They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

Botany was a passion for most Victorians and nature study was a popular enthusiasm.

Complaints from Victorians about recently released convicts from Van Diemen's Land re-offending in Victoria was one of the contributing reasons for the eventual abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.

His book, The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age, published in 2009, was accompanied by a BBC documentary series.

The town largely grew in importance in the late 18th century when it was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire, with a second resurgence a century later as the Victorians were drawn to the reputed healing properties of the waters.

The later Victorians built the Welsh Castell Coch in the 1880s as a fantasy Gothic construction and the last such replica, Castle Drogo, was built as late as 1911.

Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians became fashionable during the 19th century.

" It was also used by the Victorians for narrative poetry, e. g. Samuel Woodworth's " The Old Oaken Bucket " beginning " How dear to / my heart are / the scenes of / my childhood.

Many prominent Victorians were involved in La Trobe's establishment process, and there was a strong belief that it was important to increase research and learning in Victoria.

It is Hampden whose statue rather than that of Eliot or Pym that was selected by the Victorians as a symbol to take its place at the entrance to the Central Lobby in Palace of Westminster as the noblest type of the parliamentary opposition, sword at his side, ready to defend Parliament's rights and privileges by any means necessary.

Strachey developed the idea for Eminent Victorians in 1912, when he was living on occasional journalism and writing dilettante plays and verse for his Bloomsbury friends.

The American critic Edmund Wilson wrote in the New Republic of 21 September, 1932, not long after Strachey's death " Lytton Strachey's chief mission, of course, was to take down once and for all the pretensions of the Victorian age to moral superiority ... neither the Americans nor the English have ever, since Eminent Victorians appeared, been able to feel quite the same about the legends that had dominated their pasts.

In a similar manner, Victorians often added " incidental music " under the dialogue to a pre-existing play, although this style of composition was already practiced in the days of Ludwig van Beethoven ( Egmont ) and Franz Schubert ( Rosamunde ).

In the early years of the Archibald Prize, the winner was dominated by Victorians, such as William Beckwith McInnes, John Longstaff, and William Dargie, which was somewhat resented by the art community in Sydney.

The Victorians favoured it as a watering place, and it was a popular seaside destination in the 20th century.

The play was also condemned by the Victorians for its explicit sexual references ( though the sex, while explicitly and importantly present, is portrayed satirically and highly negatively ).

The parish church at the crossroads of Old Beaconsfield is dedicated to St Mary, it was rebuilt of flint and bath stone by the Victorians in 1869.

Melbourne's mood was also darkened by the terrible sacrifices of World War I, in which 112, 000 Victorians enlisted and 16, 000 were killed.

There was concern amongst the Victorians that aristocratic surnames were becoming extinct.

This fabrication was popular with the Victorians, and has come down to the present day as being the legend.

In his answer thereto, he advised the Board that he had made no such statement in 1956, and asserted that his only claim to `` pioneering '' was in 1952.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Since P was never asserted as the only sufficient condition for Q, other factors could account for Q ( while P was false ).

The English doctrine, which was at one time adopted in the United States, asserted that allegiance was indelible: " Nemo potest exuere patriam ".

He also asserted the principle, that the trial was to be held, and the punishment inflicted, in the place where the crime had been committed.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

In 1896, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria-Hungary, published Der Judenstaat (" The Jewish State "), in which he asserted that the only solution to the " Jewish Question " in Europe, including growing antisemitism, was through the establishment of a Jewish State.

The reforms he tried to promote found opposition from several parties, including his own, and he asserted several times the country was " ungovernable ".

Love claimed she was misquoted, and asserted that she immediately quit using the drug during her first trimester after she discovered she was pregnant.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

His conception of First Cause was the idea that the Universe must have been caused by something that was itself uncaused, which he asserted was God.

As the dominion leaders asserted themselves more and more at the meetings, it became clear that the time for ' imperial ' conferences was over.

An instrument of more significance, the stereoscope, which – though of much later date ( 1849 ) – along with the kaleidoscope did more than anything else to popularize his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster.

British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.

But the emergence of the term " folk " coincided with an " outburst of national feeling all over Europe " that was particularly strong at the edges of Europe, where national identity was most asserted.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

It was left out of him at birth.

When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

The female from Central America which gave birth to four was only 3 feet 11 inches long.

The result, dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family's disrupted daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had not been anticipated.

The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

Human birth was no novelty to Mr. Robards.

The birth of Algerian cinema goes back to independence in 1962, which was the main subject of different movie productions of that time.

When Zeus ' wife Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on " terra firma ".

She gave birth there and was accepted by the people, offering them her promise that her son would be always favourable toward the city.

Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.

Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.

Natural allegiance was acquired by birth within the Sovereign's dominions ( except for the issue of diplomats or of invading forces or of an alien in enemy occupied territory ).

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.

In the most famous version of her myth, her birth was the consequence of a castration: Cronus severed Uranus ' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea.

Rebirth would be in form of animals or other lower creatures if one performed bad Karmas and in human form in a good family with joyous lifetime if the person was good in last birth.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.