An interesting test case is provided by the revolutionary developments in art that took place in Florence early in the fifteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was walking away from the sort of glory Hufflepuff House hadn’t had in centuries. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Small mammals domesticated as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries include foxes, mink, and chinchillas grown for fur and hamsters kept as pets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the second decade of the twentieth century, black America had come to a fork in the road and had to choose: accommodation to white supremacy or unyielding opposition to it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

With Richardson’s curve and the simplest extrapolation for the future growth of the human population, the two curves do not intersect until the thirtieth century or so, and Doomsday is deferred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Composers of the fourteenth century were inspired by the runting acoustics of the astounding cathedrals in which they worked. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After centuries of these baths, gold dust carpeted the lake floor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

According to Arachne, the malicious thoughts of monsters had eaten away at the shrine’s foundations for centuries. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Back on the ground, we stroll along the quays bordering the Seine, where so many writers walked for centuries before penning their masterpieces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Arcadelt’s first book of madrigals was the most widely reprinted songbook in Europe in the second half of the sixteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Shock of the century when Shay raises her hand. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“To control us. And so our learning was lost, along with our leadership, and so much else. A chain of knowledge handed down over centuries, and a library to shame even your great Zosma.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reichenstein’s disease is now chiefly of historic interest, for new water supplies were provided a quarter of a century ago, from which arsenic was largely eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A newly composed classical opera in the late-twentieth century was like Beluga caviar: a shockingly expensive commodity from an endangered species, accessible to a very privileged few but an inconceivable luxury to the rest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And now, a quarter of a century later, that choice had landed me right back on this soil. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the turn of the twentieth century, the colonies were changing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Already in the seventeenth century the mathematicians’ revolution was becoming indistinguishable from a mechanical revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The English scholar, Sir J. G. Frazer, thinks he probably wrote in either the first or the second century of our era. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chemistry, too, became more scientific and less mystical as the eighteenth century wore on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And in the late nineteenth century the Congress made its reading a mandatory ritual on Washington’s birthday. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

This last category in particular had thrived over the centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That would be a fair supposition in the twenty- first century, but our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have agreed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You mean in the thirteenth century, when Poland encouraged the Jews to come in?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the course of the seventeenth century the Latin words experientia and experimentum and, with them, the English words ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It should be obvious that if all that was required for the Scientific Revolution was new thinking, then it would be impossible to explain why it did not take place long before the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yep. It’s been in our family for centuries. It’s also in Spanish.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Dutch are the only significant exception: in the United Provinces the universities were teaching Cartesian philosophy by the late seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

About a century before our imaginary surveillance tour, though, the Maya heartland entered a kind of Dark Ages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Those stories don't tell the half of it. The scribes wrote them down centuries afterward. They didn't know the truth." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It is an interesting reflection on the general climate of thought before the twentieth century that no one had suggested that the universe was expanding or contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Albemarle had been built in the nineteenth century, as a retreat for rich convalescents. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The same thing has happened in Trappist monasteries throughout the centuries. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think for how many centuries that unconquerable tower has withstood. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Reverend Buckland, as pious a soul as the nineteenth century produced, noted that nowhere did the Bible suggest that God made Heaven and Earth on the first day, but merely "in the beginning." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet these were not minor theories: one was held by the best philosophers of the later Middle Ages; the other by the cleverest Copernicans of the late sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had read with awe how the Communists had sent phonetic experts into the vast regions of Russia to listen to the stammering dialects of peoples oppressed for centuries by the czars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weren’t there any other names available in the late eighteenth century? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mummies were first discovered in the Atacama at the beginning of the twentieth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is not figural: Aristotle’s works spent a couple hundred years in a cellar in what’s now western Turkey before someone dug them out in the first century bc. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The tradition in academic training has been, since the late seventeenth century, to draw first from plaster casts and then turn to models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its survival into the modern era we owe to two gigantic musical discoveries that began to make their presence felt in the two centuries before ad iooo. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Rite of Spring was the zenith of musical modernism in the early twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Step by step it has been going on for a quarter of a century, drawing on even earlier work for some of its foundation stones. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But for the time being, at the end of the nineteenth century, there was another great controversy on the horizon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Which is a million years old, because you can think classic rock was left in the last century, but it sneakily took up residence in Batavia. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Since nobody seems to have done any serious research in anatomy for the next twelve or thirteen centuries, Galen’s work was regarded as the last word in human anatomy until well into the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Futurists had been a malcontent group of artists at the beginning of the century who loved speed and thought war was good, the “hygiene of humanity.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And Europe’s chancelleries for the next century played a chess game of naked exploitation and power from Cape Horn to Cairo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By and large Huygens imagined the environments and inhabitants of other planets to be rather like those of seventeenth- century Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a century of intermittent strife, which slowly drove the Botocudo to extinction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This conversation took place in the last part of the fifth century B.C. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a few significant exceptions, what has been occurring for decades, even for a century or more, has not been a dialogue on race, but any number of simultaneous monologues on the subject. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The three people who between them established both the scientific method itself and the pre-eminence of British science at the end of the seventeenth century were Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hesiod in the eighth or ninth century tells about the Chimaera, and Anteia’s love and the sad end of Bellerophon are in the Iliad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Burnham also created an office culture that anticipated that of businesses that would not appear for another century. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy has been teaching science at Emerson Junior High for centuries, and he looks like a mad scientist. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The pde tower, with a cow-byre under the two living chambers, had come the last of alL So it was among the untidy wreckage of centuries that Gareth scampered, looking for Us brothers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This extraordinary circumstance—unheard of in the rest of the world—is treated here in America as a basic fact of life, as normal as separate water fountains were just a half century ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the twentieth century, Halliday was widely recognized as the greatest videogame designer of his generation—and, some would argue, of all time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He watches her, and watches the screen slide shut, struck by her grace in even this small gesture, learned from centuries of screens slid shut. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the seventh century, the West had withered with the fall of Rome, but the East was flourishing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was passed on aurally, monk by monk, nun by nun, painstakingly, patiendy, for century after century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They do not explain why the US military waged a ground war against Indigenous nations for more than a century after that, and why conflict continues today in the courts of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Imagine you have held a heavy basin of water for a century,” she said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If the Mutual resembled a government for African-Americans in the new century, then C. C. Spaulding served as its head of state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the development of the steamship in the nineteenth century introduced an ominous source of noise pollution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence the virus was intentionally introduced to Australia in 1950 in the hopes of ridding the continent of its plague of European rabbits, foolishly introduced in the nineteenth century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not far above the creek bottom the ramp ends, and a crude staircase appears, chiseled into the soft sandstone by Mormon cattlemen nearly a century ago. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that there is such a thing as ‘the Scientific Revolution’ and that it took place in the seventeenth century is thus a fairly recent one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The resulting Zulu state was thereby enabled to conquer a fraction of a continent for nearly a century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a rare, natural occurrence, only happens once a century.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I know it don’t look like the crime of the century, but still—” “I understand,” said Officer Delinko. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteenth century,” she announced as the ruined walls appeared on a mountainside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I say nothing but I notice that his eyes are the same almond color as his skin, that they’re centuries older than his face. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to a century, it was no time at all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a large black hat that looked like a raven with widespread wings, and a velvet vest across which the patina of the centuries had skated. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mollie’s family was straddling not only two centuries but two civilizations. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was no way they could hope to replicate 13, which was the work of centuries. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In fact, we know from recorded history that English really was carried from there to England by invading Anglo-Saxons in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know that when the Spanish conquistadors came, crazed for gold, they conquered us, and over the centuries, two kinds of people emerged in Ecuador. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“The lock face itself has been ripped out—probably vandalized sometime in the last few centuries. But I should be able to control the mechanism inside, if I can...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This siege was a more intimate affair, the latest step in a dance that went back many centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is certain that thousands upon thousands of sick people through the centuries believed that he had freed them from their pain and restored them to health. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His match with War Admiral was almost certainly the single biggest news story of the year and one of the biggest sports moments of the century. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, a convent from the fifteenth century, and the address Ollie gave me is on the same street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ellsworth assured Olmsted that by agreeing to help, he would be joining his name to one of the greatest artistic undertakings of the century. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Mary Rose was Henry VIII's flagship that sank in a storm four centuries ago. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The foundations of this shrine have been eaten away over the centuries!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is how mathematics was taught in the Renaissance and indeed for centuries afterwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had died as a martyr centuries before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Other machines were intact but worn by centuries of neg- ect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Six centuries had come and gone since that night, but Hard- home was still shunned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But first years never — you must be the youngest House player in about —” “— a century,” said Harry, shoveling pie into his mouth. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

According to most accounts, he was born in the sixth century BC on Samos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey famed lor a temple to Hera and for really good wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the early nineteenth century, women had few legal rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The grandeur of the ornate glass structure, built in the Beaux Arts style in the early twentieth century, makes one think it must have at one point been a playground for royalty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This issue of tuning came to a head with the growing dominance of keyboard instruments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Over the centuries, their relevance has waxed and waned. Seems like just when you think you’ve seen the last of them, you start hearing rumors again.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Behind this group eight sturdy fellows bear the royal litter, rough with yellow sapphires, in which no king has ridden for centuries, a ceremonial relic of the very-long-ago. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, educational conditions did not improve as the century progressed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Santa Sofía de la Piedad the reduction in the number of inhabitants of the house should have meant the rest she deserved after more than half a century of work. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After centuries of being denied access to leadership positions in key social institutions, people of color quite understandably are hesitant to create circumstances that could trigger the downfall of “one of their own.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, and more than a little unexpectedly, he became the most outstanding astronomer of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But this distinction emerged slowly and became firmly established only during the course of the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Strasbourg clock was built in the middle of the fourteenth century—but the mechanical philosophy was invented three centuries later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The media were calling LadybirdGate the sex scandal of the century. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“That kid is, like, the jerk of the century,” I say, relieved that Rhiannon will know what I mean. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of the requirements was a course in the eighteenth century. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Mister, that water’s been evaporated for forty centuries.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went back centuries, and longer, and whole shelves of them—entire, beautiful shelves—were stories of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even a baseline from the previous study, given the low use of cell phones at the turn of the century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"My family's been here for centuries. Why shouldn't I stay in Europe?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The profusion of Clovis hunters’ sites within the first few centuries after their arrival resembles the site profusion documented archaeologically for the more recent discovery of New Zealand by ancestral Maori. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the seventeenth century, preformation was considered the most logical and consistent explanation for human and animal heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

While mass action had become less frequent after the turn of the century, individual rebellions remained common. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tribes of the North and the South have long had contact, at least as far back as the ninth century, as some of the magnificent beads discovered at the historic Igbo-Ukwu site attest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a disproportionate number of Hampton citizens earning a living from the liquor industry in the early days of the twentieth century, the alcohol drought that was rolling across the country was potentially devastating. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My voice trembles as I say his name that hasn’t been spoken aloud for centuries. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She did not look old in a human sense, but there were centuries in her, and there had been pain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Seven hours and two buses later I finished my final leg of the journey just outside a village that looked as if it had been deserted for a century. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we should do something from this century,” Nico whispers to me as we break and move to grab our things from the wall. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It must be quite traumatic, thought Butler dispassionately, to lose an advantage that you’ve held for centuries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At the time the conventional wisdom about the dinosaur extinction was the same as it had been in Charles Lyell’s day a century earlier–namely that the dinosaurs had died out over millions of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Less than a half century from now, our replacements will have more than doubled the numbers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Illusionism is something that people have enjoyed for centuries,” Diana Wheeler, the director of community development, said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

More than a century old too by the smell of them. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The gate became a landmark that endured into the twenty-first century, long after the last hog crossed to eternity over the great wooden ramp called the Bridge of Sighs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On top of the more or less social tangle in which he found himself, there was a personal puzzle—for he put a higher value cm chastity than is fashionable in our century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed a steep trail where niches for toes and fingers had been worn into the yellow sandrock after centuries of use. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Copyright traps have featured in mapmaking for centuries. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It took more than a century to solve the problem, but in the course of that century steady progress was made towards a solution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the early nineteenth century, a group of reformers set out to establish a system of public education in the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Balekin would influence how Faerie interacts with the mortal world for centuries, how much blood is shed, and whose. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the rate of alcoholism was high in the United States, and with the high rates of drinking came violence, much of it targeting women in their own homes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The floor was made of flagstones worn smooth over centuries, and the air inside was cool. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the U.S., unique genres of music that are part of our cultural fabric have developed over the centuries. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

All of us enjoyed hearing about these little forays of his into the twentieth century, so Francis and I pressed him to tell us what now had happened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All three of these elements also spread rapidly through central Europe in the centuries before 5000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth century you traveled between Brooklyn and Manhattan across the East River by ferry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the eleventh century, Palestine was invaded by Turks from central Asia. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, the first mechanical clocks date to the late thirteenth century, and their geared machinery derived from water-wheels and windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ample warning against such a notion is provided by the academic painters and sculptors of the nineteenth century, who were as a group among the most proficient artists in history—as well as the dullest. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Llorona’s gaunt face shriveled up like a pale raisin, becoming sallow and ashen, creased by centuries of wrinkles and dark blotches. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But in the sixth century B.C., in Ionia, a new concept developed, one of the great ideas of the human species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because lead is forever, those of us alive today have about 625 times more lead in our blood than people did a century ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was built before Karhiders used powered vehicles, and they have been using them for over twenty centuries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine what twentieth- century classical music would have done without ballet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Black Consciousness was less a movement than a philosophy and grew out of the idea that blacks must first liberate themselves from the sense of psychological inferiority bred by three centuries of white rule. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bottom line, it’s been over two centuries, and African Americans are still getting a raw deal. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

To put England’s advance in context, it would be over a century before music-mad Vienna had similarly open-to-all, ticketed public concerts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Students were advised to leave early, as travel might be slowed by the snow-like this was the most astonishing observation of the century. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And it dates from the sixteenth century like mine. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in Lyell’s lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, the simple fact that they have been resounding failures in our century does give them a certain spiritual quality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what we thought for a couple of centuries after he started ruling over us. Then we realized he really is just weird.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the idea of using loci for artificial memory was at the center of formal education in rhetoric for centuries. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

