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While our earliest records of chess are in the 7th century, legend tells that the game’s origins lie a century earlier.
After the 7th century Islamic conquest of Persia, chess was introduced to the Arab world.
Yet the game proliferated, and the 15th century saw it cohering into the form we know today.
But the emergence of formal competitive play in the late 19th century meant that strategic calculation would eventually trump dramatic flair.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union devoted great resources to cultivating chess talent, dominating the championships for the rest of the century.
Well, lets go back to the 15th century.
And a critically important problem to me was that for more than a century, the anti-pornography position had been used as a pretext for discriminating against gays and lesbians or people who have kinks or have fetishes.
Now, what the scientists are telling us we need to do over the next 80-odd years to the end of this century, is to cut our greenhouse gas emissions by three percent every year, and draw three gigatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere every year.
And if you doubt how much can be done over 30 years, just cast your mind back a century, to 1919, compare it with 1950.
By the mid-20th century, the original four castes associated with specific occupations had been divided into some 3000 sub-castes.
And so you can compare what it looks like under today's conditions and under carbon dioxide conditions later in the century.
We looked at 18 rice lines in China and in Japan and grew them under conditions that you would expect later in the century.
And when you look at the results, the white bar is today's conditions, the red bar is conditions later in the century.
They also modeled what would be the most effective interventions, and their conclusion was reducing our greenhouse gases: getting our greenhouse gas emissions down by mid-century so we don't have to worry so much about these consequences later in the century.
We also individually and collectively need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the challenges that will come later in the century.
It's the only Spanish innovation, technologically, of the 20th century, by the way.
What happens if a population depends too much on a single variety was highlighted in Ireland in the mid 19th century.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was 60 percent of the population.
This landscape of torture is the setting for "Inferno," the first in a three-part narrative poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century.
Looking to the future, if we carry on on the path we're going, which is basically a drugs-based approach to the problem, the best estimate by the middle of this century is that the worldwide death toll from superbugs will be 10 million.
My grandmother is washing my mouth out with soap; half a long century gone and still she comes at me with that thick cruel yellow bar.
And so we have this question to figure out: How do we catch up our 20th century laws of war, that are so old right now that they could qualify for Medicare, to these 21st century technologies?
Are we going to face the reality of 21st century war?
And now today, just a half a century later, Detroit is the poster child for urban decay.
Using collections from over 30 archival institutions, "At Buffalo" performs the massive archive of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, the first World's Fair of the 20th century, held in Buffalo, New York.
A century ago, a third of the world's buttons were produced in Muscatine, 1.5 billion a year.
Other people might just have thrown it away, but Leski was inspired to produce a starburst chandelier that was probably the most notable of its kind of the 20th century.
By the 4th century BCE, Greek engineers began making actual automatons including robotic servants and flying models of birds.
Illustrating the demise of Talos on a vase of the fifth century BCE, one painter captured the dying automaton’s despair with a tear rolling down his bronze cheek.
This is not very gratifying after more than a century of devoted engineering effort.
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