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During the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the pioneers and innovators in textiles, steel, and railroads were not, on the whole, rewarded with immense riches: their profits were competed away.

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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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