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4 days ago · Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
4 days ago · A discussion of the key events and personalities of the late 18th- and early 19th-century Romantic movement in literature, music, and art. It contains dialogue based on letters and documents of the period.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · By the start of the 19th century, Russian territory extended from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea in the south, and from the Baltic Sea in the west to Alaska, Hawaii, and California in the east.
4 days ago · 19th century 1800s. 1800: Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic pile, an early form of battery in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani. 1802: Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until the invention of efficient electric generators).
4 days ago · Archival sources from 19th and 20th century Britain and North America related to Spiritualism, Sensation & Magic, Circuses, Sideshows & Freaks, Music Hall, Theatre & Popular Entertainment, and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments & the Advent of Cinema.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2015
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2 days ago · For the rest of the 19th century, the Royal Navy helped enforce what became known as the Pax Britannica—i.e., the long period of relative peace arising from a balance of power between the major European states that depended ultimately on the use of British maritime supremacy.
5 days ago · 19th-century liberalism saw much more clearly the precise function of an individualistic middle class. The aristocracy had traditionally lived by bending local and central government to its will, as an instrument of rent-seeking and fount of status and privilege.
