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1803-1821: British colonisation of Tasmania took two forms. Informal colonisation commenced in 1803 when small groups of British men employed in the sealing industry on the Bass Strait islands, initiated seasonal contact with Aboriginal groups along Tasmania’s northern coastline.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4 July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts in the family home at 27 Hardy Street, now a museum. He was the son of Elizabeth Clarke Manning and Nathaniel Hathorne, a Captain in the U. S. Navy who died when Nathaniel was four years old.
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hawthorne studied the classics, mathematics, philosophy, composition and natural science.
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Smith gave Lowell Mason the lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4, 1831,[1] at a children's Independence Day celebration at Park Street Church in Boston. The song, titled "America", was first published by Lowell Mason in The Choir in 1832.[1] Smith later wrote an additional stanza for the April 30, 1889 Washington Centennial Celebration. There is a handwritten note by Smith in the Louise Arner Boyd Collection archived by the Marin History Museum featuring all
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While Hawthorne avidly read and enjoyed the short stories of James Fenimore Cooper and Sir Walter Scott, his own were not well-received at first. But whether it be Prynne’s indomitable spirit, the moral dilemma of “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), the disastrous side of vanity in “The Birth Mark” (1843), or “Ethan Brand’s” (1850) Unpardonable Sin, many of Hawthorne’s works remain popular and have inspired numerous other authors’ works, and adaptations to film.
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Altho his time at The Berkshires was productive, Hawthorne noted, "I am sick to death of Berkshire... I have felt languid and dispirited, during almost my whole residence."
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Hawthorne, who wrote Pierce's campaign biography was appointed to the important overseas post of American consul at Liverpool, in which he served form 1853 to 1857 with considerable efficiency.
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fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after several slave states declared their secession, also one of the earliest true industrial wars
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AS a union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion