Many societies have also practiced extreme forms of public torture and execution, as was the case in Europe before the 18th century.

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No one before the late 18th century had ever asked them, or thought to read the plays or sonnets for biographical insights.

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One expert on the Crown Jewels said, by definition, all diamonds produced before the mid-18th Century were of Indian origin since no other country mined them.

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The new photography could only hint at where the original lines of text once were, but it recorded the 18th Century inscription describing the re-erection of the cross before it, too, is weathered beyond recognition.

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Brenton Simons, president and chief executive of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, said renderings of family trees date at least to the 18th century in the U.S. and stretch back centuries before in other countries.

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But if we go back before the 20th Century, we have other peaks of sentiments, emotion and weeping in the late 18th and up to the mid-19th Century.

BBC: The myth of Britain's stiff upper lip

Vice-captain Clarke had added his 18th Test half century before he was trapped lbw via the referral system to Brett Arnel in the morning session.

BBC: Australia move closer to Test win against New Zealand

His tours focus on well-known Perth landmarks, such as the Swan River and the Old Swan Brewery, and explains what their role was before 18th-century Europeans arrived in Australia.

BBC: Australia rediscovers its urban indigenous heart

He passed off some of his compositions as the work of faux-18th-century composers and waited many years before revealing that they were actually his own.

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