. William Dunham m. Walter Kent "Almost Like Being In Love" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe "And Mimi" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon "Apalachicola F.L.A." w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen "An Apple Blossom Wedding" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon "April In Portugal" w. Jose Galhardo (Port) Jimmy Kennedy (Eng) m. Raul Ferrao Portuguese "Autumn Leaves" ("Les Feuilles Mortes") w.(Eng) Johnny Mercer (Fr).
