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HMS Prometheus was an Alecto-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally classed as a steam vessel (SV3), her classification...

renamed HMS Veteran (fireship) in 1839 and broken up in 1852. HMS Prometheus (1839) was an Alecto-class paddle sloop launched in 1839. HMS Prometheus (1898)...

launched in 1807 as HMS Prometheus. She was used for harbour service from 1819, was renamed HMS Veteran in 1839 and was broken up in 1852. HMS Veteran (D72)...

the frigate HMS Volontaire later that year and, having been promoted to commander on 22 January 1806, took command of the sloop HMS Prometheus in March 1807...

thanks of the Governor-General in Council. In 1854, when commander of HMS Prometheus, he attacked the Riff pirates on shore near Cape Tres Forcas, and recaptured...

Shelley's drama Prometheus Unbound (1820) makes reference to Zoroaster meeting "his own image walking in the garden". In Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story...

ISBN 978-0190456672. Henderson, Donald (2009). Smallpox: The Death of a Disease. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1591027225. Henriques, Peter R. (2006). Realistic Visionary:...

following childbirth. Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Independence of Chile. The Old Vic is established (under the name of...

but David Landes' use of the term in a 1966 essay and in The Unbound Prometheus (1972) standardized scholarly definitions of the term, which was most...

Society, and the lords of the admiralty granted him a free passage in HMS Prometheus, which left England on 17 June 1844, and reached Cape Castle on 22 July...

Tay, and Prometheus had detained Panther as Panther was sailing from Martinique to Dunkirk. On 22 September 1816 Tancock left Conway to join HMS Iphigenia...

William (2004). The Encyclopedia of African American Military History. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1615928316. Whaples, Robert (March 1995). "Where Is There...

is designed by Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke. 1839 A pedal bicycle is invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan. 1840 Sir Rowland Hill...

Last Participant of The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925". The Last Leaf. Prometheus Books. p. 51. ISBN 9781616141622. ‘I have been happy’ -- Oldest Michigan...

and Prejudice 1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 1819: John Keats writes his six of his best-known odes. 1819: Théodore...

fire with HMS Prometheus, but made her escape. Diomede also captured, Mary, Moore, master, which had been sailing from Cork to Quebec. (HMS Martin later...

Darwinism on Philosophy", in Martin Gardner (ed.), Great Essays in Science, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-853-8 Eldredge, Niles (2006), "Confessions of a Darwinist"...

To a Skylark – Percy Bysshe Shelley; The Cloud – Percy Bysshe Shelley; Prometheus Unbound – Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821 in literature – Confessions of an...

commissioned by the North American Jules Verne Society and published in 2003 by Prometheus Books. The first production of the play after its rediscovery occurred...

they saw as American pandering to the mob, as in the Aroostook War in 1838–1839 and the Oregon boundary dispute in 1844–1846. However, British middle-class...