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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nineteenth-century Downeast mariners pronounced the compass point " north northeast " as " no ' nuth-east ," and so on.
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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.
* From Napoleon to the Second International: Essays on Nineteenth-century Europe.
Nineteenth-century New York slaves shingle danced for spare change on their days off, and musicians played what they claimed to be " Negro music " on so-called black instruments like the banjo.
Nineteenth-century scholars saw the unification as a result of a series of wars based on evidence from the Norse sagas.
Nineteenth-century logging was traditionally a winter activity for men who spent summers working on farms.
Nineteenth-century cabins used as dwellings were occasionally plastered on the interior.
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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.
Auction houses still usually divide their sales between, for example: " Old Master Paintings ", " Nineteenth-century paintings " and " Modern paintings ".
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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 folklorists often used the term " white witch " to refer to cunning folk, although this was infrequently used amongst the ordinary people themselves, as for them the term " witch " had general connotations of malevolence and evil.
He had the journals republished with his commentary in Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite.
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Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.
Nineteenth-century accounts portrayed him as the mastermind and leader of the revolt, while some subsequent interpretations have depicted him as a local leader with limited overall influence.
Nineteenth-century musicologist François-Joseph Fétis claimed to have seen a sixteenth-century copy of a Tractatus de musica mensurata et de proportionibus by Dufay, last seen in a bookshop in London in 1824.
Nineteenth-century boat-building practices in the Highlands are likely to have applied also to the birlinn: examples are the use of dried moss, steeped in tar, for caulking, and the use of stocks in construction.
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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 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 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 English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).
: 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 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.
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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.
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It was situated in an area near to several other villas, and was close to Watling Street, a Roman road by which travellers could move to and from Londinium to Durobrivae, Durovernum Cantiacorum, and the major Roman port of Rutupiæ ( i. e., London, Rochester, Canterbury, and Richborough, respectively ).
For many, Bermudian independence would mean little other than the obligation to staff foreign missions and embassies around the world, which would be a heavy obligation for Bermuda's small population, and the loss of British passports ( which could severely restrict travel, as few enough countries have even heard of little Bermuda, and could regard travellers with suspicion ).
Conceivably, travellers in Arabia could have derived the tale of the unicorn from these animals.
By having fresh horses and riders ready at each relay, royal couriers could carry messages the entire distance in nine days, though normal travellers took about three months.
Here travellers could continue on the King's Highway as far as the Euphrates River or proceed northward into Anatolia.
In these inns, travellers could stable their horses, place their carts or goods in safe storage and secure board and lodgings for themselves overnight.
In between the cities that it linked, the Via Domitia was provided with a series of mansiones at distances of a day's journey for a loaded cart, at which shelter, provender and fresh horses could be obtained for travellers on official business.
Since Uckfield was part of the Archbishop's extensive Manor of South Malling, some of these travellers could have been bound for Canterbury for business or other ( e. g. religious ) reasons, though others had destinations elsewhere along the route.
To satisfy this demand a large number of inns were situated along the Uxbridge Road, where horses could be changed and travellers refresh themselves, prompting its favour by highwaymen.
Waterloo was a place where travellers and carriers of goods ( mainly coal ) could rest and escape the bandits at night.
A 5th-century historian noted that the western sections of the Via Egnatia were in such a poor state that travellers could barely pass along it.
He planned the town as a resort from 1877 and it expanded rapidly, but along with many other UK resorts, especially those on the cold North Sea, it lost out to the cheap package holiday boom which opened up Spain ( in particular ) to the average holidaymaker after World War II currency restrictions were lifted and travellers could leave the UK with more than 50 pounds.
CF aircraft also transported Canada Customs and Revenue Agency officials to those locations so stranded travellers could clear Customs and enter Canada — many of them to accept the hospitality of the communities in which they found themselves.
Most of the time, the pranks were harmless fun, but some could be upsetting and harmful, such as switching babies or leading travellers astray in places with which they were not familiar.
Such writers cited Montagu's assertion that women travellers could gain an intimate view of Turkish life that was not available to their male counterparts.
In the colonial days travellers from Newcastle to Maitland could travel to Hexham by boat and then disembark to travel by road to Maitland via Upper Hexham ( Tarro ), Four Mile Creek and Green Hills, the road being more direct than the river which had many bends after Raymond Terrace.
In the forests of Bryansk he then killed the forest-dwelling monster Nightingale the Robber ( Solovei-Razboinik ), who could murder travellers with his powerful whistle.
In some countries, travellers could book trips through participating domestic travel agents, which would then coordinate with the Reisebüro to make reservations.
Dating from 1869, it was the last place travellers could legally buy liquor before moving into Indian territory, where alcohol was banned.
It is likely that more overland travellers take this river route than go by truck, and therefore the spread of AIDS could take this route.
Buses could be then caught at Malin Bridge for travellers continuing to Bradfield and Stannington, at that time Malin Bridge was a busy shopping area and increasing traffic meant that the original narrow bridge over the Loxley to Stannington was replaced by a wider and stronger structure.
From Yarkant another important route headed southwest via Tashkurgan Town to the Wakhan corridor from where travellers could cross the relatively easy Baroghil Pass and Badakshan.
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