From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Commedia dell ' arte performers improvised based on a broad outline in the streets of Italy and in the 1890s theatrical theorists and directors such as Russian, Konstantin Stanislavski and the French, Jacques Copeau, founders of two major streams of acting theory, both heavily utilised improvisation in acting training and rehearsal.

From the 1890s to the 1930s American heiress Natalie Clifford Barney held a weekly salon in Paris to which major artistic celebrities were invited and where lesbian topics were the focus.

From the 1890s, the university's leaders saw its mission as service to the West and shaped the school accordingly.

From the 1890s the New Zealand parliament enacted a number of progressive initiatives, including women's suffrage and old age pensions.

From the 1890s, the economy had been based almost entirely on the export of frozen meat and dairy products to Britain, and in 1961, the share of New Zealand exports going to the United Kingdom was still at slightly over 51 %, with approximately 15 % more going to other European countries.

From a starting point of under 50 in the late 1890s to a high reached above 14, 000 in the late 2000s ( decade ), the Dow rises periodically through the decades with corrections along the way eventually settling in the mid-10, 000 range within the last 10 years.

From the 1890s to at least 1910, A. L. Burt of New York and other publishing companies published series of books aimed at young readers, using simple language to retell longer classics.

From the 1890s on, Louis Gathmann focused on ordnance development.

" Chieftainships between Past and Present: From City to Suburb and Back in Colonial Conakry, 1890s – 1950s ".

From the 1890s to 1974, Skykomish was a maintenance and fueling station for the Great Northern Railway, which eventually became part of BNSF Railway.

From the later 1890s, Broken Hill Council campaigned for a tramway to provide public transport around town and to the mines.

From around the time of the turn of the 19th century until the beginning of the 1890s, scores for ballets were almost always written by composers known as " specialists ": composers who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time in vogue for ballet.

From the 1890s onwards, printing plates of text for widespread reproduction such as advertisements or syndicated columns were cast or stamped in steel ( instead of the much softer and less durable lead alloys used otherwise ) ready for the printing press and distributed to newspapers around the United States.

From the 1870s to 1890s he competed with rival paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in a period of frenzied Western American Bone Wars.

From the 1890s, the mills produced Viyella, a mixture of cotton with Merino wool, which produces a soft fabric.

From the 1890s until 1963, the pleasure steamers of the Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company would ply their main route from Liverpool and Llandudno along the Menai Strait, and around Anglesey.

From the 1890s through the 1910s, American impressionism flourished in art colonies — loosely affiliated groups of artists who lived and worked together and shared a common aesthetic vision.

From the 1890s to the 1990s, the Colorado death row was located at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility.

From the 1890s the London County Council started to rationalise all metropolitan street names and ' Borough High Street ' became the name for the current route.

From the 1890s, the mills produced Viyella, a mixture of cotton with Merino wool, which produces a soft fabric.

From the 1870s to the 1890s McKane cultivated Coney Island ( which at that time was part of the township of Gravesend ) as a pleasure ground, building much of it up, literally, with his own hands.

From the 1890s, Tuke abandoned mythological themes and began to paint local boys fishing, sailing, swimming and diving, and also began to paint in a more naturalistic style.

From the middle of the 19th century into the 1890s, the prospects of a national bank forming grew.

From the 1890s on, his foundation funded a dramatic increase in number of libraries.

From its modest beginnings in the 1890s as the first state medical school in Texas, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston ( UTMB ) has developed into a large, sophisticated health science complex with numerous schools and institutes, including: a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Institute for the Medical Humanities, an affiliated Shriners Burns Hospital, the Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, the Sealy Center for Structural Biology, the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Center for Addiction Research, the Educational Cancer Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women ’ s Health, the Insyitute for Translational Sciences, the Galveston National Laboratory ( GNL ), the Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, the Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, the Stark Diabetes Center, the Center for Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Environmental Toxicology, the Sealy Center on Aging, the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, and the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development.

" From his father, Bogart inherited a tendency for needling people, a fondness for fishing, a lifelong love of boating, and an attraction to strong-willed women.

From this perspective, Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, music and literature could be described as a lifelong critique of the ways in which each tries to justify self-mutilation as the necessary price of self-preservation.

* The National Geographic documentary entitled Inside the Mafia ( June 2005 ) describes, among other things, his lifelong struggle against organised crime: " From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Falcone and a handful of colleagues wage a lonely and dangerous war against the mafia.

From 1803 to 1808, he visited the great museums of Paris and then, for several years, those of Italy, where he met Washington Irving in Rome and Coleridge, his lifelong friend.

From Parker Sewall acquired a lifelong love of verse, which he wrote in both English and Latin.

A lifelong atheist, she donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

From this experience Few obtained a rudimentary education that led to a lifelong love of reading.

Chaplin and Laurel arrived on the same boat from England with the Karno troupe and toured the U. S. From 1916 to 1918, he teamed up with Alice Cooke and Baldwin Cooke, who became lifelong friends.

From about 1813, he spent a lifelong rebellion against the Sikhs.

From 1854 to 1856 Burroughs alternated periods of teaching with periods of study at higher education institutions including Cooperstown Seminary ; there he first read the works of William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson, both of whom would become lifelong influences.

From his tenure with The New York Times in Washington D. C., Rattner developed a lifelong interest in economic policy, which drew him to politics and public service.

From starting life as a bare-footed stable boy, he became the richest man in Canada and closely associated with George V, whose wife, Queen Mary, was a lifelong friend and confidant of the second Lady Mount Stephen.

From this time stems a lifelong friendship with Maurice's brother, Prince Rupert, whom he accompanied onto the battlefields of the continent once the Royalists had been defeated.

From his brief association with military topics, he retained a lifelong interest in them, and when the Civil War began in 1861, he was already collecting notes on Bunker Hill, planning to paint an accurate rendition of the battle.

From about 1813, Painda Khan spent a lifelong rebellion against the Sikhs, who, realising the potential dangers of his rebellion, set up forts at strategic locations to keep him in check.

From then on the two began a lifelong professional collaboration and friendship which included all the RKO Astaire pictures, including A Damsel in Distress ( 1937 ) in which Ginger Rogers did not appear, and for which he was awarded the 1937 Academy Award for Best Dance Direction.