Just as World War II defined the beginning of the modern age, the sinking of the Titanic really marked the end of the 19th Century.
We have come a long way since the notion of heroism that prevailed at the tail end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
Father Christmas and the Christmas tree, the inventions of Nordic pagans, did not enter the average home until the end of the 19th century, but are now well established.
She was fought over by both the defenders and accusers of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain wrongly found guilty of selling military secrets to the Germans at the end of the 19th century.
The so-called head flask was found in South Shields at the end of the 19th Century.
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Morgan, the bank that came to dominate finance in America by the end of the 19th century.
They came to the United States with immigrants from Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century.
At the end of the 19th century, a dealer offered Harrison's personal pocket watch to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
The private club was established by British visitors as a winter tourist destination towards the end of the 19th Century.
There was a big one towards the end of the 19th Century.
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By the end of the 19th century hand-knotted rugs were Persia's largest export to the West and a source of Persian cultural pride.
The Dow, which has been trading since the end of the 19th century, has risen 130-fold since 1900, including a doubling in the past decade.
"People were coming into Wales at the end of the 19th Century from England, and there were definitely soccer and rugby areas in Wales, " he said.
As Italians began to emigrate to the US at the end of the 19th Century, many settled in South Philadelphia where the market took shape to cater to the new community.
There have been some pretty brazen examples in the past - perhaps none more so than the case involving the world-famous US magician Harry Kellar at the end of the 19th Century.
Towards the end of the 19th century humans began to color the built environment: they began painting their houses, decorating their interiors, replacing wood, whitewash and leather with reds, blues, whites, greens, purples, yellow.
It is said that it got going at the end of the 19th Century in Buenos Aires' brothels, where a melting pot of poor immigrants and country folk danced together while waiting their turn to slip behind the bedroom door.
At the end of the 19th Century, locals flocked to the seaside resorts of Las Sombrillas or Barranquito, and Barranco quickly became a favoured hangout of poets, writers, painters and sculptors, inspired by the coastal scenery and lapping waves.
As the U.S. had a more open educational system in place by the end of the 19th century, it was able to educate its citizens to the secondary level earlier and in greater numbers than anywhere else in the world.
At the end of the 19th century, inspired dealers realised that there was a great deal of art in Europe and a great deal of money in America, and the marriage between the barons of capitalism and the market for Old Masters was consummated.
When William Wrigley settled on gum as the way to make his fortune in Chicago at the end of the 19th Century, he had no idea that the brands he created - Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint - would still be growing, more than a century later.
David Wondrich, a cocktail expert with a great sense of humor and an amazing drinking pedigree dove right in weaving the history of polar exploration with the rise of cocktail culture at the end of the 19th century, and while he was talking Mr. Lee chipped quietly away at his precious ice blocks, crafting hand-hewn ice cubes for a later use.
According to Christopher Breward of the Victoria and Albert Museum the tailed morning coat finally gave up to the lounge suit with the rise of American business culture at the end of the 19th century.
If prices are falling because of advancing productivity, as at the end of the 19th century, it is a sign of progress, not economic collapse.
Quick background: in an effort to attract fellow northerners south for the winter, Bostonian James Tufts built a grand resort near Southern Pines, NC at the tail end of the 19th century in what he believed to be a place with an especially healthy climate.
In some ways, this turns the clock back on television because the pattern in television, really, the pattern in all visual media since the Lumiere brothers at the start - at end of the 19th century more or less invented motion pictures has been faster, faster and faster.
Jane Eyre was a forceful and resource character who, when beginning life at the wrong end of the gender and class relations of 19th century England, did the best with what she had and prevailed.
The Palace was built in the 19th century to celebrate the end of the War of Spanish Succession, and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
The increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century just reflects the end of the Little Ice Age.
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