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Birmingham Journal

The Birmingham Journal (nineteenth century) was published between 1825 and 1869 and was a direct ancestor of today's Birmingham Post.


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Amrita Cheema

She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland, Bonn, before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service in Cologne.

Atlantis Ascendant

The album's primary story and lyrical concept as written by vocalist-lyricist Byron Roberts centres on the exploits of a fictional nineteenth century British archaeologist and adventurer named Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, who has dedicated his life to the field of antediluvian anthropology and to seeking out evidence as to the true nature of mankind's origin.

Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Burton, Wiltshire

The altar is crowned with a late nineteenth century reredos, which is a Doulton terracotta panel of the Last Supper by George Tinworth.

Cotham Church

The large stone low in the enclosing wall along Cotham Road is part of Bewell's Cross, which marked the boundary of the city until the nineteenth century.

Culm Valley Light Railway

The valley of the River Culm was an attractive, but remote and declining area in the early nineteenth century, containing the villages of Uffculme, Culmstock and Hemyock.

Daniel Billmeyer House

During the later part of the nineteenth century architect Walter Cope lived in the house.

Darin Nesbitt

Dr. Nesbitt has since authored a number of conference papers, reviewed books, peer reviewed academic articles, and published in academic journals such as Polity and Paideusis. His principal research interests revolve around British Idealism, particularly the late nineteenth-century thinkers Thomas Hill Green and David George Ritchie.

Dick's Hotel

Associated with the political movements of the late nineteenth century, especially the growing labour movement, it was also the scene for farewells to contingents from NSW to the Boxer Rebellion and the Boer War.

Gottlieb Schuler

It could be said that The Age lost prestige under his editorship, but circumstances in Australia were changing rapidly, it is unlikely that any newspaper will have the power wielded by The Age under David Syme and Arthur Windsor during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Hayes, Bromley

Parts of the church date back to the thirteenth century; however it was subject to heavy restorations by George Gilbert Scott and John Oldrid Scott in the nineteenth century.

Herbert Philips

By the mid-nineteenth century the extended Philips family held properties and businesses throughout Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the family seat in Heybridge, Staffordshire, which Herbert inherited from his father Robert Needham Philips, M.P. for Bury.

History of manifolds and varieties

In the mid nineteenth century, the Gauss–Bonnet theorem linked the Euler characteristic to the Gaussian curvature.

Hugues Lebailly

He is known for his work on nineteenth-century English literature, particularly his studies of Lewis Carroll which, in combination with the work of Karoline Leach and others, have begun a reassessment of Carroll's life and personality.

Johann Jakob Bachofen

Gossmann, Lionel (1984) "Basle, Bachofen and the Critique of Modernity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century", in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes; 47, pp.

Joyce Coad

Drums of Love (1928), directed by D.W. Griffith, is set in the middle of the nineteenth century in South America.

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most important mulatto trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Lasakau sea warriors

The relationship between the Roko Tui Bau as sacred King and the Vunivalu of Bau as his warlord hence underwent a role inversion in the early nineteenth century.

Los Llanos de Aridane

In its vicinity are 11 stunning Indian laurels (Ficus microcarpa) which together with royal palm trees were brought from Cuba by migrants in the mid-nineteenth century to beautify the ride of your hometown.

Martha Saxton

Professor Saxton has undertaken biographies of figures as diverse as 1950s bombshell Jayne Mansfield and nineteenth-century author and reformer Louisa May Alcott.

Metz family

This second generation included Auguste Metz, Charles Metz, and Norbert Metz, who were all leading liberal politicians during the early stages of Luxembourg's independence, in the mid-nineteenth century.

Mount Lyell

:Note - the Mountains named after Charles Lyell were done so in the nineteenth century during the controversy about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Günter Beck, a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, compared Lisa's role in the episode to the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

Mulesing

In Australia, it is thought that the fly primarily responsible for flystrike, Lucilia cuprina, was introduced from South Africa in the nineteenth century.

