| 单词 | eighteenth |
| 例句 | Her parents bought it for her eighteenth birthday and had it equipped with GPS, satellite radio, and a little video screen that shows when you’re about to hit something in reverse. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “You were involved in a similar altercation on the night of January eighteenth, correct?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Its focal point was the great mound—Monks Mound, it is now called, named after a group of Trappists who lived nearby in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For all their pre-eminence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers from Austria and Germany would soon be competing for attention with a kaleidoscope of musical stars from elsewhere, notably Russia, France and the USA. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This makes accurate clocks indispensable on ocean voyages, but it wasn’t until the eighteenth century that accurate clocks became a reality. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Moreover, until the eighteenth century, cartographers were mainly interested in producing maps for the purposes of navigation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Open it, boy. I’ve been saving this for your eighteenth birthday for a long time.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My eighteenth year of marriage the ground of my well-being began to give a little. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s today’s paper. It came the morning Rufus called me last. That’s this morning if you want to believe the calendar. June eighteenth.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But if this argument is pressed too far it becomes difficult to explain why, in the eighteenth century, modern chemistry established itself not as a continuation of but as a refutation of alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had been within a few weeks of his eighteenth birthday, and with it all chance of enlistment, of choosing a service rather than being drafted into one, would have disappeared. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighteenth century saw something of a shift of emphasis to delivery, with “elocutionism” taking root as a formal discipline on its own. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z By the middle of the eighteenth century Shakespeare’s sense of time had been replaced by our own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was Tuesday and the eighteenth of July. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Stained oak, with the intricate carvings generally associated with either the eighteenth century or the obscenely rich. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries there was one sequence of chords that composers loved more than any other. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I don’t move even as everyone surrounds the birthday girl to wish her a happy eighteenth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When cotton became readily available there in the eighteenth century, it grabbed so much of the textile market that French woolmakers persuaded the government to ban the new fiber. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The hill up to the eighteenth green where Patrick and I spit wine from laughing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He does that all the way to the eighteenth floor, which is empty. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But as chemistry developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people began to look back on Boyle’s book as a turning point. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and now eighteenth birthdays had all been spent locked up. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Composers adapted quickly to the new conditions, new paymasters and new tastes of the second half of the eighteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But this distinction emerged slowly and became firmly established only during the course of the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Zeke was cleared by the Candor an hour ago, in a short interrogation on the eighteenth floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, this pattern occurred again and again in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hall thought it was ‘not quite’ but very nearly true to say that ‘engineering owed nothing to science’ until very late in the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Two months after his eighteenth birthday, Clary was stopped and searched in the St. Louis airport because he “looked like” a drug courier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Had you been drinking on the night of January eighteenth, Mr. McAllister?” she presses. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Covering five square miles and housing at least fifteen thousand people, Cahokia was the biggest concentration of people north of the Rio Grande until the eighteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We sat on the eighteenth green, which was pretty high on a hill, and we watched the sun disappear. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum sparked a major re-evaluation of the Ancient World and a near mania - among the wealthy and educated of the later eighteenth century - for all things connected with it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer: “There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive... except that eighteenth- and nineteenth- century grammarians, for one reason or another, frowned on it.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But in the early years of the eighteenth century this argument from probability was applied with devastating force. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The great European thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were much concerned with new ideas of liberty and the refashioning of society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, it had become a degraded people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z On the eighteenth day a cloudy mountain top arose up across the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Wollstonecraft’s argument was radical in the late eighteenth century. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I bet I even know what ring Yule May’s talking about—Hilly’s mother gave it to her for her eighteenth birthday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “We intended to give this to Emmanuel for his eighteenth birthday,” he says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Despite his remote and comparatively humble situation, Michell was one of the great scientific thinkers of the eighteenth century and much esteemed for it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Are you sure she’s just depressed about losing?” he asked for the eighteenth time. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are still entirely figurative; Kandinsky’s first abstract painting did not emerge until 1910. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But he and Ma got me a record player for my eighteenth birthday in March plus a couple of albums. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z South African whites had always struck me as people who would have been happier living in the nineteenth century, or the eighteenth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Tonight was Midsummer’s Eve, and tomorrow would be her eighteenth birthday. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I go into my closet and pull out the blue-and-gray flannel shirt Lidia got me for my eighteenth birthday, then put it on over my white T-shirt. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that the double negative was declared a sin against the King’s English, on the ground that one negative canceled the other. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The science of medicine at the end of the eighteenth century still relied a great deal on ancient myths and folk remedies. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z An interesting elaboration on the concept of conditional probability is known as Bayes’ theorem, first proved by Thomas Bayes in the eighteenth century. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Weren’t there any other names available in the late eighteenth century? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z ‘Dotted’ patterns, with the skipping rum-tah-tum emphasis they create, were very common indeed in European music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in France. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This is true, so true, but this is still her last thought of her eighteenth birthday: She has wrecked so much for so many people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z One of the requirements was a course in the eighteenth century. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The wheels on his board were new, a “just because” gift from his eighteenth set of foster parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Our whole family crowds into one elevator, and the bellboy waves, saying he will meet us on the eighteenth floor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This behavior of the universe could have been predicted from Newton’s theory of gravity at any time in the nineteenth, the eighteenth, or even the late seventeenth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy invited Trout to his eighteenth wedding anniversary which was only two days hence. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite calculus’s shaky foundations, by the end of the eighteenth century, mathematicians all over Europe were having stunning successes with the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet it is clear that belief in witchcraft among the educated elite diminished rapidly in the early eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I took it down three months later, on my eighteenth birthday. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “We’re set for trial on February eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth,” he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The game didn’t evolve to Bobby’s liking, so he offered Shipman a draw on the eighteenth move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Professor Binns, the ghost who taught History of Magic, had them writing weekly essays on the goblin rebellions of the eighteenth century. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It is a great inlaid map, dating from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries, reaching from West Africa to the Pacific Ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I go to sleep by a campfire that looked like it was built by a boy scout, and I awaken in the middle of the eighteenth century.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Part Two begins in the early fifteenth century, and then follows issues related to sight through into the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She cursed “June eighteenth! We’ve been away from camp ten days!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The other thing the eighteenth century saw, of course, was some radical shifts in the style of government. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z By the eighteenth century astrology itself was generally regarded as outdated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There may be no technological or sociological explanation for the decline in belief in witchcraft in the early eighteenth century, but there is an alternative explanation ready to hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century scientific laws begin for the first time to be named after their discoverers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the colt’s eighteenth start, for no explicable reason, he finally won, clocking a sterling time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth row my grandmother gave her critical opinion. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If the powerful scientific revolution that had swept through Europe in the eighteenth century had one legacy, it was this: the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Isn’t that part of what got her into this mess, to this place where she is weirdly and surreally standing alone on a high, rotting railway trestle on her eighteenth birthday? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I’ve had this one for almost a year. A few of them are broken near the filters, but I think this pack could easily get me to my eighteenth birthday.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Chemistry, too, became more scientific and less mystical as the eighteenth century wore on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ rule was formulated only in the eighteenth century, and the whole point of this rule is that juries have to decide for themselves what it means. