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•  Edwin Abbott Abbott

  Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884).

  

  18.2%
  

  18.2%
  

  63.6%
  
•  John Wilkes Booth

  John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838–April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C. , on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well known actor. He was also a Confederate sympathizer vehement in his denunciation of the Lincoln Administration and outraged by the South's defeat in the American Civil War.

  

  22.2%
  

  22.2%
  

  55.6%
  
•  John Hay

  John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.

  

  6.3%
  

  56.3%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Vladimir Markovnikov

  Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov, also spelled as Markownikoff (December 22, 1838 in Nizhny Novgorod - February 11, 1904) was a Russian chemist.

  

  15.4%
  

  46.2%
  

  38.5%
  
•  Victoria Woodhull

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was described by Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and spiritualism as she fought against corruption and for labor reforms. The authorship of many of her speeches and articles is disputed.

  

  11.8%
  

  23.5%
  

  64.7%
  
•  James J. Hill

  

  53.8%
  

  30.8%
  

  15.4%
  
•  Ernst Mach

  Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, remembered for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and through his criticism of Newton, a forerunner of Einstein's relativity.

  

  35.3%
  

  35.3%
  

  29.4%
  
•  Georges Bizet

  Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen.

  

  36.4%
  

  9.1%
  

  54.5%
  
•  Karl Weyprecht

  Karl Weyprecht, also spelt Carl Weyprecht, was born on 8 September 1838, in Bad König, and on died 3 March 1881 in Michelstadt. He was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He is most famous as an Arctic explorer, and an advocate of international cooperation for scientific polar exploration. Although he did not live to see it occur, he is associated with the organisation of the first International Polar Year.

  

  45.5%
  

  36.4%
  

  18.2%
  
•  William Henry Perkin

  Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was an English chemist best known for his discovery, at the age of 18, of the first aniline dye, mauveine.

  

  42.1%
  

  42.1%
  

  15.8%
  

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•  Inventive step under the European Patent Convention

  Under the European Patent Convention (EPC), European patents shall be granted for inventions which inter alia involve an inventive step. The central legal provision explaining what this means, i.e. the central legal provision relating to the inventive step under the EPC, is Article 56 EPC. It provides that an invention, having regard to the state of the art, must not be obvious to a person skilled in the art.

  

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  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Łagowo

  Łagowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzywiń, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) east of Krzywiń, 25 km (16 mi) south-east of Kościan, and 47 km (29 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.

  

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•  Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie

  

  39.1%
  

  34.8%
  

  26.1%
  
•  Harahødn

  

  64.7%
  

  11.8%
  

  23.5%
  
•  U-45 (1938)

  

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  0.0%
  

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