Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...18th century, a crisis shook the paper-making industry because cotton rags became extremely scarce. In the 19th century, mills turned to making paper from wood instead...
Chances are few and far between to catch this team in action at the Palmer-Dixon courts. Most of the schedule is comprised of road games, but April 18th and 19th matches versus Cornell and Princeton are a chance for all of us to put on our shorts, leap over the toxic river and cheer on the Crimson...
...claimed that Thomas Paine was an "18th century American writer." He may have died in America, but he was born in England. He may have written Common Sense in America, but he wrote The Rights of Man in England, and he finished The Age of Reason in prison in France. I admire America, but you don't own everything! IAN GLOVER-JAMES London...
Anyone who feels uncomfortable with the sheer artificiality of art is likely to have difficulties with Giambattista Tiepolo, the greatest Italian painter--and one of the three or four chief European ones--of the 18th century. Though based on intensive study of the human body, his work is about as realistic as grand opera. Enter it, and you're inducted into a majestic yet unpredictable fantasy land. It is full of soaring and twisting space, transparency and delicious shot-silk color--a place dedicated to the imagination and filled with idealized personages from history, myth and fable...
...live in "Historic Hollis Hall," as the tour guides outside my window love to remind me at 8 a.m. Inevitably over the last four months, I have learned some of the history of my dorm. Hollis dates back to the 18th century, when George Washington and his troops stayed here during the Revolution. My roommate and I have looked for any musket bullet-holes in our walls, but they must have been plastered over during the renovation...