Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banning Honda motorcycles from the Apennine peninsula as a way of exacting revenge for sullied national honor. The cause of all the indignation was what Italians saw as an outrageous cultural slight. It came from Japan, of all places, and was aimed at one of the most beloved of 19th century Italians: the impish little wooden marionette Pinocchio...
...like Sofonisba Anguissola, got more commissions than the forthright Artemisia; they moved with more ease at court and could play society better. But there is good reason to regard Artemisia Gentileschi as the most distinguished woman painter to have worked between the 16th century and the end of the 19th, when Sonia Delaunay and Georgia O'Keeffe were born...
...Weil not only as a unique intellect whose thought spanned thousands of years and many cultures but also as a child of her time and place-France after World War I, sapped yet still adventuresome. Weil's mind belonged to the classics but her emotions owed much to 19th century romanticism, especially the aspect that substituted the sufferings of the artist for the anguish of the martyr. Simone was born into the French upper-middle class in 1909. Her father-a physician-and her mother had Jewish backgrounds, though they observed no religious ritual or custom. The child never...
...practice. Yet, ever thoughtful of his reader, he accommodates the agnostic by explaining the "rational" functionality of religion. For Schumacher, the primary task for men of the 20th century is one of metaphysical reconstruction; that is, putting a new of set of values in place of those destroyed by 19th century thought in social theory, natural science, psychology, and philosophy...
...throughout the 19th century, our greatest achievements came through efforts marked by both moral vision and practical purpose. Theodore Roosevelt noted that long before Jefferson negotiated an end to the French claim to Louisiana, that and other foreign claims had been effectively undermined by the great western movement of Americans and the free communities they quickly founded. But the consolidation of their pioneering achievements was made possible by those negotiations and by subsequent diplomatic successes. The annexation of Florida, the Oregon boundary settlement with Great Britain, the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, the purchase of Alaska from Russia...