Century in sentence

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And when we enter into this century, you'll find more than half of mankind down here.

This would be about a million years a second, because you have about one supernova every century.

It got in worse condition in the 20th century after Heiberg saw it.

And this is terribly important, because the diagrams in the manuscript are the unique source for the diagrams that Archimedes drew in the sand in the fourth century B.C.

Now Hyperides was an Athenian orator from the fourth century B.C.

And we found a third century A.D. commentary on it, possibly by Galen and probably by Porphyry.

I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?

In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home.

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

And one of the most remarkable was the tanagra theater, which was popular in the early part of the 20th century.

In fact, we may have some really interesting bread and beer as we go into this next century.

This conference is going to rank as the most important in the beginning of the 21st century.

Long-term trends suggest that this century is going to be a tough place to live, with population increases, consumption patterns increasing, and conflict over scarce natural resources.

It's got to come from us, and I see this process of deciding democratically in a bottom-up fashion what the world wants to work on together as one vital means by which we can crowdsource the force to really build that constituency that's going to reinvigorate global governance in the 21st century.

I think this will be a big, big change that we will see during this century.

I'm gonna talk a little bit about open-source security, because we've got to get better at security in this 21st century.

Let me start by saying, let's look back to the 20th century, and kind of get a sense of how that style of security worked for us.

So here we are, 21st century.

You have to dial it in, and as I think about how we create security in this 21st century, there will be times when we will apply hard power in true war and crisis, but there will be many instances, as we've talked about today, where our militaries can be part of creating 21st-century security, international, interagency, private-public, connected with competent communication.

My thesis for you is that by combining international, interagency, private-public, strategic communication, together, in this 21st century, we can create the sum of all security.

If you know anything about the history of computers, you will know that in the '30s and the '40s, simple computers were created that started the computer revolution we have today, and you would be correct, except for you'd have the wrong century.

But Babbage, Babbage himself was born at the end of the 18th century, and was a fairly famous mathematician.

So, when you go home, tell your friends that privacy is a value of the 21st century, and it's not outdated.

But is this a sensible way to understand the human condition in the 21st century?

Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an act of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.

Before the 17th century, no more than 15 percent of Europeans could read or write.

Europe and the United States achieved universal literacy by the middle of the 20th century, and the rest of the world is catching up.

In the 19th century, Westerners worked more than 60 hours per week.

It's the result of human efforts governed by an idea, an idea that we associate with the 18th century Enlightenment, namely that if we apply reason and science that enhance human well-being, we can gradually succeed.

We made 21st century money, and that was groundbreaking.

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