For instance, the mass production of bronze tools, which was just beginning in the South American Andes in the centuries before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Steps, sagging with the weight of countless centuries, crisscrossed the sides, and there were paths too straight and angular to be anything but the work of stonemasons. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bubonic plague is a valid medieval fate; I do believe, though, that contracting the plague in this dreadful century would be only ludicrous. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big domestic mammals further revolutionized human society by becoming our main means of land transport until the development of railroads in the 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We had been fighting against white minority rule for three-quarters of a century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, they had been painted and repainted, gilded, silvered, jeweled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Among the many honors he’d received were the five Game Designer of the Year awards he’d won back around the turn of the century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The carpet bends and goes down the front staircase and I go with it, one hand on the banister, once a tree, turned in another century, rubbed to a warm gloss. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The being your people have hunted for the better part of a century, the one they’ve named a monster, was not always so.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Jewish books. The work of centuries. The wisdom of the ages,” Jacob said. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ovid, who lived in the Augustan Age, tells his life in detail and so does Apollodorus, in the first or second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, the triumph of the discovery enterprise was not complete until well into the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A couple of centuries of material progress haven’t been long enough for us to see the final bill for our triumphs. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But he read the titles here and there, and knew that they contained all of the knowledge of centuries, and that one day they would belong to him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the streetcar traveled up and down the Black Belt throughout the day, picking up passengers along the way, setting them down again at their destinations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stills for making the illegal alcoholic brew called moonshine had been part of the southern scene for centuries. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Music education in the early 20th century continued under the purview of the music supervisor, while classroom teachers were trained to teach music to their students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But Metcalfe put a fine point on what had become a core attribute of media by the end of the twentieth century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, he tells Marie-Laure, the city ramparts have kept out bloodthirsty marauders, Romans, Celts, Norsemen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She lived in warlike times, when the lives of young people were as short as those of airmen in the twentieth century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the music they had nurtured and were now able to share with the wider world was to have a profound, revolutionising impact on the twentieth century’s musical story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It looked like the handyman had been on vacation for the past couple centuries, and the threadbare, watery pink carpet leading to the office was barely hanging on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Nicolaus Copernicus came on the scene at the end of the fifteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The symbol of the spear was chosen because with this simple weapon Africans had resisted the incursions of whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it is the most unbiologic of all phenomena, violating the most fundamental myth of the last century, for it denies the importance of specificity, integrity, and separateness in living things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it was definitely dour and of a previous century, and only made worse with doily lace. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, we need to think of science as being the result of an evolutionary process where good science has had, over the last five centuries, a better prospect of survival than bad science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Petra’s dad told Petra something else stunning: A part of his family had lived for centuries in the Netherlands, in an area not far from Delft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the wonder of electricity, in most other ways life in Narewka remained as it had been for centuries. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As the century turned he rode out of the wilderness and into Grand Junction, Colorado. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you have a homogeneous class, exposing them to ideas and beliefs of others only helps to expand their worldview in a 21st century classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Greek philosophies on the beneficial behavioural qualities of music find striking parallels with Confucius-influenced writings of the second and third centuries bc in China. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She probably could have spent centuries like that, hibernating in total darkness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Things had gone pretty well for a few centuries, and he’d built up quite a lucrative aboveground memorabilia business. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practical solution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Of all the Regions, it alone showed a positive population decline over the past half century. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Both past tenses have been around for hundreds of years, but since the sixteenth century it’s been customary to reserve hanged for referring to executions, and to use hung for other meanings. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this he was echoing conclusions drawn centuries before by Pedro Pizarro. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An interesting elaboration on the concept of conditional probability is known as Bayes’ theorem, first proved by Thomas Bayes in the eighteenth century. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to eat yeast like the Eastern boys, and we don’t have to worry about the stale dregs of the last century like you Northerners. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

‘I’d say he embodied the twentieth century. Some people even think he might have had’ - she looked at Mum - ‘you know. What Ted’s got.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growing century was shucking Adam out of his shell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The limestone blocks were so old, they had fused together from centuries of moisture, making the place look almost like a naturally formed cave. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The same was true in architecture, where, in the fifteenth century, ‘modern architecture’ meant Gothic architecture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was always alone, even back then, in the waning days of the nineteenth century. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six years later they discovered that Kaan was the focus of a devastating war that convulsed the Maya city-state for more than a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ship was set to be self-guided and able to go for centuries without maintenance. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Weisberg has a low, raspy voice, baked hard by half a century of nicotine, and she pauses between sentences to give herself the opportunity for a quick puff. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries it had spread like the roots of a tree under the entire surface of the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cady Stanton had predicted that the next generation of suffragists would not display “the infinite patience we have for a half a century.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But it was quite revelatory in the middle of the nineteenth century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the early 20th century, Carl Orff met gymnastics and dance educator Dorothée Gunther and established an innovative school for children based on the idea that all human beings are musical by nature. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He would seek out the younger members of the staff “to learn about us and from us,” recalled Alvarez, who was Loomis’s junior by a quarter century. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the fifth century the sack of Rome marked the end of one world and the beginning of another; so did the railway in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In America in the closing decades of the century there arose a rivalry even more spectacularly venomous, if not quite as destructive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The problem was that nearly all the fossil evidence contradicted this, and suddenly in the nineteenth century there was a lot of fossil evidence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been thinking it over for almost half a century,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any value. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Moreover, until the eighteenth century, cartographers were mainly interested in producing maps for the purposes of navigation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was adopting the role that it plays for us, in the twenty-first century: it was becoming the soundtrack to the affairs of our hearts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That was the understatement of the century—when the alcohol encounters my face, I jerk back with a yelp. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Joseph imagined Leo, perhaps a century ago, looking up at this same angel and drawing it on a small scrap of paper. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Half a century later, he would still be speaking of it with the same shudder and the same sense of urgency. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been centuries since White Harbor has seen any wildlings, and the ironmen have never troubled this coast. Does Lord Stannis propose to defend us from snaiks and dragons too?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She’s been ready for centuries. No one will be removing that statue.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It is the subject of one of his most famous odes, written in the first half of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It welcomed her hands as if they were the very ones that had worn down the golden case over centuries and smoothed away the knurling of the wheels. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Several centuries of great writers—Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Austen, Thurber, Faulkner, Baldwin—have voted with their pens, and the answer is yes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two and a half centuries later it still seems a reasonable question. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He reigned supreme for half a century and his early offerings, Nabucco included, had plots carefully chosen to whip up the Italian people’s desire for self-government, the movement known as the Risorgimento. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Gray New England marble, two inches thick, quarried in the nineteenth century and studded with fossils millions of years old. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the last centuries before 3000 B.C., developments in accounting technology, format, and signs rapidly led to the first system of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was built in stages in the second and third centuries a.d. atop a deep, 300-foot cave created by a lava tube that may have represented the place where human- kind emerged onto the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before the fifteenth century, paintings and drawings were largely flat and lifeless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nearly half a century ago, a professor of entomology at Washington State College, A. L. Melander, asked the now purely rhetorical question, “Can insects become resistant to sprays?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You mortals and your short lives. Eight months is nothing, my dear. I lost eight centuries once, missed most of the Byzantine Empire.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Same thing happened to me centuries ago. I served my time but met some old friends while I was there. How about you?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Monroe County had been developed by plantation owners in the nineteenth century for the production of cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Composers adapted quickly to the new conditions, new paymasters and new tastes of the second half of the eighteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the West it took another century of experiment and debate before this evenly spaced solution for twelve, not nineteen, notes emerged as the front-runner solution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Up to this point in musical history - the first few years of the twentieth century - ethnic folk elements had been co-opted into classical music as subsidiary exotic flavouring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the long run, the evolution of an independent American nation, gradually developing its political and economic strength over the nineteenth century within the protective constraints of the British Empire, was probably inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In 1917 the Russian Revolution had put an end to an empire that was centuries old and, after years of civil war, replaced it with a new system of government called communism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A very unusual combination of circumstances has so far saved the runs of the Northwest Miramichi from the destruction that was anticipated — a constellation of happenings that might not occur again in a century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And so it was that now, as part of that remembrance, she found herself standing before the students of Booker T. Washington, the very school from which she had been expelled a half century before. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the centuries the English language has developed workarounds for its rigid syntax. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Hippocratic Oath, written in the fourth century BC, didn’t require patient consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mathematicians began to handle evidence in the way that lawyers and theologians had been handling it for many centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The first awareness that external or environmental agents could produce malignant change dawned in the mind of a London physician nearly two centuries ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including their giant tortoises, which, like the ancient diprotodons, show no fear of humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth century Galileo and Newton knew nothing of this language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was only in the second half of the seventeenth century that he was rescued from relative obscurity and hailed as the prophet of a new age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Near the court stands a statue of Paul Kruger, the president of the Republic of the Transvaal who fought against British imperialism in the nineteenth century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shifted farther west with Rome’s conquest of Greece in the second century B.C., and after the fall of the Roman Empire it eventually moved again, to western and northern Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, the technology became available to construct a suspension bridge across the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, composers increasingly found that chords had a hierarchy, too: certain chords exert an influence over other chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Colonel Aureliano Buendía was the only inhabitant of the house who still did not see the powerful old man who had been beaten down by half a century in the open air. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The great European thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were much concerned with new ideas of liberty and the refashioning of society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Well, between the 16th century and the present day, it became a kind of scary grammatical sheepdog. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Green Fork ran swift and deep here, but the Freys had spanned it many centuries past and grown rich off the coin men paid them to cross. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But until the middle of the nineteenth century, farmers survived in New England because they had proximity to the coastal cities like Boston and Portland and because, I suppose, they didn’t know any better. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of Europeans’ arrival in the 18th century, the Tongan chiefdom or state had already become an inter-archipelagal empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And changing those conditions required many, many sacrifices like Fannie’s over a long time—more than a century. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They'd known about it for centuries; part of the initiation of a medicine man involved going through and bringing back a trophy of some kind—though some never came back. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even greater was the impact in Africa, where maize was transforming agriculture by the end of the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the third time in the century, the United States found itself trailing technologically during a period of rising international tension. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But it is a mark of maize’s social, cultural, and even political centrality that it was the first—and for centuries the only—phenomenon to pass from Mexico to the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, many prescriptive rules originated for screwball reasons, impede clear and graceful prose, and have been flouted by the best writers for centuries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His error was understandable, because all the societies with which he would have been acquainted—Greek societies of the fourth century B.C.—were states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A bundle of sticks used for kindling, for burning heretics alive centuries ago.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, she wrote a long letter to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It is now twenty-three centuries since the founding of the Alexandrian Library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries in Europe, they had been forbidden to own land, so they had clustered in cities and towns, taking up urban trades and professions. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Since the turn of the century, Africans owed their educational opportunities primarily to the foreign churches and missions that created and sponsored schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the opening of the new century, Durham’s economic engine was once again revving at full throttle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead and turn before the next century. No, take your time, shave, contemplate the universe...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This strategy was partly successful in Mutal—not a single dated monument was erected in the city for a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For centuries it stood on equal ground with its neighbors, the rising Maya states to the east and Teotihuacan to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would be another seven centuries before zero reappeared in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even Charles Lyell, the greatest geologist of the following century and a man who read everything, admitted he couldn’t get through it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet however “quaint” the universes of the archaic or classical sages might have seemed by the third century, they were far from empirically disproven. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

For the new scientists of the second half of the seventeenth century were in a quite different position from their classical, Arab and medieval predecessors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, of course, the world was about to enter a century of science where many people wouldn’t understand anything and none would understand everything. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For over a century, institutional care for Americans suffering from serious mental illness shifted between prisons and hospitals set up to manage people with mental illness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So he was back into the old mode by which the Congolese economy had operated for centuries, sticking near the shoreline and punting the pirogue. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is a painting by Asher Brown Durand called “Kindred Spirits,” which is often reproduced in books when the subject turns to the American landscape in the nineteenth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After the destruction of Tenochtitlan, the Spanish court and intellectual elite were convulsed with argument for a century about whether the conversions were worth the suffering inflicted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have known for centuries that the earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full rotation—one day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the early eighteenth century scientific laws begin for the first time to be named after their discoverers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Technology may have changed over the centuries, but there was still nothing like a harpoon to slaughter the world’s largest mammal. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Proclaiming victory, Euergetes rushed back to Alexandria with a mountain of loot, including as many as twenty-five hundred Egyptian cult statues originally taken by the Persians back in the sixth century. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the twentieth century, abuses within mental institutions generated a lot of attention, and involuntary confinement of people became a significant problem. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But his handwriting, an ornate script he learned in another century, revealed his decay. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was made from the skipped heartbeats of every person who had ever laid eyes on me. It took centuries to sew! Subala knew that!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had never known a person who had lived for over a century. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Although millions of fever cases were studied and thousands of autopsies performed, not much new was learned about the disease during the entire nineteenth century. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century the sleeping giant of Russia had awoken. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum sparked a major re-evaluation of the Ancient World and a near mania - among the wealthy and educated of the later eighteenth century - for all things connected with it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, because of football, the real smart people use these blacks just like they would on the farm. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Menelik had rebuffed the Italians in the last century, though Ethiopia failed to halt them in this one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by the early years of the nineteenth century, fossils had taken on a certain inescapable importance, which makes Wistar’s failure to see the significance of his dinosaur bone all the more unfortunate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rather, the significance and status of experimental knowledge underwent a peculiar transformation in the course of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Rass had lived in the fear and mercy of the Lord since the early nineteenth century, when Joshua Thomas, “The Parson of the Islands,” won every man, woman, and child of us to Methodism. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside its heavy wooden boards were names and dates going back more than a century. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, Susan, we started a new cycle of wars—what shall I call them? I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had in his possession, he said, a marble statue dating from the sixth century BC. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But the US didn’t look like that until a century after independence. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the biggest in the nineteenth century. Much of this area is a nature reserve now.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The subjects we would now call ‘science’ formed, in the sixteenth century, part of philosophy, so Montaigne’s ‘Apology’ is, among other things, an attack on the science of his day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

American territorial expansion in the nineteenth century had repeatedly been justified by a firm belief in ‘Manifest Destiny’ - the notion that white Americans had a God-given right, or even duty, to colonise the whole continent. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The river mouth at Moss Landing was centuries ago the entrance to this long inland water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the close of the nineteenth century, however, the biggest enemy of suffrage was not the antis but indifference. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Less than a century later the picture is very different. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the first two centuries of colonization, the border between natives and newcomers was porous, almost nonexistent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I do not say it to rouse pity in you for the black men who were slaves for two and one-half centuries. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the twentieth century progressed, developments in computing and interpersonal communications technology, which had been evolving somewhat independently, began to converge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As if to underline the association, the British Parliament passed a Jewish Naturalisation Act in 1753, which was not to be emulated in any other European country for half a century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to en-gage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jalil told her the story of Queen Gauhar Shad, who had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The thought of such incredible abominations, even if they had occurred centuries ago, made Elinor gasp for air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A Persian scholar of the early tenth century, Ibn Khurradadhbih, reported the lyra to be in widespread use throughout the empire, along with organs and bagpipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Emblematic of the epoch of sailing-ship exploration and discovery is the revolutionary Dutch Republic of the seventeenth century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Yankees were the foreign threat a century ago; today it was the Communists. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Linguistic evidence, first weighed by anthropologists in the 1970s, suggests that they arrived from the north as late as the seventeenth century, about the time of the first Spanish settlers and missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was nothing but a huge black maw with bad teeth alignment and a serious overbite, and she’d done nothing for centuries but eat without brushing after meals. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the eighth century B.C. the Greeks became the first people to indicate all vowels systematically by the same types of letters used for consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many subsequent grammars of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries make the same distinction. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

