1850 1864 facts
While investigating facts about 1850 1864, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a theocratic state ruled by a man claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus, that fought a civil war in southern China against the Qing Dynasty in which at least 20 million people died between 1850 and 1864.
The poems that were written by Emily Dickinson and published during her lifetime include "Magnum bonum" (1850), 'sic transit Gloria mund" (1852), "Nobody knows this little Rose" (1858), "I taste a liquor never brewed" (1861), 'safe in their Alabaster Chambers" (1862), "Flowers - Well - if anybody" (1864), "These are the days when Birds come back" (1864), 'some keep the Sabbath going to church" (1864), "Blazing in Gold - and" (1864), 'success is counted sweetest" (1878), and "A narrow Fellow in / the grass" (1866).
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 4 of the best facts about 1850 1864 I managed to collect.
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The status of fugitive slaves from slave states that remained in the Union, such as Kentucky, remained hazy until the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was officially repealed in 1864.
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From 1850 to 1864 at least 39,927 women worldwide died in crinoline (the stiffened or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt) related fires.
