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1841
 
   
Herman Melville goes to sea on the whaler Acushnet and spends moe than a year in the south Pacific     
 
1841
 
   
The Straits Convention, agreed between the European powers and Turkey, is a concerted attempt to prop up the Ottoman empire     
 
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