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• 19th Century British Pamphlets
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• JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets
  ...n/showJournals?browseType=collectionInfoPage&selectCollection=britpam 19th Century British Pamphlets]''''' ...ces with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.
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• JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets
  ...n/showJournals?browseType=collectionInfoPage&selectCollection=britpam 19th Century British Pamphlets]''''' ...ces with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.
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• Textbook
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Primer New England Primer] and the 19th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuffey_Readers McGuffey Readers].[https://
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• Wenslo
  ...eachers at the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] "when a small staff came to do service bringing about [[the book]]". He se
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• Silhouette
  ...aiture portrait-making] until the 19th century. In the 18th and early 19th century, “profiles” or “shades” as they were called were made by one of 3 [ ...adition]] of cutting portraits from black card has continued into the 21st century.
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• Opera
  ..."reform" operas in the 1760s. Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart Mozart], wh ...n central and eastern Europe, particularly in Russia and Bohemia. The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Ethnic
  ...ic" and related forms from the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethniko ...es]] the notion of "a people" or "a nation". The term ethnicity is of 20th century coinage, attested from the 1950s. The term nationality depending on [[conte
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• Patriotism
  During the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Century 18th century] [[Age of Enlightenment]], the notion of patriotism continued to be separat ...9th_Century 19th century] [[ideas]] about [[nationalism]]. During the 19th century, "being patriotic" became increasingly conflated with [[nationalism]] and e
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• Accessible Archives
  ...neteenth centuries. Collection of primary source material from 18th & 19th century sources. Contains the full text of important [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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• Glamor
  ...witch to make somebody see things in a [[different]] way. Late in the 19th century the common [[meaning]] shifted to being applied to ordinary objects and jew ...attractive]]. In the late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century] [[terminology]] a non magical item used to help create a more [[attractive
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• Wright American Fiction
  Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction,
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• British History Online
  ...h_century 11th century] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century]
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• Raymond Guess
  .../ University of Cambridge], is one of the finest scholars of 19th and 20th century [[German philosophy]]. To date he has published four books, of which one is
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• Making of America
  19th Century
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• Challenge
  *1. An accusation, charge, reproach, objection. 14th century ...ng to account; esp. the act of a sentry in demanding the countersign. 14th century
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• Manipulation
  *Date: 1834 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century]
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• Oxford Companion to the Photograph
  ...s and on others who have influenced photographic [[culture]] from the 19th century to the present. The Companion is stunningly illustrated, with many pictures
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• Itinerary
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...ub-genre, invented in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century], is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_book guide book].[https://en.
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• Duel
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...l United States] until it fell out of favor in Eastern America in the 18th century. It was retained however in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Old
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• Churning
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...idulated acidulated] or bacteriologically soured cream. Well into the 19th century butter was still made from cream that had been allowed to stand and sour na
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• Fountain
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...ng to the residents of [[cities]], towns and villages. Until the late 19th century most fountains operated by [[gravity]], and needed a source of water higher
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• Obsession
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 17th Century] In 19th century psychiatry, '''monomania''' (from Greek monos, one, and mania, mania) is a
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• Supplement
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...er supplements became common in France and Germany in the mid to late 19th century--they were called feuillton in French. In Chinese, they are called [https:/
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• Dynasty
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanovs Romanovs]. Until the 19th century, it was taken for granted that a legitimate [[function]] of a monarch was t
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• Illustration
  ...n China and Japan since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Century 8th century], [[tradition]]ally by creating woodcuts to accompany [[writing]]. ==15th century through 18th century==
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• German Philosophy
  In the 18th century, [[Immanuel Kant]] published his [[Critique of Pure Reason]], in which he a ...t influences in all of western philosophy. In the late 18th and early 19th century, one direct line of influence from Kant is [[German Idealism]].
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• Karl Barth
  ...h is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. His influence expanded well beyond the [[academic]] realm to [[mainstream ...ected his training in the predominant [[liberal theology]] typical of 19th-century European Protestantism, as well as more conservative forms of Christianity.
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• Etymology
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...-system appropriated them. This [[strategy]] gained popularity in the 20th century, and philosophers, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida J
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• Fuel
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...d from coal, as the [[forests]] started to become depleted around the 18th century. Charcoal briquettes are now commonly used as a fuel for barbecue cooking.[
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• Panorama
  In the mid-19th century, panoramic [[paintings]] and models became a very popular way to represent ...n image over almost 180 degrees. Digital photography of the late twentieth century greatly simplified this assembly [[process]], which is now known as image s
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• Cynical
  ...t of [[virtue]] in a [[simple]] and unmaterialistic lifestyle. By the 19th century, [[emphasis]] on the [[negative]] aspects of Cynic philosophy led to the [[ ...s]] on this aspect of their teachings led, in the late 18th and early 19th century, to the modern understanding of cynicism as "an [[attitude]] of [[scorn]]fu
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• Folk
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century] ...se "people", and was [[considered]] inelegant by the beginning of the 19th century. It re-entered [[academic]] [[English]] through the [[invention]] of the wo
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• Entente
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century]
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• Free-thinking
  *1: unorthodox [[attitudes]] or [[beliefs]]; specifically : 18th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism deism] A line from "Clifford's Credo" by the 19th Century British mathematician and philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia
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• Second wind
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century Early 19th Century]
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• Commute
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] Before the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century], most workers lived less than an hour's walk from their [[work]]. Today, m
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• Circus
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...ting around the ring for the [[public]] and since the late 19th early 20th century the [[performance]] has taken place under canvas and more recently plastic
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• Mantle
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...pe. For example, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolman dolman], a 19th century cape-like garment with partial sleeves is often described as a mantle.
