Word: mid-19th
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...late for Yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a humanitarian solution in Chechnya. The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet Empire. The invasion of Chechnya could unravel the Russian Federation. And the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace. Is the cold war really over...
...pile of smoking rubble, the killing might not stop. A Russian army of occupation would be subject to hit-and-run raids by Chechen guerrillas holed up in the Caucasus Mountains south of the city, as czarist armies were held off for no less than 47 years in the mid-19th century...
Boston's population did not become significantly Irish, however, until the mid-19th century, when immigrants flocked to the city to avoid Ireland's potato famines. Since then, the Irish-American community has become a permanent fixture of Bostonian society. For 104 out of the past 110 years, the mayor of Boston has been of Irish origin...
...Greta Garbo. The story's adaptability to the opera stage, the ballet stage, and even the silver screen is remarkable, and perhaps is owed to the simplicity of the heroine's tragic plight. Called Violetta in Verdi's opera, she is a consumptive courtesan in the decadent world of mid-19th century Paris, older and more worldly than her counterpart Dumas' play...
...time of the premiere, Verdi was himself living 'in sin" with his mistress, and this opera is fierce attestation to the moral confines of mid-19th century Europe...