Century in sentence

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And these are the kinds of drawings that he made of neurons in the 19th century.

That might have been obvious to some people in the 19th century; the revolutions of wiring and electricity were just getting underway.

This was the tallest building in New York in the mid-19th century.

In the early 20th century, a trio of British scientists conducted extensive crossbreeding of chickens, building on Gregor Mendel’s studies of genetic inheritance.

But over the last century, gradually this delicate balance of these places has been interfered with; first, by the urban planners of the colonial period, when the French went enthusiastically about, transforming what they saw as the un-modern Syrian cities.

So this nature, this kind of wild, untended part of our urban, peri-urban, suburban agricultural existence that flies under the radar, it's arguably more wild than a national park, because national parks are very carefully managed in the 21st century.

So for Manshiyat Naser, I decided to write in Arabic the words of St. Athanasius of Alexandria, a Coptic bishop from the third century, who said: (Arabic), which means in English, "Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eyes first."

So what we've learned over the first century of neuroscience is that the brain is a very complicated network, made out of very specialized cells called neurons with very complex geometries, and electrical currents will flow through these complexly shaped neurons.

We've all seen lots of different technologies over the last century to try to confront this.

It is for you to learn to live in a new century in which there are no bonuses for showing up with the right skin and right organs.

For the Daniels family, the personal DNA machine is like the chemistry set for the 21st century.

By the early 20th century, the perfect balance of science and art had finally been struck with the emergence of medical illustrators.

He takes 19th century anatomical illustrations of the male body and envelops them in a female sensuality.

This is the face we need to see on millions of problem solvers worldwide, as we try to tackle the challenges of the next century.

And ironically, and probably sometimes to their frustration, it is their steadfast commitment to security that allows me to question its value, or at least its value as we've historically defined it in the 21st century.

During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting.

But it's been over a half century since Selma and the Voting Rights Act, and in the decades since, this face-to-face culture of voting has just about disappeared.

Now, all of this may sound a little bit 18th century to you, but in fact, it doesn't have to be any more 18th century than, say, Broadway's "Hamilton," which is to say vibrantly contemporary.

I didn't learn how to make the good decisions about education and opportunity that you need to make to actually have a chance in this 21st century knowledge economy.

The social capital that I had wasn't built for 21st century America, and it showed.

It's no surprise that the Twist can be traced back to the 19th century, brought to America from the Congo during slavery.

We are heading towards nine, 10, or 11 billion people by the end of the century.

In the mid-19th century, society went through a tremendous amount of change.

But what we cannot deny is that the way trust flows through society is changing, and it's creating this big shift away from the 20th century that was defined by institutional trust towards the 21st century that will be fueled by distributed trust.

So America had a mid-20th century that was really bipartisan.

One of the biggest goals in theoretical physics over the last half century has been reconciling the two into one fundamental “theory of everything."

And where we go from here is going to determine not only the quality and the length of our individual lives, but whether, if we could see the Earth a century from now, we'd recognize it.

Now, keyboards evolved from organs to clavichords to harpsichords to the piano, until the middle of the 19th century, when a bunch of inventors finally hit on the idea of using a keyboard to trigger not sounds but letters.

Now, the cylinders were too expensive and time-consuming to make, but a half century later, another French inventor named Jacquard hit upon the brilliant idea of using paper-punched cards instead of metal cylinders.

All of these thousands of loosely connected little pieces are coming together, and it's about time we ask the question, how do we want to evolve human beings over the next century or two?

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