These wonders are important achievements of society, science, culture and defense, ranging from the Pyramids and the Great Wall in the Ancient age, to Copernicus ' Observatory and Magellan's Expedition in the middle period, up to the Apollo program, the United Nations, and the Manhattan Project in the modern era.

A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".

Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.

Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.

The Great Depression had a serious impact both on the emergent middle class and the working class of the 1930s.

Examples are at,, and ( the middle track at Totnes is only used in summer, by First Great Western services between London Paddington and Newquay ).

By the middle of the 19th century, Rotterdam was already one of the largest port cities in the world, mainly because of transshipment of goods from Germany to Great Britain.

During and immediately after World War I there was a movement spearheaded by President Wilson and other eminent people to inculcate patriotism in American school children, especially immigrants, and to stress the American connection with the literature and institutions of the " mother country " of Great Britain, using selected readings in middle school textbooks.

The middle of the 19th century saw The Great Exhibition of 1851, the first World's Fair, which showcased the greatest innovations of the century.

* February 21 – Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city.

* Sargon the Great, founder of the empire of Akkad and Sumer ( 2371 – 2316 BC middle chronology )

In the middle of the 10th century, when the Saxon dukes of the House of Liudolfing had also become German kings, King Otto the Great entrusted more and more of his ducal authority to Hermann Billung.

The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century.

The Saint Lawrence (; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye ; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning " big waterway ") is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

Much of the copper for the production of bronze probably came from the copper mine on the Great Orme, where prehistoric mining on a very large scale dates largely from the middle Bronze Age.

In order to connect Halsskov on Zealand with Knudshoved on Funen, 18 kilometres to its west, a two-track railway and a four-lane motorway had to be built, aligned via the small island of Sprogø in the middle of the Great Belt.

Pope gets the message across that humans must accept their position in the " Great Chain of Being " which is at a middle stage between the angels and the beasts of the world.

The smallmouth bass is native to the upper and middle Mississippi River basin, the Saint Lawrence River – Great Lakes system, and up into the Hudson Bay basin.

It was initially adopted by the German states in 1865, ( from which point onwards till the middle of WWI approximately 5 % of every bayonet style was issued with a sawback version ) Great Britain in 1869, Belgium in 1868 and Switzerland in 1878, ( who introduced their last model in 1914 ).

During the middle of the Great Depression, the Elizabethton, Tennessee city government utilized labor and resources provided by WPA to complete a newly established, nine-hole municipal golf course on seventy acres of land that was deeded in 1936 to the city for $ 1. 00 by local golfers.

Unlike the New Deal, which was a response to a severe financial and economic calamity, the Great Society initiatives came just as the United States ' post-World War II prosperity was starting to fade, but before the coming decline was being felt by the middle and upper classes.

It was located in the middle of the Great Ocean, between the western shores of Middle-earth, and the eastern shores of Aman, where the Valar dwelt.

When Christianity was legalized under Constantine the Great and Licinius, formal church buildings were built in great numbers, normally with free-standing altars in the middle of the sanctuary, which in all the earliest churches built in Rome was at the west end of the church.

The flat races in Great Britain are run over a variety of distances from five furlongs ( 1, 006 m ) to over two miles ( 3, 219 m ) and are generally called sprints, middle distance or stayers races.

As the construction of dams, power plants and canals required immense labor, which was rare in the middle of the Depression, the government authorized Sacramento River dams and other structures as public works projects beginning in 1935.

" In the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, The Seattle Times made note of grunge-influenced groups emerging in Seattle, including Post Stardom Depression, The Valley, and The Weapons.

Although Griffith was in the middle of the Great Depression and World War II had broken out in Europe, optimistic views were still present throughout the town.

Covington experienced growth during most of the 19th century, only to decline during the Great Depression and the middle 20th century.

The book grapples, " with the social and historical reality of Depression suffering in the north of England ,-Orwell does not wish merely to enumerate evils and injustices, but to break through what he regards as middle class oblivion ,-Orwell's corrective to such falsity comes first by immersion of his own body-a supreme measure of truth for Orwell-directly into the experience of misery.

So, in the middle of the Great Depression, he set out for George Washington University in Washington, D. C. for graduate study.

David Gerber describes the middle and late 1930s as a period characterized by a " quasi-fascist and anti-communist anti-Semitism which blamed Jews for the Great Depression and the international crises in Europe.

During the Great Depression, it was seen as an alternative " middle way " between communism and capitalism.

It was published on October 7 with a printing of 3, 010 copies ( not unusually low for a first novel in the middle of the Great Depression ) on cheap paper, with a cover of green linen.

Harlow's movies continued to make huge profits at the box office, even during the middle of the Depression.

Flint, wrote that Schwartz's stories were " the definitive portrait of the Jewish middle class in New York during the Depression.

Fed by Nazi propaganda, many people of Northeim, especially in the middle classes, in the midst of the Depression saw the Nazis as a way to get their country back to greatness that Hitler and the Nazis promised they would do.

In the White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button that lit up Crosley Field, where a crowd of 20, 422 fans, sizable for a last-place team in the middle of the Great Depression, came out to watch the game.

In 1934, in the middle of the Great Depression, Olson ran as a Democrat for the California State Senate, representing Los Angeles.

It symbolized the epitome of the ' little Brown man ', who followers called " God Almighty ", suggesting that he was indeed ' special ' by providing an abundant feast, of all one could eat, free of charge, to people of all ' races ' in the middle of some of the most ' hard hit ' slums in the midst of the Great Depression.

Although there is little in the present literature regarding the LSE agent's strike, obviously their union did not expect it to lead to LSE's total abandonment with permanent unemployment for both the agents and everyone else employed by the LSE, a very dire situation in the middle of the Depression with 25 % national unemployment.

" Instead of trying to create historical account, Odets used the strike as a way to attack what he saw as the larger issue: that in the middle of the Great Depression the capitalist structures of the time had remained unaltered.

In the middle of the Great Depression, voters strongly backed Roosevelt's New Deal and his allies in the Senate.

Even though America was in the middle of the Great Depression, the company flourished under Wahlert's leadership.

Some historians today believe that the primary base of support for the proposals of Coughlin, Long, Townsend, and Sinclair was conservative middle class whites who saw their economic status slipping away during the Depression.

Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression.

Joe Hardy was raised by middle class parents in the jewelry business, but the experiences of the Great Depression taught him the value of hard work.