Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human function will be to make sure that the voting closes on Friday the 19th of April," he added. "We haven't yet set the hour at which voting will close. That will depend on how long it will take the computer to tally the votes...
...have been here before. From the first settlements in the 17th century, to the opening of the West in the 19th, through the many mass migrations in the 20th century, Americans have repeatedly grabbed what they could carry and headed off into the tall and uncut, down a risky path to a new prosperity. As America enters the 21st century, its role as the lone superpower is uncertain; the search for a truly multicultural society is under siege; its ability to raise standards of living is in doubt; and its recent record of solving its problems together is beginning...
...that demonized Jews as the source of all social ills. For instance, the church-inspired vision of Jews as "Christ killers" fueled countless pogroms over the centuries. Thus, in Goldhagen's view, the Final Solution represented the logical fulfillment of ordinary Germans' own long-standing dreams. He quotes one 19th century anti-Semite as predicting that "the German Volk needs only to topple the Jews" in order to become "united and free...
...19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other...
...have such a vast reputation? Largely because he was seen as a living bridge between the classical tradition of French landscape and contemporary painting, whether by contemporary you meant the Barbizon painters of the mid-19th century, like Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, or the more recent vision of Monet and the Impressionists. Corot's career began in the 1820s, at a time when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas...