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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  • 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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  • *[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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  • 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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  • **[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/ 18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant] ===General Philosophy Sources=== ...
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  • or threat continued into the nineteenth century. Stalemate with their European ... Polish Diplomatic Relations (15th-18th Century): An Annotated Edition ...
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  • old sanctuary of the Dalai Lama built a century earlier.Rawski, 253. Hence ... Since the seventeenth century, during the late Chinese Ming Dynasty ...
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  • Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century.]] ... Western writers of the nineteenth century, such as Goethe. His work ...
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  • etching of an Indian man playing a sitar, 18th century]] A distinctive feature of the sitar are the curved frets, which are movable (allowing ...
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  • |caption=Sir Henry Morgan, in a popular woodcut, 18th century ... Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (Hamden, Conn: Archon Books ...
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  • philosophy in America for half a century. ==Life and works== ... 18th/ Scottish Philosophy in the 18th century, Stanford Encyclopedia ...
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  • |developed=Early 19th century |range=[[Image:Range trumpet.png|140px ... or flank. In early 18th century Germany, a ducal hunt leader known ...
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  • Egyptian history between the sixteenth century B.C.E. and the eleventh ... Under his reign, in the fourteenth century B.C.E., Egyptian art flourished ...
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  • world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is an indication of serious ... of groups of armed youths. Seventeenth-century England was terrorized by ...
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  • Scotia in 1820. In the early twenty-first century the "Province of Cape ... eastern part at Ste-Anne in the early 18th century, before relocating to ...
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  • in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Landsknecht soldiers haunted ... out and he wanted to revive it. In the 18th century, Amish started to settle ...
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  • from Damascus in the South. In the third century C.E., Aleppo was the greatest ... on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the 18th Century. Columbia University Press ...
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  • By the late nineteenth century, Spain was left with only a few scattered ... | district_ord= 18th | before=Addison S. McClure | after= Jonathan ...
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  • reliefs and paintings from Armenian Highlands (7th century BC ... bands and orchestras by the mid 18th century. Since the 19th century ...
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  • *Kivy, Peter. The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth ... 18th/ Scottish philosophy in the 18th Century]. Stanford Encyclopedia ...
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  • Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2. (HarperCollins ... Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2. HarperCollins ...
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  • and seventh centuries. In the twenty first century they remain--though sparsely ... built along caravan routes in the eleventh century C.E. across the Sahara. ...
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  • Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century (London, U.K.: Penguin Books ... Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century. London, U.K.: Penguin Books ...
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  • A windwheel operating an organ is described as early as the first ... Image:Nesebar-windmill-lazarov.JPG|The middle-18th-century windmill ...
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  • the Hun, for example, failed in his fifth century attempt to seize the town ... citadel built by Vauban in the seventeenth century. By the end of the nineteenth ...
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  • by King François I in the sixteenth century, later rebuilt by Sully ... of cities, and major series of the 18th century Italian, German and English ...
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  • Sulaiman Mountains]] since the fourteenth century. By the end of the sixteenth ... by Ahmad Shah fell to others in this half century. By 1818, the Sadozai rulers ...
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  • of Madagascar, the sailors of the 18th century referred to them as sea ... to make goods out of leather. In the 18th century, they were almost hunted ...
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  • Tibet along with Buddhism in the ninth century and was gradually modified ... Image:18th century Eastern Tibeten Thanka, with the Green Tara (Samaya ...
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  • prophet, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen.]] ... he was active around the turn of the sixth century B.C.E., where he offered ...
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  • Federation 14 July 1790 French School 18th century.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Gilbert ... Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France. Harvard University ...
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  • | Session = 18th | Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/700 ... from ground level. Thus, in the twentieth century when airplanes began flying ...
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  • prominent French scholar of the eighteenth century. His first chemical publication ... achieved in physics and mathematics during 18th century. ...
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  • very little since the late eighteenth century, but the storyteller’s ... has changed very little since the late 18th century Kimie Oshima. ...
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