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Even in places like Senegal, beginning in the early 20th century, there were major breakthroughs in public health, and life expectancy began to rise.
But it turns out in the 18th century, people didn't really care about that at all.
In the 18th century, it became a verb, and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone.
In the 19th century, it was a corrupt politician.
Ladies in the 17th century would wear hoodies to kind of hide themselves when they were going to meet their lovers.
And it all depends on the ideas of this guy, the Reverend Thomas Bayes, who was a statistician and mathematician in the 18th century.
Only 90 days after this, arguably the greatest discovery of the last century occurred.
And this is the 21st century.
So we can bring the experiments of the 21st century by applying robotic technologies to this problem.
Scientists, sort of at the end of the 20th century, learned that they could track blood flow to map non-invasively where activity was going on in the human brain.
It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
Once upon a time in 19th century Germany, there was the book.
A land where every field hides a grave, where millions of people have been deported or killed in the 20th century.
Many tropes about Africa persist from pictures, pictures of famine in Ethiopia 30 years ago, pictures of the Biafran war half a century ago.
There's enough untapped innovation to move Africa a century forward in living conditions if the will and commitment is there.
But at the same time, world food prices are rising and world population is rising and is set to reach 10 billion people by the end of the century.
But if you take into consideration that at the peak of the victory garden movement last century, 40 percent of all produce was coming from gardens.
We still have laws from the 20th century.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the eastern American chestnut population, counting nearly four billion trees, was completely decimated by a fungal infection.
Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
There have been many revolutions over the last century, but perhaps none as significant as the longevity revolution.
There's a poem written by a very famous English poet at the end of the 19th century.
But what Housman understood, and you hear it in the symphonies of Nielsen too, was that the long, hot, silvan summers of stability of the 19th century were coming to a close, and that we were about to move into one of those terrifying periods of history when power changes.
By the way, it happens about once every century.
You see increasingly that the world now looks actually, for us Europeans, much more like Europe in the 19th century.
Europe in the 19th century: a great British foreign secretary, Lord Canning, used to describe it as the "European concert of powers."
Now, this approach has been around for more than a century.
The perception in the 17th century was the Moon was a perfect heavenly sphere.
In the early 19th century, church attendance in Western Europe started sliding down very, very sharply, and people panicked.
You know, in the 18th century in the U.K., the greatest preacher, greatest religious preacher, was a man called John Wesley, who went up and down this country delivering sermons, advising people how they could live.
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