From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be, " an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay ".

From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.

From the early 16th century, Aachen lost power.

From early in life, the notorious rivalry led to several outbreaks of civil war.

From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe.

From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

From the early Middle Ages until after the Second Vatican Council the sacrament was administered, within the Latin Church, only when death was approaching and, in practice, bodily recovery was not ordinarily looked for, giving rise, as mentioned above to the name " Extreme Unction " ( i. e. final anointing ).

From the very early stages of his reign, Abd ar-Rahman showed a firm resolve to quash the rebels of Al-Andalus, consolidate centralized power, and reestablish internal order within the emirate.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

From a political point of view, there is a trade-off between Bulgaria's economic growth and the stability required for early accession to the monetary union.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local.

From early 20th century Shanghainese, many English words are borrowed, such as 高尔夫 ／ 高爾夫 gāoěrfū " golf " and the above-mentioned 沙发 ／ 沙發 shāfā " sofa ".

From the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Charlton remained a mainstay of the Second Division before relegation to the Third Division in 1972 caused the team's support to drop, and even a promotion in 1975 back to the second division did little to re-invigorate the team's support and finances.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

From an early stage, the rebels received decisive financial and military support from the United States government, initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time.

From 320 × 200 during the early ' 80s, to 800 × 600 during the late ' 90s.

From a rural village in the early Middle Ages Delft developed to a city, that in the 13th century ( 1246 ) received its charter.

From the early 1980s the DFLP was seen as the most pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese of the PLO member organisations.

From New Jersey, Morgan hastened to the headquarters of Washington at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, arriving there on November 18th.

From flamenco's beginning in the 18th century most performers were professional.

From the latter part of the 18th century, grammar came to be understood as a subfield of the emerging discipline of modern linguistics.

From the 16th century to the early 18th century, Afghanistan was divided in to three major areas.

From these circles of spiritual inspiration, the early Hasidic movement arose, led by Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, in 18th century Podolia ( now Ukraine ).

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 late 16th through the 18th century, punk was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute ; William Shakespeare used it with that meaning in The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1602 ) and Measure for Measure ( 1623 ).

From its beginnings in the late 18th century, romantic nationalism has relied upon the existence of a historical ethnic culture which meets the romantic ideal ; folklore developed as a romantic nationalist concept.

From the mid to late 14th, through early 18th centuries, the Ottoman devşirme – janissary system enslaved and forcibly converted to Islam an estimated 500, 000 to one million non – Muslim ( primarily Balkan Christian ) adolescent males.

European thought in the 18th century: From Montesquieu to Lessing ( 1965 )

From the late 18th century until the present time the tarot has also found use by mystics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways.

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From the late 18th century onwards, the British city of Manchester acquired the nickname " Cottonopolis " due to the cotton industry's omnipresence within the city, and Manchester's role as the heart of the global cotton trade.

* From the late 18th to the early 19th centuries, many Slavic language folk parodies of the story were made.

From the Renaissance to the 18th century, Western designers attempted to imitate the technical sophistication of Chinese ceramics with only partial success.

From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers and other sailors, missionaries, traders and adventurers.

From the beginning of the 17th century until late in the 18th, the cantata for one or two solo voices with accompaniment of basso continuo ( and perhaps a few solo instruments ) was a principal form of Italian vocal chamber music.

From then until the 18th century the town remained a small settlement on a trade route between Masovia and Silesia.

From the 18th century BC the region was a part of the Hittite Empire with possible name Arzawa, which was destroyed by invaders during the 12th century BC together with the collapse of the Empire.

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

From the 21st Century BC through to the late 18th Century BC, Assyria controlled colonies in Anatolia, and the Hurrians, like the Hattians, adopted the Assyrian Akkadian cuneiform script for their own language about 2000 BCE.

From the 18th century, donkey gradually replaced ass.

From the late 18th century to the First World War, the Russian government confined Jews to living within the Pale of Settlement, which included modern Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and the Baltic states.

From the 18th century to the early 20th century, elms were among the most widely planted ornamental trees in both Europe and North America.

From 1978 to 1999 Pinin Brambilla Barcilon guided a major restoration project which undertook to permanently stabilize the painting, and reverse the damage caused by dirt, pollution, and the misguided 18th and 19th century restoration attempts.