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It became a fashionable resort town again following visits by the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and benefited from a new estate on Mount Pleasant and the building of the Trinity church in 1827, and improvements made to the town and the provision of facilities such as gas lighting and a police service meant that by 1837 the town population had swelled to 9, 100.
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Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.
Chocolate soon became a fashionable drink of the nobility after the discovery of the Americas.
It was the expression through which ( amongst other things ) Hegel's dialectic became fashionable during his lifetime.
These immediately became fashionable in England ; for many years the scent was known as the " Earl of Oxford's perfume ".
At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.
With the opening of trade between England and Japan, Japanese imports, art and styles became fashionable in London, making the time ripe for an opera set in Japan.
Their trade was to come to an end with the period following the Napoleonic Wars, for the town became one of the most fashionable resorts in Britain, brought about by the so-called properties of seawater.
Existentialism became fashionable in the post-World War years as a way to reassert the importance of human individuality and freedom.
Beer had replaced cider as a fashionable drink in the main export markets, and even the home market had switched to beer as the population became more urban.
Prince Edward Island became a fashionable retreat in the nineteenth century for British nobility.
Nevertheless, it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.
During the 18th century the medium became fashionable for portrait painting, sometimes in a mixed technique with gouache.
They were so fashionable that various G3 models became the personal computer of Carrie Bradshaw in the long-running Sex and the City television show.
During the Victorian era, it became fashionable to describe Sappho as the headmistress of a girls ' finishing school.
In the 19th century, it became a fashionable centre for the rich and famous, often staying or dining at luxury establishments such as the Danieli Hotel and the Caffè Florian.
Shocking many when it was first introduced, the waltz became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading to many other countries in the years to follow.
It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered " riotous and indecent " as late as 1825.
He became organist of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, a fashionable chapel in a well-known spa, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts.
The term Rococo may also be interpreted as a combination of the word " barocco " ( an irregularly shaped pearl, possibly the source of the word " baroque ") and the French " rocaille " ( a popular form of garden or interior ornamentation using shells and pebbles ), and may be used to describe the refined and fanciful style that became fashionable in parts of Europe during the eighteenth century.
Chardonnay became very fashionable in the 1990s, as the stereotypical drink of young urban women of the Bridget Jones generation.
Despite the best intentions of landowners such as the Earls of Leicester and Portland to develop the land on the grand scale of neighbouring Bloomsbury, Marylebone and Mayfair, Soho never became a fashionable area for the rich.
In the early 20th century, foreign nationals opened cheap eating-houses, and the neighbourhood became a fashionable place to eat for intellectuals, writers and artists.
In 1999, Eastwood stated, " I guess I was a social liberal and fiscal conservative before it became fashionable.
Finally, anti-realism became a fashionable term for any view which held that the existence of some object depends upon the mind or cultural artifacts.
Coaches quickly became as fashionable as sports cars in a later century ; social critics, especially Puritan commentators, noted the " diverse great ladies " who rode " up and down the countryside " in their new coaches.
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Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
In the 20th century Emsworth became a resort for pleasure boats.
The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.
In his last years, after marrying again, Cousteau became involved in a legal battle with his son Jean-Michel over Jean-Michel licensing the Cousteau name for a South Pacific resort, resulting in Jean-Michel Cousteau being ordered by the court not to encourage confusion between his for-profit business and his father's non-profit endeavours.
Poles also arrived as the city became popular seaside resort and spa town among tourists from all over Germany with an amount of about 5-8 percent of Poles.
After the Napoleonic Wars, North Africa became increasingly ungovernable from Istanbul by the Ottoman Empire, the resort of pirates under local beys, and as Europe industrialized, an increasingly prized potential for colonization.
In 1840 the first spa opened in Kuressaare ( then known as Arensburg ), and the town became a resort for Russians and Baltic Germans.
When Bernard's brother, Adam Gimbel, became President of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Bernard's sudden passing, the company took on national aspirations, opening its very first branch store that year in the city of Palm Beach, Florida, as a seasonal resort store, followed by a second resort store in Southampton, New York, in 1928.
The production of stick-on souvenir badges seems to have started in mainland Europe during the early 20th-century, probably in Germany shortly after the First World War when hiking became popular, and people began sewing badges of resort towns onto their backpacks and jackets.
Because of its location on shores of Azov and Black seas, Kerch became a popular summer resort among people of former USSR.
The ancient settlement of Brighthelmstone dates from before Domesday Book ( 1086 ), but it emerged as a health resort featuring sea bathing during the 18th century and became a destination for day-trippers from London after the arrival of the railway in 1841.
From 1780, development of the Georgian terraces had started and the fishing village became the fashionable resort of Brighton.
During the 15th century, " piracy became an increasing problem and merchant communities such as Bristol began to resort to self-help, arming and equipping ships at their own expense to protect commerce.
In the 1850s, two plank roads were constructed from what is today downtown San Francisco to the Mission, and the entire area became a popular resort and entertainment district.
Fort Myers first became a nationally known winter resort with the building of The Royal Palm Hotel in 1898.
The city was transformed after the 1843 founding of the first bathing establishment and the Kursaal, a building constructed to host sumptuous social events, became the symbol of Rimini's status as a tourist resort.
The growing resort of Virginia Beach became an incorporated town in 1906.
Heide became a town in the 19th century and now is a tourist resort.
The city acquired Roman citizenship in 90 BC and became a resort area famed for its beauty and its good water, and was enriched by many Roman villas.
Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres.
The town became a popular resort in the 17th century and many grand houses were built there, such as Vanbrugh Castle ( 1717 ) established on Maze Hill, next to the park.
The manor became a popular resort for Londoners due to this rural aspect and many public houses were founded to serve the needs of both visitors and travellers on the turnpike.
Some early development took place to accommodate the popularity of the nearby Sadler's Wells, which became a resort in the 16th century, but the 19th century saw the greatest expansion in housing, soon to cover the whole parish.
Aldeburgh survived principally as a fishing village until the nineteenth century, when it became popular as a seaside resort.
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