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The Cathedral of Sainte-Marie-Majeure or La Major, founded in the fourth century, enlarged in the 11th century and completely rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century by the architects Léon Vaudoyer and Henri-Jacques Espérandieu. The present day cathedral is a gigantic edifice in Romano-Byzantine style.
Pennsylvania ranks 19th overall among all states in agricultural production. [156] Its leading agricultural products are mushrooms, apples, Christmas trees, layer chickens, nursery, sod, milk, corn for silage, grapes (including juice grapes), and horses production. Pennsylvania ranks eighth in the nation in winemaking.
Di Stefano's youth membership card at River Plate Born in Barracas , a neighborhood of Buenos Aires , Di Stéfano was the son of Alfredo Di Stéfano, a first-generation Italian Argentine (his father Michele emigrated to Argentina from Capri in the 19th century), and Eulalia Laulhé Gilmont, an Argentine woman of French and Irish descent with ...
It seems that the first Christmas tree in Italy was erected at the Quirinal Palace at the behest of Queen Margherita, towards the end of the 19th century. [123] In Italy, the oldest Christmas market is considered to be that of Bologna, held for the first time in the 18th century and linked to the feast of Saint Lucy. [125]
A scientist millions of years in the future, in two experiments with time machines, uses boxes of educational toys as test objects. One lands in the 19th century and influences Lewis Carroll's writing of the poem "Jabberwocky". The other arrives in 1942 and causes two children to develop parahuman abilities incomprehensible to their parents.
Arizona remained sparsely settled for most of the 19th century. [74] The 1860 census reported the population of "Arizona County" to be 6,482, of whom 4,040 were listed as "Indians", 21 as "free colored", and 2,421 as "white". [75] [76] Arizona's continued population growth has put an enormous stress on the state's water supply. [77]