How To Use 19th In A Sentence

Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
His great-uncle started the business in the mid-19th century when he moved to Bradford from Turkey to trade in opium for the pharmaceutical trade, wheat, barley, fur and mohair.

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The term guerilla warfare didn't come about until later -- early 19th century. "Kill Him!"
The babel of languages used in science by the late 19th century was a good argument for a universal, ideally neutral language.
Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
Did the deflation of the 19th century inhibit economic growth? Times, Sunday Times
After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
Hereafter, Manchester United's historic 19th league title must be asterisked, on the basis that we cannot know how the table would have panned out had Giggs's affair been exposed earlier in the season. The Ryan Giggs story was not run with any noble intentions | Marina Hyde
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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. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships. Times, Sunday Times
The doorway is a 19th century reconstruction of Norman work.
The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story: Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash
Reasons for the past decline include the effects of the pearl button industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the cultured pearl industry of the past 50 years.
Morally disreputable characters like Rocambole and Fantômas became the stars of ever-extending series of 19th-century romans feuilletons, plotting a course subsequently followed by the likes of Fu Manchu and Count Dracula.
In the late 19th century there were frequent matches as it was a way of testing design and modifying sailing rigs for maximum performance.
Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
Its symphonic narrative revolves six characters through six ages of man - from the 19th century to distant millennia - then brings them full circle as each one completes their interrupted history.
This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.
By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas. Times, Sunday Times
The pool dates back to the 19th century and was used by farmers to clean the fleeces of sheep before they went off to market.
There's been an interesting mini-trend in operatic directing in the past few months: updating 19th-century comic operas to World War II settings. We'll Meet Again
It wasn't until the early 19th century that Creoles in New Orleans began using tomatoes in gumbos and jambalayas.
Eclecticism flourished in the 19th century and survived, though much debased, in gated communities and suburban tract housing.
And what's so impressive is that Parini manages to create Melville's homoerotic yearning and despair in the context of 19th-century attitudes about sexuality, a pre-Freudian age that had not neatly divided the world into gay and straight, but also had no words for the feelings of love between men that Walt Whitman was so bravely yawping about. Melville's stormy seas
Among the other Buddhist works is Suzuki Kiitsu ' s sublime 19th-century scroll painting of Sho-Kannon, who sits tranquilly on a floating lotus, backed by a golden moon and brilliant blue sky. In Search of Beauty
In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
Genre scenes and landscape played an important role in the 19th century.
We could be in for a period like the late 19th century, of festering economic and social problems, failed one-term presidencies, and partisan oscillation in Congress. Robert Kuttner: What Now for the Democrats?
The party duopoly is really only a late 19th and early 20th century phenomenon. Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties?
But his find was quickly identified asa triple deadeye, a piece of equipment used on sailing ships until the end of the 19th century. 2009 March 06 « Scavenging
It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
Most of the Sheffield Plate that appears on the market is in relatively good condition, whereas much of the 19th century electroplate is very much the worse for wear.
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.
In the first quarter of the 19th Century Antonio Diabelli, a Viennese pianist and music publisher, sent a simple waltz he had written to a number of major composers and invited them to write variations.
The US system of rank badges and insignia, introduced in the early 19th century, is highly distinctive, and instructive.
In the mid-19th century the Norwegian government, eager to colonise with people a terrain it owned in name only, offered free land here to impoverished farmers from the south.
By 19th-c. standards our political invective is embarrassingly lame. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military.
A sightless masseur who roams 19th-century Japan fighting injustice, he is easy to love and hard to kill.
The late 19th and early 20th century saw a spate of inventions which were to transform the lives of ordinary citizens of this country in ways hitherto undreamed of.
The works cover nearly three centuries, from the last years of the Renaissance around 1525 to the neoclassicism output in the 19th Century. Next Spring, it's La Dolce D.C.
Chechen tribesmen figure prominently in the works of some major Russian 19th century writers.
The pupils will also visit Bradford's Colour Museum to look at how patterns are printed onto fabrics, and the city's industrial museum to see how fabric was made in the 19th century.
However, as the tall white car ferry draws closer to a coastline of seemingly unscalable cliffs, my thoughts are drawn to the portion of the 19th century when this was French territory and the island's most famous resident—Napoleon—was exiled here. Downsizing From an Empire to an Island
No asset since gold in the 19th century enjoys such broad acceptance as both a medium of exchange and a store of value as the dollar.
New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
In the 19th century, numerous banks were set up throughout the country and were often engraved with a design identifying the locality.
