Search results for "Eighteenth century" - New World Encyclopedia
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- common people of the lower classes in late eighteenth-century France. The name sans-culottes refers to their clothing, and through that to their lower ...1 KB (152 words) - 22:27, 30 July 2022
- century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. }} ...665 bytes (92 words) - 19:47, 9 April 2024
- is now southern Benin. Founded in the seventeenth century, Dahomey reached the height of its power and prestige during the heyday of the Atlantic slave ...694 bytes (103 words) - 17:37, 27 December 2022
- Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-nineteenth century. The form was extremely ...740 bytes (117 words) - 20:08, 14 August 2021
- movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience ...893 bytes (129 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2022
- that originated in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. Founded by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (1698–1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem ...928 bytes (131 words) - 16:47, 20 March 2022
- Sheyenne river in North Dakota in the eighteenth century. Continuous assaults from both foreign and indigenous tribes forced them out onto the Plains ...871 bytes (137 words) - 22:45, 30 September 2021
- the peak of its military power in the late eighteenth century under de-facto rulers Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan. }} ...793 bytes (125 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2023
- century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. dramatic changes occurring in sixteenth-century European society where realism ...2 KB (258 words) - 19:37, 9 April 2024
- # An eighteenth-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. ===Synonyms=== * trade; traffic; dealings; ...1 KB (142 words) - 14:40, 27 June 2023
- urban, educated cultural elite in the late eighteenth century, and during the nineteenth century it gradually diffused to the wider culture. Remnants ...2 KB (241 words) - 23:18, 29 September 2021
- Since the middle of the twentieth century, the term science is normally used to indicate the natural sciences (e.g., chemistry), the social sciences ...2 KB (208 words) - 22:45, 25 June 2023
- upon as important instruments in eighteenth century orchestration or chamber ... practice and flute technique in the eighteenth century, only a third of the ...4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 1 August 2022
- seventeenth-century still lifes. The eighteenth-century French aristocracy ... ===Eighteenth century=== The French aristocracy of the eighteenth century ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- the English novel, a time during the eighteenth century when English-language ... remains a rather popular work of eighteenth-century non-fiction. Smollett ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major eighteenth century writer, primarily known for his three monumental novels Pamela ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- (to drink). Samuel Johnson in his famous eighteenth-century A Dictionary of the English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he ...2 KB (311 words) - 22:32, 29 December 2023
- is most provocative. In the late eighteenth century, the term serenade ... The most famous examples of the serenade from the eighteenth century ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- the most versatile English writers of the eighteenth century. Goldsmith wrote poetry, plays, essays, fiction, journalism, histories, biographies, and more. ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- statues in 1190 C.E. During the eighteenth century, the Kandyan Kings ... on the cave ceiling dating from the eighteenth century depict scenes from ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
