The Sulphur Crisis of 1840 (also known as the Sulphur War of 1840 or Anglo-Neapolitan Sulphur Crisis) was a conflict between the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies...
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Sulfur (redirect from Uses of sulphur)
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic...
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Sulfur mining in Sicily (category Kingdom of the Two Sicilies)
itinerary on the saga of Sicilian sulfur mines. Sulphur Crisis of 1840 Narrow-gauge railways in Sicily Province of Caltanissetta Province of Agrigento Giovanni...
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Pea soup fog (category History of London)
the poisonous gas sulphur dioxide. This very thick smog occurs in cities and is derived from the smoke given off by the burning of soft coal for home...
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David Urquhart (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stafford)
Son, 1840. "Rupture of Alliance with France." Diplomacy and Commerce vol. 5. Glasgow: John Smith & Son, 1840. The Sulphur Monopoly. T. Brettell, 1840. A...
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volcanic sulphur emissions occurred. The persistence of anoxia through the Early Triassic may explain the slow recovery of marine life and low levels of biodiversity...
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First Opium War (category 1840 in China)
and Oriental Crisis of 1840 (and the resulting risk of war between Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire over Syria) drew the attention of the Royal Navy's...
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Industrial Revolution (redirect from Age of Industry)
production of chemicals was an important development during the Industrial Revolution. The first of these was the production of sulphuric acid by the...
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parts of Greenbrier, Fayette, Mercer, and Monroe Counties. The portion of Greenbrier County that became part of Summers County belonged to Blue Sulphur Township...
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Second Industrial Revolution (category History of technology)
treating phosphates with sulphuric acid; this was to be the first product of the nascent artificial manure industry. The discovery of coprolites in commercial...
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production and trade of sulphur, salt, marble, citrus fruits and wheat developed (Sicily had been the "granary of Europe" since the time of the ancient Romans)...
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Zachary Taylor (redirect from 12th President of the United States of America)
subsequently established Fort Selden at the confluence of the Sulphur River and the Red River. On the orders of General Edmund P. Gaines, he later found a new...
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management of the British Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company Limited, which introduced modern methods of extraction and began the exploitation of surface...
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Montana (redirect from State of Montana)
The geographic center of population of Montana is in sparsely populated Meagher County, in the town of White Sulphur Springs. The United States Census Bureau...
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Syria (redirect from Subdivisions of Syria)
In the early 1980s, light-grade, low-sulphur oil was discovered near Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria. Syria's rate of oil production has decreased dramatically...
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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer) (category Explorers of Australia)
Oriental Crisis of 1840 by declaring himself Khedive of Egypt, which had been until then a province of the Ottoman Empire. Also King Ferdinand II of the Two...
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in 2015 for First Horizon Park, a new ballpark built on the site of the former Sulphur Dell ballpark. In 2021, they were placed in the Triple-A East, which...
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13 September 2023. Thomson, D. W. (April 1995). "Prelude to the Sulphur War of 1840: The Neapolitan Perspective". European History Quarterly. 25 (2):...
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Rockefeller family (category American families of German ancestry)
Company Sohio Standard Oil Company, Inc. Standard Oil of Indiana Standard Oil of New Jersey Union Sulphur Company Union Tank Car Company United Gas Improvement...
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Appalachia (redirect from History of Appalachia)
early as the 18th century with the establishment of resorts at Hot Springs, Virginia, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and what is now Hot Springs...
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Qing dynasty (redirect from Empire of Great Qing of China)
The Island of Formosa, Past and Present : history, people, resources, and commercial prospects : tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical...
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(Richmond, Virginia). November 17, 1840. p. 2. Archived from the original on November 29, 2016. "Serious Case of Shooting—Navigation". The New York Times...
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Birmingham (redirect from City of a thousand trades)
manufacture of sulphuric acid, and in 1780 James Keir developed a process for the bulk manufacture of alkali, together marking the birth of the modern...
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Fuel cell (redirect from Comparison of fuel cell types)
cell lifetime. Another method would use iron and sulphur instead of platinum. This would lower the cost of a fuel cell (as the platinum in a regular fuel...
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Great Cobar mine (section The crisis of 1902)
atop a layer of wood that was then fired. The roasting process drove off the sulphur as noxious sulphur dioxide fumes, leaving behind oxides of copper. The...
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Aachen (redirect from History of Aachen)
Aachen basin's hot sulphur springs where they worshipped Grannus, god of light and healing. The 25-hectare Roman spa resort town of Aquae Granni was, according...
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for fertilizer production was the obtaining of phosphate from the dissolution of coprolites in sulphuric acid. Dan Albone constructed the first commercially...
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London, Ontario (redirect from History of London, Ontario)
a city (10,000 or more residents). In the 1860s, a sulphur spring was discovered at the forks of the Thames River while industrialists were drilling...
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of supply, usually to cause military exhaustion and starvation as an economic blockade in addition to restricting movement of enemy troops. List of naval...
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Catania (redirect from History of Catania)
economic and industrial hub of Sicily. The city is famous for its mainly petrochemical industry, and the extraction of sulphur. In the year 2000, according...
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