Then came the horrors of World War I, with the advent of tanks and airplanes and poison gas. |
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Like Lent, the season of advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden. |
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Their auxiliaries, until the advent of the French, were wholly undisciplined. |
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I would venture to say that advent is something America needs right now, religious or not. |
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Until the advent of more modern fiction, pixie mythology was localised to Britain. |
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At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. |
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With the advent of the lively Bourbon Dynasty in Spain in the 1700s, the island of Puerto Rico began a gradual shift to more imperial attention. |
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Transatlantic crossings became faster, safer, and more reliable with the advent of steamships in the 19th century. |
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Before the advent of widespread ensilaging, it was traditional to gather the corn into shocks after harvesting, where it dried further. |
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The advent of the Industrial Revolution in Britain provided a great boost to cotton manufacture, as textiles emerged as Britain's leading export. |
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Perhaps even more significantly, with the advent of the Reformation, the notion of Christendom as a unified political entity was destroyed. |
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With the advent of written representations, formal rules about language usage tend to appear also. |
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All of the auxlangs with a surviving speaker community seem to have benefited from the advent of the Internet, Esperanto more than most. |
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The advent of the Internet in the 1990s has also given Morris sides a new platform upon which to perform. |
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Regnal years were generally used for year marking in East Asia before the advent of era names. |
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However, this reason has become less important with the advent of rapid transcontinental travel. |
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The advent of official public prosecutors in the later decades of the 19th century largely displaced private prosecutions. |
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The advent of Protestantism saw something of a return to the idea of a mere unchallengeable despot. |
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Before the advent of television, radio drama had a huge popular audience and dominated much of the broadcast schedule. |
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Prior to the advent of paper currency, bills of exchange were a common means of exchange. |
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The rise of theistic devotional trend of the Bhakti movement and the advent of Sikhism. |
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However, with the advent of World War II, even this reduced immigration quota was not reached. |
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The advent of Mass production and the standardized, interchangeable parts guaranteed a parts' compatibility with a variety of vehicle models. |
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Europe began to transit from human and animal muscle labor towards mechanical labor with the advent of the water wheel. |
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With the advent of speedier and thriftier production methods, steel has become easier to obtain and much cheaper. |
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Many of these were professional models, but there were some used for home recording and were popular before the advent of home tape recording. |
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Farming had been a traditional occupation for centuries, although it became less dominant in the 20th century with the advent of tourism. |
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Popular taste changed with the advent of Modernism, affecting the types of photographs that he produced. |
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The heightened attention to issues of representation is precipitated, in good part, by the advent of new, supervisual media. |
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The Achaemenian kings welcomed the new year, and the advent of spring, with lavish court receptions and exchanges of gifts. |
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Before the advent of machine tools, metal was worked manually using the basic hand tools of hammers, files, scrapers, saws and chisels. |
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Before the advent of rail transport, the seaports of Hull and Whitby played an important role in transporting goods. |
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These games were the first to be broadcast worldwide on television, enabled by the recent advent of communication satellites. |
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European rugby was further expanded with the advent of the European Challenge Cup for teams that did not qualify for the Heineken Cup. |
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Internet accessibility is fast coming to the sea with the advent of cheap satellite communication, mainly from Inmarsat. |
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The advent of the automobile enabled the average American to tour the West. |
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The advent of the new Six Nations format coincided with this Irish resurgence. |
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The area passed through his family until the advent of the Normans in the 11th century. |
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With the advent of the 20th century, things such as motion pictures, automobiles, and aeroplanes were coming into use. |
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Since the advent of universal suffrage, the differences between county and borough constituencies are slight. |
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With the advent of air brakes, a separate system also allowed the driver to control the brakes on all cars. |
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Before the advent of industrialisation, this system resulted in the emigration of many rural Basques to Spain, France or the Americas. |
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After the advent of state funded universal education, the Church was not permitted to carry on educational, instructional activity of any kind. |
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Stories involving magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature. |
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The advent of audio recording technology provided folklorists with a revolutionary tool to preserve vanishing musical forms. |
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Scotus's works were collected into many editions, particularly in the late fifteenth century with the advent of printing. |
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His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. |
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In recent years, this has changed considerably with the advent of the Internet and increased travel. |
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Furthermore, many feminists argue that the advent of VCR and consumer video allowed for the possibility of feminist pornography. |
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With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, numbers of Southern German towns closed their brothels in an attempt to eradicate prostitution. |
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Protohistoric may also refer to the transition period between the advent of literacy in a society and the writings of the first historians. |
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The resulting stability allowed for the English Renaissance, and the advent of early modern Britain. |
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With the advent of the Renaissance, the Polish language was finally accepted on an equal footing with Latin. |
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The Positivist period lasted until the turn of the 20th century and the advent of the Young Poland movement. |
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The Regulus missile program was deactivated with the advent of Polaris in the Pacific. |
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The advent of transatlantic jet travel helped to boost American participation in The Open. |
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The use of silver nitrate and silver halides in photography has rapidly declined with the advent of digital technology. |
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In the 1870s the advent of coal mining to the south of the town gave renewed impetus to the local economy and population growth. |
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This pattern continued after the Second World War despite the advent of Welsh medium education. |
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With the advent of the Great Depression, employment within the Rhondda Valleys continued to fall. |
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Since then, better transport and the advent of tourism have helped the city prosper again. |
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It is only with the advent of computer programs and geographical databases that thorough analysis has become possible. |
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With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, Britain surged ahead of its European rivals. |
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There is no doubt that the advent of the League has brought increased media coverage for its member clubs. |
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Until the advent of the NICAM and MTS systems, television sound transmissions were invariably monophonic. |
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The advent of artificial refrigeration technology has since made delivery of ice obsolete. |
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Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania. |
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There is, however, a temporal separation between the earthly crystallization of Quranic calligraphy and the advent of the Quranic revelation. |
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Prior to the advent of industrial whaling, great whales may have been the major food source for killer whales. |
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The advent of the steam turbine in central station service, around 1906, allowed great expansion of generating capacity. |
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With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, goods produced by slavery became less important to the British economy. |
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With the advent of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the SNP became the second largest party, serving two terms as the opposition. |
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The advent of containerisation meant that the city's docks became largely obsolete, and dock workers were thrown out of jobs. |
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Since the advent of HIV testing of donor blood in the 1980s, the transmission of HIV during transfusion has dropped dramatically. |
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The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart. |
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With the advent of the steamship, it became possible to create massive gun platforms and to provide them with heavy armor protection. |
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This shore base, or 'stone frigate' was called HMS Boscawen later to become, with the advent of the helicopter, HMS Osprey. |
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The advent of plate tectonics has explained the vast majority of orogenic belts and their features. |
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Before the advent of modern antibiotics, oil of thyme was used to medicate bandages. |
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It was known for a long time and was encountered by Fridtjof Nansen but was only fully understood with the advent of satellite imagery. |
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Until the advent of automated navigation, competence in calculating tidal effects was important to naval officers. |
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Before the advent of satellite imagery in 1961, however, many tropical cyclones were underestimated in their durations. |
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This varied advent occurred in greater proportions on the 100th and 150th anniversary. |
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The advent of the Second World War pushed many struggling enterprises into bankruptcy as labour and materials were diverted to the war effort. |
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With the advent of motor vehicles, dust became a serious problem on macadam roads. |
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Changes in alphabet and spelling were heavily influenced by the advent of printing and continental printing practices. |
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The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online. |
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The advent of the democracy cured many of the ills of Athens and led to a 'golden age' for the Athenians. |
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Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax. |
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It was only with the advent of American Unitarianism that it gained a foothold in the Unitarian movement. |
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Galleys continued in use in the Mediterranean until the advent of steam propulsion. |
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In 1957, with the advent of the Admiral's Cup, points won in this race counted towards the Admiral's Cup. |
