By the 1800s Russian aristocrats took to carting live sturgeon with them when they traveled, so the fish could be sliced open and their roe salted and served fresh.
By the late 1800s, European-borne diseases such as small pox had decimated the Haida population to triple figures.
By the late 1800s, agents from Prudential and other companies were making the rounds in immigrant communities collecting premiums on small policies.
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By the late 1800s the Royal Yacht Squadron had become a social nexus abuzz with the beautiful mistresses of King Edward VII and with American heiresses on the prowl for British aristos.
But by the mid-1800s North America was in common use for mere geography, and by roughly 1900 the sheer weight of the much enlarged United States had enabled it to annex America as its own.
Transformed in the early 1800s by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) from a south-coast fishing village into a fashionable spa, Brighton boasted a railway connection with London as early as 1841 a couple of years after Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot published their historical findings on how to fix images made by the effects of light.
He argued that gigantea should be renamed elephantina, the name chosen by his French compatriots in the 1800s.
Unesco has withdrawn geopark status from an area of the Highlands that inspired work by scientist Charles Darwin in the 1800s.
Though some of the archaeology had been damaged by the market's construction in the 1800s enough remained to show evidence of buildings on the site as well as a large amount of pottery and various other items such as intaglio gemstones used in jewellery.
He looked at a collection of settlers' photographs taken in the late 1800s by Solomon Butcher, whose work is by far the most important documentary tool for sod-house researchers.
The house, built in the 1800s, had been owned by the university since the 1960s.
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Indians were first brought to Fiji by Britain in the late 1800s to cut sugar cane, and they now make up more than 40% of the 800, 000 population.
Mr Sullivan cleverly uses the rat as a way of burrowing into New York's hidden history and forgotten men, such as Kit Burns, a rat-pit impresario, who ran the city's most popular entertainment in the mid-1800s until cornered by crusading animal-rights activists.
His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.
As early as the 1800s, twin births in Sweden were recorded by priests in town parishes.
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Even by 1800s standards, Jim Pud Galvin didn't have the ideal body to be a pitcher.
Only when these experiments failed did emigration (much of it paid for by landowners) increase, leading to a drop in population in the late 1800s.
Though London was heavily damaged by the bombings of World War II, vestiges of the city's 1800s architecture survive in quaint pubs, spooky alleyways and monkish courtyards ringed with Georgian features.
We should not accept a school in South Carolina that was built in the 1800s, where kids are having to learn in trailers, and every time the railroad goes by the tracks, the building shakes and the teacher has to stop teaching.
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In the early 1800s, typical publications were the Gazette of the United States, a pro-Federalist newspaper sponsored by Alexander Hamilton, and Jefferson's National Gazette, a pro-Republican party publication.
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