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- noun the decade from 1820 to 1829
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Examples
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I wanted to know more about George and his family in 1820s New York state.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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I wanted to know more about George and his family in 1820s New York state.
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Edward Hartery was also a new arrival from Ireland in 1820s; he married Elizabeth Kelly, first-generation Irish Newfoundland daughter of Catherine and Cornelius Kelly (agent at Cape Broyle for the Koughs), and they established themselves on land near the Kelly home. 34
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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In fact, the property qualification was so obvious at the time, and opposition to it so abnormal, that US History texts often fail to point out that “Jacksonian Democracy” in the 1820s was the result of the abandonment, state by state, sometimes with violence, of the property qualification.
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In fact, the property qualification was so obvious at the time, and opposition to it so abnormal, that US History texts often fail to point out that “Jacksonian Democracy” in the 1820s was the result of the abandonment, state by state, sometimes with violence, of the property qualification.
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England in the 1820s was a gloomy place to live; it had emerged triumphant from a long struggle on the Continent, but now it seemed locked in an even worse struggle at home.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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England in the 1820s was a gloomy place to live; it had emerged triumphant from a long struggle on the Continent, but now it seemed locked in an even worse struggle at home.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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The growing Indian settlements near the pueblo in the 1820s were a matter of concern to Los
latimes.com - News 2011
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In the 1810s and 1820s, Benjamin Rush authored a series of sexual manuals for the new nation in which he declared that indulgence in bodily pleasures, “when excessive, becomes a disease of both the body and mind.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The sad result of Bloomfield's decline into obscurity (a process that led to obituaries terming him a forgotten man even by the mid 1820s) has been a lack of scholarly editions of his work.
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