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The original early 19th-century interior designs, many of which still survive, included widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, on the advice of Sir Charles Long.
The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).
Historically, especially in late 18th-and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background.
Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
Branagh set the film with late 19th-century costuming and furnishings ; and Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes.
Reflecting French society, as well as employing stock character associations, many of the lesbian characters in 19th-century French literature were prostitutes or courtesans: personifications of vice who died early, violent deaths in moral endings.
Most theories see the nation state as a 19th-century European phenomenon, facilitated by developments such as mass literacy and the early mass media.
The mobile puppet booth of the late 18th-and early 19th-century Punch and Judy glove-puppet show was originally covered in checked bed ticking or whatever inexpensive cloth might come to hand.
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
A replica of the Rosetta Stone as it would have appeared to early 19th-century visitors — without a case and free to touch — is now available in the King's Library of the British Museum.
In the early 19th-century, " socialism " referred to any concern for the social problems of capitalism irrespective of the solutions to those problems.
In an early and highly influential article, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, the psychologist George Miller suggested that human short-term memory has a forward memory span of approximately seven items plus or minus two and that that was well known at the time ( it seems to go back to the 19th-century researcher Wundt ).
An early 19th-century historian wrote that the Tuscarora traditionally were said to occupy the " country lying between the sea shores and the mountains, which divide the Atlantic states ," in which they had 24 large towns and could muster 6, 000 warriors, probably meaning persons.
The lyrics are from an early 19th-century English poem, " The Star " by Jane Taylor.
It stems from early telescope observations of Mars by astronomers from the 19th-century who believed they saw straight lines on the planet, the first of them being the Italian Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877.
The noble savage achieved prominence as an oxymoronic rhetorical device after 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for a satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, who wished to disassociate himself from 18th and early 19th-century romantic primitivism.
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.
The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice " cantata da camera " and the " cantata da chiesa " of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century ( including the 200-odd church and secular cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach ) to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio.
In early 19th-century cantatas the chorus is the vehicle for music more lyric and songlike than in oratorio, not excluding the possibility of a brilliant climax in a fugue as in Ludwig van Beethoven's Glorreiche Augenblick, Carl Maria von Weber's Jubel-Kantate, and Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht.
In the early part of the century, secular cantatas once again became prominent, while the 19th-century tradition of sacred cantatas also continued.
In the early 19th-century, the first Caucasian explorers encountered the eastern Shoshone natives.
The naming of the mountains is attributed to early 19th-century French speaking trappers —" les trois tetons " ( the three teats ) was later anglicized and shortened to Tetons.
* Montpelier, Brighton, an early 19th-century suburb of Brighton, England
The Romantic movement that rose to prominence in early 19th-century England was more ambivalent towards his work.

early and editions
* Information and digitized early editions at the Beethoven-Haus Digital Archives
Details from various of Morris's paintings can be seen on the cover art of early editions of Richard Dawkins's books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.
Previous editions had been divided into verses, however, the early versifications generally followed the paragraph structure of the original text.
Among the many transmitted editions of the Tao Te Ching text, the three primary ones are named after early commentaries.
This includes 73, 645 regular Britannica articles, with the remainder drawn from the Britannica Student Encyclopædia, the Britannica Elementary Encyclopædia and the Britannica Book of the Year ( 1993 – 2004 ), plus a few " classic " articles from early editions of the encyclopaedia.
The series of twenty-four embryos from the early editions of Haeckel ’ s Anthropogenie remain the most famous.
The first two editions, like the early editions of D & D, depend heavily on matrix-based mechanics, where two factors ( one representing the actor or attacker, and one representing the opponent ) are cross-referenced on a chart.
Three early editions of the text have survived, making attempts to establish a single " authentic " text problematic.
Donahue Company publishing cheap editions of his early works with advertising that purported that Baum's newer output was inferior to the less expensive books they were releasing.
As a result, in the early 21st century, the term shareware was being used less, replaced by either demo for trial software or freeware for full editions.
Utopias original edition included the symmetrical " Utopian alphabet " that was omitted from later editions ; it is a notable, early attempt at cryptography that might have influenced the development of shorthand.
Although early editions of the work were published with the spelling " Shakspeare ", after Bowdler's death, later editions ( from 1847 ) adopted the spelling " Shakespeare ", reflecting changes in the standard spelling of Shakespeare's name.
While later editions had more-or-less comprehensive installation programs that allowed selection of printers and terminals from a menu, in the very early releases, each of the escape sequences required for the terminal and printer had to be identified in the hardware documentation, then hand-entered into reserved locations in the program memory image.
Linguistically, in developing American English, in the early editions of A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language ( 1806 ), lexicographer Noah Webster suggested the neger new spelling in place of negro.
The first critical editions of the Codex Manesse appeared in the early nineteenth century.
Zwinger was the editor of the early encyclopedia Theatrum Humanae Vitae ( editions 1565, 1571, 1586, 1604 ).
The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).
Jacob began his own research on German legal traditions and the history of the German language, published in the late 1840s and early 1850s, while Wilhelm produced new editions of the Hausmärchen and research in medieval literature.
First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.
* Lead Pipe ( called Lead Piping in earlier UK editions, the early tokens were made out of actual lead and therefore pose a risk of lead poisoning )
He maintained a sociological focus during the early 1970s, co-writing an introductory sociology textbook that went into several editions.
As the portable face of ruling authority, coins were a compact form of standardized knowledge issued in large editions, an early mass medium that stabilized trade and civilization throughout the Mediterranean world of antiquity.

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