A century of exploration of genetics illuminated how organisms transmit “likeness” to each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The present building was designed in the late nineteenth century by the same Philadelphia architect whom Washington Duke had hired to build the Main Building at Trinity College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Octavian’s family had been sending kids to camp for over a century. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still — while Old Chao worked on turbulence, Ralph lectured on about all that had been exciting and important and new in the nineteenth century. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part Two begins in the early fifteenth century, and then follows issues related to sight through into the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Winter hasn’t achieved in thirty centuries what Terra once achieved in thirty decades. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the turn of the century, lynchings were hardly the everyday occurrence that they are often considered in the public recollection. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A century after Pythagoras’s death, Plato, writing in 380 BC, was captivated by this metaphor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hernando De Soto’s expedition staggered through the Southeast for four years in the early sixteenth century and saw hordes of people but apparently didn’t see a single bison. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Early in the twentieth century, inmates who prized special bars sewn onto their uniforms for time served were humiliated when, as punishment, these symbols of accomplishment were removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many centuries has this loop been running through my mind? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His great-grandfather had been a chief in the Orange Free State, and had greeted the Afrikaner voortrekkers of the nineteenth century with open arms and gifts of land, and then been betrayed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the mid-fifteenth century, Western music was a dynamic, confident art form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Its firth had remained free of ice even in the depths of winter for centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The resulting two societies lost awareness even of each other’s existence and did not come into contact again for many centuries, perhaps for as long as 500 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, residue seeped through the floor, infusing the land beneath with the wine’s personality. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Euclid produced a textbook on geometry from which humans learned for twenty-three centuries, a work that was to help awaken the scientific interest of Kepler, Newton and Einstein. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A century earlier, God was the king of Creation and all nature reflected his power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Of course, music, like language, changes through the centuries. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the centuries before the Dragonlords came over the sea, they had sworn allegiance to no man, styling themselves the Kings in the North. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For a century or so his pod designs had leaned toward the futuristic—plenty of neon and rubber. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The Chinese are reputed to have invented rocketry. Something called ‘Chinese arrows’ are mentioned in Europe and the Middle East as far back as the thirteenth century. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there is no preparing for vipers on the doorstep and drums in the forest, calling up an end to a century of affliction. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The century was about to change, but my own little life would not change with it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We not only take it for granted—we tend to talk about the biologic revolution as though expecting to make profits from it, rather like a version of last century’s industrial revolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if you compare the state of America’s prisons at mid-twentieth century to their condition today, it is hard to make the case for any further progress at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those centuries, Indians were greatly influenced— culturally, technologically, intellectually—by colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ah! Seurat! Prophetic pointillism a century before the pixel!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The saying originates with Bernard of Chartres in the twelfth century, but is now usually quoted from one of Newton’s letters: ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It had to be centuries old, if she was telling me the truth. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Thanks to recordings, we know that this has been the case since at least the late-nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But they went ahead and picked the only name firstborn male Halters have had for a century. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Yayoi iron tools were initially imported from Korea in enormous quantities, until domestic Japanese iron smelting and production began after several centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the Indians would follow his example, the peaceful coexistence of Indians and whites could follow naturally, and their gradual merger into a single American people would occur within the arc of the next century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His garb placed him from at least the previous century, and as he argued with whomever it was only he could see, he began to flicker, and before long, he was completely gone. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Oxyrhynchus hymn, written in Ancient Greek, dates from the late third century, making it nearly two thousand years old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Burnham’s health began to decline early in the twentieth century, when he was in his fifties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If these faraway intellectuals were much concerned with the lessons of native life, what about English and French colonists themselves, who knew intact native cultures for some three centuries? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the nearest planet, it has for centuries been thought of as the Earth’s sister. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now know this, but no one in the sixteenth century realized it, and it has caused a great deal of confusion in the historical literature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe these have been here for centuries and the people who built them are long gone,” Adina said without conviction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The giant Ephialtes had centuries’ worth of coins in his braids—hundreds of trophies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Conversely, Europe, in its rush toward political and economic unity today, will have to devote much thought to how to avoid dismantling the underlying reason behind its successes of the last five centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the turn of the nineteenth century, men and women like him carried progress on their backs, laying tracks across America, around valleys and lakes and through mountains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The most up-to-date version available was a Latin translation made in the twelfth century by Gerard of Cremona, which was translated from an Arabic text which had itself been translated from the Greek long before. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The description of Danaë in the wooden chest was the most famous passage of a famous poem by Simonides of Ceos, a great lyric poet who lived in the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trees were covered with ferns and vines and mosses, and everywhere it looked as if nothing had been dry in centuries. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Spring flowers have been blooming too early for centuries,” he tells me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I will outlive you by a century. Even fairies tethered to the human realm can survive the ages.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Gens Teluman has produced the most talented Empire smiths for centuries. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For most of the first quarter of the century, the eastern colleges thoroughly dominated the regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His experiments with electrical conductivity were a century ahead of their time, but unfortunately remained undiscovered until that century had passed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This development was a huge bonus, with music of the eighteenth, seventeenth and sixteenth centuries first in line for resuscitation, followed by music from even earlier periods. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She found it in a library—and in one of the strangest job offers of the century. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I remember he asked his father, “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They need it to learn, to feel safe and connected, and to function economically, socially, and politically in the next century. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No political gathering managed to attract so many people until half a century later, when the first Marxist candidate attempted, through strictly democratic channels, to become President. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But table 24 is the meteorological event of the century: ten British tourists who seem to have made the decision to absorb the American experience entirely by mouth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told of Roman legions who had come to Britain centuries before, and of Saxon and Danish kings who in turn had ruled their land. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I read about Queen Nzinga, who ruled in Central Africa in the sixteenth century, resisting the Portuguese. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the sixth century the pope, John I, asked him to extend the Easter tables. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There is a persistent myth, incidentally–and one propounded in many serious books–that Ussher’s views dominated scientific beliefs well into the nineteenth century, and that it was Lyell who put everyone straight. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Live oak trees, festooned with cool scarves of Spanish moss, and gnarled by a century of storms, loomed over the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native states in contact with European states have arisen from chiefdoms repeatedly in the last three centuries in Madagascar, Hawaii, Tahiti, and many parts of Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In facial structure and skin color, Aborigines certainly look different from Europeans, leading some late-19th century authors to consider them a missing link between apes and humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I left town, I watched the sun set and darkness descend across the county landscape as it had for centuries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

European conquest of the remaining native states of Central America and northern South America followed during the 16th and 17th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But know this, child. If your plan is unsuccessful, I cannot endure this pain for another century.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

More than half a century has passed, but I can still remember the exact moment when Rosa the Beautiful entered my life like a distracted angel who stole my soul as she went by. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children,” the recruits promised, in voices that echoed back through years and centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And so, as the hot chocolates grew cold, Dr. Morales told the story of the deadliest volcanic eruption in the twentieth century. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

South African whites had always struck me as people who would have been happier living in the nineteenth century, or the eighteenth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the past half century, the governments of China and North Korea have cooperatively used their security forces to make sure that the intermittent seepage of Koreans across the border never turns into a flood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Biber’s ‘Guardian Angel’ is an especially interesting piece because it is constructed in a format known as a ‘Passacaglia’, which divided moral opinion in the seventeenth century but continues to influence music today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Even on the Earth, even in our own century, bizarre natural events have occurred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” he answered solemnly, “he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded—since once he put that mark upon your throat.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

According to Temple, the Chinese invented the mold- board plow by the third century b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the end of the nineteenth century, the American medical community finally accepted the principles of germ theory. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He treated us with complete seriousness, as if we eighth graders, during fifth period, might settle something scholars had been arguing about for centuries. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, the engineers and builders of the Corporation of London had learned to make the outward flow of the river and the inward surge of the tide come together more or less smoothly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After all these centuries of tender loving care from millions of Tang families, the Stove King had gotten quite pudgy. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel an immense, mean satisfaction that he is not standing with the royal family at the most important moment for the Court in centuries. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A simple example of air pressure is the air gun, called in the seventeenth century ‘the wind-gun’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So hard and resilient that they could last for centuries in the cold salt and sand of islands like ours. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the century since the riot, progress has come in fits and starts. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the later nineteenth century, however, the habanera was reintroduced to Europe as an ‘exotic’ dance from Cuba, and it began to reappear in European music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He worked in the Library of Alexandria in the second century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jamaica has a very large Chinese population that since the nineteenth century has dominated the commercial life of the island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Classical music in the mid-twentieth century was mostly about the brain and the intellect: the conceptual theory behind a composition had become more important than the sensory effect of the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I thought raving was declared dorky before the end of last century.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As the centuries passed, the little city prospered. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even the roof was wrong, its raw new timbers light and bright, where the old rafters had been stained almost black by centuries of smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Until the Chinese-style plow was imported in the seventeenth century, farmers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other states labored to shove what amounted to a narrow slab of metal through the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Call it sentimental, but the twentieth- century Broadway musical was created by Jewish men and women whose families had - almost universally - been offered a lifeline of opportunity via immigration from Europe to the United States. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What kind of adventures would you have if you were in the world for a century? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Even today, a third of a century later, Ekman cannot get over what Tomkins did. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more, and there were none in Halley’s lifetime.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Others have claimed that the real Scientific Revolution came in the nineteenth century, in the marriage of science and technology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She said that women had “stood with the black man for half a century” and should get the vote at the same time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, a new force had emerged, and was by the early twentieth century the most exhilarating sound in Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Partly it was to do with the limitations of equipment–there were, for instance, no centrifuges until the second half of the century, severely restricting many kinds of experiments–and partly it was social. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at the speed of light it would take two centuries for a radio message to get from there to here. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for us to grasp the extent to which this continued to be the case long into the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And here we all are, five centuries later, masked just like Taius the First, waiting for the old devils line to fail so one of us can become the shiny new Emperor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In spite of everything in the European arsenal of conquest, Indigenous peoples survived more than five centuries of campaigns to take over their land and resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At forty-eight, she was quite old to be having a baby in the medically perilous nine-teenth century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two centuries ago, Napoleon wrote that “a general never knows anything with certainty, never sees his enemy clearly, and never knows positively where he is.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The two men stood in different halves of the century. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the less than two centuries intervening since the work of Pott, the environmental situation has been vastly changed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cotton was known in Europe by the thirteenth century but not common until the eighteenth; Columbus and his men wore sturdy flax and coarse wool.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Endeavour: Named after the first ship of explorer Captain Cook, who sailed through the world in the late 18th century; suggested by schoolchildren. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

That they had virtually all come from lives of obscurity and poverty is in itself remarkable and a phenomenon rarely witnessed in Western music before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“We’re partial to poetry here. Nothing after the nineteenth century. The greatest poets worked then. I got something for you.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For socks, they had to wear portyanki foot wraps, squares of linen cloth like those used in the Russian army since the seventeenth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Their language was of the nineteenth century—stiff, winding, but exact—and at first I understood nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

His name has stood through all the centuries, from Greek days to our own, as that of the great rebel against injustice and the authority of power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the late nineteenth century clumsy repairs were made with unpainted cement which had turned brown and gave the building a mottled, diseased appearance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, bison were extinguished from the prairie, but in recent years they have been reintroduced by conservationists. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The wizard clan MacFusty, who have dwelled in the Hebrides for centuries, have traditionally taken responsibility for the management of their native dragons. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So mean-tone tuning was very popular in Europe in the 16th through 18th centuries. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Wampanoag confederation, one of these quicksilver communities was Patuxet, where Tisquantum was born at the end of the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the furniture in the solar was not like that The devil's heads were there and the linen-fold panelling, but the wood was six or seven or eight centuries younger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, genetics brought the Ancient Greek notion of fate into our very cells. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were living in the late twentieth century, not the late nineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So perhaps, you say hopefully, discrimination was practically eradicated during the twentieth century, like polio. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the next quarter century amateur bone hunters discovered dozens of what they believed to be ancient skeletons in what they believed to be ancient sediments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Half a century later the whereabouts of the century’s greatest astronomer remain unknown. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over the following centuries, their descendants would develop those terminal narratives—stories about the end of Indigenous peoples—to explain and justify their actions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since the nineteenth century, millions of Germans had immigrated to the continent, and many maintained strong ties to their fatherland. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The press was an enormous lime green contraption, rollers and conveyor pulleys in a cast-iron housing; it started with the hesitancy of a nineteenth- century locomotive and shrieked and bleated while it ran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fearing that Hindu-Arabic numerals—the o through 9 used today—would promote confusion and fraud, some European authorities banned them until the fourteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I move down through the darkness, burning with murderous lust, my brains raging at the sickness I can observe in myself as objectively as might a mind ten centuries away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of a thousand centuries they drew the ancient admiration of the footman for the horseman. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rapidly changing populations in the U.S. will dramatically alter the demographics for the remainder of the century. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even as the Crusades drew to a close in the thirteenth century, Saint Thomas Aquinas declared that God could not make something that was infinite any more than he could make a scholarly horse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Thus the mercantile tradition contributed to the great Ionian awakening around 600 B.C., and, through slavery, may have been the cause of its decline some two centuries later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans did not commemorate the fullest moon of the year, but the Wongs had done so for centuries. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was conceived a century ago as a kind of woodland bank, a permanent repository of American timber, when people grew alarmed at the rate at which American forests were falling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is no coincidence that the figure of the Fallen Woman stalks through so many operas, novels and paintings of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m in high school, Mom. In the twenty-first century. I don’t have to get married by the time I’m twenty-two or risk becoming an old maid.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, from another room, he heard a clock ticking slowly and distinctly, as if the years, the centuries, were lost in that sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They been inbreeding up there for centuries. It’s a wonder they’re not all insane.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, music and education worked hand in hand for centuries. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Probably the ruffians of that time so marked innocent people as a cruel joke and the practice had persisted down through the centuries to be distorted into a meaningless Halloween prank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the midnineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Tuynhuys is a graceful, nineteenth- century Cape Dutch-style building, but I did not get a proper look at it that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early sixteenth century the voyages of Vespucci provided further evidence against that theory, and it was decisive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we’ll probably blow ourselves sky-high before the end of the century, given the atom bomb and the way things are going. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

While reading for my master’s thesis, I’d been surprised to discover echoes of Mormon theology in the great philosophers of the nineteenth century. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it took more than a century to make innovation—outside geography and cartography—respectable, and then it became respectable only among the mathematicians and anatomists, not among the philosophers and the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

These settler-soldiers perfected an approach to warfare that formed the basis of US militarism into the twenty-first century. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Liyana felt the weight of centuries pressing her into a small ball. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

New York’s prison system in the early twentieth century, to his concerned eyes, was in need of complete overhaul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here, on this clean balcony, white and impersonal with centuries of sun, I think of half-past four at Manderley, and the table drawn before the library fire. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, what Madison aimed to achieve would have required a decision by the Supreme Court. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Aristotelian philosophers were still happily teaching this doctrine in the seventeenth century, despite the fact that there were two obvious difficulties. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is the same rhythmic pattern that drives the only popular nonreligious song of the early thirteenth century still known today: ‘Sumer is icumen in’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The paving of the Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several more centuries of silence pass where the air gets more and more jumpy and alive, like all the molecules he previously put to sleep are waking up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Scholars started translating texts into Arabic, and in the ninth century Caliph al-Mamun founded a great library: the House of Wisdom at Baghdad. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The likes of Eleanor Roosevelt declared we ought to come forth with aid and bring those poor children into the twentieth century. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This conviction provides yet another reason for insisting that there was no such thing as ‘the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the thirteenth century a new doctrine spread: kabbalism, or Jewish mysticism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The history of race relations in Durham was, after all, a long line of such shams extending back for a century. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

