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He came from a prosperous family, worked briefly as a lawyer in the 1820s, and held the post of Professor of Geology at King's College London in the 1830s.
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The answer came from the open door of the boxcar.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
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Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.
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About noon they came up with the enemy two miles from Lovejoy's Station and deployed.
That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.
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In the final prosperous year, 1929, there were 279, 678 immigrants recorded, but in 1933, only 23, 068 came to the U. S. In the early 1930s, more people emigrated from the United States than to it.
It became prosperous through the silk trade that began in the 11th century, and came to rival the silks of Byzantium.
He came from a family of prosperous Burgundian lawyers-on both his paternal and maternal side, his ancestors had held legal posts for at least a century.
Arndt was born at Groß-Schoritz ( a part of Garz / Rügen ) on the island of Rügen in Swedish Pomerania as the son of a prosperous farmer, and emancipated serf of the lord of the district, Count Putbus ; his mother came of well-to-do German yeoman stock.
After the Sui came to an end amidst peasant rebellions and renegade troops, his cousin, Li Shimin, founded the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ); Li led China to develop into one of the most prosperous states in history.
Many German, Bohemian, and Polish families came and soon changed this wilderness into one of the most prosperous sections of the entire state.
In the 15th century, the city came under the rule of the Dukes of Burgundy, marking the beginning of a prosperous period.
Born Gaston Emile Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, he came from a prosperous and artistically inclined family.
French and foreign merchants frequently came to the island to buy these exotic products, transforming Martinique into a modestly prosperous colony.
A Ralph Byrom came to Manchester from Lowton in 1485, and became a prosperous wool merchant.
Elizabeth's father came to Richmond in 1806 at the age of 16 and, within twenty years, had built up a prosperous hardware business and owned several slaves.
The new genres of landscape, genre painting, animal painting and still life came into their own in the 17th century, with the virtual cessation of religious painting in Protestant countries, and the expansion of picture buying to the prosperous middle class.
Gabrielle came from a prosperous Italian family.
Born July 25, 1871 in New York City, she was raised in Harlem by her father, Francis, an Episcopal priest, and her mother, Elizabeth Floy, who came from a prosperous New York family.
George Henry Peabody, who came from a line of merchants, bankers and professional men, had moved from Connecticut to Columbus, Georgia, where he ran a prosperous general store.
The town was prosperous during the Middle Ages, catering to large numbers of pilgrims, both those who came to visit the local saint and those on their way to Compostella.
This was one of the most prosperous constituencies in the whole of the country and he came third, but it was intended as no more than an opportunity to try his campaigning skills.
With job losses came heavy population losses, especially in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh cities, where thousands of working-class people had formerly lived in prosperous, stable neighborhoods.
In North African countries, by contrast, where the Sephardim came to outnumber the pre-existing Mizrahi Jew communities it was some of the latter who assimilated into the more prosperous and prestigious Sephardic communities.
In the early 16th century Venice, prosperous and stable, had become an important center of music publishing ; composers came from all parts of Europe to benefit from the new technology, which then was only a few decades old.
The commercial success that came with this book enabled Stein to live a more prosperous lifestyle.
Charlotte Salomon came from a prosperous Berlin family.
It was prosperous in the 15th century, but as the 16th century came, it slowly began to decay, as the mines were exhausted and with many uprisings taking place at that time.
There was prosperous trade, for merchants came from all lands to barter goods ; their art was well developed, for in the leisure people enjoyed they were able to build cities and tanks, great and small, and to perform works both of utility and artistic value.
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