How To Use 18th In A Sentence
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Yet he occupies an important position in the history of 18th-century art and his reputation deserves to stand higher than it does.
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It had the appearance of an 18th century church.
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With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
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June 18th I captured an Andrena vicina which had been "stylopized.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
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And August 6, three days after her 18th birthday, Charlotte will make her official society debut at the traditional Red Cross Ball.
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The 18th century saw incessant warfare between the colonial powers, towns repeatedly sacked, and islands taken and retaken, often for use as bargaining counters at the peace.
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He had been convicted on his eighth impaired driving charge while driving a stolen car, his 18th possession of stolen property conviction.
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During 18th and 19th centuries this area was known as the Barbary Coast and was feared for its regular piracy of European shipping.
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NBC has already made the decision to banish it to Saturday nights starting April 18th, so its chances of renewal are almost nill.
Television Review – Kings
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These rules all have their origin in the grammar primers of the 18th century.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in the 18th century scholars continued to give primacy to the written word.
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They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
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The stellar EGGS are found in the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" permanent objects in the sky) in this hubble photo.
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Coats, jackets, and other garments became increasingly embellished during the 18th century as epaulettes, loops, lace, and aiguillettes all appeared.
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The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
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Classical music, 14-18sNational Youth Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 7 August by Sasha Millwood, 18The magical and mysterious quality imbued to the Dukas never came at the expense of the clarity of the virtuosic lines.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries
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In the 18th century, wallpaper artisans designed elaborate motifs that were intended to be hung as panels.
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We stayed at Castle Venlaw Hotel, an 18th Century country castle in the Scottish baronial style, which wouldn't look out of place in northern France.
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Although Mark Dornford-May's production is played in 18th century costume, it takes a scythe to the text and cuts many of the more pointed lines.
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Since the end of the 18th century we know of the existence of a curious structure in the region of the sinus, the glomus caroticum or carotid body which, in man, extends over only a few millimetres.
Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
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In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired a considerable number of vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from opera arias to character pieces for piano.
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After arriving in Britain in the late 18th century, it quickly became popular in inns and taverns.
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They have successfully defended their title against 15 bands at the 18th annual Youth Brass Band Entertainment Festival of Great Britain.
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They've just bought an 18th-century pile in Surrey.
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Wigs, initially full-bottomed but neater as the 18th century wore on, were worn by officers, and soldiers had their hair pomaded, powdered, and drawn together at the back in a ‘club’ or queue.
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More a nudge back towards the 18th century than a revolution.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Council of Trent was the 18th oecumenical council of the Church, assembled at Trent, a town in the Austrian Tyrol, and sat, with certain interruptions, from December 13, 1545, until December 4,
The Philippine Islands
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The 18th minute, because assigns a penalty discontentedly to the president of the jury, Tan Wangsong obtains this competition's 2nd yellow card to punish enters the stage.
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Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing.
Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
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The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
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The inside of the same commode shows that the interior is highly polished which would not appear on an original 18th century original.
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Three days before the fiesta is the Rebozo Fair, from the 18th to the 25th of September, a week of total happiness and rejoicing.
The Meseta Purepecha
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The claim made in the Observer that the 18th-century obstetricians, given that they obtained the corpses of the pregnant women that they experimented upon through "burking" - having people murdered to order - came as a shock to many medics.
The Guardian World News
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British rockeries were originally adopted by the 18th-century landscape garden movement.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had status, ultimate power and the chance to win the glory denied him on land by his lowly position in the rigid social hierarchy of 18th - century Britain.
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May 18th, 2009 at 10: 33 pm this mermaid is fake because in the pic the hair is to shiny don’t u think
Top 10 Hottest Animated Disney Women
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The first year, I was standing at the 18th green and had just finished playing when Lew Worsham scored an eagle 2 on the last hole.
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The destruction of forests for timber, fuel, and charcoal increased during the 18th century.
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In the 18th century ours was a very imperfect system.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the mid 18th century it was much more common for door furniture to be integrated with an interior design with ornament matching overmantels and cabinets.
