1860s
IPA: z
noun
- The decade from 1860 to 1869.
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Examples of "1860s" in Sentences
- GOP Republican Conservatives = Union and Anti-slavery abolitionists in 1860s
- The 1860s was a decade in which beauty was increasingly seen as a commodity.
- Kekulé in the 1860s is that carbon can bind at most four other atoms (tetra-coordination).
- He's only too willing to share his views on sex among other things, which are definitely reminiscent of the '60s ... the 1860s, that is.
- South Carolina has been threatening to act out that fantasy since the days of Henry Clay, and in the 1860s was the first state in a series to actually follow through with that threat.
- Of course, Barbour would have called Abraham Lincoln "the most liberal" president ever if he'd been around back in the 1860s, which is apparently where his politics and morals are still located.
- The fact that there were no airplanes in the 1860s is a flimsy excuse, especially when you consider that Lincoln gives us the best model I know of for dealing with e-mail and Twitter, which were both invented some time after 1870.
- The only historical documents I've read from the 1860s are the Gettysburg address, a poetic speech, and Leaves of Grass and THAT is how I understand those times, and I think years from now, poetry will still be how we understand times, these time included.
- So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e.
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