Word: nineteenth
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...chance recovery of an important collection of nineteenth-century photographs of the Near East in 1970 has led, slowly and steadily, to a distortion of the primary tasks and goals of the Museum. The collection of old photographs proved a marvelous source of publicity and a lure for important gifts culminating in the gift of king Fahd of Saudi Arabia which funded the staff of the Museum for some three years. The staff of the Museum has traveled worldwide to add to the collection. The king Fahd Archive has become the primary source of the Museum's deficit, as well...
...when the story has been neatly unravelled and the characters all smile with great relief, one can't help but see the simple beauty in Gilbert's formulaic creations. Like a nineteenth-century sitcom, H.M.S. Pinafore provides us with a comfortable, cozy story, slickly done and sheathed in a fine sugar coating...
...nineteenth century, an English Duchess of Bedford combined both qualities in seeking a remedy for her mid-afternoon "sinking feeling." She began the tradition of afternoon teas with fine pastries, allowing her to revive her spirits in style...
...first winner, folks, is Abigail Adams. Mrs. Adams, the Susan Lucci of American Conservatism, has lost the Peninsula nod every year since her death in the early nineteenth century. It was good to see her back in action this year. She's dead, after all, and can't stir up controversy like those pesky living, speaking women you hear so much from these days...
...Piano" begins, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) has become the mail-order bride of Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill), a farmer in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand whom she has never met. Together with her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano, Ada makes the long voyage by sea from Scotland to New Zealand. When Stewart arrives to meet her, he refuses to transport her piano to their house, leaving it on the beach...