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While Newtonian matter-theory was depicted as a rival to Leibnizian immaterialism in the mid-18th century, in for example the Institutions de Physique of Mme du Chatelet, Newton was no ordinary corpuscularian or mechanical philosopher, and Kant did not have to contend with that now old-fashioned ontology.
Kant and Leibniz
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From the late 18th century, successive dukes commissioned images of members of their households, particularly the keepers and huntsmen.
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Most are Muslims, having been converted in the late 18th century by wandering preachers, but their traditional religious beliefs are often syncretized with Islam.
Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
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Wander our surviving early 18th-century streets and look at the finely wrought brick window arches, the mellow brick and precise pointing or the well-cut stone, and the erudite door surrounds, the miniature porticoes leading into the sacred environs of the home.
British architecture: Georgian
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This film has compelling intersecting historical references via the dress of the 18th century and the African batiks (cloth designs) of today.
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in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
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KABUL -- On the 18th of May, as Hamid Karzai prepared to report on his notably successful visit to the United States, a suicide bomber in Kabul detonated his explosive-laden van, killing 6 coalition soldiers and 12 Afghan civilians, wounding nearly 50 others.
Lt. Col. Ed Ledford: What Effect Did the Taliban Attacks Have? None. Really, None.
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In April 1943, America's intelligence decoded a Japanese message that informed them that Yamamoto was going to visit the northern Solomon Islands on April 18th.
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We dined in the elegant Pump Room restaurant and drank the warm, odd-tasting, waters of the spring, as the 18th Century socialites had.
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Dubbed Pleasant Island in the 18th Century by the captain of a passing British ship - it is the world's smallest independent republic, a coral speck dwarfed by the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.
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Many of the cast-iron firedogs are reproduced from the original 16th to 18th Century patterns.
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It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained pre-eminence in Latin America.
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Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test.
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Bodies based on Truchet's system appear to have been used throughout the 18th century by the Imprimerie royale, until a 'millimetric' point of 0.4 mm was introduced at the Imprimerie impériale in about 1810 by Firmin Didot.
Netvouz - new bookmarks
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The earliest known recipe for marmalade has been discovered in an 18th century book being auctioned in Edinburgh.
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CINCINNATI - July 18th 2008 - Fear of the unknown prevents many people from learning new skills or participating in adventurous activities.
BRADLEY MORRIS
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I wore this combination to the combined 18th and 21st birtday celebrations this May just past; the older of the two plus another nephew complimented me on this combination; myself and their mother were the only ladies in dresses (my SIL dresses beautifully and doesn't give a hoot about what anyone else thinks).
Fret Not
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The countryside has changed little since Franciscan friars established the first of 22 missions in the area at the turn of the 18th century, and the native grapes were harvested for drinking at mass held by San Gabriel padres.
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Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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Back in the 18th century they often used the term lentando, and even today there are a number of directions that mean roughly the same thing, the closest being ritardando, and also ritenuto, which generally implies a more sudden slowdown.
News
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If the EU Council adopted the legislative proposal of May 18th, it would do so without democratic legitimacy.
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That's why on February 18th, so-called "pro-life" members of the House of Representatives, voted 240 to 185 to defund Planned Parenthood, a premier women's healthcare provider for nearly a century, serving 3 million women a year in its 800 centers across the country.
Katie Halper: The Top 10 Names for the "Pro-Life," Pro-Cancer, Pro-UTI, Anti-Planned Parenthood Amendment
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This morning, Maxence and I went for a stroll towards Barbès and Chateau-Rouge, part of the 18th arrondissement, just a few blocks from where we live.
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It moves at the rate of 800 ft to 1000 ft a year and during the 18th century overran cultivated fields and threatened to engulf communities.
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Another variety of witchcraft container is the glass phial which turns up in 18th-century contexts as a charm against evil creatures.
An American Witch Bottle
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In one rounded gallery, the walls are entirely Pompeian red, which sets off the second-century white-marble Roman sculptures of the Muses, brought to Spain in the early 18th century by Philip V and a highlight of the museum's sculpture collection.