More than half a century after William’s death, those documents are still judged too sensitive for release. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Abortion in the twentieth century was often dangerous and usually expensive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The desert had invaded over the centuries, dimes flowing through the streets like water, but the buildings were in better shape than other ruins Tally had seen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By the early twentieth century, Bigheart and other Osage knew that they could no longer avoid what a government official called the “great storm” gathering. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even so, his moon book went through at least nineteen editions in French and two in English before the end of the century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The former crested with fearsome rapidity; the latter sometimes took more than a century to tamp down, and it was followed by many aftershocks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But as the century went on it became less necessary to adopt such a disguise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Auntie Venus had been for almost half a century a vital nursing presence across a swath of the Northern Territories in Canada. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But folks have been sowing seeds for centuries—surely even one such as I can manage. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The battle lines of the nineteenth century were yet to be drawn. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In New York at the Waldorf-Astoria a few years into the new century, several dozen young men in evening clothes gathered around a gigantic pie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“They could’ve had the key to the Chamber of Secrets for centuries!” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The library was a square building, all brick and stone, dating back to the beginning of the last century. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There may be no technological or sociological explanation for the decline in belief in witchcraft in the early eighteenth century, but there is an alternative explanation ready to hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He has been told that he was named after a famous Russian author, born in a previous century. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever devised the Quarter Quell system had prepared for centuries of Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A massive table of carved stone filled the chamber, as it had for centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The smart money was on half a century, at the outside. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The Shetani’s attacks began nearly a century ago, right after the Rupture,” he said quietly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the beginning of the seventeenth century, another astrologer-monk, Johannes Kepler, refined Copernicus’s theory, making it even more accurate than the Ptolemaic system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hall thought it was ‘not quite’ but very nearly true to say that ‘engineering owed nothing to science’ until very late in the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“None of us did, until the Hainish and the Cetians arrived. And some worlds still weren’t allowed to, for centuries, until the Ekumen established the canons for what I think you here call Open Trade.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Indian mathematicians accepted zero while Europeans rejected it for centuries, the East embraced negative numbers while the West tried to ignore them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It can wait a century for a reader, as God Himself has waited 6,000 years for a witness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been many reports of the Sorcerer’s Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

For the rest I have followed Apollodorus, a prose writer of the first or second century A.D. who is the only writer except Ovid to tell Hercules’ life in full. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil’s Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in a most complicated and eerie way. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That their influence was felt powerfully for only two or three centuries is an irreparable loss for all those human beings who lived between the Ionian Awakening and the Italian Renaissance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the nineteenth century progressed, though, the lure of the three governing triads, I, IV and V began to pall and the strength of the previously well-defined chords began to blur. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Geography had been remade at the beginning of the sixteenth century by mariners; the philosophy of nature was remade in the seventeenth by the ‘mathematicians and engineers’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Dobyns was right, disease claimed the lives of 80 to 100 million Indians by the first third of the seventeenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The third word in the next line,” explained Baba, “was worn off the slab, its meaning washed away by centuries of rain, almost lost to posterity forever.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The name the founders gave this preserve centuries ago. A refuge for mystical creatures, a stewardship passed down from caretaker to caretaker over the years.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Why were the figures of Faust and Prometheus so important to artists of the nineteenth century? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of the main commodities returned on those voyages of centuries ago were travelers’ tales,* stories of alien lands and ex otic creatures that evoked our sense of wonder and stimulated future exploration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the early sixteenth century the printing revolution was well under way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

During the first half of the twentieth century, the incidence of violent crime in the United States was, for the most part, fairly steady. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These initial moves and “lines” follow well-charted paths that have been chronicled for centuries, and players who want to improve their game attempt to understand and memorize them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The game had been around for centuries and had even been banned by an English king in the 1300s because too many people were playing it and neglecting their archery training. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The word smog won't be coined until early the next century, but the air is so toxic that hundreds of Londoners die from bronchitis the year Vincent arrives. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Human populations reproduce at the rate of roughly three generations per century, but new insect generations arise in a matter of days or weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even though lead was widely known to be dangerous, by the early years of the twentieth century it could be found in all manner of consumer products. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bess and which have been covered uncomplainingly by most of the great African- American recording artists of the twentieth century, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis and Aretha Franklin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If “forest primeval” means woodland unsullied by the human presence, Denevan has written, there was much more of it in the nineteenth century than in the seventeenth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association responded to the insult by passing a resolution that said, in part, “One-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

According to a 1999 estimate from the United Nations, the earth’s population in the beginning of the sixteenth century was about 500 million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

According to Haudenosaunee tradition, the alliance was founded centuries before Europeans arrived. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They have been gone from the world for more than a century. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, extended dance forms such as ballet didn’t become separated from storylines until the mid-twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the turn of the century, white supremacy had been reestablished. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Painted Rock Cave has attracted scientists since the midnineteenth century, when Alfred Russel Wallace visited it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Star Trek was set in 2266, but it wasn’t necessary to wait three centuries to see what America’s finest minds could do, given free rein. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She thought about Papa’s tree cutting, and the trees from the forest that had stood there probably for centuries. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He told me about Occam’s razor, about Ptolemy and the music of the spheres, and how everyone had been all wrong about the sun and the planets for so many centuries. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The idea of radiation from black holes was the first example of a prediction that depended in an essential way on both the great theories of this century, general relativity and quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries, people in Britain and the rest of Europe grew crops and grazed livestock on large areas of land that were not owned by anyone. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle Gerion thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, but his uncle Tygett said, “The last dragon died a century ago, lad.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, Joseph slowly climbed the stairs, ducking beneath the tattered laundry that hung across the landing, as if it had been put out to dry a century ago and forgotten. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her father had made this trunk for her mother almost a century before, a bride-gift when they were wed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It seems a century ago, but I think there were two reasons, originally, why I didn’t take a degree. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American South, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Over three quarters of a century ago, Charles Darwin published a book titled The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This haul was in effect the start of the twentieth century’s Vivaldi revival and a great flowering of musicological interest in this hitherto all but forgotten master. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The opposing views of today were in existence centuries ago,” a nineteenth-century biologist complained, rightfully. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Not for nothing, though, was Harry the youngest Seeker in a century. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth century reduced patronage and corruption and introduced a merit system that allowed blacks to get a foot in the door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Confusingly, the other great Roman text to survive is Ad Herennium—which was roughly contemporary with Cicero, and was for centuries wrongly attributed to him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Past the fence, the house stood straight and ruled as it had for two centuries—maybe more. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the end, I chose four intellectual movements from the nineteenth century and examined how they had struggled with the question of family obligation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He was Dutch, and painted in the seventeenth century.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Khoisan peoples of southern Africa had already acquired sheep and cattle a few centuries ahead of the Bantu advance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since the sixteenth century, the origins of Native Americans have been an intellectual puzzle.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed, by the middle of the century Italian artistic pre-eminence was a phenomenon across Europe, especially in music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But in centuries past, pulpit preachers, rabble-rousers at political rallies, parliamentarians, and lawyers would be expected to thunder on—sometimes literally for hours—without a shred of a note. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood grew hap-hazardly a century or so ago and today looks hardly urban at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between revolutions, communes, epidemics and wars, Paris was the Vegas of the nineteenth century, and the grandeur of its opera productions stood at the pinnacle of a glittering high-society scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dr. Hueper believes that our situation with regard to cancer today is very similar to that which faced mankind with regard to infectious diseases in the closing years of the 19th century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before we got back to Camillo Junior High, we passed Saint Adelbert’s—“built almost a century ago with the pennies of Italian immigrants,’’ said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before him, such a form of colonization had been used in the fifth century by the Athenians, who planted citizen estates in troublesome areas of their Aegean empire. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

After six hundred years of their own strife and a few centuries of Portuguese villainy, the warring tribes of Angola had finally agreed to a peace plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I was born on January 1, 1900! I lived every day of the twentieth century!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men who didn’t know whether they were going to stagger over the boundary of the century looked forward to it with distaste. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By the mid-twentieth century, the gene—or the denial of its existence—had already emerged as a potent political and cultural tool. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

During the next boom period in the seventies and eighties, Odessa made a telltale leap into the twentieth century. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ban on Experimental Breeding did not come into effect until this century, long after the first recorded sighting of an Acromantula in 1794. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the Greek conquest of all advanced societies from Greece east to India under Alexander the Great in the late fourth century B.C., power finally made its first shift irrevocably westward. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stylistic parting of ways that started to become evident in the early twentieth century, though, was on an unprecedented scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All this is of some significance to me partly because I live in Hanover but mostly, I believe, because I live in the late twentieth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They lived happily for centuries, drinking milk and using cows as currency. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

During those same centuries China led the world in technology, having launched itself on food production nearly as early as the Fertile Crescent did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The growing economic power of the South has helped lift evangelical Christians into the middle and upper middle classes, just as earlier generations of Roman Catholics moved up in the mid-twentieth century. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The results favor integrative and holistic approaches that support the ideals of what a skilled 21st century student should know. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I copied the date into my notes with a question mark, but as more photographs flashed across the screen, it became clear which century the professor meant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because they had spent centuries managing scarce water supplies, he thought it unlikely that they would have fallen quick victim to drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If there was anyone alive who could give you a truthful account of conditions in the early part of the century, it could only be a prole. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Sing how it bloomed two and a half centuries ago on the slopes of Mount Olympus, while the goats bleated and the olives dropped. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The explosion in popular songwriting in the second half of the twentieth century is a joyous thing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In its most familiar form, dominant in the nineteenth century, the tension assumes a constitutional appearance as a conflict between state and federal sovereignty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the centuries advanced, the quality of the ceramics inexorably declined. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was Euripides, this Greek writer from the fifth century BC. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The belief that this is wrong is a widespread misconception concocted by nineteenth- century newspaper editors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based east of Lima in the Andes heights, it first became prominent in the sixth century a.d.—a bad time to be launching a nation on the Pacific side of South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Early in the twentieth century the fair became a source of heated debate among architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But in the case of the geometrical sciences of the seventeenth century the gaps between data and phenomena, and between phenomena and theories, are intended to be virtually non-existent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The oldest was more than three thousand years old; the youngest a mere century and a half. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In one of archaeology's most enduring mysteries, Maya civilization crumbled around it within a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By late in the century a daily newspaper was being published on the summit as a summer novelty and American Express had opened a branch office. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Einstein posed simple questions that could have been asked centuries earlier. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of Europeans spent centuries behind the plow, staring at the blade as it ineffectively mired itself in the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, he saw a massive new wave of men flooding into Chicago, fleeing oppression in eastern Europe—from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a quarter of a century he had remembered the night with grief, and it had been with him through all the searches for the Grail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a century later, when Dobyns went to Lima, Prescott’s was still the only complete account. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His response to the world he confronted in the middle of the twentieth century was profound and deeply felt, but he didn’t speak to my experience as well as Colin Powell did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just my luck. I’m the lamest satyr ever, and I find the two most powerful half- bloods of the century, Thalia and Percy.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want us to have to admit that Mom would skin our hides into the next century if she found out we’d ever held any fireworks, let alone set them off. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Up until the early nineteenth century, Cherokee tribes occasionally hunted in the area, but found the terrain otherwise too rugged and uninviting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Statistics began in the same century with the compilation of mortuary tables, and something of its origins sticks to it as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This chant, also called plainchant or plainsong, has by default often been described as ‘Gregorian’ chant, after Gregory the Great, who was Pope at the end of the sixth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The spirit of musical invention heralded by Monteverdi was enthusiastically taken up by his successors over the following century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But as the nineteenth century went along and the link between filth and disease became more apparent, public health codes were strengthened and enforced. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The decor seemed to be frozen in the twentieth century, when the place was built. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you’ve come because you want me to repay the favor that I’ve owed you for half a century, right?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this, I mean the following: if you consider the major questions raging through the biological sciences in the late nineteenth century, heredity does not rank particularly high on that list. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dawn Celeste claims to be the gin rummy champ of the century. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mechanical clocks give us a valuable chance to think comparatively, because we can see how other cultures responded when they were introduced to them by European travellers in the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Today defendants face a situation highly similar to the one they faced a century ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The coming century, he was assured, would be one of consolidation and refinement, not revolution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Water trickled down the walls, and the stone became slick with whatever fungus had grown over the centuries. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The fat stones were blackened from centuries of sun and flame. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As it happens, this is the first occasion since the establishment of universities in the thirteenth century on which a philosophical theory was destroyed by a fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the last chapter, I described how archaeologists have spent the last century pushing back their estimates of when Indians were first present in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’ll keep his head low for a few centuries if he’s smart. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It had been dumping metal deposits there for centuries, or however long rivers lasted, and the board’s magnets had found purchase just in time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Earth’s magnetic field has diminished by perhaps as much as 6 percent in the last century alone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ rule was formulated only in the eighteenth century, and the whole point of this rule is that juries have to decide for themselves what it means. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Fairies had not operated in natural light for centuries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Maria's artwork has been used through the centuries in many different ways. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the early nineteenth century Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, while supervising the British occupation of Java sent two gamelan sets back to Britain, housed today in the British Museum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It had been years since she had gone near it—many centuries now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sherpas are a mountain people, devoutly Buddhist, whose forebears migrated south from Tibet four or five centuries ago. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is obviously no end to this; it can tie up a whole life, and has luckily done just that during the past century for generations of comparative linguists. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pindar in the early fifth century tells the current tale about the feast Tantalus made the gods and protests that it is not true. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Dimple Shah,” he said, his mouth still against hers, “if I get to do this with any regularity, I’ll gladly put marriage on the back burner for the next century.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For all Leo knew, a century had passed in the real world, and the war with Gaea was over for better or worse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A clear example is the wheel, which is first attested around 3400 B.C. near the Black Sea, and then turns up within the next few centuries over much of Europe and Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the last centuries B.C. the advancing Bantu had reached the East African coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the art and elegance of the main house, Alex could have stepped into the next century. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even through the forest the path was well marked, because it was one that had been used for centuries. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by the last decade of the nineteenth century, American doctors embraced germ theory and Lister's advice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now, more than a century later, another library ensures that those adventures can be remembered as she lived them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Plutonium is so unusual as to approach the unbelievable,” he would write a quarter century later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve sailed these waters for centuries, waylaying any demigods foolish enough to explore the Mare Nostrum. This is 'my territory now. And all you have is mine.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am not exaggerating: composers of the second half of the nineteenth century really did believe that this was their role. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Separate languages can exist side by side for centuries without touching each other, maintaining their integrity with the vigor of incompatible tissues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the concluding decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries the idea of microbial control was slowly taking form. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The parents have even set up three desks for them, which seem to have been left over from a one-room schoolhouse at the turn of the last century. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She watched the smoke rise into the sky and thought sadly of all the books the Starks had gathered over the centuries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The work that eventually emerged from all this anguish, his fifth symphony, premiered in November 1937, is now recognised as one of the classical masterpieces of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Miig said if we gave them another half a century, they’d take everything back over and we would be the hunted. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As Chicago moved into the twentieth century, the golden days for Joyce and the other butcher aristocrats were over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the story is told first and best by Pindar in the first half of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he have known that just a century before the shoreline had been thickly settled and the deer much more scarce? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They even suggested, at the end of the twentieth century, that the Universe itself may not be unique. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But here we are in the twenty-first century and it refuses to die, at least in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Roman Republic reached the height of its power in the first century BC, when treasure fleets from throughout the Mediterranean enriched the Romans beyond their ancestors’ wildest dreams. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are still entirely figurative; Kandinsky’s first abstract painting did not emerge until 1910. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Now Sergeant Major von Rumpel has the chance to do what no one has done in centuries—not since the Mogul Dynasty, not since the Khans. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Carrel was a mystic who believed in telepathy and clairvoyance, and thought it was possible for humans to live several centuries through the use of suspended animation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The basic framework for all these institutions and traditions was built in a sudden spasm of enforced inspiration and makeshift construction during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Composers of the mid- to late-eighteenth century limited themselves to a small choice of chords partly as a reaction to the harmonic style of their predecessors, but also to emphasise the primacy of the melody. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the end of the fourteenth century, nearly all of music’s vital components had been discovered: notation, both melodic and rhythmic; structural organisation; and polyphony, the layering of voices on top of one another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The rabbit zigged one last time around a scruffy boulder, ducked under an ancient century plant and stopped—dead—directly beneath the mare. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe. That was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vicious and easily identifiable demons that had haunted black Americans for three centuries were shape-shifting as segregation began to yield under pressure from social and legal forces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Aids is arguably the worst environmental disaster of the twentieth century. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In science this began to change only in the course of the debate on the ancients and moderns at the end of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How long it held the stage we do not know, but the next account we have, centuries later, written by Aeschylus about 450 B.C., is very different. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steve Reich has been described as the single most influential composer of the late-twentieth century, bringing fresh ideas and impetus to both popular and classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Any leak at that point would ruin Sheehan’s chances of breaking what James Reston was now calling “the greatest story of the century.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The new century seemed to mark a shift in the women’s movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“For centuries, members of my family have served as noble knights, guarding the treasure our ancestors bequeathed to us.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were history books as well, like those he studied at school, the best ones filled with maps that showed how the world had changed over centuries. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was the resume of the man who was trying out for what might be said to be—without exaggeration — one of the most important jobs of the twentieth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For Schubert, the birds, the bees, the woods and the trees came into their own above all in song- writing, at which he was simply unmatched before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Covering five square miles and housing at least fifteen thousand people, Cahokia was the biggest concentration of people north of the Rio Grande until the eighteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t belong in this century. Nico only brought me back so I could correct my mistakes, maybe get into Elysium.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a large man who’s been sleeping for several centuries framed in the doorway. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That name came with the bloodshed, but it suited the two centuries of Mesarthim reign. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The harpsichord’s heyday lasted from this period until the piano gained popularity in the mid-eighteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I sometimes think we might then have saved ten or twenty centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kithara - a form of lyre - appears prominently on artefacts from Ancient Greece, such as this vase from the fifth century BC. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Until the Shiites—the ones who thought God wanted a bloodline—lost for good in the tenth century. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On this account belief in magic ought not to have declined until the nineteenth century, or even later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The most popular repertoire they sing is mostly European, written in the 18th and 19th centuries. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