By the end of the 19th century, a whole word family had been formed, including the adjective “flocculent,” the noun “floccule,” and the verb “flocculate.” Flocculate | clusterflock
The name tanner for a sixpence coin was first used at the beginning of the 19th century. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
The monochrome half-tone process, introduced in 1872, was refined by the end of the 19th cent. to allow full colour reproduction.
The building dates back to the early or mid 19th century, with a later extension at the back, which was used as a forge.
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
Those weren't the first times I "bowdlerized" -- some might say, butchered -- a classic text the term comes from the knuckleheaded 19th century Shakespearian censor Thomas Bowdler. Trey Ellis: Censoring Huck Ain't So Simple
Of course none of these great families runs its operations quite like the industrial dynasties of the 19th century.
It wasn't until Steiner was nearly forty and the 19th century was about to end that he became deeply interested in the occult.
When the revaluation of 19th-century art took place with the final recognition of the impressionists, this contrast was too blatant to be ignored.
The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas. Times, Sunday Times
Many 19th-century lunches appear to have been collations of leftovers, often roast meat, served cold or hashed, supplemented with salad, poultry, or game, plus bread, cheese, and puddings, as the household could afford and required.
The policy of government non-intervention has remained popular since the 19th century, and is likely to play an important role in economic policy making in the future.
From today painting is dead" is an aphorism often attributed to Paul Delaroche, a 19th-century French painter, upon seeing the first daguerreotypes though Wikipedia maintains there is no compelling evidence that he actually said it. Farewell to the fine art of focusing
Those documents were generally drafted later and reflect social democratic ideas arising in the 19th century.
Mr. Rogers has sidestepped this potential aesthetic booby trap by installing everything in the 19th-century manner — paintings "skied" on the walls, and sculpture filling the gallery as it would have been seen in its own day — a nonjudgmental approach that simply treats the work as part of our art and cultural history. The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
And some skill 19th century, CASINO MOVIE QUOTES the term casino came have. Horses Mouth February 14, 2007 1:30 PM
Then the doors slide open, and a straw-hatted barker who looks like he's just stepped out of the 19th century greets you and ushers you into a Coca-Cola fantasyland.
The 19th-century Church provided elementary education in areas of great destitution where no other option was available. Times, Sunday Times
The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics.
The exhibition traces the history of graphic design in America from the 19th century to the present.
In the 19th century, inbreeding nearly led to the extinction of the royal family.
We had the candles, hatters, cobblers and bakers representing the strong trades in Rathkeale in the 19th century.
Ironically, September 19th, 2003, is etched in the memory of most local people for a completely different reason.
Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed. "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
It is a measure of the muddle that is Ms. Gallagher's book that she doesn't find anything odd about describing the lure of a rural life redolent of 19th-century America as a type of "neophilia. Taking a Novel Approach to Life
German physicist Willhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered X-rays in the late 19th century, published a paper proposing that liquid water comprised two different structures — one tetrahedral “ice-like” structure, and another more loosely arranged structure, which helped explain why water behaves in such unusual ways. More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water « Isegoria
Stephen Crane is one of the most talented and influential American novelists at the end of the 19th century.
In the early 19th century the dapper first Duke of Wellington commissioned a low-heeled calf boot of soft leather.
Most of the country estates were built by the landed gentry during the late 19th century.
On Feb 19th, 2001, Abuna was announced to be the recipient of the Niwano Peace Prize.
instead these clapboard houses made me think of the slave quarters of 19th century cotton plantations across America's southern states.
The Philippines shares a long history with the United States. The islands became a U.S. colony at the end of the 19th century in the wake of the Spanish American War.
Finally, while Tash and Marcia explored an interesting box of hats, the three boys appeared in front of them in the costumes of 19th century French counts; breeches, high-necked shirts and velvet tailcoats.
While that might have been a knee-slapper in the mid-19th century, even adding obscenities wouldn't get it to Comedy Central today.
The above appears to be a deliberate distortion of an event in the 19th Century, the battle of Adwa, where Ethiopians handed a humiliating defeat to the Italians. Archive 2007-02-01
In the 19th century, most of the brothels of the East were staffed by Japanese girls, or they were sold to factories as indentured textile workers.
As a genealogist, I am concerned that the new Cork County Library … purpose-built, which opened to the public on the 19th October 2009, having transferred from the Model Farm Road location, is now “closed until further notice”. Cork and Flooding « Cork Genealogist
His plan to offer up the goddess Freia to the giants who built Valhalla is untenable from the start, as it would mean forcing the Gods to give up their eternal youth (her golden apples do a lot more than just keep the doctor away -- and remember, there was no Botox in 19th century Germany). Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold
The long and expensive illness which terminated the life of my dear father on the 19th of August 1823 has involved our family in affliction and distress. Letter 385
The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling.
