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• Directory:Washington
  ...on was the object of a dispute between England and the United States until 1846, when its northern border was set at the 49th parallel. Washington is noted
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• Directory:Bishop Hill, Illinois
  '''Bishop Hill''' was settled in 1846 by a group of Swedish religious dissidents who believed that simplicity was
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• Universe of discourse
  ...erse of discourse''''' is generally attributed to Augustus De Morgan (1846).  George Boole (1854) defines it in the following manner: * De Morgan, Augustus (1846), ''Cambridge Philosophical Transactions'', ''viii'', p. 380.
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• Directory:Iowa
  ...nited States]]. It was admitted as the 29th state in [[Year Admitted:=1846|1846]]. Part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Iowa was organized as a separate ...fter much debate on its boundaries, Iowa became the 29th state on Dec. 28, 1846. Over 100,000 people lived in Iowa at that time.
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...egion was held jointly by Great Britain and the United States from 1818 to 1846. Idaho became a separate territory in 1863. Boise is the capital and the la ...country, held jointly by the United States and Great Britain from 1818 to 1846. Fur traders in an expedition sent out by John Jacob Astor came to the Snak
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...s, was held jointly by Great Britain and the United States from 1818 until 1846, when the international boundary was fixed at the 49th parallel. In 1848 th ...at the line of lat. 49°N, but disagreements over the interpretation of the 1846 treaty were not successfully arbitrated until 1872.
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  In 1846, Congress approved the [[Walker tariff|Walker Tariff]] (named after [[Rober In 1846, Polk approved a law restoring the Independent Treasury System, under which
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• Directory:Wyoming
  ...ost in Wyoming, was built. Western Wyoming was obtained by the U.S. in the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain and as a result of the treaty ending the M
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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  ...ent the Army of Occupation under Taylor's command to the [[Rio Grande]] in 1846. After [[Mexico]] sent a cavalry unit and attacked Taylor's troops (and add *[http://www.familytales.org/results.php?tla=zat Zachary Taylor letters from 1846-1848]
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• Slogan
  *'''Fifty-Four Forty or Fight''', [[Oregon boundary dispute]], [[1846]], [[United States Democratic Party|Democrats]] claim all of [[Oregon Count
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• Directory:Montana
  ...in 1803. The northwestern part was gained by treaty with Great Britain in 1846. At various times, parts of Montana were in territories of Louisiana, Misso ...the Rockies and the N Idaho border, was validated in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with the British. Montana was then still a wilderness of forest and grass,
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  In [[1846]], he founded the private University of Buffalo, which today is the public ...was chartered by an act of the New York State Legislature on [[May 11]], [[1846]], and at first was only a medical school.[http://ublib.buffalo.edu/archive
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...there in Montgomery, which was named the as the permanent state capital in 1846, that on 11 January 1861, that the Ordinance of Secession was passed, formi * On January 28, 1846 Montgomery was selected as capital of Alabama.
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• Directory:Utah
  ...ner Party broke trail over the difficult mountains E of Great Salt Lake in 1846 and proceeded in their tragic journey westward across the desert.
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• Directory:Nelson, New Zealand
  ...d. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the immigrants had moved away.
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• June 1
  *[[1846]] - [[Pope Gregory XVI]] (b. [[1765]])
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...New Mexico. In 1824, New Mexico briefly became a Mexican territory, but in 1846 U.S. Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny's troops followed Anglo merchants down the S
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...aken of [[Mary Todd Lincoln|Mary Lincoln]], a daguerreotype by Shepherd in 1846.]] ...or their teen years. [[Edward Baker Lincoln]] was born on [[10 March]], [[1846]], and died on [[1 February]], [[1850]], also in Springfield. [[William Wal
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• Directory:Maine
  ...and's Neal Dow - known internationally as the "Father of Prohibition" - In 1846, Maine became the first state to pass a law making alcoholic drinks illegal
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• Directory:John Tyler
  [[David Gardiner Tyler]] (1846-1927); John Alexander Tyler (1848-83); Julia Gardiner Tyler (1849-71); Lach
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