18441929

18441929 is a numeric string that most often appears as a reference to a date range indicating a life span or a historical period spanning the years 1844 to 1929. In biographical and historical writing, birth and death years are typically presented after a name with an en dash, as in 1844–1929, to signal the individual's lifespan. The unpunctuated form 18441929 occurs occasionally in databases, archival catalogs, filenames, or identifiers where spaces or punctuation are not practical.

As a life-span marker, 1844 to 1929 covers a broad swath of modern history. It includes the latter part of the 19th century during the expansion of industry, science, and empire, through World War I, and into the late 1920s, a period of social and technological transition and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. The exact significance depends on the person or topic being referenced; the same date range could apply to many individuals or movements.

There is no single entity universally associated with the string 18441929; rather, it functions as a conventional way to encode a birth year and death year, or to denote a period within historical analysis. In scholarly and bibliographic contexts, it is more common to see the separated form with an en dash or a hyphen, such as 1844–1929 or 1844-1929.

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