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Card Games and Gambling in 16th to 19th Century Art

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Written by Sophie Jackson
Parent Category: 18th Century History Articles
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If asked to think of paintings that depict betting, your mind might conjure the image of Coolidge’s ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ or Cezanne’s ‘Card Players’. Indeed, there was a time when those poker-playing dogs decorated the wall of every bar across America. Cezanne’s slightly impoverished looking poker players, meanwhile, became all the more famous for having been sold at a whopping $300 million in 2012. 

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Libraries in the 1700s

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Written by Frankie Wallace
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Libraries today are very different creatures from their 18th-century counterparts. For one thing, with shifting technologies and generational attitudes, libraries have moved away from being places to strictly borrow books. Now, they are community resource centers and hubs for people looking to do everything from research projects and archive requests to applying for a job or streaming a movie.

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America's Documents of Freedom

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Written by Rick Brainard
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"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

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How Was Surgery Performed During the 18th Century

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Written by Frankie Wallace
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The 18th century wasn’t exactly known for its stellar surgical techniques. Chances are, though, that they did the best they could with what they had and knew.

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How railway travel influenced people’s lives in Britain in the 19th century

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Written by Cynthia Madison
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If you want to find more about the history of the British Rail, then you should find the story of how people traveled in the post-war period in the UK. Rail travel not only that influenced the history of Britain, but it transformed the relationship the island established with the rest of the European countries. The rail technology developed by the British Rail in the 19th century had a huge impact on people’s lives, some people compare it with the impact the internet has today.

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Progress In Literature

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Written by George Makepeace Towle
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With English laws, customs, Protestantism, habits of thought, and methods of culture, we also inherited the English literature. So rich was already this inheritance when our colonies were settled, that there was little need or incentive for the early Americans to strike out into new literary paths, and create an original literature. Our ancestors read Milton, Bunyan, Doddridge, Butler, Dryden, Pope, and Shakespeare.

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On This Day in History For the Month of February

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Written by Rick Brainard
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Take a look at the important events that took place in the month of February.

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Famous Birthdays in February

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Here are the famous people who were born in February. Look down the list and see if the person born on the day of the month matches yours if you were born in February.

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