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• Accessible Archives
  ...ipedia.org/wiki/United_states American] newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several important African American newspapers are included. Incl
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• Grammar
  ...contrasted with the grammatical [[analysis]] that began in the nineteenth century but came to fruition in the twentieth, which depends on [[linguistic]] [[re
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• Facticity
  ...eltung). It is a term that takes on a more specialized [[meaning]] in 20th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy continental philosoph
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• Mongrel
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] ...een used since the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century nineteenth century] to refer to interracial [[marriage]] and interracial [[sex]], and more gen
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• Bibliography of American Literature
  ...the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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• Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker
  ...ets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Sh
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• Barricades
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century late 16th Century] ...ained an exclusively French [[practice]] for two centuries, the nineteenth century remained the classic era of the barricade. Contrary to a number of historic
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• Pragmatism
  ...dia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_maxim pragmatic maxim]. Through the early twentieth-century it was developed further in the works of William James, [https://en.wikiped ...g/wiki/Richard_Rorty Richard Rorty], the most influential of the late 20th-century pragmatists.
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• Zoology
  ...en the greatest comparative anatomist of the second half of the nineteenth century. His courses were composed of lectures and laboratory practical classes; an ...mented by other much-needed methods. The field of zoology in the twentieth century mainly comprised these approaches:
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• Flâneur
  ...ed man, strolling leisurely through the Parisian arcades of the nineteenth century--a shopper with no intention to buy, an [[intellectual]] parasite of the ar
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• Modern Philosophy
  ...history of philosophy beginning from Descartes through the early twentieth century ending in Ludwig Wittgenstein. ...t sparked a storm of philosophical work in Germany in the early nineteenth century, beginning with [[German idealism]]. The characteristic theme of idealism w
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• Geometry
  ...f practical knowledge concerning lengths, areas, and volumes, in the third century BC geometry was put into an axiomatic form by [[Euclid]], whose treatment s ...This played a key role in the emergence of [[calculus]] in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, the theory of perspective showed that there is more to geomet
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• Decadence
  ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_movement Decadent movement]—late nineteenth century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_si%C3%A8cle fin de siècle] [[writers
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• Absolutism
  ...e [[influenced]] by [[the Enlightenment]] (eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe)
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• Mana
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] ...E2.80.931930s:_Darwin_and_his_legacy Social evolutionary theorists] of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worried over the defining characteristics of
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• Leisure
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom Britain] in the late nineteenth century, late in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industria
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• Mime
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbshow dumbshows] evolved. In early nineteenth century Paris, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Gaspard_Deburau Jean-Gaspard Deb
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• University
  ...ult of manifold [[change]]s occurring in the second half of the nineteenth century. Demographic and urban growth, industrialization, democracy, and religious ...and encourage [[religious]] [[belief]]. Until approximately the nineteenth century, most graduates of universities entered clerical careers, and most academic
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• Intellectual
  ===Nineteenth-century English usage=== ...tellectual", which first came into common use at the end of the nineteenth century, when it was used as a term for the defenders of [[Dreyfus]], see below. T
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• Occident
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War Cold War] in the mid to late 20th Century. In the contemporary political and cultural context, the Western World gene ...empires, and particularly the globe-spanning empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery Age of
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• Vindication
  ...end women’s [[oppression]]. Many of the [[ideological]] roots of twentieth-century liberal feminism trace back to Wollstonecraft. ...subsequent foreign interventions by the United States during the twentieth century. The vindicationist approach to foreign policy reached a peak with the wars
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• Genetics
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Gregor Mendel] in the mid-nineteenth century.[6] Although he did not know the physical basis for [https://en.wikipedia.o
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• 195:8 Secular Totalitarianism
  ...ing [[influence]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth-century] [[secularism]] will still blight the spiritual [[experience]] of millions ...e]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism nineteenth- and twentieth-century so-called science]—atheistic science. The mother of [https://en.wikipedia
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• Electricity
  ...be until the late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century nineteenth century] that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use. The
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• Epic
  ...theme. The term, which means 'little epic', came in use in the nineteenth century. It refers primarily to the type of erotic and mythological long elegy of w
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• Public domain
  The term ''public domain'' did not come into use until the mid-17th century, although as a [[concept]] "it can be traced back to the [https://en.wikipe ...aw. The phrase "fall in the public domain" can be traced to mid-nineteenth century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet [https://en.w
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• The Enlightenment
  ...in Western [[philosophy]] and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which [[reason]] was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for ...ication), signifying generally the philosophical outlook of the eighteenth century. However, the German term Aufklärung was not merely applied retrospectivel
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• Vault
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...rray of alarms and anti-theft devices. Some nineteenth and early twentieth century vaults were built so well that today they are almost impossible to destroy.
