victorians in A Sentence

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    But the Victorians actually did it.

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    The Victorians were great engineers.

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    Nothing is more important than keeping Victorians safe.”.

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    They are not Victorians.

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    The Victorians were crazy about them, and I can see why.

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    Victorians come from more than 200 countries, speak 260 languages and dialects and follow 135 religious faiths.

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    Victorians come from more than 200 countries, speak 260 languages and dialects and follow 135 religious faiths.”.

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    They tried to save the Victorians, but they were only able to evaluate the properties and register them.

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    Many of our festive traditions- from exchanging cards and pulling crackers to decorating trees- were popularised by the Victorians.

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    Many of our festive traditions- from exchanging cards and pulling crackers to decorating trees- were popularized by the Victorians.

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    The module is organized around the following significant themes, which galvanized the Victorians, as much as they concern us today:.

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    Responding to the growth of noisy and dirty industrial cities, Victorians began to idealise the home as a sacrosanct space.

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    In many classic Victorians the ceilings have hand painted designs and the landscape has large lush trees with mature plants and shrubs.

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    In the 19th century, before festive Christmas cards became the norm, Victorians put a darkly humorous and twisted spin on their seasonal greetings.

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    Following its presentation to the world at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, the stereoscope- a device that makes images appear 3D- mesmerised Victorians.

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    Victorians believed that digestion could be aided by sitting in the dark, and so, dining rooms were built in the basement, close to the kitchen.

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    Events where attendees could be hypnotized, speak to the dead, or have their palms read were extremely popular, and hucksters would make huge money off of bored Victorians.

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    Imagine that the Victorians had tried to tackle typhoid by advising everyone to live in the countryside near clean wells, rather than by building sewers and water treatment plants.

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    Many Victorians first encountered Dartmoor through Rowe's writings but the discussion of these texts in my history of modern Dartmoor shows that a new generation of preservationists and amateur archaeologists did not take Druidical theories very seriously.

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    When the Victorians built the UK's railway system a century and a half ago, the scale of this new technology and the visual and environmental changes it brought to urban and rural landscapes alike were immense- and hotly debated.

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    The Victorians even came up with a law called"breach of promise" by which you could sue someone for breaking off your engagement and thereby wasting your most marriageable(and fertile) years- Australia only dropped it from law with the 1961 Marriage Act.

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    It turns out that Jerry Cruncher's involvement with the theme of resurrection is that he is what the Victorians called a“Resurrection Man”, one who(illegally) digs up dead bodies to sell to medical men(there was no legal way to procure cadavers for study at that time).

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    It turns out that Jerry Cruncher's involvement with the theme of resurrection is that he is what the Victorians called a"Resurrection Man", one who(illegally) digs up dead bodies to sell to medical men there was no legal way to procure cadavers for study at that time.

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