Nineteenth-century European travellers noted the presence of archaeological remains in the Balikh Valley, but the first investigations were not carried out until 1938, when the English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan ( husband of author Agatha Christie ) spent six weeks investigating five archaeological sites dating from the seventh to the second millennium BCE.

Nineteenth-century comparative mythology reinterpreted myth as evolution toward science ( E. B. Tylor ), " disease of language " ( Max Müller ), or misinterpretation of magical ritual ( James Frazer ).

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Nineteenth-century closet drama became a longer poetic form, without the connection to practical theatre and performance.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

Nineteenth-century travellers could point to the Hill of San Giovanni on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio, which still had a cathedral said to have been the 6th century seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio.

Nineteenth-century bird's-eye view of Fort Collins.

Nineteenth-century biologists reported that the Hydra was such a simple animal that it was possible to force one through gauze to separate it into individual cells ; if the cells were then left to themselves, they would regroup to form a hydra again.

Nineteenth-century newspaper reports of actual gypsy weddings indicate that they took place in church.

Nineteenth-century Irish amateur scholar William Betham speculated that worship of Oannes is the origin of the cult of the Roman god Janus.

Nineteenth-century fictional depictions of John were heavily influenced by Sir Walter Scott's historical romance, Ivanhoe, which presented " an almost totally unfavourable picture " of the king ; the work drew on Victorian histories of the period and on Shakespeare's play.

Nineteenth-century interpretations of myth were often highly comparative, seeking a common origin for all myths.

Nineteenth-century positivist historians stressed what they saw as Thucydides ' seriousness, his scientific objectivity and his advanced handling of evidence.

* Nineteenth-century theatre – wide range of movements in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century.

: Great Puzzles In Nineteenth-century Fiction.

Nineteenth-century Britain was home to a great deal of scientific progress.

In R. Bellamy, ed., Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-century Political Thought and Practice, London, pp. 5870

Nineteenth-century botanists had problems in classifying Douglas-firs, due to the species ' similarity to various other conifers better known at the time ; they have at times been classified in Pinus, Picea, Abies, Tsuga, and even Sequoia.

Nineteenth-century British anthropology advanced a lineal, evolutionary sequence in a given culture from savagery to civilization.

Nineteenth-century culinary writer Pierre Lacam suggested that in 1459, a London woman named Annamarie Turcauht stumbled upon this condiment after trying to create a custard of some sort.

Nineteenth-century operettas became the preserve of lightweight baritone voices.

Nineteenth-century critic Rev.

Nineteenth-century inventors were reluctant to accept this added complication and experimented with a variety of caseless or self-consuming cartridges before finally accepting that the advantages of brass cases far outweighed this one drawback.

Nineteenth-century Cannes can still be seen in its grand villas, built to reflect the wealth and standing of their owners and inspired by anything from medieval castles to Roman villas.

Nineteenth-century efficiency improvements of water turbines allowed them to compete with steam engines ( wherever water was available ).

* The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-century England by Barry Reay ISBN 0-19-820187-7 ( 1 October 1990 ), ISBN 978-0-9564827-2-3 ( Breviary Stuff Publications, 31 July 2010 ).

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

Then from the branches of a near-by tree an Indian underclassman, disdaining both the platform and the English language, harangued the assemblage in his aboriginal tongue.

The complexities of communication have been considerably abetted in this case by appropriately stilted English language that has been excellently dubbed in place of the Russian dialogue.

Four little Japanese waitresses were murdering the English language at the counter -- Yuki Kobayashi happened to be one of them.

the question was too wide for the sparse English language.

Austin is a given name and surname, an English language contraction of Augustine.

This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

However, with an international language with wide variations in its dialects, such as English, it would be impossible to represent the language in all its variations with a single phonetic alphabet.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

This form is known as: " Österreichische Kanzleisprache " or " Austrian chancellery language " in English.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

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Black sign language is influenced by African American English ( AAE ).

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.

It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).

His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.