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While America’s oldest universities date to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the American system of higher education took shape in the early nineteenth century, under conditions in which the market was strong, the state was weak, and the church was divided.

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This was discovered by Francis Galton in the nineteenth century.

Although he’s best known for his short horror stories, Poe was actually one of the most versatile and experimental writers of the nineteenth century.

Written in the early nineteenth century, Austen's novels decode the sheltered lives of the upper classes in rural England.

However, even as released on DVD, the film is still one of the better depictions of bushranger life in nineteenth century Australia.

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