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Topic: 19th Century

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):House,  Ikea bedroom
Personality:Nostalgic
Dream job(s):Interior decorator
Favorite artist(s):Renoir
Favorite author(s):Winslow Homer
Favorite era(s):1700s,  Prehistoric times,  1800s
Favorite explorer(s):David Livingstone
Favorite activity(s):Pottery
Interest(s):Historical Reenactment
Likes to wear:Traditional tribal dress
Favorite destination(s):New York,  Britain
Favorite political figure(s):Cecil Rhodes
Favorite quote(s):"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

The first miners were the slaves of local landowners in mining areas, but in the late 18th century they were freed from this and eventually became the aristocracy of the working class because of their industrial action producing better pay and better working conditions than those of other workers of the late 19th century.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

But although these four groups practiced subsistence farming in the late 18th and 19th centuries, the land was largely used for logging.
Their intent was to promulgate a common interest in the diverse and often superb products of a fast disappearing age that was centred in the 18th and 19th centuries but had its roots in the earliest forms of firearm.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Cornish tin and copper dominated world markets and the area around St Austell has also been extensively mined for China clay.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

The cultural revival in Ireland in the closing years of the 19th and the opening years of the 20th Centuries has become known as the Gaelic Renaissance.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Five ships built to resemble the historical vessels of the 18th and 19th centuries will be part of a naval battle reenactment here in Rainbow Harbor near Shoreline Village this weekend.
The navigation was very successful during the late 18th century and early 19th century but after the coming of the railways it declined although it did continue until the first World War.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Newton's mathematical description of motion using calculus and his model for the gravitational force were extended very successfully to the emerging science and technology of electromagnetism.
Metric analysis involves using standard measurements defined in the 19th and 20th centuries for recording the size of various attributes of the human skeleton.
During the 19th and 20th centuries however, the use of essential oils was eclipsed by the rapid discovery of new and synthetic substances, many of which were very effective but were not without side effects.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Born out of the Evangelical revival of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Bible Society enjoyed the support of such people as William Wilberforce and Lord Shaftesbury.
Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate

Throughout the 19th century to a crescendo achieved at the turn of the 20th century, a small band of very influential people, substantially financed by money and ideas from the Rockefeller foundations and the Carnegie foundations, introduced a system of state socialism into our national education picture.
 
 
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