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The end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, and how that Hanging Chain model translates into archways and vaulting.
He estimated a probability that we will fail to survive the current century: 50 percent.
The Romans’ epic, mock maritime encounters, called naumachiae, started during Julius Caesar’s reign in the first century BC, over a hundred years before the Colosseum was built.
Over the past century, average lifespan has more than doubled.
And all you have to do is look at the very grim death count in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands, you know?
And I also think it's dangerous, and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century.
A romantic and a revolutionary, Neruda was one of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century, but also one of the most accessible and controversial.
In the middle of the 16th century, a talented young anatomist named Andreas Vesalius made a shocking discovery: the most famous human anatomy texts in the world were wrong.
It was this antique instrument made more than a century ago, hand-carved from a rare wood, inlaid with pearls and with dozens of metal strings.
In fact, it was used by George Washington Carver in the South of the United States after the Civil War in the early 20th century.
They have protected their lobster harvest there for nearly a century, and they've done that by treating it as a shared resource that they're passing on to their collected children and grandchildren.
He was a well-known music and art critic in India in the early 20th century.
This is a way in which modernism infiltrated this country and became perhaps the most popular, or promiscuous typeface, of the twentieth century.
And in fact, it was used even on some of the most important advertising of the 20th century.
And Hofmann is a Polish pianist and composer of the late 19th century, and he's widely considered one of the greatest pianists of all time.
People on Socotra, some of them still live in caves, and that is really exciting, because it means if a cave is prime real estate this century, maybe it was a few thousand years ago.
15th century Europeans believed they had hit upon a miracle cure: a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea, and virtually any other medical ailment.
Starting in the 15th century, the demand for mumia increased.
It was listed in the Merck index, a popular medical encyclopedia, into the 20th century.
Through the mid-20th century, members of the community would, if possible, make their funerary preferences known in advance, sometimes requesting that family members gather to consume the body after death.
In the 12th century CE, before the Mongol Empire formed, the East Asian steppe was home to scattered groups of Mongol and Turkic pastoral nomads led by Khans.
Researchers had been, for more than a century, studying the immune system as a way to fight cancer, and cancer vaccines have, unfortunately, been disappointing.
This here report basically concludes that one-third of the ice on the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains could melt by the end of the century.
They don't have internet in the 21st century.
But today, these 17th century Cossacks are remembered for their spirit of independence and defiance.
An ice-free Arctic Ocean may happen in this century.
Now, we can use the tools of the 21st century to try and observe what is, rather than ask what should be, believed.
Now, this movie has floated around Hollywood for well over half a century, and we first got involved with the project in the early '90s, with Ron Howard as the director.
And he thinks that civilization has only a 50 percent chance of surviving this century.
They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving-in of some of these quarries posed safety threats, so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.
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