Tenbury had the ‘Wells’ added to its name in the mid 19th century to help promote the Mineral Water Wells that had been found in the town from 1840 onwards.
By the end of the 19th century the old manual processes had been replaced by mechanical production with power-driven machinery.
For other 19th century writers, particularly journalists, rats were the expression of man's bestiality to man.
Until 1900 years have elapsed the 19th century of years cannot end. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, I've been playing around discovering a fascinating account of 19th century ornithological controversy over the taxonomy of the piping plover in the archival dust of Early Canadiana Online see my entry at The Plover Warden Diaries, reading about how it is that failure in the American quest for placelessness made the Monadnock Region what it is today, and cruising the web discovering the Greatest Software Ever Written. The quest for placelessness
Originally he worked in black-and-white, but he adapted well to the photomechanical colour processes that came in at the end of the 19th century and was one of the pioneers of the full-colour picture book for children.
I worked with interior designer Jesse Carrier to merge raw, industrial elements of the space with found items like 19th-century doors from upstate New York and Charme chairs from DDC. The Lady Whisperer
Though 19th century translators of Buddhist texts sometimes used the word "enlightenment" to refer to Gautama's moment of spiritual awakening on seeing the morning star, the first time a large number of general English readers saw the word used as a spiritual term was with the publication Essays on Zen Buddhism First Series by D.T. Suzuki in the 1930s. Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment'
Ann's suggestion that the use of "gainsaid" in Brennan's opinion was "sheer pretension, a modern person's idea of how to sound like you came from the 19th century," has a little pretense to it as well. "It cannot be gainsaid..."
Over 100 eyries were known in Britain and at least 50 in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.
From sundown on Friday until dusk on Sunday they will be in ‘character,’ dressed and speaking in the language of the 19th century soldier.
The sloop HMS Gannet protected British trade routes and did anti-slavery patrol in the 19th century.
The harmonograph was a popular 19th-century parlor pastime that created art similar to a Spirograph, but with a much wider range of variables. Boing Boing
It was here in the 19th century that the famous Xhosa prophet and diviner Nxele attempted a resurrection.
The river steamboats are designed in 19th century format with stylish furnishings - an impressive mirrored and brass staircase and a lounge with a two-storied glass rear wall for a glimpse of the giant paddlewheel.
In the 19th century industry gravitated towards the north of England.
Given Trendelenburg's special emphasis in presenting the Leibnizian system, his significance for the mathematical reception of Leibniz's ideas in the context of the emergence of formal mathematics and mathematical logic in the second half of the 19th century is astonishing. Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic
The 19th Century marked a watershed in the art history of India.
A late 19th century movement, impressionism is on the opposite side of the spectrum to Expressionism.
While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film. The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
By the later 19th century historians writing of England from a European perspective often saw peasants as small freeholders, copyholders, and even farmers.
During the 19th century chinaware became more affordable, and was openly displayed, making dressers very popular.
This would place the bones' arrival in the early part of the 19th century, which is consistent with a 1905 photograph showing the bones already tattered and weather-beaten.
The present day is interspersed with the story of what really happened on the island in the 19th century.
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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
When Dutch colonial rule ended in the 19th century the civil service was anglicised.
He did much to promote the cause of the male dancer in classical ballet, seeking to restage the 19th-century repertoire in order to boost the male role to beyond that of mere partner.
Serious political choices were made in the mid-19th century based on arguments of ‘my family was on the winning/losing side at Sekigahara and I therefore owe the Tokugawa bakufu loyalty for the reward we recieved/enmity for the reduction in my families fortunes.’ Successful Sakoku?
Meanwhile, Lincoln conducted the bloodiest war in U.S. history to preserve the Union, authorized the deployment of deadly new weaponry such as mines, ironclad warships and niter a 19th-century version of napalm, and accepted huge casualties for his chosen cause. Five myths about Abraham Lincoln
Oregon's lighthouses were all but inaccessible when they were built in the 19th century, near shoals and sandbars, treacherous offshore rocks and reefs.
It had been listed in Rembrandt catalogs in the 19th century and in 1915 but was later deattributed by scholars.
In the opinion section, Lisa Cochran of Freeville writes to say that "A child can learn respect, compassion, responsibility, and how to love unconditionally from a home in which the parents -- either same-sex or not -- are in a stable and loving relationship," in response to a July 19th letter from Gabriel and Penelope Carpenter of Dryden. Living in Dryden: August 2004 Archives
Oregon's lighthouses were all but inaccessible when they were built in the 19th century, near shoals and sandbars, treacherous offshore rocks and reefs.