Rethinking the Prado:
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If we think of the average 18th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then this man confounds our expectations.
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After a short hike around 18th-century limestone ruins on rocky Crab Cay, we camped on the sand of an unnamed barrier island, uninhabited but for a ravenous air force of mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
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Nocturne – a term taken over by Chopin from the Irish composer John Field, but frequently employed by painters, too, particularly Whistler – is written in the relaxed, ambulatory tone of an 18th-century rambler's tale.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
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Piano and cello are given equal roles in the Sonata in A (Op. 69), a break with the 18th-century format of a piano sonata accompanied by an instrumental obbligato.
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A landau was a "social carriage" meant to haul four rich folks in bouncy, horse-poop-scented comfort back in the 18th century, but Malaise Era marketers in the Motor City made the name their own.
Jalopnik: Top
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September 18th, 2009 at 4: 41 pm neddy: What you're demanding from Behe sounds silly.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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The enthusiasm of the 18th-century scientists who searched for an objective order looks naive today, yet I sense at the end of our century something like a renewal of a hopeful tone.
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In the 18th century ours was a very imperfect system.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the 18th century art was seen, along with music and poetry, as something edifying.
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Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
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The vase is a stunning museum piece from the 18th century.
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In 17th and 18th-century English recipes, mixtures for stuffings and forcemeats of many types are recorded.
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It was fantastic to see all the ships sails at full mast, it looked like some 18th century sea battle.
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Many examples of 18th-century joinery and craftmanship were ripped out, including panelled doors and sash windows.
Times, Sunday Times
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A half on the 18th green gave Garcia and Luke Donald a hard-earned point against Jim Furyk and Fred Funk.
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However, the house nearly bankrupted him and it was bought in 1707 by the Dalrymple family, who dominated Scottish law in the 18th century.
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Most fairs provided entertainments but these remained only marginal until the major commercial changes of the 18th century.
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But a bogey on that hole meant all I needed on the par - 4 18th was a 5 and I would break 90.
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Serving troops of the Allied nations, including the Light Dragoons 13 th / 18th Royal Hussars, conducted a march past.
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We first vaccinated the kids on the 18th April 1995, but we did not know for two years, when the goats eventually kidded whether the vaccination had worked or not, and even then they may not succumb to the disease straight away.
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away back in the 18th century
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February 18th, 2008 at 9: 08 am bryce says: affleck: Thanks man.
WOLVERINE ROUNDUP: BLOBS AND BEAKS
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June 18th, 2006 at 5:20 pm being a rather good fellator myself — the very idea of an odious toad like Snitchens writing about the subject is something I find profoundly distasteful !
Firedoglake » Face the Snark
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Until the late 18th century, Scots liquid measures had colourful names like ` mutchkin’ and ` chopin’ (2 mutchkins).
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Cheese-flavoured biscuits have their origins in medieval cheese tarts and pastries; but the totally plain, unsweetened biscuit for eating with cheese did not come into use until the 18th century.
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First (Professional) Novel Survey
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Triple 2010 Olympic medalist Miller missed the World Cup finals with an ankle injury and finished 20th overall, 17th in downhill, 18th in super-G and fifth in super-combined.
Lindsey Vonn wraps season with another weekly honor
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The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England
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Par of Fettercairn, which is almost equidistant from Aberdeen and Dundee, is a conservation area with many of its buildings dating from the 18th century.
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Vendemiaire and the 16th Brumaire, and repair to that little house in the Rue de la Victoire rendered historically famous by the conspiracy of the 18th Brumaire, which issued from it fully armed.
The Companions of Jehu
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FW: Pseudosciences like craniology and phrenology in the 18th and 19th century were once used as a basis for scientific racism that dealt with the inability of certain races to have intellect – thus the bizarre depiction of "happy darkies" that the Gone With the Wind group loved so well.
