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And a century later, it was repurposed as an insecticide.
He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college, and eventually brought it to the U.S., where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century.
Others believe it was written by the 13th century philosopher Roger Bacon, who attempted to understand the universal laws of grammar, or in the 16th century by the Elizabethan mystic John Dee, who practiced alchemy and divination.
In the 17th century, Robert Boyle came up with an idea for a self-watering pot.
And even though most of you prepared for Y2K in a very different way, I'm convinced that you are here because some part of you has done the same thing that I have done since the dawn of this new century, since my mother left and my father stayed away and my Lord refused to come.
Over a century later, Bill Clinton was impeached for making false statements under oath during a sexual harassment trial.
Less than half a century ago, two courageous men landed on the moon, using computers that were less powerful than the phones in your pockets.
It's a screenwriter who looks at a movie script that can't get the green light for more than half a century.
Our global system is evolving from the vertically integrated empires of the 19th century, through the horizontally interdependent nations of the 20th century, into a global network civilization in the 21st century.
Connectivity has a twin megatrend in the 21st century: planetary urbanization.
And all of these intercity networks are devoted to one purpose, mankind's number one priority in the 21st century: sustainable urbanization.
And that's why our financial community needs to understand that connectivity is the most important asset class of the 21st century.
Since the end of the Cold War, a quarter century ago, at least six major wars have been predicted for this region.
Christopher Isherwood used the phrase "the yellow leaf" to describe a man at 53, only one century after Lord Byron used it to describe himself at 36.
It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were removed, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the Earth reveals no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rocks might occur.
Bill Clinton spent a lot of time talking about the century in which he would no longer be president, but maybe his wife would be.
Over the last century, we've seen lots of interesting innovations.
By the 20th century, this commercial ethos was so powerful, that any designers who deviated from it risked being seen as cranks or subversives.
And what I do is it's all packaged, 21st century, world-class tendered, and I bring that to one of the most sophisticated markets in the world, which is the US.
Less than a century later, people repeated that same prediction about cars, telephones, radio, television, and computers.
SecureDrop, though, is really only a small part of the puzzle for protecting press freedom in the 21st century.
And sea levels are likely to rise between two and ten feet by century's end.
While I was there, I collected images and inspiration for a new body of work: drawings of waves lapping on the coast of a nation that could be entirely underwater within this century.
Numerous editions were published across Europe in the seventeenth century.
Lever number two: humanity actually solved the problem of agricultural poverty a century ago.
Humanity actually solved agricultural poverty a century ago, in theory.
In this century, the reason that people remain poor is because maybe they live in remote places.
And these particles have been discovered over the last century, pretty much.
Fortunately, we have probably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century that underpins that pattern.
Our nation will begin to heal from over a century of silence.
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