By the eighteenth century, it had become a degraded people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His strong hand ended the furious civil wars and brought about the Pax Augusta, which lasted for nearly half a century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tribune argued that the only greater gathering was the massing of Xerxes’ army of over five million souls in the fifth century B.C. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The last thing we need in the twentieth century, she wrote, is another witch-hunt. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, over centuries—centuries before Alexander arrived—the gods began to merge together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That just as the theories of Ptolemy and Newton seemed perfectly satisfactory for centuries, so too our most cherished theories will one day be supplanted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

By all accounts those storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as Dr. Gazzaley notes, more than a century after Dr. James, what we think we know, or what we once thought, has many strata. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A century ago, the foreign ending would have been preferred, but over the years we’ve given English plural endings to more and more foreign-derived words. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dry bones everywhere amongst the marsh grasses, and the pools stank of centuries of decay. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the century following the death of Dufay, life for composers whose livelihoods depended on the Church was to become both dangerous and unpredictable. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Nobody as rebarbative as Cicero, in a state as turbulent as Rome during the first century bc, could expect not to run into trouble sooner or later. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The city had grown around them over four centuries, cascading down the slopes and then sprawling out over the flat landscape of farms and meadowlands below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It would take nearly a half century after US independence was won to accomplish what Jefferson had hoped for: the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation to “beyond the Mississippi.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Twentieth century art music, in particular, was very interested in breaking down or even rejecting these rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Nearly a century passed before this idea was taken seriously. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the nineteenth century, though, a dotted rhythm was only played if the composer had specified it with a dot in the notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The century is only 99 years old in the year 100, and only celebrates its hundredth birthday on January 1 in the year 101. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In my sleeping state, I would have needed decades more, perhaps even centuries, before I found the power to resurrect Alcyoneus myself. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A seventeenth- century globe as big around as a small car, with rubies to mark volcanoes, sapphires clustered at the poles, and diamonds for world capitals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The younger Halley, however, straddled the transition and produced some of his best work in the new century, after the Newtonian revolution. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, the treatment of an intestinal disease focused on purging the system through vomiting and moving the bowels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be here now, alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to be the beneficiary of an extraordinary string of biological good fortune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So classical atomism, as revised and reconstructed in the seventeenth century by Gassendi, Descartes and others, explained nature in terms of interacting particles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Kind of spooky, don’t you think? We started writing about him on the same day that his name was first recorded. There are more than three and a half centuries in between....” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We are always fighting, either with others or among ourselves. No one has defeated the Afghans, but centuries of war have left our country full of strife—one of the poorest in the world.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had preempted the century of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the decades and centuries to come, there would often be fierce debate as to what constituted an appropriate combination of notes, or what cluster was beautiful, or ugly, or seductive, or discordant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He also developed a race- preparation technique that was a half century ahead of its time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the latter half of the century, as technology moved from the military and corporate settings into our businesses and homes, the devices grew masterful at capturing our attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The publication of De Revolutionibus was accepted essentially without a murmur by the Catholic Church, and the book was largely ignored by Rome for the rest of the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s especially familiar to us that supermarket strawberries and blueberries are gigantic compared with wild ones; those differences arose only in recent centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the early twentieth century, husbands and doctors had the right to have their wives and patients held in psychiatric wards for indefinite periods, sometimes confined by straitjackets and leg irons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For example, by the 19th century North America’s Great Plains Indians were famous as expert horse-mounted warriors and bison hunters, but they did not even obtain horses until the late 17th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poncelet’s mathematics was the culmination of the work begun by the artists and architects of the fifteenth century, like Filippo Brunelleschi and Leonardo da Vinci, who discovered how to draw realistically—in perspective. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The virus had been endemic in Europe for centuries, which meant that most Europeans were exposed to it before adulthood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But in the past century, it’s come to mean something specific: freedom. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Over the following centuries their descendants colonized virtually every habitable scrap of land in the Pacific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was already unified politically in 221 B.C. and has remained so for most of the centuries since then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It either went underground, becoming esoteric or occult, or it was mislaid and would eventually turn up after centuries of lying neglected in some monastery library. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After workers made gains in the mid-twentieth century, American labor unions lost strength. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century efforts to find a new route failed over and over again. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is essential to stress that this last belief found no support in the fifteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

However difficult life may have been for the early miners, by the second half of the twentieth century Centralia was a reasonably prosperous, snug, hardworking town with a population approaching 2,000. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as I looked at the photos of Mo helping out at the refugee camps, rebuilding bombed-out villages, and replanting farms, I couldn't help but think of how that birthplace had suffered over the centuries. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Altogether, forty-two species of mammal have disappeared from America’s national parks this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy Jackson . . . my, my. The sons of Poseidon haven’t improved over the centuries, have they?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Scorned when it was first erected in the late 1950s, it is a brilliant, if idiosyncratic, creation by one of the most original architectural minds of the century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways Spokane was not then far removed from the rough-and- tumble lumber town it had been in the nineteenth century. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And the dramatic advances in technology in the twentieth century affected popular and classical music in very different ways. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But for drop-ins from another century, I thought we had had a remarkably easy time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries that followed, there were two key influences on the way rhetoric developed: Christianity and the written word. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sign says the painting was done by Lorenzo Lotto in the sixteenth century. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After surviving more than three centuries of subjugation in the New World, black America stood at the crossroads. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the early seventeenth century Bermuda was well known among ships’ captains for being hard to locate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Dotted’ patterns, with the skipping rum-tah-tum emphasis they create, were very common indeed in European music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in France. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The real historical puzzle, we might think, is not this eighteenth-century loss of belief in witches and demons, but the progressive re-enchantment of the world in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For many centuries, the swamp and the dangerous animals that live in it served as a barrier to people who wanted to explore Southern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This means that the twenty-first century—and the third millennium—begins in the year 2001. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Until early in the twentieth century, Princeton crews had rowed in the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which ran directly along the south side of the campus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first and better known is Mesoamerica, where half a dozen societies, the Olmec first among them, rose in the centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is helpful to look at counterparts from a distant place and a century far removed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even with conservative assumptions about the rate of paleo-Indian expansion, the destructive front would reach the Gulf of Mexico in three to five centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yes, straight, right, hard, and the rest are bona-fide adverbs and have been for many centuries. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed, trying to imagine whatever was in there, flattened and buried for centuries in the dark. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Abbey checked her watch and announced that we had exactly eleven minutes to get home or else we’d be grounded until the next century. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century,” he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tuberculosis was only discovered in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The time has changed from Wells’s early twentieth century to 1939—one year in the future. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Since early in the eighteenth century, the London watermen had also made a sport of racing their dories in impromptu competitions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the first century AD the vast majority of people throughout most of the world were agriculturists. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found that the philosophers there, centuries ago, had created a tool for their own undoing: an instrument they called the subtle knife. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sequence first started appearing profusely in the late seventeenth century, the norm was to cycle through just three or four chords rather than the possible chain of twelve. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Sixty more years then, perhaps. Half a century.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the next four centuries its realm steadily expanded until it ruled directly over much of central Mexico and indirectly, through puppet governments, as far south as Guatemala. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A quarter century ago, cancer in children was considered a medical rarity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first Europeans known to have reached the Americas were the Vikings, who appeared off eastern Canada in the tenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the turn of the last century, someone thought he could make his fortune raising the timber for railroad ties. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Because out of the forest came a man who carried magic that no one had seen in more than a century. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He read other people’s ideas, not only those of Malthus, but also of Adam Smith, who had written in the previous century about free-market economics and capitalism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, they are just frozen historical accidents: the “correct” forms are those that happened to be used in the dialect spoken in the region around London when written English first became standardized several centuries ago. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘But, Father -’ Zeus’s eyes sparked with power, and Jason realized he’d pushed his dad as far as he could for today . . . and maybe for the next few centuries. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the mid-nineteenth century, many people were interested in communicating with the “spirit world.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the late fifteenth century, as European explorers sailed to unfamiliar places, their actions and beliefs were guided by the Doctrine of Discovery—the idea that European nations could claim the foreign lands they “discovered.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Anaheim had been settled in the late nineteenth century by German immigrants hoping to create a local wine industry and by a group of Polish expatriates trying to establish a back-to-the-land artistic community. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

For the next half century it would be the drug of choice for young people. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first inescapable zero in physics comes from a law that had been in use for half a century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Kelvin was one of the most extraordinary figures of the nineteenth century–indeed of any century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first story about the creation of the narcissus is told only in an early Homeric Hymn of the seventh or eighth century, the second I have taken from Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the embers of the last days of the Roman Empire we are able, out of centuries of silence, to hear the only living musical bequest of the Ancient World. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Probably no area in the developed world has undergone a more profound change in just a century or so, at least not in a contrary direction to the normal course of progress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Olmec, he thought, were the Romans of Mesoamerica, a magisterial society that “established the pattern which, through the centuries, was to be followed by other expansionist Mesoamerican cultures.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Euripides, the youngest, died at the end of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My especial favorites were those autumnal sonatas of Signor Corelli, which had made such a stir in the century previous. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Feynman made that comment, physicists had had half a century to adjust to the strangeness of atomic behavior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like being a Rusty ghost watching as its city crumbled over the centuries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To talk about those regularities that appear in the natural world as ‘laws’ is to speak metaphorically: this was as obvious in the first century and the seventeenth as it is now. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I decided I would take four or five centuries to tell her about the special misery of living with T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaun and I treated our game like the grudge match of the century. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“That at least is an improvement on past centuries, don’t you agree?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It's different from the one I found. More beautiful by far," whispered Mo. "All those centuries in the Iraqi desert changed the other one." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Chocolate mousse, which of course means ‘foam’ and not an antlered cousin of elk, has been a staple of French cuisine since the eighteenth century.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

