• State v. Mabrey (1870): The court found that abusive and very improper language‚ coupled with a threat to kill the wife‚ drawing a knife and attempting to stab her‚ but ultimately not causing any physical injury was assault. • State v. Oliver (1874): The court found that the “old doctrine‚” that held a husband had the right to whip his wife provided he used a switch no larger than his thumb‚ no longer governs the decisions of their Court. Further‚ since North Carolina had “advanced from barbarism
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and a wife that was put and confined into a mental institutin called Dublin mental institution. To Maxwell the subject of his wife was a subject of much controversy. Mary and Maxwell could not be married untill Maxwells first wife died whitch was in 1874. So Mary Braddon decided to move in with Maxwell and his five children. When she moved in with him she became is common-law wife and a step mother to six kids. When she was being criticised on her novel by a lady that goes by the name Mrs. Oliphant
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|Start of reign of Tsar Alexander II. | |1861 |Emancipation of the serfs. | |1874–81 |Growing anti-government terrorist movement and government reaction. | |1881 |Alexander II assassinated by revolutionaries; succeeded by Alexander III.
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The school of Impressionism‚ which continues to attract adherents among artists‚ coalesced around a number of French artists who took light‚ open air and interpretive color as their guide. This school was itself an outgrowth of Realism as practiced by painters like Courbet and Corot‚ who sought to depict everyday settings and people in their art in opposition to existing conventions that dictated an idealization of the world within narrowly defined subjects for painting. Undoubtedly the best known
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Magician‚ escape artist. Born Erich Weisz on March 24‚ 1874 in Budapest‚ Hungary. One of seven children born to a Jewish rabbi and his wife‚ Erich moved with his family as a child to Appleton‚ Wisconsin‚ where he later claimed he was born. When he was 13‚ Erich moved with his father to New York City‚ taking on odd jobs and living in a boarding house before the rest of the family joined them. It was there that he became interested in trapeze arts. In 1894‚ Erich launched his career as a professional
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many have worked for major computer companies and others may have invented something for computer technology. One of those important people that contributed to the history of computing is Thomas John Watson Sr. Thomas Watson was born on February 17‚ 1874 in New York. He grew up in the city of Campbell as a country boy. Thomas attended Adison Academy‚ and also took a short course in the Elmira School of Commerce and became a salesman in Painted Post‚ New York. In 1898‚ Watson was a salesman in the
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to fill the jobs women started to fill in. “Opportunities for leisure activities increased dramatically as real wages continued to grow and hours of work continued to decline. In urban areas‚ the nine-hour workday became increasingly the norm; the 1874 Factory Act limited the workweek to 56.5 hours‚ encouraging the movement toward an eventual eight-hour workday ( Cunningham
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Ashley Cross Mr. Haynes World War II Leader Essay World History Period 4 Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill known by the name Winston Churchill. He was born November 30‚ 1874; he then died January 24‚ 1965. Winston was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. From the age two to the age six he lived in Dublin where his grandfather had been appointed Viceroy. Winston’s earliest exposure to education was in Dublin‚ where a governess tried teaching
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experimental research methods‚ modeled after those used in physiology. Wundt was able to build a lab where he developed experiments to measure mental states and processes in an experimental and scientific way‚ a topic previously limited to philosophy. In 1874‚ Wundt published one of his most important works‚ Principles of Physiological Psychology. Principles used a form of psychology that examined the immediate experiences of consciousness‚ involving ideas‚ volitions and emotions‚ through the use of introspection
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Before the age of European imperialism in Africa‚ the core of the continent was totally unknown to European civilization. Prior to the colonial interests of the major European nations‚ the age of exploration in Africa opened up many parts of the continent ’s interior. Numerous expeditions of many explorers made the rapid colonization of Africa possible by showing the European nations what Africa held for them. Although explorers were the key that would open up entirely new issues of rivalry and conflict
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