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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 12 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arctic exploration. (search)
plished in the summer of 1879, by Professor Nordenskjold, an accomplished Swedish explorer, in the steamship Vega. She passed through Bering Strait into the Pacific Ocean, and reached Japan in the first week in September. Thus the great problem has been solved. the Jeannette, Lieutenant De Long, an American exploring vessel, was lost on the coast of Siberia, in 1881. The most important of the recent expeditions into Arctic legions by Americans are those of Lieut. (now Brig.-Gen.) Adolphus W. Greely and of Lieut. Robert E. Peary (qq. v.), who has made several voyages into northern waters, and in 1900 was still there. Lieutenant Greely was sent from the United States in 1881, by the government, charged with establishing a series of stations about the pole for the purpose of observation. Lieutenants Lockwood and Brainard, of his force, succeeded in establishing a station on a small island in 83° 24′ N., and until 1896 this was the most northern point ever reached by an explorer.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Speaker of Congress, the (search)
Speaker of Congress, the In the following historical review of the office of speaker of the national House of Representatives, Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U. S. A., considers the vast powers vested in the incumbent and the various media through which they are executed: The United States has been most fortunate in the selection of the official chiefs of its' co-ordinate branches of government —the executive, judicial, and legislative. Rarely has it occurred that a man filling any of these exalted offices has fallen short of the high standard that America demands, and of a few it may be even said that the man has been, if anything, greater than his office. The power of the speaker of the House of Representatives has steadily increased from the First Congress to the present, and in its influence on national legislation is believed by many even to exceed that exerted by the President. Samuel J. Randall, through whom the influence of the speaker was increased more largely than
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
nisters at principal European courts that any movement to jointly guarantee the neutrality of the interoceanic canal at Panama would be regarded by the United States as an uncalled — for interference......June 24, 1881 American Association of the Red Cross, organized June 9, with Miss Clara Barton as president, incorporated......July 1, 1881 President Garfield shot by Charles Jules Guiteau in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station at Washington, D. C.......July 2, 1881 Lieut. Adolphus W. Greely, with a party of twenty-five in all, sails from St. John's, Newfoundland, in the Proteus to establish one of thirteen circumpolar stations for scientific purposes in accordance with European plans......July 7, 1881 Warner Miller, of New York, elected to Senate to succeed Platt......July 16, 1881 Elbridge G. Lapham, of New York, elected to Senate to succeed Conkling......July 22, 1881 Nathan Clifford, United States Supreme Court judge, born 1803, dies at Cornish, Me......Ju