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Three: M.T. Anderson
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But after birdies at the 13th, 15th and 16th drew him level, Kennedy bunkered his approach to the 18th and missed his par putt from six feet.
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With their scientific study from at least the 18th Century, the islands have provided two of the types of eruptions (Vulcanian and Strombolian) to vulcanology and geology textbooks and so have featured prominently in the education of all geoscientists for over 200 years.
Aeolian Islands, Italy
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But this year there are high hopes for the Mill, an 18th century water-powered cotton and latterly saw mill believed to house the only surviving example of a Thompson turbine.
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A late 18th-century golden-bronze gueridon a small table used by waiters when serving with cupids supporting the tray, attributed to the renowned furniture maker Adam Weisweiler, is estimated at €70,000-€100,000.
The Soul of a French Palace
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The pensioners wear a distinctive three-quarter length uniform coat, navy blue in winter and scarlet in the summer, which dates from the 18th century.
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Armed with 18th century maps he showed me the straggle of ruined cottages once occupied by poor country folk who worked for a pittance on local farms.
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In the 17th century, we learn of the introduction of smoking tobacco and after that there is an impressive display about 18th century Waterford, glass-blowing and the Georgian legacy in architecture.
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Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Sierra Leone
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So, when I was sewing the neck gussets in my nephews’ 18th century shirts, I took the time to write down the steps.
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One of the largest collections of 18th century porcelain yet found in Britain has been excavated in Hounslow, West London.
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In addition to painted statues and frescoes, Clark has also applied the technique to a range of manuscripts and artifacts including illuminated papyri, 18th Dynasty Egyptian faience, Persian manuscripts, medieval bibles, and Syriac lectionaries.
Pigment Microscopy
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By the time we got to the 18th, I was really wet but he just said: ‘Wasn't this great, laddie!’
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Although the term "currency board" is somewhat contemporary, the Bank of England used this mechanism to manage its gold standard system in the 18th century.
A Currency Board Linked To Gold
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Skylarks, one of Britain's most endangered birds, can be spotted near the sixth fairway, common lizard, brown hare and hen by the ninth and pied wagtail, wheatear and spotted flycatcher by the 18th.
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A winner of the German Echo Instrumentalist of the Year award, she plays on a variety of gambas to suit different areas of her repertoire, which covers 17th and 18th century music from Germany, France, Italy, Spain and England.
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Herb lost out when he three putted the 18th to take a bogey instead of parring the hole.
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It has been a huge success and no less than such an influential 18th-century garden deserves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyway, she walks through this circle of standing stones and appears back in 1743 where the first person she sees when she emerges from her confusion is a gentlemen in 18th century army officers 'uniform, who looks just like her husband.
Matthew Peterson interviews Diana Gabaldon
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Plodding up the 18th, needing just a par to make the cut, he was big with his approach, chipped back and could not drain the putt from eight feet.
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Farther back, the 18th-century represented a zenith for anonymous slights, with scurrilous pamphlets known as "libels" keeping Pope and Swift in enemies for years.
Top stories from Times Online
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But heading down the 18th, back in the lead he enjoyed at the start of play, he nearly combusted but managed to rescue a bogey after a less than perfect approach shot, over-long chip and over-hit putt.
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Today: Thumby the Tattoo
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The other one is a picaresque fantastical-historical novel that takes the form of a fake memoir written by a famous 18th-century hoaxer named George Psalmanazar, in which he gives the real story behind his real-life memoir in which he said he was giving the real story.
INTERVIEW: Alex Irvine
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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand.
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In the 18th century, two revolutions occurred and both unleashed forces that reverberate even today.
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Back in the 17th and 18th centuries the only performances heard in complete silence were performances of sacred music.
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A woman's dress of the 18th century, having a fitted bodice and draped cutaway skirt, worn over an elaborate underskirt.
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The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
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Watching people stroll the grounds and explore the 18th century hall was very rewarding.
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I guess the strongest form of Bill of Rights would certainly be the American Bill of Rights which were the Amendments to the American Constitution in the 18th century.
