How To Use 1860s In A Sentence
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During the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s land scrip was issued to soldiers in recognition of their service and to assist their rehabilitation.
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Going back to France in the 1860s, the word "academy" has connoted everything avant-garde artists have clamored to escape: It meant state control of their careers and it forced them to work in a realistic style and within approved genres, such as history and mythology, instead of developing new kinds of art.
The Academic Dilemma
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In the mid-1860s, he succeeded in mixing it with an inert absorbent material.
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On Hampstead Heath the Corporation of London is considering the closure of the open-air bathing ponds which have succoured swimmers, amputees and mild exhibitionists since the 1860s.
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In the 1860s they had brought Indian indentured labourers to work in the sugarcane plantations of Natal.
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Before the 1860s, Pimas had maintained their agricultural fields and irrigation canals based on knowledge from a long history of agricultural subsistence.
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Not only does he appropriate the customary male garb of the early 1860s, but additionally appropriates the gendered-male, socially transgressive act of gambling.
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In the 1860s, there was widespread concern that, by the turn of the century, there would be an insufficient number of people to go round picking up all the horse dung from the carriages.
Look How Clever We Are !
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Since the 1860s the Norway spruce has been the traditional tree, but now firs, less prone to needle-drop, have become fashionable.
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Americans had demonstrated in the years leading up to the 1770s and 1860s that they were a ‘nation of joiners.’
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During the late 1860s and early 1870s, "recruiters" ranged the South Seas in search of kanakas to work Queensland sugar and cotton plantations.
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The cottage is fitted with electric light fixtures designed to resemble the original gaslight fixtures of the 1860s, and modern wiring and plumbing have been installed.
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In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera.
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The antagonism directed towards photography from the 1860s owes much to the displacement of human handicrafts by machine methods.
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The difficulty lay in tying the two mysteries together in a believable way and in capturing in words and language the feel of the 1860s without being stiff or pretentious.
A Conversation With Nevada Barr
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By the 1860s, 191 of his machines were installed in factories on the continent.
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In the 1860s a controversy over predestination among Midwestern Lutherans caused further splits that lasted well into the twentieth century.
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The state was humiliated in the 1860s by a spectacular revival of bushranging, when bushrangers for the first time became national heroes, their exploits carried by telegraph and newspaper Australia-wide.
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Take the most broadly transformational political acts in the history of the U.S. -- the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the approval of the 14th Amendment in the 1860s, women's suffrage in 1920, the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960s, the establishment of the EPA and the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act in the early 1970s, to name a few.
Philip Radford: Why Did the Climate Bill Die? Because We Still Don't Have a Real Climate Movement
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It was founded in London in the 1860s as an outgrowth of Methodism, a sort of militant form of Methodism which had a strong sense of social justice.
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He returned to the topic of education in an address he gave in various versions at graduation exercises in the 1860s.
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When Queen Victoria began to add collies to her kennel of dogs in the 1860s, sheepdogs soon became society's dog of choice.
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The conviction rate for these latter offences rose from around five percent in the 1860s to fifteen percent in the twentieth century.
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In the late 1860s and 1870s half-bred sheep were produced with English and Border Leicester and Lincoln rams and Merino ewes.
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In the 1860s, the zoetrope and praxinoscope were created and they tolerable for two dimensional images to be played back in motion.
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The area developed with the founding of the town of Katoomba in the 1860s to supply quarried ballast to the railways.
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In the 1860s a veritable explosion of major scientific publications took place.
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Marshall and Snelgove was one of the biggest names in upmarket retailing from the 1860s to the 1970s.
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During the 1860s and 70s the populists attributed to the primitive peasant commune all the characteristics of a latent socialist order.
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As the 1860s drew to a close, Kansas effectively put its violent heritage behind; change accelerated by leaps and bounds.
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This emerging national Indian policy generated a particular predicament in Montana Territory where the last years of the 1860s saw increased intertribal raiding, hostilities, and casualties.