These words had been uttered by the prophet, Isaiah, who had been called the Eagle-eyed because he had looked down the dark centuries and foreseen the birth of Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They were the race whose barbarous, cunning, valiant defiance had been enslaved, long centuries before, by the foreign people whom Arthur represented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immigrant Handel, a naturalised British citizen from 1727, demonstrated more successfully than any other composer before the nineteenth century how music could become the collective voice of nationhood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Its focal point was the great mound—Monks Mound, it is now called, named after a group of Trappists who lived nearby in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their wealth is washing over the upper reaches of society as it did a century ago, bringing cultural and political clout as they take up positions on museum boards and organize presidential campaign fund-raising dinners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The story began several years ago at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In other words, the song relives and retells the experiences of a child in another century and makes her story highly relatable to us today. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“A century is about sixty billion miles,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I want my brother’s last memory going into centuries of sleep to be something good. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the well-to-do Viennese of the late-eighteenth century onwards, however, including composers like Haydn and Mozart, using the terms ‘gypsy’, ‘Hungarian’ or ‘Turkish’ was like saying ‘random foreign music by poor people’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Other evidence suggests they may have come a few centuries earlier; Tupi-Guarani-speaking groups, possibly including the Siriono, attacked the Inka empire in the early sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was another option, which was to use an existing phrase that avoided the term ‘philosophy’—‘natural science’—and this usage was common in the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Magnifying glasses were known to the ancient Greeks, and spectacles were in use from the thirteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Over the last few centuries such companies have become the main players in the economic arena, and we have grown so used to them that we forget they exist only in our imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime around the fifth century AD, Indian mathematicians changed their style of numbering; they moved from a Greek-like system to a Babylonian-style one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Finding asteroids became a popular activity in the 1800s, and by the end of the century about a thousand were known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the Yanomamo are relative newcomers to their homeland, many of them moving there only in the seventeenth century as they fled European diseases and cruelty further south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What singers of plainchant had in front of them in the centuries before about ad 800 was the text, in Latin, of what they were singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The hospital’s cavernous wards were built for another century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Niccolo Paganini was one of a new wave of superstar musicians in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His adventure with the snakes when he was a baby is told by Pindar in the fifth century and by Theocritus in the third. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman whose family had farmed the same land since the eighteenth century was carried from her house kicking and bellowing, to the delight of newspaper photographers and film crews. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As late as the seventeenth century, Descartes refused to accept negative numbers as roots of equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world’s most troubled areas today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of this, of course, was supported by so much as a grain of actual evidence–nothing so wrong could be–yet it was geological orthodoxy for the next half century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a remarkable achievement that Japan, unlike so many other non-European countries, preserved its political independence and culture while emerging from isolation and creating an industrialized society in the late 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So where were we, before I behaved so rudely?” he asked in the gentle cadences of an earlier century. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cayley was convinced that he had made an important breakthrough; but it would be more than a century before the significance of what he had achieved would become apparent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She became one of the most famous concert pianists of the century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This road of endless ruts and missing stretches of pavement had been built during the first American occupation of Haiti, in the early twentieth century. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that prominence just an ephemeral phenomenon of the last few centuries, now fading behind the prominence of Japan and Southeast Asia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You would go backward in time, so the first floor would have the current century. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But at least Kevin and I had a chance to grow back into the twentieth century. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote in a letter to Etty, “I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Old Dionysus isn’t really mad. He just hates his job. He’s been ... ah, grounded, I guess you would say, and he can’t stand waiting another century before he’s allowed to go back to Olympus.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Two centuries ago, all New Guineans were still “living in the Stone Age.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However tentatively, the results indicated that the various Algonkian languages in New England all date back to a common ancestor that appeared in the Northeast a few centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only in the second half of the twentieth century, with the dismantling of legal barriers to opportunity, did the lines begin to blur. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a quarter century, they received an audience. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a historian, an expert on the goblin-elf wars of centuries past. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He had reported almost every war of the twentieth century, like the Spanish Civil War, and the genocide in East Timor, and bad stuff that happened in Africa. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not only is it runty and obscure, but it is so variable in its motions that no one can tell you exactly where Pluto will be a century hence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If this revelation is typical, the ancient Danube Valley was as violent as the twentieth century. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If there were no books, no written records, think how prodigious a time twenty-three centuries would be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient crown of the Kings of Winter had been lost three centuries ago, yielded up to Aegon the Conqueror when Torrhen Stark knelt in submission. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Central Europeans became especially hooked on it; by the nineteenth century, maize was the daily bread of Serbia, Rumania, and Moldavia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Being so close to mainland Europe—a short sail to France—it had been a point of embarkation for British troops during the Napoleonic wars earlier in the century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though much smaller and entirely round, the room somewhat resembled the Room of Requirement on the unforgettable occasion that it had transformed itself into a gigantic labyrinth comprised of centuries of hidden objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Trotter knotted the tie for him with the kind of assured expertise born of knotting one man’s tie for more than a quarter of a century. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Liszt and Wagner idolised Berlioz, which would explain much that happened in the second half of the nineteenth century, a torrid drama that will unfold in the next chapter. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was bewildering to find them so many miles and centuries out of Egypt, and so far from the fiery furnace. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

In the early twentieth century, many whites still lived in this area. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Yet Storm's End endured, through centuries and tens of centuries, a castle like no other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Within a few centuries, the Indians of the eastern forest reconfigured much of their landscape from a patchwork game park to a mix of farmland and orchards. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And if the European entrance into the Americas five centuries ago was responsible for them, what moral reverberations does this have today? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the eleventh century CE, Christianity in the form of Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe, and church leaders held a great deal of political power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

With Sam’s and Jon’s training, she had become a peregrine falcon of the twenty-first century. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then it made its way back to the sea, cutting rivers and canyons into the earth over the centuries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Rome and Sparta for many centuries stood armed and free. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was killing about two million people a year, more adults than any other infectious disease except for AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of that century, might be forgotten. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

What we do with our world in this time will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully determine the destiny of our descendants and their fate, if any, among the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is very vague. No one has been able to explain it for centuries. Fly you high, Gregor the Overlander.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The most popular triad progressions have been used over and over again, century after century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“There have been Christians and Muslims in India for centuries! Some people say Jesus is buried in Kashmir.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because Polish law prohibited Jews from owning land, as had been the case for centuries for Jews in Europe, my maternal grandfather, Jacob Golner, leased his farmland from the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Pharos finally succumbed to earthquakes in the early fourteenth century ce. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The walls, the paneling, the pervasive heaviness of nearly new fixtures, the colossal firedogs, the walk-in fireplaces of bright new stone referred back through the centuries to a time of lonely castles in mute forests. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The problem of the twentieth century,” wrote W. E. B. Du Bois around sixty years ago, “is the problem of the color line.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

As the baby-blue scooter zipped through the streets of Rome, the goddess Rhea Silvia gave Annabeth a running commentary on how the city had changed over the centuries. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could almost smell the place, earthy and brooding, the smell of centuries, and he remembered how dark the wood had been even by day. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But there were less than five billion people on the planet in the late twentieth century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muskogees were probably driven out of Mexico by the Aztecs, Toltecs or some other of the northwestern tribal invasions of the ninth or preceding centuries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The timberwolf and woodland caribou also disappeared from their last Appalachian fastnesses in the first years of this century, and the black bear very nearly followed them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise opera, or dramma per musica as it was known in its first, Italian century, spread from its power base in Venice to Naples and Rome, and thence north into Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And thus it took over two hundred years after his death, in the fourth century bc, for his mantle to be assumed by Cicero. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I needed for him to explain the meaning behind it all, the pogroms, the massacres, the burnings that pursued us through the centuries like a dybbuk we’d never be able to tear ourselves free from. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Today’s behavior is no more fixed than when we tumbled out over Europe to build cathedrals in the twelfth century. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth century was the heyday of amateur science. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I let him go,” Peach repeated, his voice gathering a hard edge to it, like he was a murderer and was admitting to the crime of the century. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Zero and the infinite were at the very center of the philosophical war taking place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This map does not depict it accurately, because these societies were not contemporaries—the Olmec vanished centuries before the Nudzahui and Zapotec began to reach their height, for example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Mount was typical of Georgian architecture from the previous century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the first to grapple directly with this question was the Jesuit educator Jose de Acosta, who spent a quarter century in New Spain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Did that mean, they asked, that women had done nothing worth recognizing during the past century? Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, this pattern occurred again and again in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instantly uncomfortable, I wondered how, for so many centuries, people wore such stiff, formal clothes all the time. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And now we’re about to graduate, and all I have to show for it is the saddest crush of the century. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

All of this represents just a small part of Boyle’s work, although it is the part that is most relevant to the story of the development of science in the seventeenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

People have been using human waste as fertilizer for centuries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I’d be surprised, I had to admit, if anything in myself could be as cold, as dark, as centuries old as the presence I felt around me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed shut on that stinking century. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we run through the centuries, new things appear: ships by themselves, animals by themselves, such as dogs and horses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same technique that the Coast Salish peoples of the Northwest had used for centuries to fashion bentwood boxes out of single planks of cedar. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Each is foreshadowed by an earlier century, but dazzles into full prominence in the twentieth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Mayans of the tenth century CE built city-states as far south as Belize and Honduras. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the twenty-first century, technology can be compared to food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We have worked well together over the centuries.... The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Also widespread in Japan is the theory that the Japanese are descended from horse-riding Central Asian nomads who passed through Korea to conquer Japan in the 4th century A.D. but who were emphatically not Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the collar of the average Western worker made its journey from blue to white over the course of the last century, the value of the persuasive arts for career advancement has grown in proportion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

European surrealists came across this colorful new art in the first years of the twentieth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Despite calculus’s shaky foundations, by the end of the eighteenth century, mathematicians all over Europe were having stunning successes with the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Each piece is registered in huge organizational folios that have taken centuries to amass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The sole Native Americans able to resist European conquest for many centuries were those tribes that reduced the military disparity by acquiring and mastering both horses and guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy murmured to me, “Do you realize what this means, Calpurnia? The days of whale oil and coal dust are over. The old century is dying, even as we watch. Remember this day.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In England, Kuhn claimed, experimental science flourished from the late seventeenth century onwards, science conducted in the tradition of Bacon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike Newton, Halley played no part in the politics associated with the problems of the succession at the end of the seventeenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries you could travel from Spain to the Azores in a few days, the same time it takes us now to cross the channel from the Earth to the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been over it so many times now, I’d almost forgotten how dangerous it could be, how many lives it had swallowed over the centuries. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Fargo Hall, close to a century old, had stone gargoyles and carved human heads on every turret and ledge. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Zapatista rebellion that convulsed southern Mexico in the 1990s was merely the most recent battle in an episodic colonial war that began in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For centuries the Greeks had been fascinated with conic sections. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A bold, brave, powerful warrior that the Underlanders would tell stories about for centuries. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Orion and Daedalus could be used as multigeneration ships, so those arriving at a planet of another star would be the remote descendants of those who had set out some centuries before. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the shadow of this mighty Choral symphony was to loom majestically over the entire nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This idea was elaborated by Ptolemy in the second century A.D. into a complete cosmological model. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s time to go back to the sixteenth century and pick up the threads of the developments in astronomy and the mechanical sciences which followed on from the work of Copernicus. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Have you any idea how much my kingdom has swollen in this past century alone, how many subdivisions I've had to open?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street comer in Brooklyn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as the conflicted relationship among Athens and Sparta was a leitmotif of Greek life, so Maya society resounded for centuries with the echoes of the struggle between Mutal and Kaan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“People have used these books for centuries. Their accuracy is beyond dispute.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were modern not by the standards of 1826 but by the standards of a century later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Its tranquil beauty mocked the relative prosperity peasant families had enjoyed for centuries, before the dam was built. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Instruments of this general sort were common in the early seventeenth century, but Galileo’s were made especially for him and were perhaps the most sophisticated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But it had taken many centuries to figure out, and there was a great deal more to do, especially in the decipherment of the hieroglyphs of much earlier times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

House Flint held it for a century, House Locke for almost two. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As early as the sixteenth century, mathematicians were using numbers with i included—the so-called complex numbers—to solve cubic and quartic polynomials. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The old philosophy is, by the end of the seventeenth century, scholasticism; modern science is the science of Descartes and Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the ninth decade of the twentieth century the strategic missile and bomber forces of the Soviet Union and the United States were aiming warheads at over 15,000 designated targets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they were to be required to instruct that the earth was created by God, in seven days, sometime, oh, before the turn of the century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The monks arrived as early as the fifth and sixth centuries a.d., having sailed and rowed from the west coast of Ireland. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the 20th century was an exciting time for music education, with several significant instructional methods being developed and taking hold. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The buildings here have been standing for centuries. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In medicine there were no reliable methods of measuring success until the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Du Bois got it right a century ago: “the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most devastating events of the twentieth century hit you at exactly the wrong time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“It would make people want to find her and hunt her down for him, like people have been trying to do for a century.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now let me tell you about a man who was born in that century, and I think you will begin to have your answer. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had no guess at all as to why they lad lain here for uncounted centuries, deep underground, fhere didn’t seem— The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Not yet anyway...Give them another century or two. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In different forms Bancroft’s characterization was carried into the next century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Russian Imperial capital of St Petersburg had, by the end of the nineteenth century, become one of the greatest musical centres in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For almost a century they had been mined to make household cleaning powders like Comet and Ajax. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. K had lived by the dead sea for twenty years, and their ancestors had lived in the same house, which turned and followed the sun, flower-like, for ten centuries. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paris in the twelfth century was expanding fast, as was its university, which was beginning to shrug off its ecclesiastical roots and embrace a more secular approach to learning. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He felt weighted down by the centuries of time since the Pyramids had been built. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This interesting riddle is still quite a challenge to modern science in the twentieth century. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her African-bush secretiveness and suspiciousness had been compounded by slavery and confirmed by centuries of promises made and promises broken. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hipparchus anticipated that stars come into being, slowly move during the course of centuries and eventually perish; it was he who first catalogued the positions and magnitudes of the stars to detect such changes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the turn of the century, textile-mill workers outnumbered tobacco workers in Durham by a margin of two to one. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Between the two of us, we’d amassed an impressive collection of books written by twentieth century Black female authors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Despite the taint of ain’t from its origin in regional and lower-class English, and more than a century of vilification by schoolteachers, today the word is going strong. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the middle years of the seventeenth century experience stopped being something that accorded naturally with the statements of previous authorities and became a caustic solvent of fabulous beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

