Mary & Elizabeth Kirby's book 'The Sea and its wonders',1871, is global in scope & is not simply a guide to the British seashore, it includes oceanography, chemistry & biology as well as information about seals!

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, December 25, 1871, at the age of twenty-four, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier; she was an employee at one of his shops. 

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'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone ill and despondent in Tanzania, having abandoned his search for the source of the Nile.

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After the Storm, the Irish Coast, 1871, Edwin Hayes

“The is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum.”
― Carl Safina,

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in 1871, a total solar eclipse occurred. Here astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer waits to observe the eclipse in India.

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I married 5,575,928,563,871,580 Husbands!

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Scottish Colourist S J Peploe was born in 1871, his bold "Still Life" (1930) belongs to

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《 鳩鵪漫畫 》871,不要惹上這中國盲俠。Beware of this Chinese blind swordsman!

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