In the 1840s Australian and American traders flocked in search of sandalwood, sea cucumbers and other Pacific delicacies to trade for tea in China.
Dedicated to Ma Cho Po, goddess of the sea, it was built in the 1840s by early Hokkien immigrants from China in gratitude for safe passage to Singapore.
And they have been broken continuously since the first intercollegiate sporting event in the 1840s when Harvard allegedly used ringers against Yale in a boat race, sponsored by a railroad company.
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In the 1840s and 1850s it happened with American railroads and in the 1920s with the shares of airline companies, most of which had never operated a single aeroplane.
In the 1840s, an English author famously wrote that if every person in China lengthened his shirttail by a foot, British cotton mills would work around the clock.
But because the saxophone had been invented in the 1840s, it had missed out on all the great music that was written in the 18th century, and when people heard the horn they had no desire to rewrite that music to include the saxophone in it.
The introduction of poisonous spores devastated the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s.
The first to appreciate the catastrophic effects of stress-reversals were railway engineers in the 1840s.
It's the same general area Abraham Lincoln served during his one term in Congress in the 1840s.
During the U.S-Mexican War in the 1840s ABS gave copies of the holy book to both Mexican and American forces.
Arriving in the 1840s, European settlers found the Nelson region at the top of the South Island perfect for the propagation of hops.
The Butterley Gangroad, which was engineered by Benjamin Outram, was modernised in the 1840s and turned into a narrow gauge railway.
Plans for the revamp of the Shelley Theatre in Boscombe, Dorset, were displayed in the 1840s building at an event on Saturday.
The telegraph was invented in the 1840s, but during the pivotal 1860 campaign, large parts of the country still were not wired.
Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, recently spoke of his regrets about the British government's failures during the Irish potato famine in the 1840s.
Red tides were documented in the southern Gulf as far back as the 1700s and along Florida's Gulf coast in the 1840s, the commission said.
Women would in fact work for less, so less they got: in one 1840s London parish, on average, 45% of a male labourer's pay for single women, 65% for widows with children.
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The first, 'The Gilded Cage', centres on Nightingale's sense of frustration as a highly educated young woman, from a wealthy upper middle-class family, who was prevented from following her ambition to be a nurse in the 1840s and early 1850s.
"I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body, " Charles Dickens wrote in the 1840s after he visited that Philadelphia prison, which is now a museum.
The "story" is about how wool has been dyed and hand spun into tweed by islanders for centuries and how in the 1840s it was first brought to the attention of commercial markets by a widowed aristocrat, Lady Dunmore, after she fell in love with the material.
Other islands that lost island status when developers joined their landmass with the mainland include Darling Island, which became part of the mainland in the late 1840s and later became the base of Darling Harbour, a popular restaurant and entertainment hub in the suburb of Pyrmont.
The Texas Rangers used this model in the early 1840s--hence the Texas Paterson moniker.
Victory in the Mexican-American war in the late 1840s led to the first big influx of Mexicans to the United States.
The painting by the founder of the American art movement known as the Hudson River School was given to Seward when he was governor of New York in the early 1840s.
And women were active in Britain's embryo trade unions and radical politics in the 1820s-1840s.
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Dr Heather Shore, a social history expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, describes the period of the 1830s and 1840s as one in which a great deal of "big society"-type activity was undertaken.
"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.
Over the years, however, the maid has shown a protean capacity for outliving and reshaping herself, particularly since the 1840s when Jules Quicherat revived interest in her by publishing the first scholarly transcripts of her trial in 1431 and of the 1456 retrial that rehabilitated her.
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