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No official bedtime, twice my pocket money, and for Julia’s eighteenth she went to Tanya’s Night Club in Worcester with her thousand and one friends. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Well, I was thinking that since it’s your eighteenth birthday, I’d really like to give you the best gift I can think of as you enter legal manhood and everything.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z A woman whose family had farmed the same land since the eighteenth century was carried from her house kicking and bellowing, to the delight of newspaper photographers and film crews. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z This development was a huge bonus, with music of the eighteenth, seventeenth and sixteenth centuries first in line for resuscitation, followed by music from even earlier periods. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And, of course, the triumph of the discovery enterprise was not complete until well into the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Chocolate mousse, which of course means ‘foam’ and not an antlered cousin of elk, has been a staple of French cuisine since the eighteenth century.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z A few days earlier, Samira had thrown herself a massive eighteenth birthday-slash-graduation party, and someone had left behind a backpack at our house, containing a bong and a bag of weed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “We were going to wait until your eighteenth birthday,” Linda explained, her hand still steady on his shoulder. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Aech told me that she hadn’t seen or spoken to her mother since leaving home on her eighteenth birthday. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “At least I didn’t come in eighteenth place,” he said. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He vowed to run away with the beautiful farmer's daughter and return on his eighteenth birthday to free his people from the tyranny of the queen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I reach the eighteenth floor, my legs feel like they have turned to liquid.. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The basic framework for all these institutions and traditions was built in a sudden spasm of enforced inspiration and makeshift construction during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If his conduct was good and he was participating in the educational and rehabilitation programs offered there, he would return to court for a second evaluation in another three months, just before his eighteenth birthday. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The young prince grew until he was nearly a man, coming within two years of the eighteenth birthday that would allow him to ascend to the throne on the old king’s death. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z All in all, not a bad way to spend your eighteenth birthday. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even though China actually had the biggest economy in the world in the eighteenth century, it was Western countries, companies, and explorers who were doing most of the globalizing and shaping of the system. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z They had come to Virginia in the eighteenth century and then moved west into the Appalachians in search of land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “But today's the eighteenth. It’s the fifth day.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, the tally shrank further, to 1,400. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He took his text from the eighteenth chapter of the second book of Samuel, the story of the young Ahimaaz who ran too soon to bring the tidings of battle to King David. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Cotton was known in Europe by the thirteenth century but not common until the eighteenth; Columbus and his men wore sturdy flax and coarse wool.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After only a few minutes, though, Turner, in his high-pitched voice, offered Bobby a draw on the eighteenth move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You’d spew a lot less asininity if you were willing to see beyond the eighteenth hole of your country club golf course. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Since early in the eighteenth century, the London watermen had also made a sport of racing their dories in impromptu competitions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe I could study the eighteenth century in secret. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “The following information is only for family members of female residents of New York City who have been missing since Wednesday night, May eighteenth,” a woman’s voice intoned. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z True, the lack of currency did not surprise the Spanish invaders—much of Europe did without money until the eighteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without a warning, die engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He remembered that her eighteenth birthday was today; she was of age now. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Yet it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that Smeaton and Watt both used models to work out how to transform the efficiency of powered machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But this is from the eighteenth century, not the seventeenth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Summer fevers were common visitors to all American cities in the eighteenth century, and therefore not headline news. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A highlight of the fair is the truffle auction, now in its eighteenth year, with proceeds going to charitable causes. Italy's white truffles feel the heat at Alba auction 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z "Open your refrigerator door and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the eighteenth century." 'At Home': Bill Bryson constructs a history of private life 2010-10-06T23:05:00Z He was the architect of that spy network of mid-eighteenth-century France. Make wine and kill the king: The legendary vineyard at the heart of a grand European conspiracy 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z For decades, the history of the novel meant the history of the European novel, which started in the eighteenth century. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z A fragment believed to be part of a Fifty-eight Holes game board, from the eighteenth century B.C. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z I once met a group of young Croatian girls at a bar in Dubrovnik’s Old City, celebrating a friend’s eighteenth birthday. The Chinese home I never knew 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z ‘Bravo’ echoed in Milan’s eighteenth century theater as the main characters of the powerful, two-hour long performance took their bows. Petals and confetti shower stage at La Scala opening 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z During the eighteenth century, a wigmaker in Ireland could expect to have a prosperous career. Rediscovering Obama’s Irish Roots 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The first time I used a men’s room with friends — friends who’d known me from before, friends who’d known me my whole life — I was a few weeks shy of my eighteenth birthday. My first time using the men’s room 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z She traces it back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and sees it as the product of a union between Puritan spirituality and New England eeriness. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z With the chapter, novelists began, in the eighteenth century, to naturalize an informational technology from antiquity by giving it a new cultural role. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z It was customary, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for families to buy grave sites for future generations and extended family. Unearthing Black History at Green-Wood Cemetery 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “That’s an eighteenth-, nineteenth-century idea. It would be as if only huge Russian novels existed, and no one wrote short stories.” Video Operas You Can Watch on Your Phone 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z We watched the bikers climb the final small hill of the eighteenth stage, and wrote his name on a riders’ route nearby. Seventy-Five Years of Cycling 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z At the time, it was filled with riders following the route of the Tour de France, which would be finishing its eighteenth stage close by, in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. Seventy-Five Years of Cycling 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “More delicious than a thousand kisses, milder than muscatel wine,” Johann Sebastian Bach writes, in his “Coffee Cantata,” from the eighteenth century. The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The Kearneys had married into the Healy family in the eighteenth century; Henry had been interested in family trees since his father’s death, thirteen years earlier. Rediscovering Obama’s Irish Roots 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z During large periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the hums and cries from old Negro spirituals evolved to become the foundation for blues music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z There is a whole cultural heritage that was lost because the Nazis largely misappropriated it—old folk songs from the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, for instance, that we were never taught at school. The Bracing Honesty of “Belonging,” a Graphic Memoir About German Identity 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z For others, though, the way that the show filters the concerns of the late eighteenth century through the lens of the twenty-first could make for enlightening listening. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s the age of what Thackeray will christen “the periodical essayists of the eighteenth century.” The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z I’m referring, of course, to what the greenhouse gases from the fossil fuels we’ve been burning in such profusion since the eighteenth century are doing to our planet. Three failing experiments? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z And don’t even get a Pole started about the partitions of the late eighteenth century, in which Russia, Prussia, and Austria carved Poland up into so many pieces that there was no independent state left. Tadeusz Konwicki: A Polish Writer and the Scars of the Past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z During the course of the eighteenth century, French slave traders imported more than a million people to Haiti. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In the aesthetic theory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, wit is opposed to judgment, which is the skill of making fine distinctions, prising things apart. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “Slavery,” Campanella writes, “was an essential element of New York life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” Review | The rise, fall and resurgence of Brooklyn 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The sexual contact between Hawkins and Kelly continued for almost three years, according to the suit, and ended four months before her eighteenth birthday, in October, 1994. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z He was writing about palace intrigue in the early eighteenth century; but portions of that passage are applicable to the White House in the early 1970s. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z The book is split into five parts, which proceed roughly in reverse chronological order, beginning in the nineteen-forties and stretching back to the eighteenth century. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z This was true in the early eighteenth century, when the German composer George Frideric Handel wrote Italian operas in London. