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In the enormously expanded wealthy society of the Gilded Age, the American institution of a Social Register filled a newly perceived void, one that was being served in the United Kingdom by Who's Who, which, since 1849, had identified public figures in Parliament and the professions as well as aristocrats and gentry, and by Burke's Peerage, which had appeared for the first time in 1826 to identify the members of the peerage of the United Kingdom and the baronets.
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During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.
The techniques used by neuroscientists have also expanded enormously, from molecular and cellular studies of individual nerve cells to imaging of sensory and motor tasks in the brain.
His lecture activity expanded enormously.
Today, Snakehead operations have expanded enormously into other countries ; however, the majority of Snakehead customers still originate from the Fujian province in China.
Blackberry production in Mexico has expanded enormously in the past decade.
The Dutch navy was enormously expanded through the largest building programme in its history.
Although there had been earlier studies, the scientific investigation of behaviour and cognition in nonhuman members of the superfamily Hominoidea expanded enormously during the latter half of the twentieth century.
In the process enrollment increased enormously, while a network of social clubs, expanded library facilities, and a widened curriculum replaced many of the functions once performed by Whig and Clio.
Such branches of pharmacognosy are still of fundamental importance, particularly for pharmacopoeial identification and quality control purposes, but rapid development in other areas has enormously expanded the subject.
Rugby has expanded enormously, industrialising in the late 19th century and later.
The Altima grew enormously for this generation, as interior volume expanded to.
Kimura had been part of the company since entering in 1969, and in the 35 plus years that Kimura worked with Yoshimoto, it expanded greatly and its reputation as a successful company grew enormously.
This market expanded enormously during the 1950s thanks to the so-called " folk boom " of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which artists and groups like Pete Seeger, The New Lost City Ramblers and The Weavers explored the traditional songs and sounds of American folk music and reinterpreted them for a mass audience.
To staff the enormously expanded health-care and educational facilities, foreign religious were brought in.
It has expanded enormously with an estimated 13, 000 stations currently available, including many traditional FM / AM simulcasting their content over the Internet.
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Long's attacks on the utilities industry and corporate privileges were enormously popular, as was his depiction of the wealthy as " parasites " who grabbed more than their fair share of the public wealth while marginalizing the poor.
As Superintendent, Fouquet headed the enormously wealthy and influential corps of partisans ( tax farmers ) who, if challenged as a group, could have caused the king serious trouble.
His father was the enormously wealthy financier Judah Herz Beer ( 1769 – 1825 ) and his mother, Amalia ( Malka ) Wulff ( 1767 – 1854 ), to whom he was particularly devoted, also came from the moneyed elite.
Not all quacks were restricted to such small-time businesses however, and a number, especially in the United States, became enormously wealthy through national and international sales of their products.
Alan Sepinwall included the show in his " Best of the 00s in Comedies " list, saying: " It got on the air thanks in part to a coalition of advertisers looking for family-friendly programming, and " Gilmore " offered up an unconventional but enormously appealing family: mom Lorelai Gilmore ( Lauren Graham ) and teen daughter Rory ( Alexis Bledel, so close in age that they often seemed more like sisters, plus the wealthy parents ( Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann ) Lorelai split from after getting pregnant at 16.
However, while this policy benefited many landless families, enormously wealthy clans and individuals were given free land grants in proportion to their status and influence with the royal family.
Various news outlets later on said that he " had his career completely destroyed " for doing so, before it became enormously popular and made Seacrest very wealthy.
A handful of politically connected individuals have grown enormously wealthy as a result.
The episode, occurring to the wealthy Steinbeck in an enormously well-equipped and self-contained camper, is a send-up of similar desperate scenes in The Grapes of Wrath ; but the episode seemed to mean something beyond comedy to the author anyway.
" He was an obstinate, impetuous and rather vain little person with reddish hair ; enormously wealthy, endlessly touchy, extremely intelligent and vastly attractive … he liked America, he understood it and enjoyed it ; he was tremendously popular at Philadelphia, and at Washington when he condescended to appear there ; he was on intimate terms at the President's House.
The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico.
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He has argued that there is a " gender fetish " in western society, in which the gender of sexual partners is given enormously disproportionate attention over other factors involved in sexual attraction, such as age and social class.
The rise of Modernism, the popularity of very different thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, the huge technological changes and the devastation of the First World War, changed European society enormously.
Joanna Russ's The Female Man ( 1975 ) and the award winning story " When It Changed ", showing a female-only lesbian society that flourished without men, were enormously influential.
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The " fireside chats " were considered enormously successful and attracted more listeners than the most popular radio shows during the " Golden Age of Radio.
Although similar developments occurred in all advanced European countries, they were most evident in the enormously productive schools of Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting.
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One show of note in ABC's attempt to expand its reality TV brand was the rebuttal of Fox's enormously popular American Idol, The One: Making a Music Star, which attempted to combine a talent competition with a traditional reality show.
Gold Rush-era advertisements made on one of the mountains forming the eastern wall of the valleyThe population of the general area increased enormously and reached 30, 000, composed largely of American prospectors.
Founder of the enormously successful " American Girl " dolls, she was a 1962 alumna of Wells College.
Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West was enormously successful in Europe making Buffalo Bill an international celebrity and an American icon.
By the winter of 1944, the power of the British and American bomber forces had grown enormously.
Sanford and Son was enormously popular during most of its run, and was one of the top ten highest-rated series on American television from its first season ( 1971 – 1972 ) through the 1975 – 1976 season.
The flag was created in 1920 by the members of the UNIA in response to the enormously popular 1900 coon song " Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon ," which has been cited as one of the three coon songs that " firmly established the term coon in the American vocabulary ".
Robert Frank's (...) enormously influential The Americans is in ways reminiscent both of Tocqueville's analysis of American institutions and of the analysis of cultural themes by Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.
Cambacérès's work has thus been enormously influential in European and American legal history.
His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular — and controversial during that period.
The culture is both distinct and enormously influential to American culture as a whole.
American doctors varied enormously in their scientific understanding of human physiology, and the word " quack " flourished.
Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life ( 1959 ), based on Elkin's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, was theoretically innovative and enormously influential in the years after its publication, although its arguments are largely rejected today.
Other acts who have worked with The Crazy Gang were Teddy Brown, a very tall and enormously fat American percussionist.
The demands of the British and Foreign Bible Society ( founded 1804 ), the American Bible Society ( founded 1816 ), and other non-denominational publishers for enormously large and impossibly inexpensive runs of texts led to numerous innovations.
Baring's ultimate goal was to establish a house under his control based on both Barings and Hopes, which would straddle the North Sea, dominate government finance in Europe, and provide an enormously powerful base for its American connections.
The channel runs mostly local productions but there are a few exceptions: The Simpsons is aired since 1991 with huge ratings ; during the 1990s, El Chavo and American sitcom The Nanny were also enormously popular ; Brazilian, Mexican and Colombian telenovelas are also aired in afternoon slots.
Native Americans, who have lived on the North American continent for at least 20, 000 years, had an enormously complex impact on American history and racial relations.
The Adventures of Kathlyn was only the second serial ever made by an American film studio and considered the first of the cliffhanger serials that became enormously popular during the next decade.
The informal name of the series parodied American TV soap opera Dynasty, which was enormously popular throughout Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s.
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