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The term geology was first used in the late 18th Century.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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It was thought the picture, which shows gondoliers and sailors at work in 18th century Venice, was a copy by an imitator or student of the artist and had been valued at no more than £5,000.
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Universalism, a product of the 18th-century Enlightenment, holds that all living beings attain complete salvation.
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The horses can trace their ancestry back to the imported Arabian stallions of the 18th century and many of their riders wore period costumes.
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The Ashanti empire, located in the hinterland of the Gold Coast of west Africa, reached its peak in the late 18th cent.
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But the ball lipped out of the cup on the 18th hole, meaning the Englishman's six points for his closing round ensured victory.
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Natives and the 18th and 19th century French-Canadian traders known as voyageurs were also impressed; they left offerings of tobacco to the cliff.
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Anna Sui has picked up on the sarafan - a peasant pinafore dating from the turn of the 18th century.
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Through the 18th century there were riots and acts of sabotage provoked by anxiety about wages and unemployment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The origins of the distinctive horse-drawn freight wagon known as the Conestoga wagon can be traced to the Conestoga River region of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County in the mid- to late-18th century.
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It had the appearance of an 18th century church.
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He may be a roisterer and act the fool, but he's got ‘bottom’, as they used to say in the 18th century, meaning he has substance.
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In the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were feared as the haunt of pirates and buccaneers from Cornwall, France and Spain, who would lie in wait for poorly defended ships.
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You are really looking at water ices appearing in the 1660s, and cream ices appearing in the 18th century.
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As I stated previously, in 18th century deism there were two keys to distinguishing between deism and theism in its various forms.
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Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence.
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The city is noted for its 18th-century architecture.
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It's a drop-front desk designed by Chippendale in the 18th century but named Winthrop by a furniture company in the
LJWorld.com stories: News
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Others, such as the remnant of a ring of trees around the summit, may be signs of 18th century landscape design.
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Holy Trinity, which has 12th century foundations, medieval stained glass, 18th century box pews and an unusual saddleback roof, was rescued from oblivion by Goodramgate's traders, who evolved into the Friends of Holy Trinity.
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The 18th century pub also had no prices on display as required by law.
The Sun
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In Europe the cubeb was a minor spice of late medieval times and the 17th century and was still being mentioned (sometimes as Benin pepper) in some recipes in 18th-century European cookery books.
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Also featured will be works from the Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance periods, as well as late 18th and early 19th century art.
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It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos.
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She used her collections to re-create, as authentically as possible, 18th-century New England farm life.
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The original Piccalilli recipe dates back to English cookery in the mid 18th Century.
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Set in the late 18th century, the film follows our very fictionalized brothers, played by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger.
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It has a distinguished collection of over 35,000 volumes including many rare travel books from the 18th and 19th century.
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Opinions began to alter during the wars of the mid-18th century and military riflemen appeared in most combatant nations' armies, albeit in small numbers.
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In the 17th century popular ballads were sung to the traditional airs; these were published in great numbers during the 18th century.
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Travel furniture from chairs, tables and bookcases to bedroom suites, was in much demand in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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The 18th-century Chinese scholar Tai Chen presented an elegant dissection for approximating the value of pi - the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
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A 17th - or 18th-century harpsichordist would more likely have had an instrument with minimal decoration.
Amadeus Beaux-Arts
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They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving-in of some of these quarries posed safety threats so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.
Miru Kim's underground art
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As for menhaden, in the 18th century they had their culinary fans, but these days you're far more likely to eat something else that has eaten menhaden whole in the wild, like striped bass, tuna and bluefish, or ground-up as fishmeal, like chickens, pigs or farmed salmon.
Peter Hanlon: Little Fish, Big Help
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After sporadic usage, the cordiform projection all but disappeared by the 18th century in favor of the Bonne projection.
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If you are interested in attending WordCamp Fraser Valley and are in the area next Saturday, leave a comment by midnight (Pacific time) on Tuesday, August 18th:
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2009 » August
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The one thing I always carry: A bracelet my sis bought me for my 18th birthday
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The Hyacinth enjoyed a vogue in the 18th and early 19th centuries, grown not only indoors and out but used as ornaments for women's fashions and even as a pharmaceutical.
