11) Goldie, Sir George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...British colonial administrator, b. Isle of Man. Goldie entered the Niger River trade in the 1870s, and his company soon dominated trade on the lower river. In 1886...
12) Bodie. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...co., E Calif., in the Sierra Nevada, c.11 mi/18 km ESE of Bridgeport. Gold mining. In 1870s, was gold boom town, with pop. of c.12,000. Bodie State Historical Park;...
13) 1841. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...mission was a failure because a large majority of its members died of malaria. Only in the 1870s did widespread use of quinine assist in suppressing malaria and permitting...
14) Dallas. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...of Fort Worth. It was founded by French settlers in 1841 and became a cotton market in the 1870s. Population: 1,006,877....
15) Dusseldorf. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...of Cologne. Chartered in 1288, it has been a leading industrial center since the 1870s. The poet Heinrich Heine was born here in 1797. Population: 514,936....
16) Donets Basin. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...southeast Russia north of the Sea of Azov and west of the Donets River. Developed after the 1870s, it is one of the densest industrial concentrations in the world....
17) Cudahy, Michael. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ireland. He went (1849) to Milwaukee and after 1856 worked for meatpacking firms. In the 1870s he introduced refrigeration into the meatpacking industry. He became...
18) Kelley, Oliver Hudson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, the central influence in the Granger movement of the 1870s. Kelley took up land on the Minnesota frontier in 1849 and farmed until,...
19) James, Jesse. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...and their gang committed many daring robberies of banks and trains, especially in the 1870s. After a reward had been offered for James s capture, one of his own gang...
20) Disraeli, Benjamin. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
2002
...nineteenth century. He led the Conservative party of Britain (Tories) in the 1860s and 1870s and was prime minister twice. He was a political opponent of William...
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