By the end of the twentieth century many nations had collected nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite recent efforts to locate the title in the twentieth century, they comprised, by any informed and fair-minded standard, the greatest generation of political talent in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But is that possible? Did you come by rocket? Has space travel been going on for centuries?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries colored people were told: Blacks are monkeys. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to tradition, the Thembu people lived in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains and migrated toward the coast in the sixteenth century, where they were incorporated into the Xhosa nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But perhaps in another century or two, when the solar system is all explored, we will also have put our planet in order. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived as late as the second century A.D., but he does not question any of the stories. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed a century since the summer just a year ago when she had read and reread Oliver Twist and dreamed of home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was 1919, and she was one year younger than the century. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-eight years old but announced, “I intend to live for more than half a century, and at the end of that half-century London will be trembling lest Chicago shall surpass it....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This model permitted reasonably accurate predictions of planetary motion, certainly good enough for the precision of measurement available in Ptolemy’s day, and even many centuries later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until a couple of centuries ago, they served as an all-purpose, neutral pronoun—singular and plural, masculine and feminine. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“All of those decades—over a century!—of history. When you stood on the courtyard in the rain, you felt like the gods were singing in the heavens.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Antarctica had never even been sighted before the nineteenth century. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Yet it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that Smeaton and Watt both used models to work out how to transform the efficiency of powered machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Chola bronzes, cast in the eleventh century, include several different incarnations of the god Shiva. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of the most important lessons learned in the centuries since Copernicus is that a scientific model doesn’t have to explain everything to be a good model. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the best part of half a century, the author of the Arte was held to be a senior courtier and the work’s contents the fruit of deep privileged knowledge. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could study the eighteenth century in secret. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In one important respect the outlook is more encouraging than the situation regarding infectious disease at the turn of the century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No one has lived in that room for a century,” she said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But for centuries after their discovery, the composition of those clouds remained entirely unknown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unhappily, no supernova explosions have been observed in our Galaxy since the invention of the telescope, and astronomers have been chafing at the bit for some centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgin-soil death rates for smallpox are hard to establish because for the last century most potential research subjects have been vaccinated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hence the elimination of Saturday classes, the shortening of the school day, and the lengthening of vacation—all of which occurred over the course of the nineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The text of Archimedes had been available in Latin from the twelfth century, and had been first published in 1544. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We know the Shetani has been alive for nearly a century, at least,” he said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was said that the children of the forest had carved the faces in the trees during the dawn centuries before the coming of the First Men across the narrow sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, in the fifteenth century, artists were amateur mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The obvious difference between them was the century and a half of large-scale warfare in the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘Orion is a problem. Unlike the other giants, Orion has been walking the earth for centuries. He takes a special interest in killing Amazons, or Hunters, or any female who dares to be strong.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A century earlier, a similar political dynamic had resulted in the birth of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Theoderic’s work then disappears entirely from view until it was rediscovered in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries it had grown slowly in all directions, engulfing smaller buildings and courtyards as it spread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had been raised by a German family in Cairo, Illinois, and had come to St. Louis at the turn of the century to study nursing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alchemists promised it—had been promising it for centuries, and if they achieved purity and perfection in anything, it was the purity and perfection of their failure to produce it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I loved the African-American literature class I’d taken my freshman year where we had read fiction to try to understand American history in the nineteenth century. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the last two centuries, people have literally carted away many of its buildings, using the stones for churches, homes, bridges, public buildings, and even landfill. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the nineteenth century ran out, more and more of the continent was mapped and described by navigators from around the world—although Antarctica claimed many ships as payment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Up to the beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished, he said the new mosque was strong enough to last for centuries. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Early in the nineteenth century, the dream of freedom had begun spreading through the slave cabins on all the plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were putting up a new building, one made of stone and guaranteed to last a century. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, as seemed likely, it recorded when the stela was put on display, this implied that Tres Zapotes had been a going concern in 32 b.c.—centuries before any other known Maya site. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is thus simple to test the claim that there was a Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century by looking for the revolution in language that must have accompanied it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take a century, but gradually the top came into view. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The church would cling to Aristotle for a few more centuries, but the fall of Aristotle and the rise of the void and the infinite were clearly beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In response, the Cherokee chiefdoms gradually found themselves compelled to join into a single confederacy in the course of the 18th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The definition of a ‘beast’ has caused controversy for centuries. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The World had been expected to end in the year one thousand, and, in the reaction which followed its reprieve, there had been a burst of lawlessness and brutality which had sickened Europe for centuries. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century there had been four hundred mines in Cornwall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the last two centuries, abject slavery, with us for thousands of years or more, has been almost eliminated in a stirring planet-wide revolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in decades, maybe centuries, the ship was free to turn in the wind. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wrote, probably, in the first or second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Multiplying the average by the number of Tododahos, the two researchers estimated that the alliance was probably founded in the middle of the twelfth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth century’s infatuation with phrenology—to continue with a somewhat different heady concern—demonstrates the flimsiness of this line of thought. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“But I will miss the sweetness of my revenge. We have worked well together over the centuries, have we not?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“This old- growth forest stops them. It’s been around for centuries, probably even before the Rusties.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Only in the past few centuries, owing largely to European imperialism, have the world’s people been classified along racial lines. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The strict disciplinary measures of the nineteenth century served not only order, but profit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s family had been living at the base of Buck’s Peak for half a century. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There had been, once upon a time, a great deal of curiosity surrounding the vanished city and its fate, but after two centuries, it had become little more than a fable. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Orthodox monks smuggled silk out of China in the sixth century. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My girl,” he said coldly, “I don’t have to do anything. Besides, I only help those who give me proper tribute, which no one has managed to do in many, many centuries.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This time, he claimed to have noticed the eerie similarity between Jackson’s speech on behalf of slavery and one delivered a century earlier by an Algerian pirate named Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This behavior of the universe could have been predicted from Newton’s theory of gravity at any time in the nineteenth, the eighteenth, or even the late seventeenth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what hymns were to sound like until around the midtwentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Many Amazonian Indian groups were similarly eliminated by private settlers during the rubber boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What ‘modern’ means has shifted century by century, and discipline by discipline. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were going to find Adiah, help her get rid of the splendor poisoning her body, and possibly stop the killing that had plagued Lkossa for almost a century. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church began what could be called a series of domestic crusades within Europe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This story is told only in a very early poem, one of the earliest of the Homeric Hymns, dating from the eighth or the beginning of the seventh century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upshot is that by the turn of the twentieth century, paleontologists had literally tons of old bones to pick over. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the line was our state senator in Austin calling to congratulate our town as we hurtled toward the twentieth century. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It had taken the Owner over half a century, but at last every St. Anthony’s suitcase ever made was inside the walls of his store. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the early nineteenth century, and even today, the Chewa people were the rulers of the central plains. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In any case, a symbol for zero—the placeholder in the base-10 numbering system—was certainly in use by the ninth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Although chemistry had come a long way in the century that separated Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, this possibility didn't occur to medieval musicians for centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the second half of the century there was a fifth option— train. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It has also been claimed that there were no scientists in the seventeenth century because there was no professional role for a scientist to occupy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Trying to unravel the evil of the dark, brooding centuries of slavery and oppression, the book identifies too many villains and not enough heroes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Stained oak, with the intricate carvings generally associated with either the eighteenth century or the obscenely rich. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The Hollerith tabulator was the work of Herman Hollerith, who incorporated the Tabulating Machine Company at the end of the nineteenth century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Charming! But in civilized countries,” said the Controller, “you can have girls without hoeing for them; and there aren’t any flies or mosquitoes to sting you. We got rid of them all centuries ago.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Peeves, you fool, Peeves! Haven’t you been complaining about him for a quarter of a century? Go and fetch him, at once!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You must admit your glorious King Degravaunt rode out of the west with his barbarian hordes bent on slaughter, and drove us out of the homes we’d lived in for centuries. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that in the sixteenth century, motion meant riding on a galloping horse or in a carriage being pulled over rutted roads. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then in China between the second and sixth centuries, paper, ink and printing with carved wooden blocks were all invented, permitting many copies of a work to be made and distributed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mega-Nino in the eleventh century may well have caused the droughts of those years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the fourth century bce, years of unrest had depopulated large swaths of the country. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Until the middle of the nineteenth century that thinking symbolized the prevailing scientific thought about the human neural network. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The idea that accurate figures could make a fundamental difference started with double-entry bookkeeping in the thirteenth century; it then spread to the sciences, and outwards from both accountancy and science to government. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The parade ended at Darling Stadium, the namesake of the oyster magnate whose creative entrepreneurship had brokered the land deal with the federal government for the Langley laboratory a half century before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I almost felt bad letting the unruly pirates out, but I guessed they deserved something more entertaining than the exercise wheel after being cooped up in a cage for three centuries. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Shetani, the creature our people have hunted for nearly a century, has been captured, and he goes to pray?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By the nineteenth century many of the majority ethnic Magyars in Hungary were dejected by their lack of self-government - though Liszt himself was far from the turmoil for most of his life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Both telescope and microscope produced new knowledge, but in the seventeenth century only the telescope directly endangered the existing order. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If that word ‘male’ be inserted as now proposed...it will take us a century at least to get it out again,” she wrote to Gerrit Smith at his home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hilary Putnam, perhaps the most influential analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, published a famous article called “The Meaning of Meaning” in a learned academic volume. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the late twentieth century humans did not much die of plague—not because it was absent, but because resistance was high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No motorcars, very few telephones, not many electric lights. Even though it was the beginning of the twentieth century, you still very much felt the influence of the nineteenth century.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In schools and universities, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the study of rhetoric pushed aside. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

That first quest to rescue Hera seemed like centuries ago. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Direct measurements of the speed of light come much later, in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century.... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Tiwanaku has been excavated for a century, and the more archaeologists delve into it the less there seems to be. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I knew what they were capable of doing to black people—even in the twenty-first century. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This subterranean shift could not have been anticipated at the start of the century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From the time of its creation in the third century B.C. until its destruction seven centuries later, it was the brain and heart of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in Philadelphia at the turn of the last century, the son of a dentist from Russia. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Living in the twenty-first century gives a person a much better prognosis for treatment, but sometimes I wish I’d lived in an age before technology. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was not until the time of Louis Pasteur, two centuries later, that Huygens’ speculation was proved correct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A visitor from another planet, or another century, would view the exercise as precisely lunatic behavior, but no one from outside would understand it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone whose family immigrated in the last century has a story to tell about how hard their relatives have worked, the contributions they make to the country, the taxes they pay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the twentieth century biologists were stoutly denying its existence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grants theory mostly came from one that had been suggested by a Frenchman named Jean-Baptiste Lamarck late in the previous century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know that, Mulch. And it’s our nature to throw you in a cell for a couple of centuries.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If, in fact, my spiritual fathers are those seventeenth- century Puritans, there is one important difference between their writings and mine. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gloomy overcast afternoon, this last day of the dying century, was definitely turning into a “not” day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They were puffy, wrinkled, and white as dough, as if they’d been soaking in formaldehyde for a few centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They went off in a troop, preceded by a band of musicians and shooting off fireworks, and they left behind in the town an impression that the Buendía line had enough seed for many centuries. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Yet, once those ideas were challenged, progress was breathtakingly rapid—after fifteen centuries of stagnation, there have been fewer than another five centuries from the time of Copernicus to the present day. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Xenophilius looked ghastly, a century old, his lips drawn back into a dreadful leer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They still endured, unchanging, four centuries after Valyria itself had met its Doom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It can go years or even centuries without producing one. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After 1919, the next large-scale unrest exploded nearly a half century later, when blacks took to the streets in cities across the country during the civil rights movement. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When writing finally returned to Greece, in the eighth century B.C., the new Greek writing, its users, and its uses were very different. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Carte'sian, relating to the philosophy of Descartes: a French philosopher of the 17th century. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of a prince who could not be killed, a priest who warned of a goddess’s wrath, a French prelate who believed he’d bought the same stone centuries later. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some of them, he said, were a century old. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For centuries men had dived down and torn the oysters from the beds and ripped them open, looking for the coated grains of sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the century after Verrazzano Europeans were regular visitors to the Dawnland, usually fishing, sometimes trading, occasionally kidnapping natives as souvenirs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But during the seventeenth century, musicians intrigued by the forbidden fruit opened up by chord sequences increasingly sought to be able to move from one mode to another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The way was narrow and steep, the steps worn in the center by centuries of feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Forms of race discrimination that were open and notorious for centuries were transformed in the 1960s and 1970s into something un-American—an affront to our newly conceived ethic of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Many of the canal houses date from the Golden Age, the seventeenth century,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of the twentieth century, rowing clubs flourished in the enclaves of the well-heeled. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Across the city on the hill of Rhaenys stood the blackened walls of the Dragonpit, its huge dome collapsing into ruin, its bronze doors closed now for a century. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Plastic hadn’t been used for a hundred years, not since the energy famine of the twenty-first century. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since the turn of the century, politicians had been introducing state and federal laws with hopes of regulating human experimentation, but physicians and researchers always protested. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With four generations per century, twenty-three centuries occupies almost a hundred generations of human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Picture it. Nineteenth-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it had been experimenting with other philosophies for several centuries, when threatened with schism it turned orthodox once again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A few man-made carcinogens have been part of the environment for centuries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That flag—it stood for Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, Charles the First’s head upon a block, centuries of struggle for ‘English liberty.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such behavior became an accepted, even expected, feature of the political landscape during the middle third of the nineteenth century and has remained so ever since. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They cannot be definitely dated, but the earliest are considered by most scholars to belong to the end of the eighth century or the beginning of the seventh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irish and Germans arrived in the mid-nineteenth century, Poles and Lithuanians a few decades later. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The pent up horror, grief and humiliation of a lifetime—half a century—was being stripped from me.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In India, for God knows how many centuries, it’s been known as japam. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The second is the Peruvian littoral, home of a much older civilization that has come to light only in the twenty-first century.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In short, chlorofluorocarbons may ultimately prove to be just about the worst invention of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That genes carried messages had been abundantly clear for half a century. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But she says the whole city will erode. I guess the question is how long will it take. Weeks, months, centuries.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The United States Army had ventured here before, in the early twentieth century, to restore order during another period of turmoil, only to leave and watch from a distance as the new government eventually collapsed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If you want to fully understand what Europeans did when they encountered the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, it helps to know what happened in Europe in the centuries before 1492. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The initial letter of a sen-tence was first capitalised in the 13 th century, but the rule was not consistently applied until the 16th. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

For centuries, they supported research and maintained in the library a working environment for the best minds of the age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other centre of operatic style in the nineteenth century was Paris, though French opera at that time was essentially a grander version of Italian opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The text used virtually no Arabic, in subtle protest of the Arab conquests of Iran in the seventh century. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Moments like these, I want to check a calendar to see what century we’re in. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The eighteenth century saw something of a shift of emphasis to delivery, with “elocutionism” taking root as a formal discipline on its own. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The twentieth century’s musical adventure was just getting into its stride. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“For centuries, our family has tried to find the treasure that was stolen from us. My father failed. His father failed. And all the fathers before them? Failures!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Though it is a truism to emphasize the stunting of free Greek city life in Hellenistic times, Cyrene in the early third century was no mere political appendage of Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

By the mid-twentieth century, however, the tables had been turned: old favourites became the bread and butter of live concerts, with new works squeezed in between them apologetically. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had turned the corner many times, had fathered more than twenty children over the years, some of whom were now over a century old themselves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Similar clocks spread across Europe later in the seventeenth century following the independent work of Christiaan Huygens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

By century’s turn over three hundred Japanese had arrived on San Piedro, most of them schooner hands who jumped ship in Port Jefferson Harbor in order to remain in the United States. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The conquests of Alexander in the late fourth century gave the Greeks firsthand experience of Persia, India, and the Asian kingdoms lying between. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But this is from the eighteenth century, not the seventeenth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth century they acquired steel tools, and used them to make the return journey from seminomadic hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists who lived in more or less permanent villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For centuries, ballads, and epics were all sung, as were Biblical chants and Vedic hymns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

After Wari and Tiwanaku collapsed, at the end of the first millennium, the Andes split into sociopolitical fragments and with one major exception remained that way for more than three centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bob’s face looked haggard and careworn, as if he suddenly felt the weight of all his centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead the bones remained in boxes, rarely disturbed, for more than a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was movement in the darkness, scuffling and shuffling, a redistribution of ancient centuries, an evasion of foreshadows. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Until Elgar, Vaughan Williams and perhaps Parry in the twentieth century, no composer commanded as much respect, pride or admiration among Britons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some life-forms on earth can survive a long time under the harshest conditions: animal eggs hatch after many years and plant seeds sprout after centuries. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Porcelain, a fine-grained translucent pottery, was invented in China around the 7th century A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, less than a century ago, the radio waves leaving the Earth would become stronger, louder, less like noise and more like signals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the twentieth century approached, Stanton and Anthony realized that they would not live long enough to see nationwide suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mantell’s twisted spine remained on display at the Hunterian Museum for nearly a century before being mercifully obliterated by a German bomb in the Blitz. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Historic enemies who had been fighting each other for three centuries met and shook hands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was little archaeological evidence that the league had existed for many centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the nineteenth century, most Americans considered female suffrage a ludicrous idea, a radical position first suggested by a radical woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At thirteen, she was, as her grandfather liked to remind her, one year older than the century, and so a good deal wiser. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My next birthday, one hundred and two, I will have been alive in three different centuries. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was considered perfectly acceptable until the mid-nineteenth century, when Latin scholars—notably Henry Alford in his book A Plea for the Queens English—misguidedly called it a crime. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had both hoped for a baby, and they were thrilled, but pregnancy was dangerous in the nineteenth century About one in every two hundred women died in childbirth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the twentieth century. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It is possible, though, to reconstruct, to some extent, the chants that were being sung in churches and abbeys from around the fourth century onwards, from manuscripts of various kinds. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For a century or more after Pott’s discovery there seems to have been little further realization that certain of the chemicals in the human environment could cause cancer by repeated skin contact, inhalation, or swallowing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The roots began to move, digging deeper as they touched the earth, anchoring the oak until it looked like it had stood in that spot for centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man’s view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, and they have made countless wild guesses about it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These buildings, this hall, this dream of poets of centuries is the wild aspiration of crazy architects alone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dedicated in the early third century at a cost of eight hundred talents, the Lighthouse was one of the first monumental structures completed after the city’s founding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Christian religion gained influence in Europe over several centuries, gradually overcoming the old religions practiced by the people living there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But in the early years of the eighteenth century this argument from probability was applied with devastating force. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of dresses in it, and lacy ladies’ coats, and hats that looked like they must have been the purple rage at the turn of the tenth century. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was the barrier - training - that most prevented women composers coming to the fore in the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The method of enumerating the months and the years has changed much more over the intervening centuries than have the astrological niceties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

