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Mt Vesuvius
The picture to the right is a satellite radar image of Mount Vesuvius and its surroundings. Vesuvius is the purplish cone near the center of the image with a prominent summit crater and radiating greenish lava flows. -
Charles Darwins
Darwin is the first of the evolutionary biologists, the originator of the concept of natural selection.Charles Robert Darwin was born at Shrewsbury. His father was a doctor and his mother was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood. Darwin first studied medicine at Edinburgh. -
Battle of Gonzales
About the middle of September, 1835, General Cos landed at Matagorda, with five hundred additional Mexican troops, and proceeded on his way to Bexar. On his arrival in Texas, active operations commenced. In 1831, the commandant at Bexar had furnished the corporation of Gonzales with a piece of artillery, to aid them in their defense against the Indians. They continued to retain it, and claimed it as a gift. -
Edger allen poe married his 13 years old
In 1836 poe married virgina cousin clemm his 13 years old couisn for the messenger poe contribued reviewed orinal or revised poems and stories and two installment of the narrative of artur gordon pym.
