Search results for "18th century" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • in Singapore began in the early nineteenth century, when the British East India ... 13, at around 1400 hours. The Japanese 18th Division started to attack ...
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  • became the model of monasticism for over a century and transformed the role ... His Roman Catholic feast day and mass is celebrated on November 18th ...
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  • #039;s works in the first half of the 18th century. Still, the instrument ... only from the second quarter of the 18th century that the recorder begins ...
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  • The Flemish instrument received further development in 18th century ... only achieved great distinction in the 18th century with the work of two immigrant ...
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  • Palladio's concepts include the 18th century Venetian architect Giacomo ... that Palladio's followers in the 18th century adapted to become an integral ...
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  • was proposed by Carolus Linnaeus in the mid-18th century. However, this classification had obvious difficulties, including the problem of placing ...
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  • volcano in central Mexico in the sixteenth century by members of the Franciscan ... by missionaries in the sixteenth century. First Franciscans, then ...
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  • UNESCO listed the bay as a World's Natural Heritage at the 18th ... In the late nineteenth century, French named the cave Grotte des Merveilles ...
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  • Tuthmosis I) was the third Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. He was given ... had been interred along with those of other 18th and 19th dynasty leaders Ahmose ...
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  • would not be rediscovered until the 16th-century, when his surviving works ... Anacreonteia, it was preserved in a tenth-century C.E. manuscript which also ...
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  • was melded from the finest elements of 18th century art. Maternal love, inspired ... profound social unrest and turmoil in 18th century Europe in order to pursue ...
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  • likely written during the fifth century, contained authoritative ... Johannes Goropius Becanus in the sixteenth century and Athanasius Kircher in ...
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  • Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement that evolved from ... street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with ...
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  • of the royal family between the 17th and 18th dynasties. The historian Manetho ... Ahmose would have conquered Avaris by the 18th or 19th year of his ...
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  • odes and occasional poetry written during the 18th century. His contributions to Russian society were truly incomparable. == From peasant to scholar == ...
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  • wildly popular literary celebrities of the 18th-century—his lyrics were widely translated into virtually every major European language—and his influence ...
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  • *[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-18th-german/ 18th Century German Aesthetics], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. *[http://www ...
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  • movements of the early twentieth century found most of their support ... By the turn of the century, Mary Hunt’s efforts along with Elizabeth ...
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  • influential secular poets of fifteenth-century European literature. Villon ... France towards the end of the fifteenth century would take particular inspiration ...
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  • Du Bartas who was popular with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, ... She won critical acceptance in the twentieth century as a writer of ...
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