One example of the fruitfulness of questioning assumptions comes from questioning the assumption that " China was weak in the 19th century " and pointing out the fact that at the time in which China was supposedly weak, it managed to considerably extend its borders in Central Asia.

One of the leading German universities for many centuries, it fell upon hard times in the early 19th century, and was forced to close in 1816.

One prominent such effort was the collection by Francis James Child in the late 19th century of the texts of over three hundred ballads in the English and Scots traditions ( called the Child Ballads ) most of which predated the sixteenth century.

One of these trees ( the " Old Tree ") lived until the 19th century, and may be seen, as a dry stump, near the assembly house.

One criticism leveled at Gone with the Wind is for its portrayal of African Americans in the 19th century South.

One of Abel's works became famous due to a misattribution: in the 19th century, a manuscript symphony in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was catalogued as his Symphony no.

One of their objectives was to end the slave trade to the Persian Gulf that continued until the end of the 19th century.

One challenge to the traditional concept of matter as tangible " stuff " came with the rise of field physics in the 19th century.

One story traces the Mojito to a similar 19th century drink known as " El Draque ", after Francis Drake.

One of these was Brigadier General Frederick Lance of the 19th Lancers, and his wife, Gladys, returned to Britain with two Salukis from Sarona, where he was stationed during the post-war occupation.

One of the first traverses in the 19th century.

One of the best known is at Haytor, on the eastern part of the moor, whose granite is of unusually fine quality and was quarried from the hillside below the tor during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

One turn of the 19th to 20th century recipe subsequently replaced the lemon juice with lime juice.

One universally reviled trait in medieval Europe was the werewolf's habit of devouring recently buried corpses, a trait that is documented extensively, particularly in the Annales Medico-psychologiques in the 19th century.

One of the reasons is political interference upon the French historical interpretation during the 19th century.

One mid 19th century factory had 1, 948 feet of line shafting with 541 pulleys.

One error and its catastrophic results: Napoleon's invasion of Russia # Retreat | Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, painted by Adolph Northen in the 19th century

One of the forces that drove the spread of the rosary during the 19th century among Roman Catholics was the influence of the Rosary Pope, a title given to Pope Leo XIII ( 1878 – 1903 ) because he issued a record twelve encyclicals and five Apostolic Letters on the rosary, instituted the Catholic custom of daily rosary prayer during the month of October and, in 1883, added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto.

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

A 20th Century International One Design | IOD sloop and a 19th Century Bermuda | Bermudian working sloop.

Two examples of Bermuda rig, an International One Design | IOD sloop and a 19th Century Bermudian working boat in Bermuda.

One theory of the advent of the unicycle stems from the popularity of the penny-farthing ( or " Ordinary ") during the late 19th century.

One of the first epidemiological investigations was that of Snow in 19th century London, who traced the spread of cholera to contaminated water supplies.

One of the most influential revolutionary groups was the Carbonari ( coalmongers ), a secret organization formed in southern Italy early in the 19th century.

One of the earliest companies in California, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, established a major shipyard in Benicia in the 19th century.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

One is led to speculate as to why the empty space was there, left for our century to finish.

One boy said querulously about Orthodox Jews: `` It's the twentieth century, and they don't have to wear beards ''.

One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

One example of archaeological evidence of the Roman abacus, shown here in reconstruction, dates to the 1st century AD.

One of the numerous cuneiform records dated circa 20th century BC, found in Anatolia at the Assyrian colony of Kanesh uses an advanced system of trading computations and credit lines.

One particularly fine example was included as part of the Thetford treasure from fourth century Norfolk, UK.

One century later, their use of the symbols which became 2, 7 and 9 was recorded, but Brahmi numerals lacked a symbol for 0.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

One of the earliest 20th century practitioners of this method was The Mills Brothers whose early recordings of the 1930s clearly stated on the label that all instrumentation was done vocally.

One scholar places the migration аs late as the 13th or 14th century.

One of the largest constellations, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

One of these was Musikalisches Würfelspiel ( Musical dice game ; 18th century ), a system which used throws of the dice to randomly select measures from a large collection of small phrases.

One of the most attractive old streets is Smith Street and is the earliest street in Dartmouth to be recorded by name ( in the 13th century ).

One of the largest diasporas of modern times is the African Diaspora, which began at the beginning of the 16th century.

In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school ( third century onwards ), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but ( in most neoplatonic systems ) is still not itself " the One ".

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

One of the oldest derivatives is rice futures, which have been traded on the Dojima Rice Exchange since the eighteenth century.

One of the earliest encyclopedic works to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD.

One of the foremost experts on electricity in the 18th century was Benjamin Franklin, who argued in favour of a one-fluid theory of electricity.

One strong theme amongst folk scholars in the early decades of the 20th century was regionalism.