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  2. 1890s - Wikipedia

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    The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful). In the British Empire, the 1890s epitomised the late ...

  3. 1890 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    4 March: Forth Bridge is opened. 4 January – first edition of the Daily Graphic, the first British 'picture paper'. [1]11 January – the British government delivers an ultimatum to Portugal forcing the retreat of Portuguese military forces from land between Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.

  4. Social season (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The events of Julian Fellowes's novel Past Imperfect take place during the 1968 season in London. In the 2003 film What a Girl Wants, Lord Henry Dashwood invites his new-found daughter Daphne to attend the London Season. The 2009 young-adult novel The Season by Sarah MacLean portrays a young woman entering her first London Season.

  5. Column: Trump's glorification of the 1890s in America ...

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    In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...

  6. The 1900 House - Wikipedia

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    The 1900 House in question is 50 Elliscombe Road, Charlton, South-East LondonAn 1890s-built two-storey terraced house with a drawing room, a dining room, a kitchen, a scullery, a bathroom, three bedrooms (there were actually four, but one was used as a safety room with a telephone) and an outside loo.

  7. History of public health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The new public health (2014): 1-42 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415766-8.00001-X. . Ward, John W. and Christian Warren, eds. Silent Victories: The history and practice of public health in Twentieth Century America (Oxford UP, 2007) online; Twenty two long scholarly articles. covering full range of. public health topics. in 20th century.

  8. Timeline of London (19th century) - Wikipedia

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    10 March: The first British census is carried out. London's population is 128,129 in the City, 831,181 in the county, and 1,114,644 in Greater London. [7] 25 April: Humphry Davy begins his popular series of scientific lectures at the Royal Institution's Albemarle Street headquarters. 1802

  9. Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    Hunger and poor diet was a common aspect of life across the UK in the Victorian period, especially in the 1840s, but the mass starvation seen in the Great Famine in Ireland was unique. [ 87 ] [ 85 ] Levels of poverty fell significantly during the 19th century from as much as two thirds of the population in 1800 to less than a third by 1901.