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Newspapers grew in the eighteenth century, but much news reported in American newspapers came from ships crossing the Atlantic; “the freshest news,” as the expression had it, was often six weeks old, or even older. Yesterday’s News 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Its heyday wasn't until the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, where stuffing meat inside of other meats was a way to show off one's wealth and impress guests in Europe. Turducken has been weird for a very long time 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z ‘Bravo’ echoed in Milan’s eighteenth century theater as the main characters of the powerful, two-hour long performance took their bows. Petals and confetti shower stage at La Scala opening 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, he goes on, moral realism was challenged by the new ideas of moral Romanticism, whereby the self was exalted rather than distrusted. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z A highlight of the fair is the truffle auction, now in its eighteenth year, with proceeds going to charitable causes. Italy's white truffles feel the heat at Alba auction 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the metaphors of enchantment, seduction, and love were ready to hand. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z “For example,” she said, “he would write a very eighteenth century tune –almost like Mozart—and then we would set it to electric guitar. And the whole sense of where you were would completely change.” Ellen Kushner: Taking Audiobooks To Another Level 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Several thoughts encircle the enthralled peruser, as the eighteenth century stylists would also have said, of these documents and books and ledgers. “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The money came from a family business, the Clark Thread Company of Paisley, which was founded in the eighteenth century. The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Piracy, the appropriation of private property in the form of copyright infringement, threatens this economy, just as Atlantic pirates threatened slave-capitalism in the early eighteenth century. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, radical groups like the Lollards, the Levellers, and the Antinomians gravitated there in their search for sanctuary—for a new Jerusalem. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It often wasn’t, especially in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. What’s in a Pen Name? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, when the novel was still a new form, crying was a sign of readerly virtue. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The fourth through the eighteenth floors contained suites of two to four rooms connected to the elevators by means of a double-loaded corridor. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z The Taming of the Shrew,” frequently revived in adaptations throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was not performed in Shakespeare’s version until 1887, almost three hundred years after its Elizabethan début. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, declinist proclamations have appeared on and off since the late eighteenth century. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z He’s the town’s “No. 1 bachelor and demon slayer”—a descendant of the “Magistocrats,” who began defending Neo Yokio against otherworldly invasion in the eighteenth century. “Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas” Is the Most Eccentric TV Special of the Festive Season 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Never mind that no one north of the eighteenth parallel had heard of the book. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Two fellows of the Royal Society discussed the idea of a ‘dark star’ in the eighteenth century. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z The Olson House, a three-story saltwater farmhouse built in the eighteenth century, stands fully exposed, on a hill facing Maple Juice Cove and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z On that measure, Migration Observatory calculations based on data from the European statistics agency Eurostat for 2022 puts the UK eighteenth out of the 32 European countries included. Is the asylum backlog going down and other claims checked 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The scrolls were discovered in the eighteenth century, when workmen came across the remains of a luxury villa that might have belonged to the family of Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. AI Reads Ancient Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius in Tech First 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z UBS is the eighteenth firm to reach a settlement in the US over its role in the 2008 crisis, prosecutors said. UBS to pay $1.4bn to settle fraud claims from 2008 crisis 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The great dream of the optimistic theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had been that proper education and rational politics could create a perfect society. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, biological sciences such as botany and zoology became increasingly professional scientific disciplines. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Early vaccines based on the cowpox virus were deployed in the United States and Europe in the eighteenth century with great effect. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z At its height, around the eighteenth century BCE, Kerma may have supported a population of about ten thousand people. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many scientists investigated gas behavior, providing the first mathematical descriptions of the behavior of matter. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Spanish territories in the Americas in the eighteenth century, at the height of their territorial expanse. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z A classic example of this type of selection is the evolution of the peppered moth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Although perhaps most pronounced in West Africa, the altered dynamics of trans-Saharan trade in enslaved people in the eighteenth century were also apparent in North Africa. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This image from a larger scroll shows the canal as it looked in the late eighteenth century. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They questioned the composition and structure of the universe as early as the eighteenth century. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Those conclusions would in turn lead to a monumental movement of philosophy and thought during the eighteenth century: the Enlightenment. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Freemasons were a fraternal society that originated in London coffeehouses in the early eighteenth century. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z England and the Netherlands fought four wars for control of transatlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z New technology, societal norms, and economic realities furnish challenges that fail to fit neatly into the framework established in the late eighteenth century. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z It was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that any real efforts were made to establish a uniform, international set of standards. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Following Kant, historians refer to the intellectual movement of the eighteenth century as the Enlightenment. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, militaries typically fought only in the summer months. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Water power had earlier replaced animal power, and steam engines fueled by burning coal had driven the machinery of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z How were presidents in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries likely to reach the public? American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z French astronomers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were pioneers in determining the dimensions of Earth, so it was logical to use their information as the foundation of the new system. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Likewise, new forms of media and new forums of discussion came of age in the eighteenth century, creating a larger and better- informed public than ever before in European history. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z An increased supply of consumer goods from England that became available in the eighteenth century led to a phenomenon called the consumer revolution. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, prohibitions on books were relaxed, and works on medicine, science, and geography were translated. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Find the eighteenth term of a sequence where the fifth term is 12 and the common difference is seven. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z We discussed in the chapter that about half of stars come in pairs, or multiple star systems, yet the first eclipsing binary was not discovered until the eighteenth century. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z A reasonably accurate take on social divisions in the Middle Ages, but one that was increasingly out of date by the eighteenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, however, a flood of journals, books, pamphlets, and other publications became available to readers on both sides of the Atlantic. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z A number of slave trading ports flourished on the western coast of Africa from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z How much will be in the child’s account at her eighteenth birthday? Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z These objects were given an extremely misleading name when first found in the eighteenth century: planetary nebulae. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, the Third Estate was far more diverse, dynamic, and educated than ever before. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Novels, a new type of literature, made their first appearance in the eighteenth century and proved very popular in the British Atlantic. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z During the eighteenth century, thinkers in academia and beyond continued their critical exploration, scrutinizing traditional structures from religion to the monarchy. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The latest drawdown is the eighteenth since Russia invaded its neighbor Feb. 24, Pentagon officials said Monday. Pentagon sends biggest arms package yet to Ukraine amid fears of Russian attack on nuclear reactor 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mathematicians developed many elegant techniques for calculating perturbations, permitting them to predict very precisely the positions of the planets. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The most significant conflicts, however, were the ongoing series of wars between the two greatest powers of the eighteenth century: Britain and France. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late eighteenth century, republics were few and far between. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Over the course of Europe’s seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, public spaces became a pervasive feature of its intellectual culture for the first time. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, ideas about the evolution of animals were reintroduced by the various naturalists. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z His study of comets at the turn of the eighteenth century helped predict the orbit of the comet that now bears his name. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Significantly, this was the only war that France “won” over the course of the eighteenth century, and it gained nothing from it but the satisfaction of having finally beaten its British enemy. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, well-established monarchs ruled most of Europe and, according to tradition, were obligated to protect and guide their subjects. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Chapters 1 and 8, in particular, provide useful overviews of the salons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Most legislatures eventually regretted the relaxed manumission laws of the late eighteenth century and took steps to reduce or tightly control the free black population. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, when there was no longer serious doubt about Earth’s revolution, it became clear that the stars must be extremely distant. