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    Christmas Meeting of 1888 (Faroese: Jólafundurin 1888) is considered to be the official start of the Faroese National Movement. On December 22, 1888 the...
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  • Faroese language conflict (category History of the Faroe Islands)
    century, and the language had aroused Faroese nationalism since the Christmas Meeting of 1888 or Jólafundurin. The conflict was not so much a struggle between...
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    the Christmas Meeting of 1888, held to "discuss how to defend the Faroese language and Faroese traditions". This meeting led to the rise of two of the...
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  • Christmas Meeting of 1888 on the second day of Christmas in Tórshavn. A second meeting was therefore convened on January 6, 1889. As at the Christmas...
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    Johannesen was one of the nine men that signed the invitation to the Christmas Meeting of 1888, which is considered to have marked the beginning of the Faroese...
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    becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan. 1888 – The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement...
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    Faroese independence movement (category Politics of the Faroe Islands)
    believed to be the Christmas Meeting of 1888, which was held on December 22, 1888 in the Løgting (parliament) in Tórshavn. Two of the persons who participated...
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    List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands reflects people of importance to the history and society of Faroe Islands. The Postverk Føroya...
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    Rasmus Effersøe (category Members of the Løgting)
    agricultural supervisor. He was one of the nine men that convened the Christmas Meeting of 1888, which is considered the start of the Faroese independence movement;...
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    Djóni í Geil (category Members of the Løgting)
    Tórshavn. He was a champion of Faroese independence, and he was one of the nine men that convened the Christmas Meeting of 1888.: 115  Djóni í Geil was elected...
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    of the leading men of his generation in the Faroese independence movement, and he was one of the nine men that convened the Christmas Meeting of 1888...
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    (Now is the hour come for acting), the anthem of the Christmas Meeting of 1888 which began the rise of Faroese nationalism. Djurhuus trained as a lawyer...
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    were leading figures of the Faroese nationalist revival, Helena Paturson had been an activist since the Christmas Meeting of 1888, where the movement was...
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    Malay: Pantai Ikan Terbang) is the capital city and main settlement of Australia's Christmas Island. Although it was originally named after the British survey-ship...
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    Independence Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day George Washington's Birthday became a federal holiday in 1879. In 1888 and 1894, respectively, Decoration...
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    he was thought to have no chance of winning. Family members managed and staffed the campaign, which relied on meeting voters face-to-face and hand-distributing...
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    at the end of the story; symbolic of Scrooge's change of heart. The revival of the Christmas Carol began with William Sandys's Christmas Carols Ancient...
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    1860) Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, 1882–1886) Walk in the Light While There is Light (Ходите в свете, пока есть свет, 1888) Kreutzer Sonata...
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  • Gypsy Lore Society (category 1888 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such...
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  • This is a list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other "soldiers of fortune". Andrade, Tonio. (2016) The...
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    until the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Just after Christmas 1691, the small club of marine insurance underwriters relocated to No. 16 Lombard...
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    Martha Tabram (category 1888 deaths)
    7 August 1888) was an English woman killed in a spate of violent murders in and around the Whitechapel district of East London between 1888 and 1891....
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    John Frederic Daniell (category Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge)
    deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on The First Principles of Franklinic Electricity. Daniell died suddenly of apoplexy in London in March...
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    Benito Juárez (category 19th-century presidents of Mexico)
    1888, pp. 192. Bancroft 1888, pp. 196. Bancroft 1888, pp. 182. Bancroft 1888, pp. 198. Bancroft 1888, pp. 201. Bancroft 1888, pp. 202. Bancroft 1888,...
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    The Boor (Медведь, 1888)—a farce in one act A Marriage Proposal (Предложение, c. 1889)—a farce in one act A Tragedian in Spite of Himself or A Reluctant...
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    the Christmas Price Index, a humorous economic indicator which estimates the prices of the items found in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". In...
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  • In 1888, Swami Vivekananda left the monastery[clarification needed] as a Parivrâjaka— the Hindu religious life of a wandering monk, "without fixed abode...
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    Blue Amberol Records was the trademark for a type of cylinder recording manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made...
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    Louis Le Prince, of a Roundhay Garden Scene and of Leeds Bridge in 1888. Thackray Museum of Medicine is a museum of the history of medicine, featuring...
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