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19th-century statue of Bossuet in Meaux Cathedral
These included Lot's Wife ( 1878 ), Artemis and her Hound ( 1880 plaster, 1882 marble ), the Homeric bowman Teucer ( 1881 plaster, 1882 bronze ), and the Mower ( 1884 plaster, 1894 bronze ), arguably the first life-size freestanding statue of a contemporary laborer in 19th-century sculpture.
Other 19th-century sculptors inspired by the epic were Augustus Saint-Gaudens ; his marble statue of the seated Hiawatha ( 1874 ) is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Jacob Fjelde created a bronze statue, Hiawatha carrying Minnehaha, for the Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Bavaria is the name given to a monumental, bronze sand-cast 19th-century statue in Munich, southern Germany.

19th-century and legendary
Bolet provided the piano soundtrack for the 1960 biopic, Song Without End, which starred Dirk Bogarde as the legendary 19th-century piano virtuoso, Franz Liszt.
The novel is a satirical comedy that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur.
These folk tales include legendary places as well as recent events, such as the downfall of a 19th-century ne ' er-do-well.
His long career allowed him to play with many of the legendary figures of 19th-century professional baseball.

19th-century and ride
It was, however, the story of a fabled ride from London to York that provided the impetus for 19th-century author William Harrison Ainsworth to include and embellish the exploit in his 1834 novel Rookwood.
* Enterprise-A mock factory town, it would have highlighted American ingenuity where guests could have ridden a major attraction called Industrial Revolution, traveling on a roller coaster-type ride through a 19th-century landscape with heavy industry and blast furnaces.

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being intellectually influenced by Newman and the general 19th-century literature of England, I knew only a Protestant-dominated country.
19th-century engraving by Thomas Allom.
Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.
Bragi is shown with a harp and accompanied by his wife Iðunn in this 19th-century painting by Nils Blommér.
The Bahá ' í Faith () is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá ' u ' lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.
It has also been suggested that 19th-century bunyip lore was reinforced by imported European memories, such as that of the Irish Púca.
The game was viewed as a rather innocuous pastime – unlike the perception that diversions such as card playing or dancing were considered " works of the Devil " as held by many 19th-century Protestant groups.
Others believe it was a corrupted term of " Chilango ", meaning an inhabitant from Mexico City or Central Mexico ( i. e. the highland states of Mexico ( state ), Jalisco, Puebla ( state ) and Michoacán ); and even from the term " Chileno " by the Chilean presence in mid 19th-century California, when miners from Chile arrived in the California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 51 ).
An animated cartoon horse, drawn by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.
The other castes were similarly further sub-classified by these 19th-century and early-20th-century ethnographers based on numerous criteria ranging from profession, endogamy or exogamy or polygamy, and a host of other factors in a manner similar to castas in Spanish colonies such as Mexico, and caste system studies in British colonies such as India.
Some 19th-century or earlier experimental engines used external flames, exposed by valves, for ignition, but this becomes less attractive with increasing compression.
The French bow was not widely popular until its adoption by 19th-century virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini.
Conversion of the Paravar s by Francis Xavier in Old Goa | Goa, in a 19th-century colored lithograph.
The Great Man Theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of " great men ", or heroes: highly influential individuals who, due to either their personal charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or political skill utilized their power in a way that had a decisive historical impact.
The piece was an extravaganza in which the classical Greek gods, grown elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of 19th-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of the drama.
The modern sophisticated instrument spanning 6½ octaves in virtually all keys was perfected by the 19th-century French maker Sébastien Érard and because of its pedal-driven ability to play all sharps and flats of all notes within its range, it continues today as the standard style of most large professional concert harps.
A 19th-century depiction of Galileo before the Holy Office, by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
Ibn Battuta in Egypt, a 19th-century lithograph by Léon Benett
Karate was developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom prior to its 19th-century annexation by Japan.
The Kalevala () is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.
It was only in the 19th-century Victorian era that the system of named tartans known today began to be systematically recorded and formalized, mostly by weaving companies for mercantile purposes.
The laws of inheritance were derived by Gregor Mendel, a 19th-century Austrian priest-monk conducting hybridization experiments in garden peas ( Pisum sativum ).
A major block to understanding their significance was the importance attached by 19th-century biologists to the apparent blending of inherited traits in the overall appearance of the progeny, now known to be due to multigene interactions, in contrast to the organ-specific binary characters studied by Mendel.

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Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.
Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).
The 18th and 19th-century British philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill defended the ethical theory of utilitarianism, according to which we should perform whichever action maximizes the aggregate good.
Scott's work influenced the late 19th-century children's writer Howard Pyle's book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, which in turn established John as the principal villain within the traditional Robin Hood narrative.
In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers.
In a study published in 1988, John S. Michael reported that Samuel G. Morton ’ s original 19th-century data were more accurate than Gould had described ; that " contrary to Gould's interpretation.
According to John Scarne, Gin evolved from 19th-century Whiskey Poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but less spontaneous than knock rummy.
* Boston Corbett was inspired by this same verse to castrate himself ( Corbett was the 19th-century American soldier who is generally believed to have fired the shot that killed John Wilkes Booth ).
* John Crawford Anderson, 19th-century New Zealand politician, MP for Bruce electorate
The newspaper is also known as the namesake of " The Washington Post March ", which John Phillip Sousa composed in 1889 while he was leading the United States Marine Band ; it became the standard music to accompany the two-step, a late 19th-century dance craze.
Lucas Valley was named after John Lucas, a 19th-century rancher and nephew of Timothy Murphy ( not related to George Lucas ).
It was named after John Middleton Clayton a prominent 19th-century Delaware lawyer and politician.
Comte was a major influence on 19th-century thought, impacting the work of social thinkers such as Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot.
Before the 19th-century development of the marine chronometer and the lunar distance method, dead reckoning was the primary method of determining longitude available to mariners such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot on their trans-Atlantic voyages.
* John Wesley Hardin well-known outlaw and gunfighter in late 19th-century Texas
A 19th-century Yorkshire cricketer, John Tunnicliffe, was born in Lowtown.
* John Kendrick Bangs, 19th-century writer
" Hyperion " is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats.
* John Strachan, 19th-century Anglican priest and influential Bishop of Toronto
* John Phillips ( surveyor ), 19th-century British engineer
The " Clark " of its common name — and its specific epithet " clarkii "— honor John Henry Clark, a 19th-century American surveyor who was also a naturalist and collector.
The 19th-century British art collector William John Bankes travelled to Spain during the Peninsular War ( 1808 – 1814 ) and acquired a copy of Las Meninas painted by Mazo, which he believed to be an original preparatory oil sketch by Velázquez — although Velázquez did not usually paint studies.

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