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, 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 the late 1930s until the postwar period appeared a string of monographs and edited volumes that cemented the paradigm of British Social Anthropology ( BSA ).

* Maila Nurmi, aka 1950s TV horror hostess Vampira and co-star of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space attended Astoria High School in the late 1930s.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, archaeologists like V. Gordon Childe and later John Hamilton regarded them as castles where local landowners held sway over a subject population.

From the early 1930s the Japanese had been at war against both the Chinese Nationalists and the Russians in China, and used the experience to improve both training and aircraft, replacing biplanes with modern cantilever monoplanes and creating a cadre of exceptional pilots for use in the Pacific War.

From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as " the most assassinated woman in the world ".

From the late 1930s, the SS was independent of the control of other state agencies or government departments, and he reported only to Hitler.

From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed, Hatfield was associated with aircraft design and manufacture, which employed more people than any other industry.

From 1913 onwards parts of her collection were open to the public ; until the mid 1930s her exhibition hall in The Hague was one of the very rare places where one could see more than a few works of modern art.

From the 1930s until 2011 they were the largest and second largest parties respectively.

From the 1930s through the late 1950s, " Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot " was the most commonly used slogan in the days of old radio, classic motion pictures, and later television.

From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use.

From the 1930s, the popularization of radio in Brazil helped to spread the samba across the country, mainly the sub-genres samba-canção and samba-exaltação.

From the 1930s, a revival of the form took place across the English-speaking world, led by poets such as W. H. Auden, and the 1950s were described as the " age of the sestina " by James E. B. Breslin.

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From the 1930s to 1960s, theatrical cartoons were produced in huge numbers, and usually shown before a feature film in a movie theater.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Soho folklore states that the pubs of Soho were packed every night with drunken writers, poets and artists, many of whom never stayed sober long enough to become successful ; and it was also during this period that the Soho pub landlords established themselves.

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

From its discovery around 1602 by Galileo Galilei the regular motion of pendulums was used for timekeeping, and was the world's most accurate timekeeping technology until the 1930s.

From the 1880s to the 1930s the term continued to be applied to the panselectionist school of thought, which argued that natural selection was the main and perhaps sole cause of all evolution.

From the 1930s he often performed with Zena Dare, writing parts for her in his works.

From the 1930s to the 1970s, authoritarian governments employed political repression and limited reform to maintain power, despite the trappings of democracy.

From the 1930s onward a civil war was underway in mainland China between Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong.

From the time it replaced oil and wax finishes in the 19th century, shellac was one of the dominant wood finishes in the western world until it was largely replaced by nitrocellulose lacquer in the 1920s and 1930s.

From the 1930s onwards Dutch artist M. C.