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Events
| Event | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
| Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
| Crimean War | October 1853 | February 1856 |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geelong Grammar School |  | Ruling class school. The school's fees are the most expensive in Australia. | |
| William Paterson University |  | Public | New Jersey public university |
| ETH Zurich |  | Public | ETH Zurich is among other things sponsored by Big Ag Syngenta |
| The College of New Jersey |  | New Jersey college with emphasis placed on liberal arts | |
| University of San Francisco |  | Military ranks Society of Jesus | A private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. |
| Pennsylvania State University |  | • Public • Flagship • State-related • Land-grant • Sea-grant • Space-grant • Sun-grant • Multi-campus | |
| Eureka College | .jpg) | Private College | Private college in Illinois. Ronald Reagan was an alumnus. |
A Death
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Lehman | 1822 | 17 November 1855 | US Louisiana New Orleans | Businessperson | Founder of Lehman Brothers, which grew from a cotton and fabrics shop during his life to become a large finance firm under his brothers' descendants. |
Births
| Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Mellon | 24 March 1855 | United States Pennsylvania Pittsburgh | 26 August 1937 | Politician Banker | |
| Tōyama Mitsuru | 27 May 1855 | 5 October 1944 | Deep state actor | ||
| Robert La Follette | 14 June 1855 | 18 June 1925 | Politician | La Follette stated that his chief goal was to break the "combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the American people" | |
| Walter Page | 15 August 1855 | US North Carolina Cary | 21 December 1918 | Diplomat Journalist Deep state functionary | A US diplomat who received money from Woodrow Wilson's banker, Cleveland Dodge. |
| Eugene Debs | 5 November 1855 | United States Indiana Terre Haute | 20 October 1926 | Firefighter Grocer Union organizer | “Getting a living under capitalism... is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.” |
| Walter Cunliffe | 3 December 1855 | London United Kingdom | 6 January 1920 | Central banker | Governor of the Bank of England 1913-1918 |
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