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 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 1974 until 1982, different presidential administrations chose to focus on ending the persistent insurgencies that sought to undermine Colombia's traditional political system.

From 1960 to 1993, the Indians managed one third-place finish ( in 1968 ) and six fourth-place finishes ( in 1960, 1974 to 1976, 1990, and 1992 ) but spent the rest of the time at or near the bottom of the standings.

From 1974 through 1977, disco music continued to increase in popularity as many disco songs topped the charts.

From 1974 to 1980, she consistently charted in the country Top 10, with no fewer than eight singles reaching number one.

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

From 1970 activists protested the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and in 1974 it was replaced with a category of " sexual orientation disturbance " then " ego-dystonic homosexuality ", which was also deleted, although " gender identity disorder " remains.

Selye wrote The Stress of Life ( 1956 ), From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist ( 1964 ) and Stress without Distress ( 1974 ).

From 1973 to 1974, Cerf's networking research group at Stanford worked out details of the idea, resulting in the first TCP specification.

From July 1973 until June 1974, he was a student at the Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps University, MCB Quantico, Virginia.

From 1974 to 1980 he wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time and made one-off comedy specials.

From 1966 to 1974, the NBA grew from nine franchises to 18.

From the 1960s onwards intensive housing development took place, consisting mainly of pre-fabricated concrete blocks of flats, especially in Rataje and Winogrady, and later ( following its incorporation into the city in 1974 ) Piątkowo.

These included It Came From Beneath The Sea ( 1955 ), Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963 ), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad ( 1974 ) and Clash Of The Titans ( 1981 ).

From 1960 to about 1965, and from 1972 to 1974, they wore blue helmets ; from 1966 to 1971, the helmets were silver ; and they were white from 1975 to 1998.

From 1972 to 1974, this version was demonstrated and evaluated in the United States aboard the aircraft carriers USS Guam and USS Guadalcanal, and at various other centres.

From 1974 to 1977 Hercules produced a limited number of motorcycles powered by Wankel engines, its production was discontinued because of failing to attain the necessary number of motorcycles sold by month to reach profitability by 27 units.

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From 1974 to 1977, Prinze starred as Francisco " Chico " Rodriguez in the NBC TV series Chico and the Man with Jack Albertson.

From March 1974, he was entrusted by President Pompidou with preparations for the presidential election then scheduled for 1976.

From May 1974 to the end of the 1970s, over a million Portuguese citizens from Portugal's African territories ( mostly from Portuguese Angola and Mozambique ) left those territories as destitute refugees – the retornados.

With That Man From Rio ( 1965 ) he switched to commercial, mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films but did appear in the title role of Alain Resnais ' masterpiece Stavisky ( 1974 ), which some critics regard as Belmondo's finest performance.

From a military standpoint, the Portuguese regular army held the upper hand during all of the conflicts against the independentist guerrilla forces, which created favourable conditions for social development and economic growth until the end of the conflict in 1974.

From the late stages of this notable period of high growth and huge development effort started in the 1950s, was the construction of Cahora Bassa dam by the Portuguese, which started to fill in December 1974 after construction was commenced in 1969.

From 1958 to 1980, he was a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, serving as Chairman from 1974 to 1979.

From 1969 until 1981, apart from periods of practical training ( 1974 – 1976 ) in East Timor and in Macau, he was in Portugal and Rome where, having become a member of the Salesian Society, he studied philosophy and theology before being ordained a priest in 1980.