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The social and legal divisions between different classes and categories were never more starkly drawn and enforced than they were by the eighteenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z How did U.S. relations with France influence events at the end of the eighteenth century? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z By the second half of the eighteenth century, lending libraries had emerged to expand the reading public’s access to printed materials, but only select academics and government officials were permitted to borrow books. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Ever since the eighteenth century, the Comanches had used mounted hit-and-run raids to dominate their neighbors and amass huge herds of horses, which they traded, along with buffalo skins and captives, all around their domains. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Constitution of the United States dates from the latter part of the eighteenth century. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The Little Ice Age of the early modern period ended in the eighteenth century as well, increasing crop yields. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shakers started in England as an outgrowth of the Quaker religion in the middle of the eighteenth century. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Which of the following was not true of European coffeehouses in the eighteenth century? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Individual Quakers like Anthony Benezet and John Woolman wrote and traveled widely in the early eighteenth century, urging their fellow Friends to liberate their slaves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The theory of divine right of kings was widely accepted in much of the Western world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Poland had been partitioned between Austria, Prussia, and Russia in the eighteenth century, simply vanishing from the map in the process. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Read through several to get a remarkable flavor of life in early eighteenth- century Philadelphia. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z At the end of the eighteenth century, the Kingdom of Spain, which had been led by the House of Bourbon since 1700, reorganized its American colonies into four large parts. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, Hispanic settlers followed Jesuit missionaries into southern Arizona, but their numbers did not exceed a thousand. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z By the beginning of the eighteenth century, scientific discoveries and new thinking had led to an intellectual movement based on reason and known as the Enlightenment. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Voting districts had not been revised to reflect changes in population since the eighteenth century, and thus, the north was sorely underrepresented. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the Navigation Acts, however, Great Britain exercised lax control over the English colonies during most of the eighteenth century because of the policies of Prime Minister Robert Walpole. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Despite efforts of the shogun’s government to prevent Japanese contact with Europeans, “Dutch learning,” knowledge gained from the Dutch on Dejima, played an important part in Japanese life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, enslaved Africans were by far the largest group of people who crossed the Atlantic to America, possibly numbering as many as 10 million people over four centuries. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Since the eighteenth century, almost every government has had to address issues of popular sovereignty in one way or another. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z All of those things first converged in England at the end of the seventeenth and start of the eighteenth centuries. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z David Perry’s journal, which includes a description of the 1758 campaign, provides a glimpse of warfare in the eighteenth century. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z As a result of this altered state of affairs, the scope of the trans-Saharan trade in enslaved people doubled between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to an estimated 900,000 enslaved people. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Domesticated by Andean Indians, white potatoes fed millions of Europeans from Ireland to Russia by the eighteenth century and kept expanding thereafter. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z As the historian Jonathan Gienapp puts it, originalists’ understanding of the Constitution is “anachronistic, a species of modern constitutional thinking that they unwittingly and uncritically impose on the eighteenth century.” Opinion | Supreme Court Justices Have Forgotten What the Law Is For 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z That said, the North American colonies all remained small and economically unimportant compared to the colonies of Latin America and the Caribbean until well into the eighteenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the eighteenth century, a “middle ground” had existed between powerful Native groups in the West and British and French imperial zones, a place where the various groups interacted and accommodated each other. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Dutch East India Company purchased approximately half a million enslaved people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to work in Dutch colonies in the Indian Ocean. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z They did not always exercise these privileges, and many of the largest landholdings broke up after sale or inheritance in the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Settlers from southern China built the temple in the eighteenth century to honor Buddha. On Lunar New Year, Chinese pray outside shut temples 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Noblewomen were often the collaborators of their husbands or fathers – for example, it was a husband and wife team, the Lavoisiers, in France that invented the premises of modern chemistry in the eighteenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late eighteenth century, the British scientist Sir Humphrey Davy alone predicted the existence of elements like potassium, sodium and calcium, and was then able to isolate them. Is science stuck? The "Great Stagnation Debate," explained 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The French enslaved more than one hundred thousand people in their Indian Ocean colonies of Réunion, Mauritius, and the Mascarene Islands, of which they took control in the eighteenth century. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The growth and social development of the English colonies in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries took place within a larger framework of Atlantic commerce and empire. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z According to a tweet by NetBlocks, the disruption is now in its eighteenth day and represents an “ongoing impediment” to democracy and human rights. Sudanese general tightens grip on power, 2 weeks after coup 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In a very lucky coincidence for British industry, northern England in the eighteenth century was the heart of the existing British textile industry, which became the key commercial force in the early period of industrialization. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The second part of the presentation goes into the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when it took on new meaning amid the struggle for freedom against British rule. Bible Museum Magna Carta exhibition explores role of Bible and English Church in struggle for liberty 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In the late eighteenth century, Russia’s expansion ramped up again, eventually leading it deep into Ottoman territory with control over the northern coast of the Black Sea. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Britain and France clashed frequently in the eighteenth century and all their wars involved America. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z I watched in ’97 as Tiger strode up the eighteenth fairway, toward the green, on the verge of this historic moment. Book excerpt: The day Tiger Woods announced himself as a future Masters champ 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Likewise, even though canals had been around since ancient times, there was a major canal-building boom in the second half of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Their name derives from the inaccurate belief that only 3% of Americans took up arms to fight the British empire in the eighteenth century. The Mobster-in-Chief: Will the November election be decided in the streets? 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Colonists could not sell goods made from wool or iron, either in England or to other English colonies, and by the mid- eighteenth century they could not export beaver hats. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Many of these had been among the thousands of skilled redemptioners and indentured servants who entered the middle colonies during the eighteenth century to work in the region’s towns and cities. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Vaccination, popularized by English physician Edward Jenner from the end of the eighteenth century, sought the same end. Vaccines — lessons from three centuries of protest 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z In other words, while the monarchs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries certainly knew they were doing something differently than had their predecessors, they did not use the term “absolutism” itself. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than focusing on the motivations of individual scientists, it deftly maps out the systemic factors that spurred the growing toll of pollution from the eighteenth century to the 1970s. Can the history of pollution shape a better future? 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z What were the short- and long-term consequences of the rise of the global economy in the eighteenth century? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Nobody used the word “Puritan” much in the eighteenth century—New Englanders spoke about “orthodoxy” or the “Standing Order” before settling on “Congregational” as the customary label for their region’s established churches. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Christian minister Cotton Mather championed the idea in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early eighteenth century, having learnt it from an African man, Onesimus, enslaved in his household. Vaccines — lessons from three centuries of protest 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Over the course of the eighteenth century, Prussia was embroiled in a series of wars that confirmed its status as a European “great power.” Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z "In fact," the historians write, "whether slavery was legal or illegal within Britain was a matter of debate in the eighteenth century, and many people were held as slaves." UK citizenship test 'misleading' and 'false' on slavery 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z What were some of the successful movements to resist foreign expansion in Africa and the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Cotton Mather’s own career illustrates the transitional character of New England religion in the early eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Sweet potatoes, which originate in the Andean highlands, grow across eastern Polynesia, and samples of Polynesian sweet potatoes from the eighteenth century share genetic markers with coastal South American varieties2. Ancient voyage carried Native Americans’ DNA to remote Pacific islands 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Prussia’s great rival in the eighteenth century was Austria. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By the latter half of the eighteenth century, leaders turned to institutions in order solve problems. Would George Washington have worn a mask? A brief history of the Founders and public health 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Atlantic world witnessed a series of groundbreaking revolutions, in particular, the Haitian Revolution, initially led by a formerly enslaved man named Toussaint Louverture. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Over the course of the eighteenth century, wealthy and well-educated parents grew increasingly receptive to such advice and seemed to soften their strictness with more indulgence and open affection. