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 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 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 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 cabins used as dwellings were occasionally plastered on the interior.

Nineteenth-century newspapers were often densely packed with type, often arranged vertically, with multiple headlines for each article.

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

Nineteenth-century English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).

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 ).

Nineteenth-century logging was traditionally a winter activity for men who spent summers working on farms.

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

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 tourists, arriving by steamer from the mainland, could also choose from a wide range of secular attractions: shops, restaurants, ice cream parlors, dance halls, band concerts, walks along seaside promenades, or swims in the waters of Nantucket Sound.

Nineteenth-century scholars saw the unification as a result of a series of wars based on evidence from the Norse sagas.

Nineteenth-century British and American sailors made hammocks, bell fringes, and belts from macramé.

Janson, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-century Sculpture from North American Collections ( Los Angeles County Museum of Art ) 1980.

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

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 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 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.

Testimonies of historians, diplomats, religious scholars, intellectuals and travellers, Ottoman and European, confirm that, from the 16th to the 19th century, Anatolian opium was eaten in Constantinople as much as it was exported to Europe.

In fact, European travellers to Shaka's kingdom demonstrated advanced technology such as firearms and writing, but the Zulu monarch was less than convinced.

Early modern maps of Africa from the 15th – 19th centuries, drawn by European cartographers from accounts written by explorers and travellers, reveal some interesting information about Biafra:

# The original word used by the European travellers was not Biafra but Biafara, Biafar and sometimes also Biafares.

According to the maps, the European travellers used the word Biafara to describe the entire region east of River Niger going down to the Mount Cameroon region, thus including Cameroon and a large area around Gabon.

Large sailing junks of the Chinese Empire, described by various travellers to the East such as Marco Polo and Niccolò Da Conti, and used during the travels of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century, were contemporaries of such European vessels.

Through the 17th and 18th centuries, European travellers and botanists visiting the Cederberg region in South Africa commented on the profusion of " good plants " for curative purposes.

In European folklore, these lights are held to be either mischievous spirits of the dead, or other supernatural beings or spirits such as fairies, attempting to lead travellers astray.

Early European travellers, including William Moorcroft and George Hayward, started using the term for the range of mountains west of the pass, although they also used the term Muztagh for the range now known as Karakoram.

The sight of elephants executing captives attracted the interest of usually horrified European travellers, and was recorded in numerous contemporary journals and accounts of life in Asia.

The London squat party scene of recent years has seen an influx of European travellers, largely from the East, where there is also a large rave culture, for example events such as Czechtek.

The Black Stone was first described in Western literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries by European travellers in Arabia, who visited the Kaaba in the guise of pilgrims.

From the mid-17th century onwards, there are numerous vivid eyewitness accounts of the production of steel by European travellers to the Indian subcontinent.

Similar to other European travellers of the period, such as Walter Medhurst, Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese merchant during several, but not all, of his journeys beyond the newly established treaty port areas.

By the time of the island's first contact with European travellers in 1824, Kosrae had a highly stratified society, typical of the surrounding islands of the time.

European sportsmen and travellers, in addition to residents of India, traveled there freely.

Montagu's Turkish letters were to prove an inspiration to later generations of European women travellers to the Orient.

19th century European travellers often referred to Samburu as " Burkineji " ( people of the white goats ), and there are many interconnections with other neighboring ethnic groups.

He argued based on craniometric and brain measures taken by him from Europeans and black people from different parts of the world that the then common European belief that negroes have smaller brains and are thus intellectually inferior is scientifically unfounded and based merely on the prejudice of travellers and explorers.

Among other things, he was one of the European travellers to include a story about the origins of the medieval Arabic document, the Achtiname of Muhammad, which claims that the Prophet Muhammad had personally confirmed a grant of protection and other privileges to the monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

Although cultivation has added markedly to the sediment in the river as it flows through the valley, the water was turbid even before the widespread introduction of agriculture, according to early European travellers.

* Connors v. UK, a judgment given by the European Court of Human Rights, declared that travellers who had their licences to live on local authority-owned land suddenly revoked had been discriminated against, in comparison to the treatment of mobile-home owners who did not belong to the traveller population, and thus their Article 14 ( protection from discrimination ) and Article 8 ( right to respect for the home ) rights had been infringed.

Lobengula was aware of the greater firepower of European guns so he mistrusted visitors and discouraged them by maintaining border patrols to monitor all travellers ' movements south of Matabeleland.

According to contemporary accounts by European visitors: Portuguese merchants and diplomats, French, British and other travellers, the Beta Israel numbered about one million persons in the 17th century.

While Mzilikazi was generally friendly to European travellers, he remained mindful of the danger they posed to his kingdom and in later years he refused some visitors any access to his realm.