100 countries; or Travelers Group‚ whose businesses covered credit services‚ consumer finance‚ brokerage‚ and insurance. As such‚ the company history dates back to the founding of: the City Bank of New York (later Citibank) in 1812; Bank Handlowy in 1870; Smith Barney in 1873‚
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literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris (Montmartre‚ Montparnasse and Puteaux) during the 1910s and extending through the 1920s. Variants such as Futurism and Constructivism developed in other countries. A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne‚ which were displayed
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the program‚ but were unable to see the pictures of the characters or where the story was taking place. Another invention was the telephone. It might have been invented in the 1870’s‚ but it was not until the 1900’s until it became more available to the public. The amount of people who had a telephone from 1900-1910 more than doubled in the numbers who had the telephone. Many In 1907‚ the television design was made to be practical. Many families only had a single television in their home.
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Between 1880 and 1910‚ however‚ Africa was divided up among the Europeans. For the next 50 years decisions affecting Africa and its people were made not in Africa‚ but in London‚ Paris‚ Lisbon‚ and other European capitals. France acquired a huge empire in North and West
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The Impressionism term was coined in 1874 after a hostile critic‚ Louis Leroy‚ had seen a picture entitled _Impression: Sunrise_ by Claude Monet (Janson 721) and gave the art work a sarcastic review. Impressionism came into prominence between the 1870 and the 1880 (Janson 721). As with each new art movement‚ they are a response to the previous period and Impressionism is no different. It was a reaction to the realism and the classical matter defined by academies‚ Impressionism set out to break these
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Englishmen‚ Japanese(s)‚ Australians and South Africans. England saw the banjo from a different perspective and innovated this instrument with additional bass strings‚ short thumb strings and building materials (Edmondson). For a moment of time in the 1870s‚ many Europeans even saw the banjo as a women parlor instrument. In Europe‚ people sat in seats in a concert or clubs‚ shushing people so they could listen to the harmonic sounds that came out of the banjo. By 1850‚ a voyager named Matthew Perry introduced
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was greatly influenced throughout 1870-1917. There were many profound changes‚ however the American industrialization and urbanization were the most rapid and unquestionably the most important. The industrialist brought forth household names that are still around today such as Swift‚ Armour‚ Westinghouse‚ Pillsbury‚ Pullman‚ Rocketfeller‚ Carnegie‚ and Duke. Due to the rapid movement of industrialization‚ so began a movement of urbanization. Between 1860 and 1910‚ urban population increased sevenfold
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Ransom Slack By: Veda A The Civil War was gruesome and tough and many people died. The Civil War was a big part of society‚ without the Civil War there could still be slavery or the states could still be not united. With the loss of a lot of young men made it difficult for everyone. Ransom A. Slack enlisted in the Army when he was 20 years old‚ he was a soldier in the Civil War. Almost everyone had at least one family member go to war. Boys as young as thirteen joined the war to be a drummer
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defence for the harbour of the capital city‚ Brisbane‚ situated 15 km inland‚ and represents the colony’s first response to the need to provide for its own defence system following the withdrawal of the British Imperial Garrisons in the 1860s and 1870s. Fort Lytton continued to be Brisbane’s main coastal defence point until WWII‚ when it became an inner defence fortification protecting the largest US Navy submarine base in Australia. The highly intact remains demonstrate the transformation of the
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at Princeton University. His publications include The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924–1936 (1986)‚ A German Identity (1989)‚ and International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996). He is also a coauthor of The Deutsche Bank 1870–1995 (1995). PETER B. KENEN‚ Director International Finance Section INTERNATIONAL FINANCE SECTION EDITORIAL STAFF Peter B. Kenen‚ Director Margaret B. Riccardi‚ Editor Lillian Spais‚ Editorial Aide Lalitha H. Chandra‚ Subscriptions and
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