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The resort, 1,500m above sea level, with a lake and exquisite views of the snowy mountains, has been a center for invalids and well-off hypochondriacs since the 1860s.
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On Hampstead Heath the Corporation of London is considering the closure of the open-air bathing ponds which have succoured swimmers, amputees and mild exhibitionists since the 1860s.
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Some think the drink originated with a concoction of sweet Old Tom gin, vermouth, bitters and maraschino developed by a San Francisco bartender in the 1860s.
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The reintroduction of a deeply resented tax on grist in the former papal provinces of Emilia and Romagna provoked widespread unrest in the late 1860s.
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As the 1860s drew to a close, Kansas effectively put its violent heritage behind; change accelerated by leaps and bounds.
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'Since the 1860S we have been defying the demographic statistics of the ither islands.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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She also recalled the legend of her great-grandmother who would rise before dawn each morning to make pralines and sell them on the docks of New Orleans in the 1860s.
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The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
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Having become the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in 1713, what had once been the Savoyard state played a key role in the unification of Italy in the 1850s and 1860s.
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In the civil war of the early 1860s, tunesmiths were writing war songs and getting on well.
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Some think the drink originated with a concoction of sweet Old Tom gin, vermouth, bitters and maraschino developed by a San Francisco bartender in the 1860s.
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By the 1860s it was inspiring the development of cellular pathology and bacteriology.
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The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
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In 1848 American Agriculturist praised new wagons light enough to be pulled by only two horses. By the 1860s one-horse wagons were available.
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From the 1820s to the 1860s, the state was mainly financed by issues of inconvertible paper currency.
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Touring black minstrel troupes flourished from the 1860s into the early years of the 20th century, providing an avenue by which black Americans could make a living as musicians.
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There was rapid growth in the town in the 1860s as miners going to or from the Central Otago goldfields came to the town.
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In the early 1860s 400 MacPherson photographs of Roman painting, architecture and sculpture were on view and sold in London.
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The water mill was sited at Mill beck and it continued in use until the 1860s.
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Cells were first stained with aniline dyes - mauve in fact - in the early 1860s.
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The Arts and Crafts movement of the 1860s and 1870s was a response to the soulless nature of capitalist development.
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In the 1860s a front-wheel-drive machine was manufactured - the bone-shaker - and in subsequent decades the front wheel became larger until the penny-farthing had developed.
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There is a parallel here with sensation fiction, another literary vogue of the 1860s and 1870s, in which criminality lurks beneath the surface decorums of daily life.
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In the late 1860s Whitman received overdue recognition in America as the early reactions to his radical style began to fade.
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King Moshoeshoe I was left with a mountainous, infertile kingdom when most of his arable land was annexed to the Orange Free State in the 1860s.
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The first craze for learning English in Shanghai occurred in the 1860s, according to a paper recently submitted to a Fudan University symposium.
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In the 1860s a veritable explosion of major scientific publications took place.
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And major advances in Unitarian theology have always had significant participation from non-clergy: There were unordained people -- most notably women -- in the central group of Transcendentalists; the organization of the National Conference of Unitarian Churches in the mid-1860s introduced lay representatives of churches for the first time; the early 20th-century Unitarian movement was promoted more aggressively and probably more effectively by the independent Unitarian Laymen's League than by the denomination itself.
Philocrites: A religion still seeking definition.
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Starting in the 1860s the serrated diamond motif of Mexican-made serapes began to appear on Navajo blankets.
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Finally, some observers report, bull terriers were commissioned to smooth out remnants of the otter hound cross that were considered unpresentable after the Airedale had entered the show ring in the 1860s.
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Having avoided the conventional musical education of the conservatoire, he was able to bypass the normal paths of French music of the 1860s, and to explore a new harmonic idiom and especially a novel way of writing for the piano.
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It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of the religion-be-deviled proudly ignorant dark-age-living creationists.
