Victor Hugo

•  Niels Henrik Abel

  Niels Henrik Abel (August 5, 1802 – April 6, 1829) was a noted Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation in radicals.

  

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•  Robert Chambers

  Robert Chambers FRSE (10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish author, journal editor and publisher who, like his elder brother William Chambers, the publisher and politician, was highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles. He was the anonymous author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which was so controversial that his authorship was not acknowledged until after his death.

  

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•  Leonard Bacon

  Leonard Bacon (February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881) was an American Congregational preacher and writer.

  

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•  Phineas Quimby

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866), was a New England philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and inventor, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine.

  

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•  Charles Wheatstone

  

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•  János Bolyai

  János Bolyai (December 15, 1802 – January 27, 1860) was a Hungarian mathematician, known for his work in non-Euclidean geometry. Bolyai was born in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Habsburg Empire, the son of the well-known mathematician Farkas Bolyai.

  

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•  Dorothea Dix

  Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses.

  

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•  Sara Forbes Bonetta

  Sarah Forbes Bonetta was a West African Egbado tribal princess who was orphaned in inter-tribal warfare at the age of eight. Intended to be a human sacrifice, she was rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give her to Queen Victoria, "She would be a present from the King of the blacks to the Queen of the Whites," Forbes wrote later. He named her Sara Forbes Bonetta.

  

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•  Alexandre Dumas, père

  Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.

  

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•  John Barnett

  John Barnett (July 15, 1802 – April 16, 1890) was an English composer and writer on music.

  

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•  Tetravalence

  In chemistry, a tetravalence is the state of an atom with four electrons available for covalent chemical bonding in its valence. An example is methane (CH4): the tetravalent carbon atom forms a covalent bond with four hydrogen atoms. The carbon atom is called tetravalent because it forms 4 covalent bonds.

  

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•  Herma Szabo

  Herma Szabo (February 22, 1902 - May 7, 1986) was an Austrian singles and pairs figure skater. She was the 1924 Olympic champion and is one of four women to have won the World title 5 times, the others being Sonja Henie, Carol Heiss, and Michelle Kwan. She is the most successful Austrian figure skater of all time. Born in Vienna, Szabo came from a family of figure skaters and was exposed to the sport at an early age. Her mother was Christine Szabo, a pair skater.

  

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•  Saw pit

  A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed with a long two-handled saw by two men, one standing above the timber and the other below. It was used for producing sawn planks from tree trunks, which could then be cut down into boards, pales, posts, etc. Many towns, villages and country estates had their own saw pits. The greatest user of sawn timber in past centuries was the shipbuilding industry.

  

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•  Chlotrudis Awards 2000

  The 6th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented April 8, 2000, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the Berklee College of Music's David Friend Recital Hall. Sean Gullette was among the special guests at the first Chlotrudis Awards ceremony open to the general public.

  

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•  Shaw's Star Market

  

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