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• Shepherd
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] .../wiki/Common_land common lands] in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth century moved shepherding from independent [[nomads]] to employees of massive estat
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• Great Awakening
  ...ious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century. Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals ...the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially str
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• Children
  ...imes, children were regarded as not culpable for crimes. In the nineteenth century, children younger than seven years old were believed incapable of crime. Ch
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• Catastrophism
  Until the 19th century the dominant scientific [[beliefs]] in Europe were founded on the [[Bible|b The leading scientific proponent of catastrophism in the early nineteenth century was the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. His motivation
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• 121:1 The Occident of the First Century After Christ
  ...and trade until the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century nineteenth century] after [[Christ]].
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• 2012-07-05-What is Faith
  ...all possibilities. When electricity was discovered in the late nineteenth century, many of the men of science of that time believed that electricity would no
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• Dinosaurs
  ...drous" + σαῦρος (sauros) "lizard". Through the first half of the twentieth century, most of the [[scientific]] [[community]] mistakenly believed dinosaurs to Since the first dinosaur [[fossils]] were recognized in the early nineteenth century, mounted dinosaur skeletons have been major [[attractions]] at museums arou
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• Pantheistic
  ...that flourished in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century nineteenth-century] England and America were generally [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism m ...America "alive and well, growing daily, and probably a strong suit for the century to come"
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 5
  ...ly for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the c Perhaps man realizes himself in his forced labour? In the nineteenth century the concept of work retained a vestige of the notion of creativity. Zola de
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• United States
  ...d legalized [[slavery]] in the United States. By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy was the
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ...d new social, economic, scientific, ethical, and logical problems, '''20th-century philosophy''' was set for a series of attempts variously to reform, preserv ...philosophy, both of which had foundations in place at the beginning of the century. Advances in relativity, quantum, and nuclear physics, [[generative scienc
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• Lament
  # Linda M. Austin, "The Lament and the Rhetoric of the Sublime" Nineteenth-Century Literature 53.3 (December 1998:279-306) traces the literary rhetoric evokin # Ellen Rosand, 2007. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice (University of California Press), "The lament aria: variations on a
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• Mariposa Grove
  ...s and early automobiles to drive through, cut through it in the nineteenth century. Weakened by this large opening at its base, the tree fell down in 1969. ...de of land for preservation, something that was unheard of in the mid-19th century.
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• Probability
  According to Richard Jeffrey, "Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term 'probable' (Latin probabilis) meant approvable, and was applied i ...e from some elementary considerations made by Girolamo Cardano in the 16th century, the doctrine of probabilities dates to the correspondence of Pierre de Fer
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• Philistine
  ...esses III]]'s reign written in the reign of [[Ramesses IV]]. [[Nineteenth-century]] [[Bible]] scholars identified the land of the Philistines (''Philistia'') ...d to [[Egypt]] up to the closing days of the [[Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]] (ended [[1180s BC|1185 BC]]). The [[Bible|biblical]] stories of
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...gical evolutionary ideas began to appear towards the end of the eighteenth century. A prominent exponent in England was the physician and naturalist Erasmus D ...ovidence, where all depends on God's grace. Although by the mid nineteenth century religious worries were still much in evidence, Charles Darwin met this chal
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• Maelstrom
  ...strom date from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century nineteenth century]. The first is the Edgar Allan Poe story "A Descent into the Maelström" (1
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• 83:7 Dissolution of Wedlock
  ...the man alone, and these [[standards]] have [[persisted]] to the twentieth century among some peoples. ...s]] have always far [[transcended]] actual marriage [[morals]], and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occiden
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• Synchronization
  ..., synchronization was not important in transportation until the nineteenth century, when the coming of the railways made travel fast enough for the [[differen
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• Sincerity
  ...brated as an artistic and social ideal. Indeed, in mid- to late-nineteenth century America, sincerity was an [[idea]] reflected in [[manner]]isms, hairstyles,
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• Richard Maurice Bucke
  ...s an important Canadian [[psychiatry|psychiatrist]] in the late nineteenth century. An adventurer in his youth, he went on to study [[medicine]], practice ps ...''Victorian Lunacy : Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry'', 1986, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-30999-9
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• Natural Sciences
  Prior to the 17th century, the objective study of nature was known as [[natural philosophy]]. Over th ...owever the word did not enter general use until nearly the end of the same century.
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