From the 1850s to the 1860s, according to Lohr, immigration into Russia increased by a factor of five. There was a net immigration of 4.5 million people into Russia between 1860 and 1917. Up to ...
Watch 68-year-old Billy Gibbons show off his double time-warp house - with the inside set in the 1950s and the outside an 1850s Wild West town - complete with 10 fridges, a sheriff's office ...
a time when women’s wardrobes were veritable prisons of corsets and crinolines. Popularised by feminist Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who entered the scene in the 1850s wearing trousers that puffed out ...
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a man of 45 for $1,850, and at woman of 23, with her child of 5, for $3,950. Twenty-five hundred dollars, then, may be taken as the standard price of first-class slaves in the Confederacy ...
Maltby, Josephine and Rutterford, Janette 2006. ‘She possessed her own fortune’: Women investors from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Business History, Vol. 48, Issue. 2, p ...
The novels Charles Dickens wrote in the 1850s, with their capacious social canvases and their voice of social reform, seem to invite readings of their political message. No less so does the career of ...
steamer that brought passengers to and from Central America to the east coast of the US during the 1850s. The ship sank during a Category two hurricane in September 1857, killing 425 out of 578 ...