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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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• Progressivism
  ...Industrialization industrialization] in the Western world in the late 19th century, particularly out of the view that progress was being stifled by vast econo ...ds [[imperialism]] were initially divided amongst progressives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in the [[United States]] where some
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• Zion
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...nly be used if the preceding vowel is short, and hence use of Zion in 19th century German [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_criticism Biblical criticism
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• Classical mechanics
  ...rs. Much of the content of classical mechanics was created in the 18th and 19th centuries and extends considerably beyond (particularly in its use of analy
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• Transportation
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...facturing being located independent of [[natural]] [[resources]]. The 19th century also saw the development of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_ship s
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• Masochism
  ...ple both real and [[fictional]]. Masochism comes from the name of the 19th century German novelist, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch#M
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• Cartoon
  ...umorous]] illustrations in magazines and newspapers, and in the early 20th century and onward it referred to comic strips and [[animated]] [[films]].
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• Celestial
  ...d in the American Old West, British Columbia, and in Australia in the 19th century, derived from their status as subjects of the Son of Heaven (the Chinese Em
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• Ghetto
  ...blacks in the early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth century]. Most of these remained in their established immigrant communities, but by
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• Serfdom
  ...few [[isolated]] cases, serfdom had ceased to exist in France by the 15th century. In Early Modern France, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_nobility Fre ...me. In Eastern Europe the [[institution]] [[persisted]] until the mid-19th century. It persisted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary Austria-Hun
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• Climate
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...Since direct [[observations]] of climate are not available before the 19th century, paleoclimates are inferred from proxy variables that include non-biotic [[
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• Fossil
  ...ki/Radiometric_dating radiometric dating] [[techniques]] in the early 20th century allowed geologists to determine the numerical or "absolute" age of the vari
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• Moratorium
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century]
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• Parapsychology
  ...g demonstrated conclusive [[evidence]] of psychic abilities in more than a century of [[research]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology] ...were later founded in the U.S. and in many European countries. In the 20th century research into parapsychology was also conducted at some [[universities]], n
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• Exoticism
  Late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 16th century] ...sign, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations from the late 19th-century. First stimulated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism Eastern tra
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• Fetish
  In the 19th-20th century, Tylor and McLennan held that the [[concept]] of fetishism allowed [[histor * In the 19th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Karl Marx] appropriated the term t
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• Exclusion
  ...ools] (private schools), and was used in the United States during the 19th century, though it has been superseded by the term "suspension".[https://en.wikiped
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• Viking
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widsith Widsith]'', which probably dates from the 9th century. In Old English, and in the history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen wr
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• Rock shelter
  ...wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond) Leatherman] over three decades in the late 19th century.
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• Absurd
  ...to [[existentialism]] and [[nihilism]] and has its [[origins]] in the 19th century Danish [[philosopher]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaa
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• Liberalism
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...ch became popular in the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century].
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• Zombie
  ...bulant and able to respond to surrounding [[stimuli]]. Since the late 19th century, zombies have acquired notable [[popularity]], especially in North American
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• Didactic
  Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a [[criticism]] for work that app
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• Joke
  ...okes. Considering [[humor]] from our own [[culture]] as recent as the 19th century is at times baffling to us today, the [[humor]] is surprisingly familiar. T
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• Shield
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targe targe]), and as late as the 19th century, some non-industrialized peoples employed them (such as [https://en.wikiped
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• Comrade
  When the [[socialist]] [[movement]] gained [[momentum]] in the mid-19th century, socialists began to look for an egalitarian [[alternative]] to terms like
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• Stalemate
  The outcome of a stalemate was [[standardized]] as a draw in the 19th century. Before this standardization, its treatment varied widely, including being
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• Humanism
  ...of_Enlightenment Enlightenment], the various secular movements of the 19th century (such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism positivism]), and the ov
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• Philology
  ...ge but gave way to the modern science of [[linguistics]] in the early 20th century due to the influence of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], who argued that spoken l ...'s interest in ancient languages led to the study of what were in the 18th century "exotic" languages for the light they could cast on problems in understandi
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• Visitor
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century] ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge Cambridge] in the 19th century, Parliament ordered Visitations to the universities to make [[inquiries]] a
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• Police
  ...[[order]]. In some [[societies]], in the late 18th century and early 19th century, these [[developed]] within the [[context]] of maintaining the class system
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• Melancholia
  # G E Berrios (1988) Melancholia and depression during the 19th century. A conceptual History. British Journal of Psychiatry 153: 298-304
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• Equity
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...rules of equity did lose much of their [[flexibility]], and from the 17th century onwards equity was rapidly consolidated into a [[system]] of precedents muc
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• Secretary