This chapter introduces the main ideas of Utopian socialism at its primary level, especially the Utopian Socialism in 19th century which was used as the main source of scientific socialism.
At his Street sale on the Tuesday, there is a pair of late 19th century baluster-shaped glass decanters with diamond-cut decoration (estimate 80 to 100) and two late Victorian oak tantalus, each with a very affordable estimate of 100 to 150.
Disobeying the 19th-century "rule" laid down at Le Cercle de Linguistique de Paris (forbidding the presentation of any paper dealing with the origin of language), Waldron presents a theory, that is at once logical, biological, and psychological, showing how language naturally emerges from its prelinguistic antecedents (perceptual and behavioral) to become the key factor in the development of a distinctively human kind of intelligence and thought. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
A letter of understanding dated 27th October 1998 was signed between the company and a third party and on 19th October 1999 a deed of assignment was signed to formalise this letter of understanding.
Before the 19th century, Loch Lomond and its environs, the Trossachs, wasn't the tourist haunt it is today.
The original inspiration for this deluxe 21st-century version of the hemiola is the 19th-century's master of rhythmic ambiguity, Brahms.
It survived the epidemic grape phylloxera in the second half of the 19th century, which destroyed much of Europe's vineyards.
Especially since I keep being lucky enough to see him in gorgeous worn old 19th century music halls with even more gorgeous acoustics. January 31st, 2009
Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple
Of course, flouting conventional morality was not allowed in the late 19th century.
Among the famous inmates were Benito Juárez (before he was exiled to Louisiana), Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, a 19th-century writer who fell out of favor with Emperor Agustín Iturbide, and "Chucho el Roto," a Robin Hood-style bandit from the 1700s who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Veracruz, Mexico: a feast for the senses
At the same time, state leaders are facing countervailing pressures from reform-minded groups that want to lessen the impact of partisan politics on a process that has been plagued for decades by shenanigans - and symbolized by the oddly shaped district maps that take their nickname "gerrymander" from an early 19th-century Massachusetts governor, Elbridge Gerry, who drew the first one in the shape of a salamander. NYT > Home Page
A third signed also by me, dated the 19th inst, and balanced by 667,170-17 reals vellon, which I have credited you with. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII
Ink was applied to the type by dabbers, known as ink balls, a technique which survived until the development of the ink roller at the beginning of the 19th cent.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand.
The late 19th century was a time of religious revival.
Of course, the Ordnance Survey continues to play a 19th century apprach to this. Cui bono? The problem with opening up data at Helpful Technology
Impressionism is not some hazy notion about how a bunch of maverick artists at the end of the 19th century decided to paint the world as if it looked blurred.
A couple of the pieces have the stamp of Prokofiev, and the other three reflect strong 19th Century influences.
Brahms's Violin Concerto begins with a long ritornello, but for most 19th-century composers sonata form and the fantasia were more important than the ritornello principle.
His family originally came from Ireland, but resettled in the US in the 19th century.
This dated to the 19th century and the discovery of the anatomic localisation of motor function in the brain. Times, Sunday Times
In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters
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This is just the latest punch in a long fight against Google: last year the alliance compared the settlement to John D. Rockefeller's "knavery" in colluding with railroads in the 19th century. National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
The Utah-based Church in the late 19th century banned the practice of taking plural wives and ex-communicates members who practice polygamy.
The haunting and unique melody is called fado, the pride of Portuguese music, first developed in the mid-19th century. Coimbra's Fado Haunts
Until the 19th cent. wool fibres dominated knitting but other textile fibres came into use.
The card showed a 19th century photograph of a young boy, no more than eight, stoking the furnace in a grimy workshop, surrounded by men beavering away along a production line.
The practice of fishing with nets and lines from shore, with the aid of a rowboat or double-ended skiff, appears to have continued well into the 19th century.
The tunnel was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century.
David Carson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, writes of Yogi's priceless commencement address at Saint Louis University on May 19th, 2007 which the author missed butcreateda copy of Yogi's oratory masterpiece~ which is fairly closeto the original Yogi speech. YOGI BERRA'S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
The fever also extended to 19th century pieces with the sale of a pair of satinwood demi-lune folding tables for €24,000.
In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
In the early decades of the 19th Century, the population swelled to eight million - Ireland was one of the most densely populated areas on earth.
