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 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 1991 to 1994, Djibouti experienced a civil war which had devastating effects on the economy.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

From 1936 to 1968, Mobil sponsored an economy run each year ( except during World War II ) in which domestic automobiles of various manufacturers in several price and size classes were driven by light-footed drivers on cross-country runs.

From 1994 through 1998, under the government of Alberto Fujimori, the economy recorded robust growth driven by foreign direct investment, almost 46 % of which was related to the privatization program. The government invested heavily on the country ´ s infrastructure, which became a solid foundation for the future of the Peruvian economy.

From 1981-1995, the economy grew at an annual rate of 7. 52 %, and the service sector became the largest sector at 51. 67 %, surpassing the industrial sector and becoming a major source of the economy's growth.

From the late 1970s, Tanzania's economy took a turn for the worse.

From the early twentieth century to the end of World War II, the economy of Siam gradually became part of the global system.

From 1945 to 1947, when the Cold War did not yet begin, the Thai economy continued to suffer greatly from the Second World War.

From the 1950s to the early 1980s the Venezuelan economy experienced a steady growth that attracted many immigrants.

From the 1950s to the early 1980s the Venezuelan economy was the strongest in South America.

From 1921 to 1923, the federal government spent $ 162 million on America's highway system, infusing the U. S. economy with a large amount of capital.

From the 1930s the economy was highly regulated and an extensive welfare state was developed.

From 1823 to 1833, Biddle expanded credit steadily, with restraint, in a manner that served that needs of the expanding American economy.

From an earlier position ( in the 1980s ) of central government control of the economy, Mozambique has initiated rapid reforms in recent years, accelerating the implementation of market-based economic policies, and committing to a policy of fiscal and monetary discipline.

From 1963, Ulbricht and his economic adviser Wolfgang Berger attempted to create a more efficient economy through a New Economic System ( Neues Ökonomisches System or NÖS ).

From 2006 onwards, the economy faced problems of growing inflation and current account deficits.

From the onset, the Meiji rulers embraced the concept of a market economy and adopted British and North American forms of free enterprise capitalism.

From the mid 1950s economy car competition had increased-internationally in the form of the 1957 Fiat 500 and 1955 Fiat 600, and 1959 Austin Mini.

From the 1880s to 1930, the county also developed a farming economy, increasing the improved area from in 1900 to in 1930, primarily growing wheat.

From the early 20th century Oriental's economy was supported by lumber, fishing and farming.

From the community's inception, the local economy had originally been supported mainly by the cotton industry, but the effects of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s had a dire effect on production.

From its foundation in agriculture, the region's economy has diversified to include year-round tourism and a variety of other industries.

From here a new economy emerged, one of size and density that provided increased economic opportunities for the inhabitants of New France.