Word: 1840s
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Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. An active abolitionist and temperance crusader during the 1840s, she had given little thought to the woman's-rights movement. It was not until 1853, when she was barred from addressing an audience at a temperance rally because of her sex, that she found her true purpose. Her activism in the movement never waned until her death in 1906, despite years of public vilification, poverty and apparent hopelessness...
...Drunkard is a very old musical play about alcohol and the wages of sin, and it's being produced at the 369 School for the Performing Arts up in Somerville. The play was written in the 1840s, but apparently got changed by bits and pieces over the years. With some excellent background work, the people at 369 have gone a long way to restoring the piece to its original condition. The music for the play is lost, but the show's producers have come up with a score that is purportedly true to its source. Weekend performances begin...
Since the Opium War with Britain in the 1840s, pride has not come easy for Chinese, but before England's appalling imperialist attack, China had thought themselves to be the center of the world, the self-sufficient Middle Kingdom. Chinese had looked on their relationships with outside powers as one-sided: They even resented the intrustion of foreign music into the Royal Court as an unnecessary outside influence...
...Ullmann as Karl-Oscar and Kristina Neilson, took life, Troell detailed the tough choices and sacrifices, the illnesses and griefs that propelled the group to the Promised Land. Despite the ambivalent picture he painted of the passage into Canaan. of the hostile reaction these immigrants of the mid-1840s encountered in America, Troell brought The Emigrants to a climactic affirmation as Karl-Oscar blazed the boundaries of his new farm by the shores of a Minnesota lake...
Eastern capitalists had looked to China as a possible overseas outlet for profitable investment and commodities since the 1840s. Under Secretary of State William H. Seward, the United States purchased Alaska and annexed the Midway Islands as stepping stones to Asia...