How To Use Century In A Sentence
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The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
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Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
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The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
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One of the earliest lullabies in English was written during the time of King Edward II of England in the 14th century.
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Mao was your typical twentieth century despot, and only moon-eyed Communists would beg to differ.
Chairman Mao in a Dress Not Funny?
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The term aesthetics was coined in the eighteenth century by the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten from the Greek word aisthetikos meaning “perceptive, especially by feeling”.
MARKETING AESTHETICS
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It was here that the Gaelic tongue first arrived in the fourth century - and with it came that form of the stick game which has evolved into the modern sport of shinty.
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It should also be noted that there are no contact-period materials from the Johnson site and that the only historic materials recovered date to the nineteenth century and did not occur in the provenances associated with the figurines.
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His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures.
To the charreada with stars in her eyes
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The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
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Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century.
New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
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Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.
Billy Budd
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He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
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In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment.
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Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
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But if there was no national style, there were local variations such as the monasteries and churches at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth in the seventh century.
Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches
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His great-uncle started the business in the mid-19th century when he moved to Bradford from Turkey to trade in opium for the pharmaceutical trade, wheat, barley, fur and mohair.
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Yet he occupies an important position in the history of 18th-century art and his reputation deserves to stand higher than it does.
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Or “incurve,” a term commonly used as the nineteenth century became the twentieth.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
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In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
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Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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It had the appearance of an 18th century church.
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To the rear is a large dining room-added on early this century.
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My guess would be that her headmaster born in the late 16th century, no doubt, when men were men and rules were rules rapped her on her noggin for inelegance at some crucial point in her development, and voilà!
Author! Author! » 2010 » March
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The term guerilla warfare didn't come about until later -- early 19th century.
"Kill Him!"
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Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187.
Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
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From the late nineteenth century Britain and other European powers began to gain control of parts of the Ottoman Empire.
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We are in the second decade of a century of great promise and great peril.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
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Over the south door, the twelfth-century carving of Christ in Glory is seated in a niche, within the traditional mandorla.
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The babel of languages used in science by the late 19th century was a good argument for a universal, ideally neutral language.
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One promising profession that's emerging this century is wildlife preservationist.
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It was, in fact, the accidental discovery of several mind-altering drugs in the middle of the 20th century that drew me into research on brain functions and mental illness.
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And in almost all of the lusterware there's the constant reminder of the debt owed to the 12th - and 13th-century Persian ceramic tradition.
Upper Broadway's Buried Treasures
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Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life.
Time Tripping
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Almost half a century later their privileged lifestyle and their aura of being an exclusive caste still attracted comment.
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Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with
The Columbian stories: Columns
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With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
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A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain.
Neth Space
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There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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In America, gift giving at Christmastime began in the 17th century when early Dutch settlers introduced St. Nicholas to the New World. St.
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All of modern art since the middle of the previous century had been based on rebellion against academicism and Ingres was the painter most associated with academicism.
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While contemplating the possibility that the Baraita is a Karaite forgery intended to attack rabbinic Judaism, Horowitz finally opted for a rabbinic origin, and concluded that it was composed around the fourth century, in Palestine.
Baraita de-Niddah.
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The document was put together in September of 2000 by The Project for the New American Century, a conservative think-tank fathered by Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard.
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In the beginning of the ninth century St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, states that all are obliged to observe xerophagy during those seasons
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Did the deflation of the 19th century inhibit economic growth?
Times, Sunday Times
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Booth paints a grim picture of life in the next century.
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In the 16th century, English mastiffs were famous for their courage and ferocity as war dogs, and were used in Spanish armies both in Europe and America.
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The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
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During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies.
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
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The 16th century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before.
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S · Eliot is one of the most influential poet literary critic in the 20 th century.
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The upper part of the gablet over the centre doorway is of the seventeenth century, and bears the shield of Sir George Hay of Kinfauns, who rented the lands of the bishopric about the beginning of the seventeenth century, the crozier being added to the shield in connection with the lands of the see. [
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Within a 17th-century half-timbered house, at Le Bistro de Claude, some of the most powerful people in the cognac business are partaking of seriously good cuisine.
A Slow Path to Perfection
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The story - probably apocryphal - is that William Webb Ellis at Rugby School in the nineteenth century picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it, inventing rugby.
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The students would stay at the thirteenth-century Dominican priory while the brothers took a brief holiday; Mass would be said each day in the priory's chapter room.
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Beijing is contending for the leadership of the twenty-first century.