Murrumbidgee District

The Murrumbidgee District was a district (also called a squatting district, pastoral district or grazing district) used in New South Wales in the nineteenth century to refer to the land between the Murrumbidgee River and Murray River, that is now mostly known as the Riverina region.

Nawab Abdul Latif

Abdul Lateef was one of the first Muslims in nineteenth century India to embrace the idea of modernization.

Newton, Singapore

Originally Syed Ali Road, Newton Road was renamed in 1914 after Howard Newton (died 1897), the Assistant Municipal Engineer in late nineteenth century Singapore, in order to avoid confusion with Syed Alwi Road.

Nicodemus, Kansas

Pearl Cleage's play Flying West takes place in Nicodemus in the late nineteenth century.

North Stoneham

Until the nineteenth century, it was a rural community comprising a number of scattered hamlets, including Middle Stoneham, North End, and Bassett Green, and characterised by large areas of woodland.

Once a week

Once A Week (magazine), a magazine published in England during the mid-nineteenth century; it contained the eight-part serial "The Notting Hill Mystery" — the world's first published detective story — that was later published as a novel The Notting Hill Mystery

Oromo language

The few works that had been published, most notably Onesimos Nesib's and Aster Ganno's translation of the Bible from the late nineteenth century, were written in the Ge'ez alphabet, as was the 1875 New Testament produced by Krapf.

Peggielene Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most prominent biracial slave trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Sainshand

The restored Buddhist monastery Khamariin Khiid (Khamar) is 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city, and Sainshand itself houses a museum dedicated to the nineteenth century monastic and literary figure Danzanravjaa, a prominent leader of the Nyingma (Red Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Shanghai–Nanjing Railway

The project was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry at the end of the nineteenth century.

Sidney Sonnino

Leopoldo Franchetti's half of the report, Political and Administrative Conditions in Sicily, was an analysis of the Mafia in the nineteenth century that is still considered authoritative today.

Solfège

In Anglo-Saxon countries, "si" was changed to "ti" by Sarah Glover in the nineteenth century so that every syllable might begin with a different letter.

Sunderland Lustreware

Several potteries were located along the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland in the Nineteenth Century.

Tantur

Tantour, a headdress worn by Levantine women during the nineteenth century

The Wallet of Time

Its title is taken from the words of William Shakespeare: "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,..." American stage actors and actresses, most of whom had been born in Europe, of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century are the subjects covered in the publication.

Thomas H. Hughes House

Thomas Hughes' house was built in the nineteenth century in a Greek Revival style.

Tympanoplasty

In the middle of the nineteenth century the British otologists James Yearsley and Joseph Toynbee each developed their own form of artificial eardrum.

Viennese coffee house

The heyday of the coffee house was the turn of the nineteenth century when writers like Peter Altenberg, Alfred Polgar, Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch and Friedrich Torberg made them their preferred place of work and pleasure.

Walter John Mathams

Walter John Mathams was a nineteenth-century British hymnwriter, soldier and minister, who attended Regent's Park College in London in the 1870s as a Baptist ministerial student before converting to the Established Church of Scotland in 1900.

Werewoman

In late nineteenth century Asaba, in the Igbo region of what is now Nigeria, witches were often thought to be werewomen, and a close connection was thought to exist between all women and witchcraft.

William Valentine Black

William Valentine Black (21 February 1832 – 1 April 1927) was a nineteenth-century Utah pioneer, and one of the early settlers of Manti, Spring City, Rockville, and Deseret, Utah.

Yang Ti-liang

Yang was born in Shanghai on 30 June 1929 to an influential family which had roots in what was Nanguan in Xiangshan County of Guangnan East Circuit (now Zhongshan, Guangdong Province) since the early twelfth century, although they had resided in Shanghai since the early nineteenth century.

Yves Beauchemin

The panoramic canvases of his novels capture the teeming life of the streets, reflecting their author's appreciation of such great nineteenth-century writers as Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Gogol.