Even the supine French court sensed that something nasty was happening in Paris in the 1780s.

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In the 1780s, the Continental Congress financed the Revolutionary War with the printing press.

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He argues that the euro zone is at a similar stage to the embryonic United States in the early 1780s.

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So, beginning in the 1780s, the bodies were transferred in carriages at night to a new, final resting place in the old quarries.

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But they were also aristocrats, creatures of their time fearful of what they considered the excessive democracy taking hold in the states in the 1780s.

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The decade of the 1780s brought one crisis after another.

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Back in the late 1780s when Madison and Hamilton were trying to get the recalcitrant former colonists to line up and ratify the Constitution, they faced this issue squarely.

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In the 1780s, Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal.

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