Century in sentence

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Because they took me very gently from my book-lined study and brought me into the 21st century, enabling me to speak to a much, much wider audience than I could have ever conceived.

So we are in the 21st century, and we still cannot properly understand the spectrum of the sun.

Famously, Rome had about a million citizens by the first century A.D. So how did a city like this feed itself?

If we look at a map of London in the 17th century, we can see that its grain, which is coming in from the Thames, along the bottom of this map.

On the inside it's a recreation of a 16th century Japanese tea house.

If we pull off the 18th century features we could drive it back in time.

Now, 18th century peasants know that there is one pretty safe rule in life, which is if something is worth guarding, it's worth stealing.

Adam Smith talks about 18th century America, where the prohibition against visible displays of wealth was so great, it was almost a block in the economy in New England, because even wealthy farmers could find nothing to spend their money on without incurring the displeasure of their neighbors.

Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century.

This could be our best century ever because of the achievements, or it could be our worst.

It is vital that the ideas that are nurtured in TED, that the ideas that we think about look forward, and make sure that this will be the most glorious century, and not one of eco-disaster and eco-collapse.

This is a series of self-portraits, and the artist in this particular series is focusing on the representation of Africans in art history between the 15th to the 19th century.

And he referred me to this lovely quote from the Japanese "Essays in Idleness" from the 14th century, in which the essayist wrote, "In everything, uniformity is undesirable.

Actually, the invention of the number zero was a very modern concept, seventh century A.D., by the Indians.

I want to open by quoting Einstein's wonderful statement, just so people will feel at ease that the great scientist of the 20th century also agrees with us, and also calls us to this action.

And the rate of technological evolution speeds up, so a mere quarter of a century after this, you get this, OK. (Laughter) And this.

Hello, 21st century.

But, somehow, none of that adds up to me, to what I think India really can aim to contribute in the world, in this part of the 21st century.

You know, if you visit friends in the suburbs of Delhi, on the side streets you will find a fellow with a cart that looks like it was designed in the 16th century, wielding a coal-fired steam iron that might have been invented in the 18th century.

Now, that is the India that is emerging into the 21st century.

Well, the truth is the 20th century, 300 years from now, is not going to be remembered for its wars or its technological innovations, but rather as the era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

The Ashaninka people are known throughout South America for their dignity, their spirit and their resistance, starting with the Incas and continuing through the 19th century with the rubber tappers.

But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day.

And they were also, by the end of the century, getting healthy, and Japan was starting to catch up.

And it's the new century now.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

This was done in 11th century.

I thought, well, the 20th century, that was brilliant.

And I think it's a nice metaphor also for the 21st century.

It's saying to the rest of world, and to the people in that town, that we believe that in the 21st century, slowness has a role to play.

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