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z They also found evidence of mixing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ancient voyage carried Native Americans’ DNA to remote Pacific islands 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Despite being unable to impose absolutism across the vast breadth of their territories, the Habsburg line produced highly effective rulers in the eighteenth century in particular. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The statue of Grant, who also served as the nation’s eighteenth president, was among three monuments in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park knocked down during the evening by a group of protesters. Ulysses Grant statue toppled in San Francisco 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z As the first sustained and successful challenge to the institution of slavery in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution, more than any other conflict of the eighteenth century, resulted in the most widespread radical change. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Household production still dominated the American economy at the end of the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “We are sorry for the role played by the Lloyd’s market in the eighteenth and nineteenth Century slave trade - an appalling and shameful period of English history, as well as our own,” Lloyd’s said. Lloyd's of London apologises for 'shameful' role in Atlantic slave trade 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z As the Industrial Revolution began in the latter half of the eighteenth century, thanks to a series of key inventions, the vast energy capacity of coal was unleashed for the first time. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Raised in a San Francisco orphanage, educated at Princeton, he has fathered two sets of twins with his Scottish aristo wife, who is herself “eighteenth cousin to the Queen twice removed or something.” Ross Thomas, the criminally neglected spy-caper author behind "Briarpatch" 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z By the beginning of the eighteenth century, this idea had prompted significant challenges to Christianity’s traditional justification for social hierarchies and its view of the nature of the cosmos. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Market Revolution began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with changes in technology that expanded long-distance commerce. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Among the voters she’d convinced was Ishmael Lopez – who plans to participate in the caucuses for the first time after celebrating his eighteenth birthday on Friday. 'She was a warrior': Warren supporters ebullient in Las Vegas after debate 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z By the early eighteenth century, educated elites attracted to Romanticism set out to gather those traditions and preserve them in service to an imagined national identity. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z This sweeping account draws parallels between Benjamin Franklin’s worry over “swarthy” Germans “herding together” in the eighteenth century and Donald Trump’s race-baiting today. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Religious toleration and the separation of church and state also became fundamental principles of liberalism in the eighteenth century. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Spain took over New Orleans and nearby districts from France in the eighteenth century, and claimed the entire Mississippi basin, but French influence still dominated the region’s European culture. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Oroonoko” was adapted into one of the most popular plays of the Restoration era, and its renown endured well into the eighteenth century. The Long War Against Slavery 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The Athenian democratic experiment is, of course, of great historical importance, but it was relatively short-lived, with democratic government not returning to the western world until the end of the eighteenth century CE. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The town became fashionable in the late eighteenth century, largely thanks to the patronage of the eldest son of King George III, who was then the Prince of Wales. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Flush 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Those ideas, combined with resentment of the peninsulares, were fuel for late eighteenth- century rebellions. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Carolinians were harvesting substantial rice crops by 1690, and the fluffy grain became their economic mainstay in the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z We stayed in a parador in Mérida that had been a convent in the eighteenth century. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z That same reading public also eagerly embraced the quintessential new form of fiction of the eighteenth century: the novel, with the reading of novels becoming a major leisure activity of the period. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The phosphorus industry grew throughout the eighteenth century, in part because physicians wrongly believed that it had medicinal value. The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, what was the main slave trading center on the West African coast? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In rural areas, James continued the Dutch practice of issuing large manorial grants to be tilled by tenants, which made landlord-tenant conflicts a recurrent feature of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century politics. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His views are striking even for the late eighteenth century, when sociopolitical radicalism abounded. Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Several monarchs in the latter part of the eighteenth century did, in fact, ban torture in their realms, and “rationalized” justice systems slowly evolved in many kingdoms during the period. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the eighteenth century, scientists, combining substances, began realizing that certain materials always reacted in the same proportions, which suggested that they had different underlying masses. The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z European military technology caught up to and then surpassed Ottoman capabilities over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Proud of their achievements, few if any colonists guessed that their loyalty to the British Empire would be strained past the breaking point by events in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Although the Axial Age concept dates back to the eighteenth century, its best-known proponent made his case in the 1940s. When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Thus, the Enlightenment did more to disrupt the social and political order by the late eighteenth century than most of its members ever intended. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent less than four hours on the ground with the troops who are fighting America’s longest war, now in its eighteenth year. Trump Is Running Out of Time for a Meaningful Diplomatic Deal—Anywhere 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Even as the curriculum of universities became less based on religion in the eighteenth century, they still largely fell under the wing of state and royal authorities rather than being autonomous. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The colony remained poor and underpopulated well into the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Thus did gin itself, during the craze of the eighteenth century, bear echoes of the lusts and the gross inequalities of the epoch. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, the nobility actively cultivated learning and social grace, hearkening back to the glory days of the Renaissance courtier and bypassing the relatively uncouth period of the religious wars. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Botany, too, with its history as a feminized pursuit from the eighteenth century, proved welcoming, as did palaeobotany, which was strongly female-oriented in the first decades of the twentieth century5. Careers and controversy before the First World War 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Over the course of the eighteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, France and Britain had also laid claim to the islands of the Pacific. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z According to current estimates, about 12 million Africans boarded the slave ships in Africa but only 10 million reached the Americas alive, about half of them in the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The madness that gripped the British capital in the first half of the eighteenth century was the worst and the most notorious phase in the saga of gin, but it was certainly not the last. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Education, music, and art became fashionable in Europe in the eighteenth century, and being witty, well- dressed, musically talented, and well read became a status symbol almost as important as owning a lavish estate. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Recall that in the eighteenth century, it was a slaveholding planter from Virginia who secured American independence. False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z While the overall numbers varied by location, the general trend was an increase in the number of captives being moved along the trans-Saharan corridors during the eighteenth century. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment and the Awakening both had profound effects on American views of public liberty. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Pippa’s husband worked on the eighteenth century in the history department at Leeds University; she had been the director of an archive at the city museum. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The eighteenth century was the height of so-called “polite society” among the nobility: a legally-reinforced elite that fancied themselves possessed of true “good taste.” Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The excavation is reportedly looking for overlooked tombs, and for those of the wives and sons of the kings of the eighteenth dynasty buried in the Valley of the Kings. Ancient Egyptian 'industrial zone' uncovered in Luxor's 'Valley of the Monkeys' 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, by which time thousands of sugar mills dotted the coast of Brazil and the Caribbean islands, 61,330 people traversed the Middle Passage each year. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Developments in the eighteenth century had brought a new population to the English colonies and accelerated the evolution of distinctive regional societies. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Back on the eighteenth green, Reid could barely process what had just happened. A young Payne Stewart rarely made it easy, even in victory - Golf Digest 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The eighteenth century saw the emergence of five states, all of which were monarchies, comprising what would eventually be referred to as the Great Powers. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s worth remembering that, as all this played out inside the White House, the Taliban almost showed up at Camp David, in time to mark the eighteenth anniversary of 9/11. Trump Finally Fired John Bolton, but Does It Really Matter? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Dutch instituted a system of forcing Khoisan children to serve “apprenticeships” until age twenty-five. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Like New York, most of the colonies that became the United States slowly took shape and found stability between the Restoration and the early eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In September, Pop will release “Free,” his eighteenth solo album. The Survival of Iggy Pop 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z French was also the international language by the eighteenth century: when a Russian nobleman encountered an Austrian and an Englishman, all three would speak French with one another. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the surrounding area and up through Scotland and Wales, sin-eaters would have been a familiar sight if not one exactly sanctioned by the church. Sin-eaters: journalists devour the sins of others but to what end? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z India was, in fact, the largest exporter of cotton cloth in the world by the middle of the eighteenth century. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Subsequent kings and ministers followed Walpole’s example, so British society and government became far more stable in the eighteenth century than it was in the seventeenth. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It is in the eighteenth century that we find the more familiar, hardened boundaries of racialized American identity. How we think about the term 'enslaved' matters 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Great Britain was both the perennial adversary of France in war during the eighteenth century and the most marked contrast in politics. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z For the better part of a decade, she immersed herself in every possible subject related to Frank: Poland in the eighteenth century, religion, mysticism, the Jewish enlightenment in Central Europe. Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Soon the British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Danes were also exporting captives from Africa to produce sugar, rice, indigo, tobacco, and, by the eighteenth century, coffee in the Americas. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Farther inland, some of the larger Indian societies began to recover their numbers in the eighteenth century, partly by absorbing survivors from smaller groups. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Those ideas—more or less orthodox policy today—were wildly original by the standards of the eighteenth century. The Invention of Money 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z France and Britain fought repeatedly in the eighteenth century over their colonial possessions. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z As the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries whiled away, more and more human labor became wrapped up in factories, where repetitive, mechanistic tasks would be repeated again and again, hour after hour. How being human got reduced to management 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z How do these historical legacies compare with those of other revolutions of the eighteenth century? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Backcountry settlement lagged until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a second generation of Germans and Scots-Irish began to overflow from Pennsylvania. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, countertenors were effectively displaced by castrati. A Millennial Countertenor’s Pop-Star Appeal 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Prussian army was a match of the much larger Austrian force, with the two states emerging as military rivals. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Realities of empire inevitably seep into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lunar literature. Moon on the mind: two millennia of lunar literature 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The loss of food-producing land in the late eighteenth century led to devastating famines that killed some thirty million people. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Rural dwellers of the middle colonies developed customs and land-use patterns that characterized much of the American frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His goal, he explained, was to explore the kinds of work written in the early eighteenth century for choirs to perform on specific occasions, such as a dignitary’s visit or a religious holiday. A Millennial Countertenor’s Pop-Star Appeal 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The eighteenth century was the culmination of many of the patterns that first came about in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Printed public notices were seen on public walls in the fifteenth century, but the modern-day poster did not emerge until the eighteenth century. How Posters Became Art 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the stresses caused by infectious disease and poor diets—the results of low wages and unsanitary living conditions—reduced life expectancy and increased infant mortality rates. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Tensions between religion and material prosperity had long troubled New Englanders and they intensified in the eighteenth century. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On Sunday, he watched the final round on the flatscreens at Berckmans, leaving vacant the folding chairs that a runner had placed for him and his housemates by the eighteenth green early that morning. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Ultimately, this would see the transformation of Britain from secondary political power to France’s single most important rival in the eighteenth century. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z For Crutzen, this started in the eighteenth century, but Haeckel maintained that human influence began much earlier, with the “era of cultivated forests”. Ernst Haeckel’s prescient view 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z It was named for Thomas Malthus, who had advocated limiting births in the late eighteenth century in order to prevent the human population from growing beyond the capacity of the land to support it. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z As conditions stabilized in the eighteenth century, the American economy grew more rapidly than its population. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Most shelters send kids to immigration detention centers on their eighteenth birthday, the moment they’re considered an adult. The Lost Boys of Galveston, Texas 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It emerged in the late eighteenth century and came of age in the nineteenth. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Wallace Collection, on Manchester Square, in central London, contains art works that were gathered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by successive Marquesses of Hertford. Joanna Hogg’s Self-Portrait of a Lady 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Johnson was born in the late eighteenth century, most likely on a plantation owned by a family named Hawkins, in North Carolina, near the Virginia border. Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Climbing the energy ladder from wood to coal between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, enabled industrialization. Model and manage the changing geopolitics of energy 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Another was the birth of Hasidism, in the eighteenth century, which used a fervent democratic mysticism to wrest authority away from Judaism’s learned élite. Modernity, Faith, and Martin Buber 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “Capitulation Agreements” that had begun as concessions to religious minorities had been extended to European merchants over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z After Schiller at the end of the eighteenth century, it was common to regard “art as the revelation of a superior truth with the power to redeem.” How the elite lost control of art 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z In many ways, these lessons of the eighteenth century have never been more relevant. An excerpt from 'Our Lost Declaration' 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z By the eighteenth century the tribes that inherited Hopewell territory were decimated by European diseases. How Yellowstone became the "most scientifically contested piece of ground in America" 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The rally, which will be the Trump campaign’s eighteenth in Wisconsin since June 15, will be held in Green Bay for the third time. Trump campaign announces Wisconsin rally on night of correspondents’ dinner 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Britain also fought Spain in both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ultimately acquiring Jamaica and Florida as colonies. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The tic seems both a comic allusion to the Mechanical Turk—a fraudulent chess-playing robot of the eighteenth century—and an unconscious confession of deeper insecurities: Robots will not replace us. Man, Woman, and Robot in Ian McEwan’s New Novel 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z During the War of American Independence in the late eighteenth century, for example, governance of the fledgling nation was based on a set of laws that started from first principles: the Constitution. The hidden influencers who code our world 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He grew up in Somerset, a county of sixty-six thousand in the southern part of the state that was established toward the end of the eighteenth century. Shrinking Newspapers and the Costs of Environmental Reporting in Coal Country 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z If Farrow & Ball had existed in France in the eighteenth century, it would have been Marie Antoinette’s first choice for decorating the Petit Trianon. The Luxury Paint Company Creating a New Kind of Decorating Anxiety 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z In Europe, sugar consumption doubled every 25 years during this period and it was ultimately the profits of sugar that helped bankroll the British growth in power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, a decisive break had occurred—the start of what Winters branded Romanticism, defined as the misbegotten idea that “literature is mainly or even purely an emotional experience.” John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Many students of science spend a fair bit of time learning about the theorists and experimentalists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stewpots and string: how scientists make do 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Most of the composers gathered for “Anima Sacra” were active in Naples or in Dresden during the first part of the eighteenth century. The Dizzying Democratization of Baroque Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z That narrative suggests that, by the eighteenth century, the Royal Society was dominated by trivial pursuits and aristocratic dilettantes rather than disciplinary experts. Rags, riches and Royal Society rebellion 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z This cycle of exchange grew decade-by-decade over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z This pluralism of approach continued into the eighteenth century. More than 2,000 years of elements: a prehistory of the periodic table 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “The Book of Night Women” tells the story of six enslaved half sisters living on a sugarcane plantation in the late eighteenth century who plot a rebellion against the overseer who fathered them. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Richard McCormick, the historian, noted, anti-corruption was a theme of every major political movement. What Kind of Populist Is Elizabeth Warren? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z During the religious revivals that swept Europe and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, being born again involved a newfound commitment to fighting societal ills, like slavery, poverty, and labor exploitation. Evangelicals of Color Fight Back Against the Religious Right 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Over the course of the eighteenth century, Latin steadily declined as the practical language of learning, replaced by the major vernaculars, especially French and English. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, some ships had become mobile labs in which instruments from sextants to chronometers were tested and improved, and ever more accurate sea charts plotted. Explorers at sea: centuries of science afloat 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Shortly before James’s eighteenth birthday, Hurricane Gilbert flattened Jamaica, leaving the island without power for months. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z So complete is our narrator’s rejection of her surroundings that she sticks to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature: “I did not like twentieth-century books because I did not like the twentieth century.” A Novel About Coming of Age Amid the Troubles 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The S.I. originated at the end of the eighteenth century with just the meter and the kilogram. The Kilogram Is Dead. Long Live the Kilogram! 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Newspapers, periodicals, and cheap books became very common during the eighteenth century, which in turn helped the ongoing growth of literacy rates. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z On the stump, Faso has been emphasizing his centrism, touting his spot on a ranking of congressional bipartisanship conducted by the nonprofit Lugar Center: eighteenth out of four hundred and thirty-five. “Local Politics Is Nice Politics”: Small-Town Concerns and National Implications in New York’s Nineteenth District 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Thirty examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are on view in “Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia,” at the Met. Winter Art Preview: Twentieth-Century Rebels and Polynesian Gods 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Titch picks little Wash—who narrates the tale from the perspective of his eighteenth year—simply because the boy is about the right weight to provide ballast for the flight. “Washington Black” Reveals the Bonds of Both Cruelty and Compassion 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, antimony, combined with lead, known as Naples Yellow, became the most popular version of the hue. Treasures from the Color Archive 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z In areas with relatively relaxed censorship like the Netherlands and Switzerland, numerous small printing presses operated throughout the eighteenth century, cranking out illegal literature. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z "Looking for work? Or looking for workers? Days and hours of work in London construction in the eighteenth century", Judy Stephenson, 2018. The Industrial Revolution could shed light on modern productivity 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Because, in the eighteenth minute of extra time, Walker took an ungainly, tired swing at a Croatian cross. World Cup 2018: The Tragicomic Opera of Croatia’s Mario Mandžukić 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z He turned pro just before his eighteenth birthday and, on the way to winning forty-five titles—including Wimbledon, twice—and reaching world No. 1, in November, 2016, he played more than eight hundred professional matches. Wimbledon 2018: Andy Murray Withdraws, a Testament to the Toll of the Game 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In the latter half of the eighteenth century, a new subculture emerged in England: the outlandishly dressed “macaroni men,” who flaunted a proto-dandy brand of masculinity that was often mocked as effeminate. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Even fairly rudimentary improvements in sanitation in the first half of the eighteenth century resulted in lower infant mortality rates and lower disease rates in general. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By the late eighteenth century, monarchy had conquered most of the Western world. The Rise of McPolitics 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z For them it was paneremos, the ‘uttermost desert’, while French travellers in the Sahara in the eighteenth century knew it as le désert absolu. From Lawrence of Arabia to Breaking Bad: the desert as a cultural oasis 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z In the eighteenth century the old world of Europe was shaken by a trumpet sound; the phrase the “Rights of Man.” The Kellogg-Briand pact: world treaty to outlaw war – archive, 1928 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Two of these are the rise of agriculture from 11,000 to 5,000 bc, and of industrialization from the eighteenth century to today. Planting the Anthropocene’s roots in globalization 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z There, the predominantly Christian subjects of the Ottomans enjoyed official religious toleration, but chafed at the tax burden and, increasingly by the late eighteenth century, resented the “foreign” rule of the Turks. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Many asylum founders of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries hoped to cure people of mental illness through a humane, psychosocial “moral therapy”. How asylums became the crucible of genetics 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The results showed that genes for flower quality, such as recurrent flowering, are located on chromosomal segments transmitted to modern roses from Chinese roses imported to Europe in the eighteenth century. DNA uncovers the source of a rose’s bloom 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z When Captain James Cook arrived in Polynesia in the eighteenth century on his journey of discovery, the tuber was already ubiquitous in the region. Sweet potato migrated to Polynesia thousands of years before people did 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Brown, Rutgers, Princeton — all of these Ivy Leagues were products of America’s religious revival period, the Great Awakening, that took place in the eighteenth century. Secularism isn’t working 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Now I say paradox because here was a Negro singing for a Jew and singing an old Italian aria of the eighteenth century, auditioning for an opera whose site was to be in South Carolina.” Perspective | ‘Porgy and Bess’ wouldn’t have been the same without this Washingtonian 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z But the book’s premise lies in the past: the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth century when, Pinker argues, reason, science, humanism and progress became the centre of intellectual endeavour in Europe and North America. The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Next are the pioneers of electromagnetism from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries: Benjamin Franklin, André-Marie Ampère, Hans Christian Ørsted, Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. How the planet’s poles keep trading places 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z In the late eighteenth century, use of coal instead of wood in iron production ushered in the Industrial Revolution. Make low-carbon energy an integral part of the knowledge economy Their ambitious book pursues the emergence of statistical thinking from the eighteenth century onwards, the relationship between qualitative and quantitative, and the ways in which normality has been a locus of social control. Perfectly normal Yet Bering's brainchild was certainly one of the largest, longest and most costly expeditions mounted in the eighteenth century. Polar exploration: The forgotten journey 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z As early as the eighteenth century, Europe’s Industrial Revolution saw villages shrivel as towns and cities became packed. Revitalize the world’s countryside 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z On her eighteenth birthday, a big party is held in the House of Dreams. Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction, in Fury 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The reference was not to the polar bear, unknown in Europe until the eighteenth century, but to Ursa Major, the most prominent circumpolar constellation in the northern skies. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z He made par on the eighteenth, took second place in the tournament, and declared the week the greatest of his life. Sergio Garcia’s Triumph of Persistence 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z By the turn of the eighteenth century, ancestors of his had settled near the border between Maine and New Hampshire, at a spot now marked by Dennett Road. Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z For instance, when organic chemistry was emerging in the eighteenth century, 'synthetic' referred to making organic compounds by human agency. Synthetic biology: Enter the living machine : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The winner, for the eighteenth consecutive year, was "any road vehicle". Brits 2017: The real winners and losers - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z They were generally obedient, but as the eighteenth century came to a close, colleges were increasingly filled with wealthy sons of elite families. How American Colleges Became Bastions of Sex, Booze and Fun 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Scurvy — a painful, weakening disease in which limbs may swell and gums rot — became prevalent among sailors in the early eighteenth century as adventurers voyaged around the globe. Medical research: Mariners' malady : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries came the rise of nationalism and, with it, linguistic nationalism, which held that the particularity of language was in fact an advantage, not a problem. A Language to Unite Humankind 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z American states began passing laws that made divorce legal in the late eighteenth century. What “Divorce” Understands About Marriage 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Great Britain’s 27, almost 20 fewer than those of the country whose upstart rebels bested them in the eighteenth century, the nation’s ur-victory. Killing people, breaking things and America’s winless wars: Details of the dismal U.S. military record 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z “Ev,” Waitstill began again, “do I understand from you that I am the eighteenth choice?” Why One Couple Risked Everything to Help World War II Refugees 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z By the end of the eighteenth century, concentrated lemon juice was routinely issued on British naval vessels — but even then, its efficacy was neither completely proved nor accepted. Medical research: Mariners' malady : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, French scientists proposed the metric system, and then French officials imposed it. Modernize radiation measurements to save lives 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z This year’s eighteenth annual Del Close Marathon featured a Diversity and Improv Breakfast, and a partnership with the New York City Department of Education has led to improv classes being offered in public schools. How the Upright Citizens Brigade Improvised a Comedy Empire 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He articulated the ancient idea that matter is built from fundamental particles in a way that aligned it with the quantitative principles of chemical reaction elucidated in the late eighteenth century. In retrospect: A New System of Chemical Philosophy : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z For instance, in treating the philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is conventional to cast it as a struggle between “rationalists” and “empiricists.” Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The eighteenth century’s pretensions to Enlightenment ended at the Tyburn scaffold, where wretches were publicly hanged for stealing a purse. Learning from the Slaughter in Attica 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The original suggested onset was the end of the eighteenth century, when the European industrial revolution’s large-scale coal-burning triggered rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Define the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Ball subsequently covers Zheng He's maritime explorations at the height of Ming-dynasty power in the fifteenth century, and the centrality of the Yellow River–Grand Canal administration to the state bureaucracy in the eighteenth. China: A hydrological history : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The story of a nobleman’s daughter who falls in love with an impecunious young tutor, “Julie” was the best-selling novel of the eighteenth century. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z But the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were one of those rare periods when a lot of people cared, because their sense of the world was decomposing so dramatically. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z One of their most popular products was the India pale ale, or I.P.A., a brew that has been around since the late eighteenth century. How Craft Brewers Advance Science, and Make Better Beer 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The introduction of vaccination in the late eighteenth century is often viewed as a defining moment, when modern medicine began to stem the ravages of disease. Medical research: Citizen medicine : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The way the story is usually told, it was in the eighteenth century that, for various unrelated reasons—sociological, religious, philosophical—it seemed important to distinguish personal likes and dislikes from disinterested appreciation. Why We Like What We Like 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z We got a closer look at him when he and the final RBC foursome played the eighteenth, a 414-yard par 4. Jason Day tests world's greatest golf-course feature - Golf Digest 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z And so eighteenth place awaited either Sunderland or Newcastle, their near-city rival. The Kings of Seventeenth Place 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The historian Constance Classen reminds us that in the eighteenth century touching the objects in proto-museums—cabinets of curiosities and amateur collections—was invited and expected and even, in a way, compulsory. What the Science of Touch Says About Us 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z After making a short putt, he had only the eighteenth, a narrow, uphill par four, left to negotiate. The 2016 Masters: Jordan Spieth Gets the Yorkshire Treatment 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, King Carlos III, hoping to promote the sale of Spanish products, outlawed the production of all alcohol in the Mexican colony. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Lobsters and oysters command high prices today, but in the eighteenth century, before refrigeration allowed them to be shipped to cities, they were the food of poor fishing communities. Make recycled goods covetable 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Writing in the eighteenth century about the decline and fall of Rome, the historian Edward Gibbon noted that: An army of none: The U.S. military is more powerful, less accountable and more dangerous than ever before 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Trump won his sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth states. Hillary Clinton Versus Donald Trump: The Battle Ahead 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z For the length of the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, truth seemed more knowable, but after that it got murkier. The Age of Facts Is Over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z He pioneered “originalism,” a theory holding that the Constitution should be interpreted in line with the beliefs of the white men, many of them slave owners, who ratified it in the late eighteenth century. Antonin Scalia: Looking Backward 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z And it’s one that, jarringly, harks back to the origins of jigsaws in the late eighteenth century, as dissected maps of the British empire – cultural objects of imperial ideology. Google's Jigsaw project has new ideas, but an old imperial mindset 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The line of beech trees were planted in the eighteenth century and are a popular tourist attraction. Game of Throne trees: Dark Hedges damaged by strong winds caused by Storm Gertrude - BBC News 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z They found that, for example, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, which were first recorded in literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, date to between 2,500 and 6,000 years ago. Creepy-crawlies, cultural tales and clever canines: this week’s hot topics 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, religious conservatives who resisted the Enlightenment stood against humanistic progress that they insisted was illusory. We have always been good haters: Our Donald Trump problem goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z They found eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Chinese porcelain, blue earthenware fragments, and the rim of a pearlware teacup, as well as the stem of a clay pipe and brown, olive, aqua, and purple glass shards. Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As the years went on, Welch became lengthily fixated on the Illuminati of the eighteenth century. The Unlikely Poster Boy of the Radical Right 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z In particular, he solved what many in the eighteenth century considered the most important open problem in astronomy: reconciling the complex motions of the Moon with Newton's universal law of gravitation. History: A mathematical revolutionary : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The play sketches in the political scheming going on at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The woman behind Queen Anne's reign - BBC News 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z As European colonialism engulfed Cherokee Country in the Southeast during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Cherokees began innovating their social and cultural traditions to better meet the challenges of their times. Why So Many Americans Claim Cherokee Ancestry 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The taxes they levied were monstrous by early modern standards—10 to 40 times heavier than in China in the late eighteenth century—and virtually all the money they collected went to fight wars. This Is How Europe Came to Dominate the World by the 20th Century 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z It is more or less unchanged from its heyday, which lasted roughly from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Antique Sport of Real Tennis, and the Woman Who Dominates It 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z In the late eighteenth century, French colonists emigrating from Haiti introduced elaborate balls and masquerade traditions to Trinidad. Brooklyn’s Carnival, Past and Future 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Surfing began somewhere in the distant past of Polynesian culture and by the mid eighteenth century, Captain James Cook sailed to Hawaii and saw locals climbing onto wooden boards and speeding along the waves. Science goes in search of the perfect wave - BBC News 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Benjamin Rush, who was a co-signer of the Declaration of Independence and practiced at Penn Hospital in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was known by colleagues as the Prince of Bleeders. The Ethics of Bloodless Medicine 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z This year, Lipe finished a disappointing eighteenth at the King’s Cup, dropping from within the top five on the tournament’s final day. The Battle Over Scrabble’s Dictionaries 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z After Cicero, examples in the literature thin out until the eighteenth century. What’s Behind Stagefright? 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z “I’m getting ideas again,” Sarazen said with a wink as he walked off the eighteenth green, a broad smile creasing his face. AP WAS THERE: 55 years ago, Alliss shoots 66 and sets record 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The examples above are from the eighteenth century, but we can also find examples of y’all in the seventeenth. Y’all: It’s Older Than We Knew 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Come tournament time, play the first and eighteenth as par-5s in the championship. Four Ways Chambers Bay Can Get Another U.S. Open: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Sullivan’s Island is where, in the early eighteenth century, four hundred thousand men, women, and children arrived from West Africa to be sold into bondage. Mercy and a Manifesto in Charleston 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z “By the beginning of the eighteenth century, most American colonies had enacted laws to regulate the behavior of African slaves,” Dulaney writes in his book “Black Police in America.” Policing While Black In NYC 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Upstairs in the Model Room sits a vast cork rendering of the ancient site of Pompeii, exactly as it was unearthed in the eighteenth century, alongside pristine plaster models of Soane’s own neo-classical architecture. In London, Creative Types Celebrate an Old Architect's Restored Apartment 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Outsiders first reported seeing them in the eighteenth century, not long after the Haida, skilled carvers from what is now British Columbia, moved into southeastern Alaska. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z As Jordan Spieth walked up the hill to the eighteenth green at Augusta around lunchtime on Friday, it seemed almost as if he were playing a tournament of his own. The 2015 Masters: Why Is Jordan Spieth So Good? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Still, when he spoke with ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi, after holing out on the eighteenth, there was a flash of the Old Tiger in his manner. The 2015 Masters: The “New Tiger” Avoids Embarrassment 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Gibbon’s broad, anti-religion thesis was popular for the eighteenth century, when science and secularism were the hottest buzzwords. What We Get Wrong About the Fall of Rome 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, the British deported the Garífuna to Central America; during the past fifty years, many have settled in New York. Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z George M. Fredrickson, in his study, Racism: A Short History, observes that, “the notion that there was a single pan-European or “white” race was slow to develop and did not crystallize until the eighteenth century. Selma’s white supremacy legacy: What America must reckon with today 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z That pirates made a significant contribution to the development of American democracy in the late eighteenth century. 5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z On the eighteenth floor—"the writer's floor"—a lone receptionist presides over a drab corridor lined with cubicles. 'The New Yorker at 40': Newsweek's 1965 Look Inside 'The New Yorker' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z As Helen and I were leaving that night, an editor named Pat Crow got on the elevator at the eighteenth floor with us. Confessions of a Comma Queen 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z My little girl, my Bella, had an extra eighteenth chromosome in every cell of her body, making a genetic code doctors call “incompatible with life.” An excerpt from "Bella's Gift" 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Mary Wollstonecraft, visiting in the late eighteenth century, lamented “how far the Swedes are from having a just conception of rational equality,” and her complaint was fair for years afterward. Does Scandinavia Have it All Figured Out? 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Pirate historian Marcus Rediker suggests that this might have been “one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the early eighteenth century.” 5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z As Europe’s Enlightenment was taking shape in the eighteenth century, pushing back against religious authority and ushering in modern science, the Arabian peninsula was heading in the opposite direction. House of cards 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z She knew me from chatting in the ladies’ room on the eighteenth floor. Confessions of a Comma Queen 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Information on sea levels from some sites dates back to the eighteenth century. Deep mysteries 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The means used in the eighteenth century remain among the best options to combat this warped world view today. Science and satire 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, sailors were commonly beaten, overworked, and underpaid, and were often starved or diseased. 5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Throughout the eighteenth century it was common to perform Romeo and Juliet and King Lear Lear in bastardized versions re-written by poet Nahum Tate. How 'Birdman' Betrays Raymond Carver: An Untold Story 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Historically both countries were the wealthiest on the planet: from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries jointly accounting for 50% of global GDP. Mr. Modi, You Must Solve India's Serious Globalization Problem! 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z By the time the buzzer sounded, she was hanging off her sheep at three o’clock, yet she never fell: fifty-four points—enough for eighteenth place. The Ride of Their Lives 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist at New York University, spoke about the decimation of the Steller’s sea cow, which was hunted for sport—and for its blubber—in the eighteenth century. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Curator Who Never Sleeps 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z |
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