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Alight with enthusiasm, Professor Kaplan's conversation ranges from the ribald ditties sung by bakers kneading the dough in 18th-century France to recent moves for millers to supply flour in smaller and easier-to-lift sackfuls so as to encourage female recruits to the profession.
The Best Baguette in Paris
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The Rococo style, characterized by lavish ornamentation, organic forms and the use of gilding, grew to its height in 18th century France.
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The life expectancy of late 18th-century colourmen was short.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cartesian cogito played a major part in promoting the scientific and rational development of the Enlightenment in the 18th century.
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However, the preserve we now recognize as jam is a relatively modern descendant of all the rather solid fruit and sugar conserves, preserves, and marmalades of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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September 18th, to prepare for our departure, and at 9 p.m. on the same day we left La Houssoye and marched to Bonnay, where we embussed for the forward area once more.
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion
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In many European countries major political upheavals and wars since the 18th century caused dispersion of cultural artefacts such as portraits throughout the world.
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Between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy, the mother can also have an amniocentesis to screen for the Tay-Sachs gene.
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In the early 18th century, the bales came to be half buried in the ground circling the ring, similar to the way they are at present.
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The main body of the army having bodily moved to the left meanwhile, I followed it on the 18th, encamping at Pond Spring.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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Described in the inimitably British Farrow & Ball color pamphlet as first becoming available in England in the 18th century, it went on: "This pigment was produced by reducing the bright yellow urine of cows fed on a special diet of mango leaves.
Painting Outside the Lines
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In that survey Portlaoise was placed 18th in the league and deemed moderately littered.
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There have been at least three noted galenicals which appeared in the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries, used an infusion of Cinchona bark as a remedy for agues and fevers.
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In the 18th century, when journalism was in its swaddling-clothes, chantage was practised by means of pamphlets.
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It was not until June 18th that Victor Gerashenko, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, announced his plans to make chervonets into a real currency.
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He was still a stroke ahead as he walked to the 18th tee.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000).
Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies
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The 18th century pub also had no prices on display as required by law.
The Sun
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Much of the original 18th-century wood panelling was destroyed in the fire.
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Claude Perrault, [9] writing in the 18th century, states that "les modernes appellent notre luth barbiton
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Right: Side detail visible of an 18th century chasuble from the monastery church of Santa Chiara, Naples.) (Centre: A chasuble from the church of the Gesu in Rome, made for Cardinal Farnese in the second half of the 16th century and based upon an earlier design of the artist Raphael.
Roman Exhibition Showcases Significant and Historical Vestments
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Upon the 18th March, 1570, the Duke addressed a requisitory letter to the alcaldes, corregidors, and other judges of Castile, empowering them to carry the sentence into execution.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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In general terms, important aspects of the postclassical synthesis were rearticulated in Islamic reformations, but the overall structure of faith and practice remained intact at the end of the 18th century.
B. Worldview Reformations
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It originated in Valls, near the city of Tarragona, in the 18th century and has since become popular across the whole of Catalonia, with teams emerging from the Balearic Islands too.
How to build a human tower, Barcelona
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This should, in fact, be credited to the 18th-century scholar Edmond Malone.
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As a writer, he really belongs to the 18th century.
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One such claimant is a descendant of the 18th-century artist whose masterpiece she alleges was taken from her.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a last resort, we could try bringing back 18th-century bathing machines - funny little huts on wheels, in which ladies were trundled into the surf and decanted into the sea with their modesty intact.
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He sent out his emissaries to collect all the most advanced astronomical instruments that were being used by 18th century Europeans and Islamic astronomers.
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The best violins, violas and cellos were, for reasons inexplicable, made in Cremona between the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries by Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and their teacher, Nicolo Amati.
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It can be traced in the theories of public finance to the work of the 18th century French physiocrats.