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The splendor of the ancient calligraphical productions of Greece, [79] and the still later ones of Rome, bear repeated testimony that the practice of this art had spread during the sixth century, if not earlier, to these powerful empires.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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The cembalo was the favorite instrument in Italy during the seventeenth century, and in England it had a great currency under the name of harpsichord.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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He was one of the finest American prose stylists of the twentieth century - is also on the list.
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Originally dating from the late 17th century this attractive trifid top pattern has three prong forks and a low relief based scroll and shell design, typical of the period.
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Godiva was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia, one of the three great earls of 11th-century England.
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building was extended by addition of east and west wings linked to the centre by colonnades tracing the path of the old road.
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In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
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In Seattle at the very end of the 20th century a new anti-capitalist movement was born.
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This is the picture today after more than half a century since Independence.
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In the early nineteenth century Greece was the focus of a cultural movement, an idealizing "Hellenism," and international political involvement in the War of Independence against the Ottoman
Note: Greece
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Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the accoucheur a considerable portion of time.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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But marketing alone cannot explain why "onanism" and related terms began to show up in the great eighteenth-century encyclopedias or why one of the most influential physicians in France, the celebrated Samuel Auguste David Tissot, took up the idea of masturbation as a dangerous illness or why Tissot's 1760 work, L'Onanisme, became an instant European literary sensation.
Me, Myself, and I
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At one level the book is indeed a meticulously documented economic history of nineteenth-century Madagascar.
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In the early part of the twentieth century, the B.V.D. brand of men's underwear (notable for its front buttons and back flaps) so dominated the marketplace that 'BVDs' became a general term used to refer to any brand of similar product (i.e., lightweight, one-piece long underwear for men), and eventually to all types and brands of men's underwear as well.
New Urban Legends
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Would you enjoy being a quintuplet in the early 20th century when, as a reproductive anomaly, the simple fact of your existence made your family a freak show.
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During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony.
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Agricultural yields were improving and the development of turnpike roads and canals later in the century enabled food to be transported more quickly to areas of shortage.
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The 18th century saw incessant warfare between the colonial powers, towns repeatedly sacked, and islands taken and retaken, often for use as bargaining counters at the peace.
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Quills were the chief writing implement from the 6 th century AD until the advent of steel pens in the mid 19 th century.
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Süleyman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century extended his reach from the Sudan and the northern shore of Africa to Baghdad and far into Europe, where - twice - Turkish rams would batter at the gates of Vienna.
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HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
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Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.
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Plastering was performed by masons until it became a specialty of its own in the nineteenth century.
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The technique of stipple goes back to the fifteenth century.
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Jewish and Gentile people did not eat with one another in the first century.
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In the late nineteenth century these movements developed into forms of religious nationalism.
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For Evan Snyderman of R 20th Century, a leading New York gallery, Design Miami/Basel is one of the few fairs in the world committed to the level of presentation and connoisseurship our gallery strives to achieve.
Maturing Gracefully
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Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
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At the national level, they show that for most of the twentieth century, each successive cohort of young people left home at an average age below that of the cohort immediately preceding them.
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Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
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Her poetry is reckoned among the best-known this century.
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From the fourteenth century onwards, other properties were also abandoned, so that finally the important lasting properties were signification, supposition, ampliation and restriction, and the supposition of relatives.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
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The central theme of Sugar and Slaves is the rise of the big slave-owning sugar planters who completely dominated their island societies by the late seventeenth century.
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Opening at the turn of the last century, it shows a society riven by hypocrisy and deceit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
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But who, if anyone, will become the first overseas player to score a century on his championship debut for the county?
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North of Larchmont, the homes are more modest turn-of-the-century bungalows with two or three bedrooms.
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The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.
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French Impressionism had paved the way for all subsequent 20th century art movements.
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It reminded us of a Jacobian tragedy from the 17th century in almost every way.
Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Director Martin Campbell and Graham King Interview EDGE OF DARKNESS – Collider.com
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The functional modernity of the computer struck a discordant note amid the elegant eighteenth-century furniture.
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In the early nineteenth century, there were not enough priests to minister to the burgeoning Catholic community in the United States.
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We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt.
Arabian nights. English
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These rules all have their origin in the grammar primers of the 18th century.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century, the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures.
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In the early nineteenth century, as earlier, most British working-class women made their families' clothes, from cotton calicoes for dresses and shirts, and from fustian for trousers and jackets.
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The landscape is totally different from that of the area surrounding the resorts, with a wide variety of spectacular plant life, including the saguaro cacti and century plants.
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It has been said that today print culture is in decline, but contrarily, the book industry has grown in the late twentieth century.
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Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats.
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Twentieth-century fundamentalism has acted as a drag on secularizing tendencies.
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Louis Jordan, a historian with a strong interest in numismatic issues, has written what is undoubtedly the definitive history of Massachusetts' seventeenth-century mint.
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We went to an exhibition of 17th century Dutch still lifes.
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Christmas Allegedly Christmas tree first appeared in ancient Rome in mid-December Saturnalia, the German missionary Nikos in the 8th century AD, dedicated to El Ni?o using P-trees.
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The worst winter storms of the century lashed the east coast of North America.
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They need to recruit more people into the prison service. But another point I'd like to make is that many prisons were built in the nineteenth century.
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TWO men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of stealing a cannon and treasures from a sunken 17th-century warship.
The Sun
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Goodnight iPad written under the pen name Ann Droyd is a good humored look at the 21st Century's over teched lives that we lead.
Rocco Staino: Goodnight Moon Parody - Goodnight iPad Set to Hit Bookstores This Week (Video)
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In the 17th century, the Dutch emerged as the most powerful of the Europeans, ousting the Spanish and Portuguese.
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Since this century was also an era of rapid urbanization, the question of how courts and capital cities got along with each other is of considerable interest.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships.
Times, Sunday Times
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The honey seems extraordinarily expensive, but then sweetness was a prerogative of the rich until the eighteenth century.
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The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
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The second half of the twentieth century belonged to the young.
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Marx may be described as a humanist, and in this century humanism has been given expression, in both secular and religious forms, in the philosophy of existentialism.
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Again Arabs such as Avicenna and Abū'l-Barakāt had used equivalent Arabic termi - nology to express the same idea, and thirteenth-century
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The chaconne also became popular in France and, towards the middle of the 17th century, in Germany and England.
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But they can have had little inkling of the social revolution or the economic upheavals that the next half-century had in store.
Times, Sunday Times
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The established churches may be dying back in Christianity's historic heartlands, but Jesus himself shows an astonishing ability to escape their confines and find a new life as an all-purpose 21st century guru.
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Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
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Institutions that formalise such inequality have no place in the 21st century.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doorway is a 19th century reconstruction of Norman work.
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Late in the twelfth century stories of the Holy Grail began to be written in France.
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Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven.
Delizia!
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Whatever the short-term problems in this area, the outlook and for twentieth-century sculpture in general remains bright.
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Even in the 18th century scholars continued to give primacy to the written word.
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The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:
Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash
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Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.
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LAHAYE: Well, first of all, the reason rapture doesn't occur is because rapture comes from a Latin word in the fourth century, Jerome when he translated it.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Is the Apocalypse Coming? - June 19, 2000
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Although vigoro is mainly played in Tasmania, Queensland and New South Wales, Hendley said the origins of the game began in Victoria more than a century ago.
The Advertiser - Front Page
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Nineteenth-century Britain was a class-conscious society.
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Ibn Khaldun was a fourteenth century north African who is widely regarded as one of the fathers of historiography.
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In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual.
See Their Worlds in Their Faces
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We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
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Half a century later, Sri Lanka's presumed potential has not eventuated, not least because of the war which has effectively split the country since 1983.
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The history of lexicography in England can be traced back to the 16th Century or even earlier.
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In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali.
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Some of the most rapidly growing towns in the mid-nineteenth century were the very antithesis of industrial centres: these were the seaside resorts, fashionable spas, and tourist attractions, such as Rome.
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Morally disreputable characters like Rocambole and Fantômas became the stars of ever-extending series of 19th-century romans feuilletons, plotting a course subsequently followed by the likes of Fu Manchu and Count Dracula.
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Slaves were emancipated in 1863, but more than a century passed before the Voting Rights Act became law.
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By the heyday of the binder's craft, the early to mid eighteenth century, two types of leather were recognized as the best: skiver, or lambskin, which was strong but so thin that it scarcely required any paring, and Moroccan goatskin, which was highly valued for its skiver-like characteristics combined with its delightful reddish color.
Books: Modernity's Abuse of an Art
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How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
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Scholars of nineteenth-century sentimentalism note the radical universalism underlying sentimental discourse as well as the broad values of political and social equality it assumes.
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At Leeds he made 309 in a day; a modern batsman does well to score a century in that time.
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Now the leadership wants to look forward, and to outline a strategy for the rest of the century.
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The three works on this disc, spanning a quarter of a century, cover a huge sonic and expressive range.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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There is something in the air that silences everybody, even small children, as they pass either side of the catafalque, occasionally glancing upwards at the four statues of Saxon kings and the 12 th century roof.
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I had spent an idyllic summer on Mayne Island which takes its name from a lieutenant on a Royal Navy survey ship that charted these waters a century and a half ago.
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In the heliocentric universe conceived by the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for example, planets orbited the Sun in perfect circles.
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By mid-century, the Marxist sociologist C. Wright Mills could write persuasively…of American office and store workers as a new proletariat, no less regimented, poorly paid, and declassed than manual workers of the previous century.
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Celebrity Cruises' recently launched Century brings high-tech to the seas.
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A number toured outback Queensland as travelling showmen later in that century.
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Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
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In central Francia in the ninth century, moreover, the Frankish king did not hesitate to remove benefices from church lands to give them to his vassi, or to force the church to maintain mounted soldiers at its own expense.
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In the first half of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Diaz de Gámez wrote an account of the deeds of his lord don Pero Nino, count of Buelna.
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In the late 19th century there were frequent matches as it was a way of testing design and modifying sailing rigs for maximum performance.
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Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany.
Hitler's Golden Book
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Yet in the early decades of the 20th Century, they said, the assumption behind machines had been that "labor is an evil"; the new technological devices did not so much "emancipate" workers, as "evict" them.
Agrarianism and the Popular Education Culture
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Its symphonic narrative revolves six characters through six ages of man - from the 19th century to distant millennia - then brings them full circle as each one completes their interrupted history.
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In the midcentury era of decolonization, which saw India become the world’s largest democracy.
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What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi, the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants.
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The return of the popes to Rome after their exile in Avignon in the second decade of the century probably encouraged a new internationalism, as Dufay's career in Rome and his relations with Florence, Ferrara, and Rimini show.
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The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a proliferation of novels dealing with the subject of music.
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The highest expression of nineteenth century neoclassicism is seen in the wonderful mural, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, by Jacobo Gálvez and Gerardo Suárez on the dome of the Degollado Theater.
Murals come to life in the Florence of Mexico: Guadalajara
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In the nineteenth century, a mercury compound called calomel was used to treat everything from tuberculosis and parasites to toothaches and constipation.
The Panic Virus
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How these systems may respond to the rapid and major global warming predicted over the coming century is uncertain but largely dependent on whether coral-algal symbioses can adjust to decadal rather than millennial rates of climate change.
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The vase is characteristic of 16th century Chinese art.
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The sacristy is also worth visiting: it was built in the 16th century and has some interesting grisailles from that period.
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By the mid-fourteenth century, another specialized court emerged to hear, and record, public acknowledgements of property transfers, known as recognizances, including those made through testaments.
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In the early part of this century there was a young girl examined in New York whose ureters emptied into a reddish carnosity on the mons veneris.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
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By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
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Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage.
Wayneandwax.com
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The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is more radical than the traditional form of Sufi Islam that has existed in the region since the 8th century.
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A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?
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Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
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By the nineteenth century, the Beta Israel eventually took up stigmatized craft occupations, which also became associated with the connotation Falasha (Quirin, 1992).
Ethiopian Jewish Women.
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The early-twentieth-century cult of the wilderness further boosted the popularity of night air among the health-conscious.
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Twentieth Century Fox, the studio behind the film, was counting on critics and strong word-of-mouth buzz to draw in moviegoers.
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In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia?
Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
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The pool dates back to the 19th century and was used by farmers to clean the fleeces of sheep before they went off to market.
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Twentieth-century totalitarian art did not just gild the cage; it helped to build it.
Masters of the Dark Arts
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The aesthetic revolutions of the 20th century, in painting, music and literature, reflected the galvanizing cataclysms of the times - the world wars, the Holocaust, the nuclear peril.
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Sometimes this effect is called “tenebrism,” especially in association with 17th Century followers of Caravaggio in Spain and Italy.
Chiaroscuro
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The findings have important implications, as the age of menarche - when menstruation begins - has fallen by two years in the past century.
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The guidebook is undated but probably appeared just after the turn of the century.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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The resulting film was so unsettling that it took half a century for the original cut of the film to be shown.
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The stellar EGGS are found in the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" permanent objects in the sky) in this hubble photo.
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There's been an interesting mini-trend in operatic directing in the past few months: updating 19th-century comic operas to World War II settings.
We'll Meet Again
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The "incompetency" of criminal defendants to testify at their own trials was part of the common law of England and then the United States until the Nineteenth Century, during which incompetency gave way to the notion that the basis for disqualification - the defendant's
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In the early 20th century, it was realized that the stability of atomic matter could not be explained using the Maxwell equations of classical electrodynamics.
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When the Moors conquered most of the known world in the eighth century, they used a special technique to aid their cause.
