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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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