A great place to look things like this up for a brief definition is Wikipedia.
"<span>Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850."
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People believed that the gods decided who would ascend, so they had to show they were worthy of ascending. If someone had personal success, that may mean that the God wanted them to ascend.
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The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire<span> occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007 in </span>Charleston South Carolina<span>, </span>United States<span> and claimed the lives of nine firefighters. This had been the highest number of firefighter fatalities in a single event since the </span>September 11 attacks<span> until June 30, 2013, when nineteen Prescott, Arizona, firefighters from the elite "Granite Mountain Hotshots" team died at the </span>Yarnell Hill Wildfire<span>. The fire was believed to have started in some discarded furniture in the loading dock area, and though the source of ignition has been left undetermined, there is reason to believe that it may have been a discarded cigarette.</span>
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