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  • 81DISPUTATIONS AND POLEMICS — in the pagan environment the christian environment and mission dialogue with tryphon celsus in the christian and muslim medieval milieu gregory of tours and priscus gilbert crispin christian religious drama chronicle of ahimaaz 12TH CENTURY in… …

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  • 82Jacques Offenbach — Offenbach in the 1860s Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a Prussian born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann …

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  • 83Wellington boot — The Wellington boot, also known as a wellie, a topboot, a gumboot, or a rubber boot, is a type of boot based upon Hessian boots. It was worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy …

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  • 841860s in fashion — 1860s fashion in European and European influenced clothing is characterized by extremely full skirted women s fashions relying on crinolines and hoops and the emergence of alternative fashions under the influence of the Artistic Dress movement.… …

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  • 85Victorian dress reform — During the middle and late Victorian period, various reformers proposed, designed, and wore clothing supposedly more rational and comfortable than the fashions of the time. This was known as the dress reform or rational dress movement. The… …

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  • 86Julius Soubise — (1754 25 August 1798) was a freed Afro Caribbean slave who became a well known fop in 1760s/1770s Britain. He was one of the most prominent black persons in Britain at the time. citebook|author=Lars Eckstein|title=Re Membering the Black Atlantic …

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  • 871910s in fashion — Fashion in the years 1910 1919 is characterized by a rich and exotic opulence in the first half of the decade in contrast with the somber practicality of garments worn during the Great War. Men s trousers were worn cuffed to ankle length and… …

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  • 88allemande — /al euh mand , mahnd , al euh mand , mahnd /; Fr. /annleu mahonnd /, n., pl. allemandes / mandz , mahndz , mandz , mahndz /; Fr. / mahonnd /. 1. a 17th and 18th century dance in slow duple time. 2. a piece of music based on its rhythm, often… …

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  • 89stage design — Aesthetic composition of a dramatic production as created by lighting, scenery, costumes, and sound. While elements such as painted screens and wheeled platforms were used in the Greek theatre of the 4th century BC, most innovations in stage… …

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  • 90Doris Langley Moore — OBE (1902–1989) also known as Doris Langley Levy Moore, was one of the first important female fashion historians. She founded the Fashion Museum, Bath (as The Museum of Costume) in 1963. She was also a well respected Lord Byron scholar, and… …

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