David Horton: And then god said, "Let there ... oh, you already have life"
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Caissene said nothing in our two interviews about European-made iron hoes replacing or supplementing Vecha hoes as bridewealth, although Patrick Harries has written that, in the 1860s and 1870s, imported imitations were flooding southern Mozambique and playing a critical role in the mounting struggle, between young wage-earning men and chiefs/homestead heads, over access to bridewealth and marriage.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality.
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I do not know how to reconcile Caissene's insistence that "one hoe was for one woman" with Harries's meticulously documented report that chiefs had "inflated" bridewealth "from five hoes in the late 1860s to over fifty a decade later" except that perhaps the declining trade in hand-forged hoes made them that much more valuable and coveted in relation to mass-produced European imitations.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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In fact, ancient sumptuary laws, explaining exactly what objects were forbidden by church and state, were read from the Anglican pulpit until the 1860s.
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Steam locomotives were introduced in the 1860s and today, tourists can take journeys pulled by them.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the 1850s and 1860s Glasgow engine builders set to work to solve the problem of steam at sea, the fact that marine boilers could only produce steam from sea water at low pressures.
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Until the present Foreign Office was built in the 1860s, the department was housed in decrepit buildings in Downing Street.
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The dining room's French fruitwood table, dating from the 1860s, plays off the patina of the original plank floors.
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In the 1860s a veritable explosion of major scientific publications took place.
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But it is just a shadow of the bustling place it was from the 1860s through to 1907, when the leaders both died.
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This bust is now lost, but its plaster cast is recorded in a rare stereograph of the artist in his studio in the mid-1860s.
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Outback House features 16 modern day Australians re-enacting life on an 1860s sheep station.
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As Rennell says in a helpful appendix, the fact that Victoria accepted the ring is no evidence that they were secretly married as had been widely bruited in the 1860s when London society was agog with the notion that she had become Mrs Brown.
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Scotsman James Croll combined the eccentricity of the orbit and the precession and in the 1860s and 1870s presented his ideas on the effects of the cycles and how they might influence climate, especially the colder winters when they correspond with the aphelion.
Milankovitch cycles
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Clearly, then, by the middle of the 1860s certain Chinese topoi had emerged in the poetry composed in Parnassian circles.
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Beginning in the 1860s, China became a major importer of European naval technology; and by 1882 the Chinese navy consisted of approximately fifty steamships.
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Their ruthless pursuit of Navajos in the 1860s led to isolation of a small band, which interbred, risking genetic disorders.
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Houses and flats have been built where the railway tracks were laid in the 1860s.
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So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e.
How Japan Saw Us
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The dining room's French fruitwood table, dating from the 1860s, plays off the patina of the original plank floors.
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The conviction rate for these latter offences rose from around five percent in the 1860s to fifteen percent in the twentieth century.
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Their ruthless pursuit of Navajos in the 1860s led to isolation of a small band, which interbred, risking genetic disorders.
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According to Caissene, his Mundlovu ancestors fled from their original home near Natal to a site he called "Kenhoek," in the Transvaal lowveld, because of the Gaza Nguni succession war in the early 1860s.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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In the 1850s and 1860s Gladstone emerged as a politician of clear national standing with a reputation for oratory.
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In the 1860s, Tolstoy was at the zenith of his achievement.
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As evidence he produces two Victorian illustrations, one made by an unknown artist probably in the 1860s, and another which appeared in a publication in 1896.
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Dmitri Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic law in the late 1860s was a remarkable accomplishment.
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It's written as a diary of a professor and his son lost on an expedition overseas in the 1860s.
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Many of those buried here contributed to the modernization of Japan in one way or another during the Meiji Restoration -- a revolutionary period beginning in the late 1860s that was marked by the downfall of the shogunate ( "shogun" was the title given to the hereditary military commanders who ruled the country for 700 years) and feudalism and the creation of the modern state.
Yokohama