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  2. Joseph Wright of Derby - Wikipedia

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    The building is named after the eighteenth-century painter because his "artwork captured the many scientific and technological advances of the Industrial Revolution." [13] In early 2013 Derby City Council and Derby Civic Society announced they would erect a blue plaque on his home at 27 Queen Street in Derby. [14]

  3. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

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    The full moon in the picture is significant as meetings of the Lunar Circle (renamed the Lunar Society by 1775) were timed to make use of its light when travelling.. Wright met Erasmus Darwin in the early 1760s, probably through their common connection of John Whitehurst, first consulting Darwin about ill health in 1767 when he stayed in the Darwin household for a week. [8]

  4. History of Florida - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, Florida with over 19 million people, surpassed New York and became the third most populous state in the U.S. [5] The economy of Florida has changed over its history, starting with natural resource exploitation in logging, mining, fishing, and sponge diving; as well as cattle ranching, farming, and citrus growing.

  5. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution in the United States was advanced by the immigration of Samuel Slater from Great Britain and arrival of textile mills beginning in Lowell, Massachusetts. In the south, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney radically increased the value of slave labor.

  6. History of art - Wikipedia

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    Art historian H. Harvard Arnason stated "a gradual metamorphosis took place in the course of a hundred years." [185] Events such as the Age of Enlightenment, revolutions and democracies in America and France, and the Industrial Revolution had far reaching affects in western culture. People, commodities, ideas, and information could travel ...

  7. Henry Flagler - Wikipedia

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    Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio.He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway.

  8. Florida land boom of the 1920s - Wikipedia

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    Florida's economic decline predated the start of the Great Depression. Therefore, it had fewer resources and more debt "than other regions of the nation." Large amounts of local debt financing through bonds worsened the economic situation in the state with most of it coming from the years of the land boom.

  9. Arts and Crafts movement - Wikipedia

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    William Morris' design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862. The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.