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1840s
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The decade from 1840 to 1849.
en 1993 Ronald Aminzade Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kTbybLDLPiAC&pg=PA68&dq=%22ready-made%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cA7zVJmmBaK2mwXClILoDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ready-made%22&f=false 68 During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops.
en 1996 Craig M. Wright Listening to Music 9780314067524 Lisztomania swept across Europe. Despite their obvious sensationalism, Liszt's concerts in the 1840s established the format of our modern-day piano recital. He was the first to play entire programs from memory (not reading from music).
en 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From William Woys Weaver 2013 146 1565126866 The Lumper, as they call this particular variety of pots, is a symbol of this Irish dilemma, for this is the infamous potato that failed in the 1840s and caused the great famine. The Lumper is therefore one of the most historic of all the heirloom potato varieties now preserved under the careful eye of historic museums and potato enthusiasts alike, myself included.
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en Decades