Word: 19thcentury
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bedford, along with Nantucket, which isaccessible by ferry from Woods Hole ($25 roundtrip on Bonanza), were the two largest whalingports in the United states before the decline ofthe industry in the second half of the 19thcentury...
...recent trip to China, Holton says he foundthe scientific texts were still based on "mid 19thcentury Marxist" theory long ago discredited byWestern science...
Chomsky said the U.S. has traditionallyintervened on the part of the wealthy rulingclass, and was the last great power to recognizeHaiti as an independent nation in the 19thcentury. It did so only after the Civil War as aplace to send unwanted freed slaves, he said...
...leather shoe has four main parts: the upper,the lining inside the upper, the insole directlyunderneath the foot and the outsole which scrapesthe pavement. Until the middle of the 19thcentury, all shoes were made by hand. Massproduction had to wait for the rival of a machinethat could sew the upper to the sole. Gordon McKayarrived in 1860 with the McKay sole-sewingmachine, an improved version of the one LymanBlake patented...
Koerner recently completed a book about 19thcentury Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.He also wrote a book,Legends of theSign,about painter Paul Klee, and is currentlyworking on a book about German Renaissance...