  ...ssance]] until the late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century 19th century], men involved in the daily correspondence and the activities of the mighty *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century]
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• Boundary
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...a.org/wiki/Enclosure enclosure] of the previous open fields in the 18th or 19th centuries. In a few instances, current field boundaries (particularly in th
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• Telescopes
  ...lescopes were [[invented]] in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century. "Telescopes" can refer to a whole range of instruments operating in most r ...large optical [[research]]ing telescopes built since the turn of the 20th century have been reflectors. The largest reflecting telescopes currently have obje
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• Auctoritas
  ...eginning of [[phenomenology|phenomenological]] philosophy in the twentieth century changed the use of the word substantially. The 19th-century [[classicist]] [[Theodor Mommsen]] describes the "force" of ''auctoritas''
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• Magdalene College
  Magdalene remains, despite this twentieth-century expansion, one of the smaller colleges within the University, at last count The Cloister was built in the fifteenth century, and has been altered several times since then. In 1822, the north side was
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• Impasse
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century]
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• Romanticism
  ...literary, artistic, and philosophical [[movement]] originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a [[reaction]] against [https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...ectual]] [[movement]] that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 18
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• Queer
  ...]] over the course of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] with some LGBT people re-claiming the term as a means of self-empowerment. ...English]] language in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 16th century] (related to the German quer, [[meaning]] "across, at right angle, diagonal
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• Letter
  ...d significantly since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century 19th century]. Historically, letters (in [[paper]] form) were the only reliable means of
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• Existentialism
  *1: a chiefly 20th century philosophical [[movement]] embracing [[diverse]] [[doctrines]] but centerin ...e]. As a philosophy of human existence, existentialism found its best 20th-century exponent in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers Karl Jaspers]; as a
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• Dominion
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...in the latter part of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century]. They have included (at varying times) Canada, Australia, New Zealand, New
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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
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• Thunder
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...ccepted]] [[theory]] was that lightning produced a [[vacuum]]. In the 20th century a [[consensus]] evolved that thunder must begin with a [https://en.wikipedi
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• Egocentricity
  ...h_century 19th] or early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th] Century
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• Trivia
  ...plural ''trivia'' in the sense of "trivialities, trifles" only in the 20th century. The adjective ''trivial'' introduced into [[English]] in the 15th to 16th century was [[influenced]] by all three meanings of the [[Latin]] adjective:
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• Suburb
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] Suburbs first emerged on a large scale in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of improved rail and road [[transport]], whi
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• Nihilism
  :b capitalized : the program of a 19th century Russian party advocating revolutionary [[reform]] and using [[terrorism]] a
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• Jargon
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] In [[Jewish]] communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term "jargon" was occasionally used as a pejo
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• Papyrus
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...kipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus Theophrastus], who flourished during the 4th century BC, uses ''papuros'' when referring to the plant used as a foodstuff and ''
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• Marathon
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata Lucian of Samosata] (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides ...idippides]. Browning's poem, his composite story, became part of late 19th century popular culture and was accepted as a historic legend.[citation needed]
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• Tenure
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century], [[university]] professors largely served at the [[pleasure]] of the board
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• Subtle body
  ...rtant in spreading such [[ideas]] throughout [[the West]] in the late 19th century. The [[existence]] of subtle bodies is unconfirmed by the [[mainstream]] [[
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• Tapestry
  ...have been found preserved in the desert of Tarim Basin dating from the 3rd century BC. Tapestry reached a new stage in Europe in the early fourteenth century AD. The first wave of production originated in Germany and Switzerland. Ove
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• Homosexuality
  As such, the current use of the term has its [[roots]] in the broader 19th-century tradition of [[personality]] taxonomy. ...took and the [[culture]] in which they occurred. Since the end of the 19th century, there has been a [[movement]] towards increased visibility, [[recognition]
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• India
  .../British_Raj administered directly by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century], India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independe
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• Metronome
  ...otion]] (e.g. [[pendulum]]-swing). The metronome dates from the early 19th century, where it was patented by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Maelzel Joh
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• Astrometry
  ...Inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn's.[clarification needed][4] In the 15th century, the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg compiled the Zij-i-Sultani, in which he c In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments,
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• Autopsy
  ...rg/wiki/Herophilus_of_Chalcedon Herophilus of Chalcedon], who lived in 3rd century BC Alexandria, but in general, autopsies were rare in ancient Greece. In 44 The great 19th-century medical researcher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow Rudolf Vir
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• Honeymoon
  ...a newlywed couple going on a [[holiday]] together originated in early 19th century Great Britain, a [[concept]] borrowed from the Indian [[elite]], in the Ind ...through the reception to catch a late train or ship. However, in the 21st century, many couples will not leave until 1–3 days after the [[ceremony]] and re
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• Epitaph
  ...om the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance Renaissance] to the 19th century in Western culture, epitaphs for notable people became increasingly lengthy
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