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With the advent of streaming RealAudio over HTTP, streaming became more accessible to a number of radio shows. |
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Druids began to figure widely in popular culture with the first advent of Romanticism. |
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Until the advent of Modern Dutch after 1500, there was no overarching standard language but the dialects were all mutually intelligible. |
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These trends continued with the advent of mass media and global communication. |
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His poeticized version of a news flash about the advent of AIDS electrifies, as it should, like unexpected lightning. |
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This ended with the advent of the Scottish Parliament, which legislates for Scotland. |
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It is too soon to identify how the advent of electronic communications will modify and change the performance and transmission of folklore artifacts. |
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Anticarrier operations received a substantial boost in effectiveness with the advent of fast nuclear boats armed with long-range anti-shipping missiles. |
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Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity and before the advent of agriculture. |
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Nevertheless, some portions of the empire survived until the advent of global decolonisation following World War II, namely the East Indies and Dutch Guiana. |
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After the advent of the Prime Ministerial system under the Whig Robert Walpole, Lord Bute's premiership in the reign of George III marked a revival. |
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At the end of the 1980s, before the advent of speed enforcement devices, owners of supercars, many employed in the financial service industry in the City and in Docklands. |
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The advent of the Internet has provided the electronic way of book distribution without the need of physical printing, physical delivery and storage of books. |
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With the advent of the Internet, many of these directories are now online. |
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Very little is known about Southeast Asian religious beliefs and practices before the advent of Indian merchants and religious influences from the 2nd century BCE onwards. |
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With the advent of printing came the Robin Hood broadside ballads. |
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The first production music library was set up by De Wolfe in 1927 with the advent of sound in film, the company originally scored music for use in silent film. |
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Since the advent of the lucrative replica kit market, the away kits have been changed regularly, with Arsenal usually releasing both away and third choice kits. |
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This also suffered due to the deforestation of Bermuda, as well as the advent of metal ships and steam propulsion, for which it did not have raw materials. |
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With the advent of the modern feminist movement, women as politically dissimilar from each other as Virginia Woolf and Emma Goldman embraced Wollstonecraft's life story. |
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The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex. |
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In archaeology, the Iron Age refers to the advent of ferrous metallurgy. |
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The advent of containerisation in the second half of the 20th century resulted in the port gradually moving a mile further downstream to enable new wharves to be constructed. |
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A reliable means of propulsion for the submerged vessel was only made possible in the 1880s with the advent of the necessary electric battery technology. |
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However, this mentality would be severely questioned with the advent of the Agadir crisis, when the Admiralty's war plans were heavily criticized. |
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However, the advent of Napoleon's First French Empire saw Naples taken at the Battle of Campo Tenese and Bonapartist King of Naples were installed. |
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The advent motor vehicles created a demand for better use of highways. |
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Inland water transportation remained significantly important even as the advent of railroads and automobiles resulted in a steady decline of canals. |
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Even in the interior of large landmasses, transportation before the advent of extensive railroads was largely dependent upon rivers, canals, and other navigable waterways. |
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With the advent of the Information Age at the end of the 20th century, modern humans live in a world that has become increasingly globalized and interconnected. |
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The chances of a successful labor increased significantly during the 20th century in wealthier countries with the advent of new medical technologies. |
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Remains of organisms found within sediment layers near the mouth of the Mississippi River indicate four hypoxic events before the advent of artificial fertilizer. |
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Also significant was the advent of soul music as a major commercial force. |
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With the advent of punk rock and technological changes in the late 1970s, progressive rock was increasingly dismissed as pretentious and overblown. |
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After the advent of the Malagasy independence, the Madagascans tried to reinstate Malagasy as a language of instruction especially in secondary schools. |
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With the advent of widespread competition among seagoing nations during the Age of Discovery, Portugal and Spain considered such maps to be state secrets. |
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Since the advent of world cruises in 1922, by Cunard's Laconia, thousands of people have completed circumnavigations of the globe at a more leisurely pace. |
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This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes, and was one of the first ways to achieve a fast black before the advent of artificial dyes. |
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The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur. |
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The advent of improved colour printing techniques meant that more faithful reproductions of originals could be made, which enabled Heaton Cooper's popularity to spread. |
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