It was a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, by Earl Rivers. Nov 18, St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome, was dedicated. See contrasting info 1765-1833, Nicephore Niepce, French lithographer. Nov 18, U.S. Navy Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer discovered the frozen continent of Antarctica.
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Nov 18, The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress was held in Richmond. Biologists later thought that the frog named Dan'l Webster by Twain was a California red-legged frog and currently endangered. Nov 18, Dorthea Dix, pseudonym for Elizabeth Gilman, who wrote syndicated advice, was born. Nov 18, Clarence Day, American writer, was born. Nov 18, The United States and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones.