Century in sentence

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He was one of the New York School abstract expressionists who, together with his contemporaries, invented American modern art, and contributed to moving the American zeitgeist towards modernism in the 20th century.

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

In the 12th century, Hugo of Santalla brought it from Islamic mystics into Spain.

Now we all have this feeling that we're somehow just getting better as a human race, inexorably progressing, but it's not like we've evolved into a new species in a century.

While indeed we haven't evolved into a new species in a century, the gene pool within competitive sports most certainly has changed.

In the early half of the 20th century, physical education instructors and coaches had the idea that the average body type was the best for all athletic endeavors: medium height, medium weight, no matter the sport.

In fact, if you plot on a height versus mass graph one data point for each of two dozen sports in the first half of the 20th century, it looks like this.

So this is a history of the 20th century.

We know what happened over the 20th century.

We can do more work to really bring it down so that by the end of the century, it's not much more than there is now.

And the 21st century.

And it's good reason for them to be obsessed with the idea of universals, because all of science, through the 19th century and much of the 20th, was obsessed with universals.

Rives: And the flip side of the timeline, this is from the 31st century.

In the mid-16th century, Italians were captivated by a type of male singer whose incredible range contained notes previously thought impossible for adult men.

We're here living in the eye of a great storm of extinction where half the species on the planet could be gone by the end of the century, and so why is it that we come to care about some of those species and not others?

So now, a century later, if you're at all paying attention to what's happening in the environment, you feel that discomfort so much more intensely.

It was actually adverted to earlier, but a very specific thing happened in the history of the kind of Christianity that we see around us mostly in the United States today, and it happened in the late 19th century, and that specific thing that happened in the late 19th century was a kind of deal that was cut between science, this new way of organizing intellectual authority, and religion.

If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.

But this changes in the late 19th century, and for the first time, it's possible for people to develop serious intellectual careers as natural historians like Darwin.

In the early 19th century, if you were a geologist and made a claim about the age of the Earth, you had to explain whether that was consistent or how it was or wasn't consistent with the age of the Earth implied by the account in Genesis.

By the end of the 19th century, you can just write a geology textbook in which you make arguments about how old the Earth is.

So there's a big change, and that division, that intellectual division of labor occurs as I say, I think, and it sort of solidifies so that by the end of the 19th century in Europe, there's a real intellectual division of labor, and you can do all sorts of serious things, including, increasingly, even philosophy, without being constrained by the thought, "Well, what I have to say has to be consistent with the deep truths that are given to me by our religious tradition."

So imagine someone who's coming out of that world, that late-19th-century world, coming into the country that I grew up in, Ghana, the society that I grew up in, Asante, coming into that world at the turn of the 20th century with this question that made the list: what have they got instead of Christianity?

So gays and lesbians have been in society since societies began, but up until the mid-20th century, homosexual acts were still illegal in most states.

Hackers represent an exceptional force for change in the 21st century.

The current forecast is that the world is on track for one billion tobacco-related deaths this century.

But if we don't act now, and act together, we'll need to make way for one billion people before the end of this century.

And if you go back to the early parts of the 20th century, W.E.B.

It wasn't until the 19th century that scientists were able to detect the stellar parallax.

So this is a picture of Henry Cadell, who was a Scottish geologist in the 19th century.

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