Another European form, older than divan, and app. directly from Arabic, is It. dovana, doana, now dogana, F. douane in 15th c. douwaine, custom-house: see DOUANE.For a more discursive collection of definitions, with 19th-century stabs at etymology, see the Hobson-Jobson entry. Languagehat.com: DIVAN.
Painting History -- Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey" shows some of the best-known paintings by the French 19th-century painter Paul Delaroche. Time Off in Europe
It was described by the Arctic explorer Richardson in the mid-19th century as ‘a small white root about the thickness of a goose quill, which had an agreeable nutty flavor’.
Blakey Hall is a prime example of a 19th century building.
Back in the 19th century historians thought that 'marginalia' simply were the fancy of the artist and that the artist was illiterate," Hunt says. NEW BOOK ILLUMINATES MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
In the 19th century, all known translucent coloured enamels have a high lead content.
Saturday, CNN is rerunning a special show that ran on the 19th to celebrate Larry's 70th birthday.
Given its coming of age in the 19th Century, this tradition has tended to elevate humans over nature and accorded an exalted place to human consciousness.
The Khasi hills were accessible from India in the 19th century only by traveling by budgerow down the Hooghly river, through the Mercury Rising 鳯女
Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships. Times, Sunday Times
Natives and the 18th and 19th century French-Canadian traders known as voyageurs were also impressed; they left offerings of tobacco to the cliff.
Tall ships and historic vessels were used as a backdrop for a recreation of a 19th Century Naval clash, set to sound and music.
Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations. Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes
Co. in the late 19th century, and the general type, known as crisphead, is older still. Kitchen Gardeners International
He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pa., into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side. Downshift
Puffins, wiped out by an infestation of rats introduced by quarry workers in the 19th century, are now rebounding, albeit slowly.
Portuguese explorers in the first decade of the 19th century reported on the kingdom of Kazembe, which occupied the part of Zaire now called Shaba or Katanga Province. African Gothic
However, the name baht was established as the Thai name by the 19th century. 100 Thai Baht Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
This attracted Ali ibn-Sina (aka Avicenna in West), who cured the sultan and wrote a remarkably accurate medical handbook, used in the Europe until the 19th century (a museum devoted to him is in the suburbs). Scott S. Smith: Art and Architecture of the Silk Road
The surrender was made possible through the mediation of Kananga Mayor Elmer C. Codilla, who turned over Aligato to Lt. Colonel Roberto S. Capulong, Battalion Commander of the 19th IB, on March 18, 2009. Philippines Social Integration Program draws insurgents back into folds of law
As he traces the evolution of intertwined ideas, he provides vivid portraits of Shannon and other pioneers of our Information Age, including Charles Babbage, whose unbuilt 19th-century "Analytical Engine" anticipated modern computers, and Alan Turing, whose machines helped the Allies crack German codes during World War II. Little Bits Go a Long Way
These early 19th-century landscape paintings, which are often taken today as rock-ribbed representations of an intensely local and untouched landscape, were not always what they seemed.
This was an organizational imperative made necessary by the ever larger armies fielded by continental military systems during the 19th century.
But it was also the subject of prosecutions under orthodox 19th century criminal law, all the elements of which survive.
Documents from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially those written by road engineers suggesting the best routes for trails or railroads, give detailed hydrographic information with associated Amuesha toponyms.
From my reading of 19th and early 20th century Catholic classics, this piece might have been a choir pick for a cathedral in preconciliar days. Rheinberger's Gloria from the Mass in E-Flat
She'll analyse and dissect everything from 19th century Russian literature to salt and pepper shakers in pubs.
More than 40 of these cottages were built by the end of the 19th century together with a church, school, stores, workshops, a farm and even a fire station.
In the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, Europe advocated realism and practiced power politics.
The early 19th century, Democratic-Republican Party split, one group claiming to be the national Republican Party, later renamed the Whig party.
In the Christian tradition, people like St. Bernadette Soubirous, the 19th-century woman who saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the town of Lourdes, are called "visionaries. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: St. Steve Jobs? Probably Not, ButÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.
The scenes from 19th century Edinburgh, with its multitude of epidemics of typhus, smallpox, plague, and other mysterious fevers, might still be seen in any part of the developing world.
But it didn't sparkle until the 19th century. The Sun
On board is an Intelsat satellite, the 19th to be placed in orbit for the company by an Ariane launcher.
The family fortune, built on 19th century lacemaking technology, was now focused on property and housebuilding. Times, Sunday Times
Depicting a non-specific scene of prairie settlement in the 19th century, the project explores issues of hope and social advancement as well as techniques of museum display.
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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