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And that made me realize that climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.
They're a global, 21st century event, a 21st century event that takes place in our living rooms, at our desks, on our computer screens.
In London, as late as the early 19th century, there might be four or five thousand people to see a standard hanging.
To us in the 21st century, the guillotine may seem like a monstrous contraption, but to the first crowds who saw it, it was actually a disappointment.
Some of it will be in our atmosphere for a century, maybe much longer.
Remember Dr. Alzheimer found strange plaques and tangles in Auguste's brain a century ago.
For almost a century, we didn't know much about these.
Fast Company magazine identified adaptability as the single most important skill to develop in order to thrive in the 21st century.
Writing in the 15th century, Malory couldn’t have known how prophetic this inscription would turn out to be.
In the 15th century, Sir Thomas Malory synthesized these stories in Le Morte D’arthur, the basis of many modern accounts of King Arthur.
Although he’s best known for his short horror stories, Poe was actually one of the most versatile and experimental writers of the nineteenth century.
By the late 19th century, as more public parks and botanical gardens appeared, cemeteries began to lose visitors.
What if I told you that the medical science discovered over the past century has been based on only half the population?
Finally, we go to the 1950s United States and the most seminal work of 20th century avant-garde composition: John Cage's "4:33," written for any instrument or combination of instruments.
However, since systematic cave exploration started about one century ago, we know actually that caves exist in every continent of the world.
I want to tell you three stories about the power of relationships to solve the deep and complex social problems of this century.
And I think it's really important to say that in the 20th century, they were remarkably successful, these institutions.
Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less, from each nesting cycle.
The 20th century saw a resolution of this problem, but in a completely unexpected, paradigm-shattering way.
For much of the past century, architecture was under the spell of a famous doctrine.
In the 19th century, Prince Albert had created Albertopolis.
Prince Albert, as yet, created Albertopolis in the 19th century, thought of showcasing all achievements of mankind, bringing arts and science closer together.
Over the last century, more than 350 Ice Age rock art sites have been found across the continent, decorated with animals, abstract shapes and even the occasional human like these engraved figures from Grotta dell'Addaura in Sicily.
Some of them hadn't been visited in half a century or more.
Today, in the 21st century, we're under so much pressure.
This is our plight in the 21st century: our backs hurt, our necks hurt, everything hurts, because we're stressed and tense all the time.
And then it came into English in the 13th century.
In the 19th century, long after Newton died, scientists did a series of experiments that clearly showed that light can't be made up of tiny, atom-like particles.
In the 20th century, scientists did experiments that appear to show light acting like a particle.
I read, for example, about the Southern African king Ngungunhane, who led the resistance against the Portuguese in the 19th century; and about marriage rituals in a remote village on the shores of the Caspian sea in Turkmenistan.
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