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George Washington Julian George Washington Julian
George Washington Julian , 1817-99, American abolitionist, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1849-51, 1861-71), b. Wayne co., Ind. Elected to the Indiana legislature as a Whig in 1845, he later became prominent in the Free-Soil party and in 1849 was sent to Congress by a coalition of Free-Soilers... Read more
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Thomas Girtin , 1775-1802, English draftsman and watercolorist. He was apprenticed to an engraver but was employed, together with J. M. W. Turner, to make topographical drawings. Girtin was among the first to paint naturalistically in watercolor, abandoning the tinted drawing for a direct painting... Read more
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WOMEN'S FASHION Radical Changes Women's fashions in the 1920s reflected radical changes affecting many areas of post-World War I American society. In the first year of the decade the Nineteenth Amendment had given these women the vote, which, in turn, tended to color their... Read more
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unauthorized programme, 1885. Between 1883 and 1885 Joseph Chamberlain and John Morley organized publication in the Fortnightly Review of a series of articles—on land, housing, religion, education, and taxation—republished as The Radical Programme (1885) with a fiery preface by... Read more
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