The first great globalisation lasted from around 1840 to 1914 and was in its way a far more dramatic occurrence than the integration of world markets that has been taking place since 1945.

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Westminster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of important medieval remains, is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture.

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English enamel boxes were made from 1753 to 1840.

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Patarei, built as a sea fortress under Russian tsar Nicholas I in 1840, but served as a prison from 1920 to 2005.

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In 1840, Napoleon's remains were interred in Les Invalides in Paris, having been brought from St.

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Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.

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