• Thousands of Welsh people left their homeland in search of a brighter future in South America in the 19th century.

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  • They fled to North America in the 19th Century to avoid persecution, but many Hutterites still speak with a heavy German accent and they mostly talk and pray in a German dialect.

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  • In Europe, the market has generally preferred hand-carved frames to those common in England and America in the 19th century, which were adorned with molded and applied ornament made from "compo, " a plasterlike composition material.

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  • Some European countries tried, and failed, to stop artisans emigrating to America in the early 19th century.

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  • John Menzies, for example, a lawyer for the Church of Scotland and the Scottish American Trust, traveled 35 times to America, no small thing in the 19th century.

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  • Computers, software and telecoms now account for about 12% of America's total capital stock, not far short of the share accounted for by railways at the peak of America's railway age in the late 19th century.

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  • Morgan, the bank that came to dominate finance in America by the end of the 19th century.

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  • "Chongqing is to China in the 21st century what Chicago was to America in the 19th, " Mr. Cameron said during a speech at Chongqing University.

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  • British railwaymen chose Stephenson's standard gauge over Brunel's wider one in the first half of the 19th century, as they did in America and most European countries.

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  • Thus, it is impossible to understand the development of liability law in the 19th century without placing it in the context of America's breakneck industrialisation.

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  • 's outlets in America are a kind of throwback to the 19th century, when nearly every newspaper had an overt political affiliation, Harvard University sociologist Theda Skocpol said.

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  • The Malthusian crash was staved off in the 19th century by bringing more land under the plough in North America, Argentina and Australia especially.

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  • And America has protected its industries before, as they did in the 19th century.

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  • Gen LaGreca is the author of the award-winning medical thriller, Noble Vision, and of the forthcoming historical novel, A Dream of Daring, which explores the great power struggle and clashing visions for the future in mid-19th century America.

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  • In the 19th century Alexis de Tocqueville marvelled that in America the opulent did not stand aloof from the people.

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  • Among the wealthier volunteer militia in early 19th-century America, competition was fierce.

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  • Nearly 125km northwest of the Chilean capital Santiago, coastal Valparaiso was a key player in the 19th-century maritime trade between Europe and North America.

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  • The blackface minstrel act was a very popular form of entertainment in 19th-century America.

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  • Oscar Handlin in Social History of America at Harvard University in the 1950s that the vitality of our nation was the stream of immigrants in the 19th century looking for opportunity, religious freedom, political equality.

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  • Roughly 85% of all furs start out as farmed animals on unmarked plots of land, often to avoid the attention of animal rights activists. (Farming started as a U.S. practice in the 19th century.) Ranchers, most of them in northern Europe and North America, breed mink, foxes and chinchillas for consistency of color and texture.

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