To appreciate what has been lost in twenty-three centuries, imagine a certain city in north-central France—and take away the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Sorbonne, the Arc de Triomphe, Napoleon’s Tomb, and Notre Dame. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Thus in this respect the Scientific Revolution is not like the American or French revolutions, which were called revolutions as they happened; it is a construction of intellectuals looking back from the twentieth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We called this hill Three Steps to Heaven, but it was really just centuries of hardened layers of mud washed up by the Fen River. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer the vote; the segregationist policy that gave them their suburbs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Stepping onto the stage of the empty auditorium, it was hard to tell if they’d come back to the right day, year, or century. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Twins—two squat, ugly, formidable castles, identical in every respect, with the bridge arching between—had guarded the crossing for centuries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Professor Binns, the ghost who taught History of Magic, had them writing weekly essays on the goblin rebellions of the eighteenth century. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Such views enjoyed an improbable durability and could be found repeated or echoed in European texts till near the end of the nineteenth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Slow as their material and technological advance had been, little as they valued “progress” in itself, they had finally, in the last five or ten or fifteen centuries, got a little ahead of Nature. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He nevertheless stands at the head of the coloristic tradition that descends through Rubens and Van Gogh to the Abstract Expressionists of the twentieth century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One positive function Schoenberg’s twelve-tone formula fulfilled, though, other than provide for interesting analysis and debate, was to give composers in the twentieth century a challenging structure with which to grapple. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Shieldhall was one of the older parts of Castle Black, a long drafty feast hall of dark stone, its oaken rafters black with the smoke of centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For instance, what about the people of the great Incan city of Cuzco, which was ransacked by foreigners in the sixteenth century? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Matsika said it happened before. Once, about a century ago, they remained silent for fifteen years.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shells made deep slushy craters, opening up all those years of waste, centuries worth, and the smell came bubbling out of the earth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said the Hazaras had tried to rise against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns had “quelled them with unspeakable violence.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The mathematization of the sublunary world begins not with Galileo but with Alberti, not in the seventeenth century but in the fifteenth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This seems to us an obvious thing to do, but in the twelfth century it was both daring and unexpected. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

These mounds had been flagged as possible ruins for nearly a century but never excavated because they seemed to have no valuable gold or ceramic objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Years later, Lilienthal was still shaking his head over Bobby’s recollection of his famous win over Capablanca more than a half century before. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would take them months or years to re-form, maybe even centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Entering the nave, visitors passed by a chapel on the right-hand side that contained the mummified body of Francisco Pizarro, the romantic, thuggish Spaniard who conquered Peru in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not until the nineteenth century was the parallax of a star first measured. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second writer on the list is sometimes placed in the ninth century, sometimes in the eighth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiwanaku split into flinders that would not be united for another four centuries, when the Inka swept them up. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The English language first picked up the apo-strophe in the 16th century. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I am watching the centuries pass in moments because suddenly I understand time, which is spinning and fixed like the North Star. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encouraging me the way he had, knowing that there was no new century for me, no new life for this girl. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As they melt, the bergs also release atmospheric nutrients that have been trapped in the ice for centuries. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They seemed especially interested in what life in the twenty-first century was like. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mathematicians in India first used zero in its contemporary sense—a number, not a placeholder—sometime in the first few centuries a.d. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of this century, for example, it was thought that everything could be explained in terms of the properties of continuous matter, such as elasticity and heat conduction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Live concerts in the nineteenth century had typically presented mostly premieres, with some familiar favourites sandwiched in alongside them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One man, pulling an anchor off Naushon, hooked an old crown that had been buried in the muck for a century. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But as chemistry developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people began to look back on Boyle’s book as a turning point. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A metal shriek filled the air as the rail began to bend, pulling free of vegetation and the rusty spikes that had held it down for centuries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Almost a century of family love and dedication had been poured into the place, and now it was gone, just like that, torn down by a city's rage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But the tragic fiasco leading to his death helped propel the American medical community into the next century. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe the passage of time, even centuries, didn’t matter when something really important needed to be said. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that when you send a letter in the twenty-first century, it can be received almost instantaneously?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After De Soto left, no Europeans visited this part of the Mississippi Valley for more than a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The evidence is clear: Ptolemaic astronomy was unaffected by Copernicus; it went into crisis with the new star of 1572, but by the end of the sixteenth century it had fully recovered. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My great-great-grandparents emigrated to America at the turn of the twentieth century; any relatives of mine who died in the Holocaust were cousins of ancestors I never knew. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Western scholars have written histories of the world since at least the twelfth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The preferred sense of disinterested as “impartial,” for example, has coexisted for centuries with its frowned-upon sense as “bored.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the third century BC the era of Greek hegemony was over. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was a genius other composers slavishly followed for well over half a century, yet to most modern listeners he is just a name, alongside his colleague Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Keeping track of the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy is as difficult as keeping track of the tax laws in the nineteen fifties and sixties in the United States. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colored was not a derogatory term—certainly not at the turn of the twentieth century. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But his revolutionary ideas about the place of the Earth in the Universe had already been formulated by the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her voice was bloodless and her eyes seemed drawn and unlived in as though the capillaries that fed them were filled with the dust from the Catholic centuries that sustained her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An even more serious problem concerns the vector of yellow fever, for centuries one of the great plagues of the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I have followed in my account Apollodorus, who probably wrote in the first or second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw how since the sixteenth century, the so-called “Christian trader” white man began to ply the seas in his lust for Asian and African empires, and plunder, and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are as far from the ideals and arguments of the previous century as it is possible to be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps all of us were so, when the first Educers came back centuries ago from Rokanon’s World teaching the “Last Art” to us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was excavated by Oxford archaeologists at the partially buried city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in the late nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For much of the next century, little of importance happened in Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova whose light should have reached the Earth in the seventeenth century, when there were a fair number of astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though China actually had the biggest economy in the world in the eighteenth century, it was Western countries, companies, and explorers who were doing most of the globalizing and shaping of the system. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ancient 8-, 16-, and 32-bit classics written in the previous century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tom said, “Say, what do you think it is with—nickel and silver—” “It must have been long thousand centuries ago,” Samuel said, and his sons knew he was seeing it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Board of Education overturned eighty years of established law and centuries of custom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad left us each more than enough, and I’d rather cover my expenses with that than the spoils of, you know, centuries of genocide. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For centuries, it was fine to pile one negative on top of another in the same sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved her dearly, but she was Canadian, born in the late nineteenth century, and thus deeply imbued with British class-consciousness. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Exiling your own son here for centuries—that was beyond cruel. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Escapist fun was not, by and large, a route chosen by classical composers in the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the fourteenth century, evidence, good evidence, against the two-spheres theory had been presented, and it had been brushed aside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever information we provide must still make sense to us two centuries later, and must still seem important, or the conversation will be an embarrassment to all concerned. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In trying to be objective and fair, such perspectives ignore centuries of US policy and law that did not question whether European Americans had the right to take over the entire continent. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Conversely, British troops have fought on the continent in every century since the Norman Conquest of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Even after a century, some of us still have friends in the Reach. The power of Highgarden may not be what Mace Tyrell imagines.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s theory was practical; it just took a full century to pay off. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Smart people have been asking questions for quite a few centuries now, so many of the questions that haven’t been asked are bound to yield uninteresting answers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A third volume was so unenticing that it wasn’t published until 1899, more than a century after Hutton’s death, and the fourth and concluding volume was never published at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was buried with his family in Madrid, his descendants putting down roots in Spain that persisted into the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Since the turn of the century, blacks had owned at least as much rental property in Hayti as had whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For Pelops’ winning the chariot race I have preferred Apollodorus, of the first or second century A.D., who gives the fullest account that has come down to us. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, centuries later, it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him Physical Science Today! and Language Arts Jot the New Century, which was sort of out of date because the new century was a dozen years old already. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

That’s why the Dinka lived in isolation until the nineteenth century, when British explorers and missionaries began pushing through the swamp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here were even more—centuries’ worth of hidden wealth from every empire that had ever claimed this land—Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and so many others. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That’s what you do at the end of the century, don’t you? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, he said, “Do you honestly believe you traveled back over a century in time and crossed three thousand miles of space to see your dead ancestors?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church has survived for centuries, not by passing on a ‘celibacy gene’ from one pope to the next, but by passing on the stories of the New Testament and of Catholic canon law. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five centuries later the wholesale reshuffling of populations became an infamous trademark of Stalin and Mao. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, the idea gained complete acceptance only early this century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After corn’s arrival in the eastern United States, seven centuries more passed before the development of a corn variety productive in North American climates triggered the Mississippian emergence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It still amazed him how extensive the old naturalist’s notes had been, how accurate they were even nearly a century after he’d disappeared. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the turn of this century, it was estimated that there were no more than a dozen moose in New Hampshire and probably none at all in Vermont. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It literally means “apartness” and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This remarkable star, 5,000 light-years distant, is now called the Crab Supernova, because an astronomer centuries later was unaccountably reminded of a crab when looking at the explosion remnant through his telescope. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five thousand fans, many of whom had crossed the country expecting to see the race of the century, mobbed Belmont on race day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a rough few years for the likes of us, and it was a rough few centuries prior to that.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But if this argument is pressed too far it becomes difficult to explain why, in the eighteenth century, modern chemistry established itself not as a continuation of but as a refutation of alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Birthdays, Death Days, and ESP Probability theory began with gambling problems in the seventeenth century, and something of the gaming flavor and appeal clings to it to this day. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This makes accurate clocks indispensable on ocean voyages, but it wasn’t until the eighteenth century that accurate clocks became a reality. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the late-seventeenth century, the modes finally gave way to their successor: keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the third century bce, Eratosthenes was heir to a rich heritage of possible universes. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After a century of war, Volantis found herself broken, bankrupt, and depopulated. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a “world criss-crossed by numerous patron-client relationships and family ties, in which major centers vied with one another in enmities that could endure for centuries.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They took a stand as stewards of the land, supporting each other’s struggles into the twenty-first century. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the early sixteenth century a high civilization flourished in central Mexico. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last sends me drifting off in a sci-fi direction: And as the time thieves headed back to the year 3420, loaded with weekends and days off looted from the twenty-first century . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, his system precisely anticipated one put forward by Tycho Brahe some eighteen centuries later. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

This was East Durham, an area of run-down houses built around the turn of the century by the textile manufacturers for their workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A preponderance of the members were Jewish, a group that had pursued the game for centuries and was highly proficient at it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fire had killed fifteen more, and an assassin had transformed the closing ceremony from what was to have been the century’s greatest celebration into a vast funeral. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I saved the other half to eat in a different century. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mining has of course always been a wretched line of work everywhere, but nowhere more so than in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, in a matter of centuries, the sea would make an island of the castle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The picture and the article that Richard showed me were from that book that covers the whole twentieth century. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those few peoples who remained hunter-gatherers into the 20th century escaped replacement by food producers because they were confined to areas not fit for food production, especially deserts and Arctic regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the late nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century, the garment trade was the largest and most economically vibrant industry in the city. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And by the turn of the century, there were anti-suffrage groups in New York, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Washington, and Oregon. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Yet despite its esteem problem, the humble contraction is used every day by virtually everyone, and has been for centuries. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of my lost obsidian pendant Lita gave me four centuries ago. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were afraid that those two healthy products of two races that had interbred over the centuries would suffer the shame of breeding iguanas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Roman era lasted for about seven centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The November 1 Pimlico Special, universally hailed as the race of the century, was on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His last comment about Bobby was “Fischer is a man of art, but he is a rare human being in the everyday life of this century. I like Fischer and I think I understand him.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One idea, which remained in textbooks well into my own school days, was the baked apple theory propounded by the Austrian Eduard Suess just before the turn of the century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was almost certainly a conscious effort a few centuries later to suppress the new insights. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though now considered anachronistic, in the late nineteenth century the chair was thought to be a bold and humane innovation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Oft cited on this subject of attention is William James, a philosopher and physician at the end of the nineteenth century, and the brother of novelist Henry James. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There are no early sources for his story except a few brief allusions in Hesiod, in the eighth or ninth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel and Liza Hamilton got all of their children raised and well toward adulthood before the turn of the century. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the centuries before Korea became unified politically in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Second Sons might not enjoy the shining reputation of the Golden Company, but they had won some famous victories over the centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This arch here looks seventeenth century, but isn't it the case that it was built quite recently? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because of its potential importance for navigation, the whole business of obtaining accurate star positions was of key importance in the late seventeenth century, both commercially and because of its military implications. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They came from Russia and Poland and later Roumania and Austria, all Eastern Europe, all through the nineteenth century. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But during the four centuries in which slavery flourished, the idea of race flourished as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The splitting-up of the world into three great superstates was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the eighteenth century, the tally shrank further, to 1,400. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The distinctive Cuban dimension in Latin American music that so inspired Stevie Wonder and others had only really escaped from its island home at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“He said that the poems happen to be written by the only great poet of the century. He said I should’ve bought a translation or something. Or learned the language, if you please.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A good case could be made that he was the most influential geologist of the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The success of scientific theories, particularly Newton’s theory of gravity, led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the fifteenth century, Europeans have spread around the globe and encountered wild mammal species not found in Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of Dr. Finch’s concessions to the twentieth century was a telephone. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for that reason, it has attracted the wide attention of researchers and theorists since the mid-nineteenth century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The culmination was, of course, the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and the journeys of the following few centuries, which completed the geographical exploration of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Japan, before the turn of the century, outside my father’s house there stood one of those stone lanterns, with four stubby legs and a small pagoda-like roof. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth century, epidemics removed the boss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the eighteenth century Shakespeare’s sense of time had been replaced by our own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is the most powerful and productive of the things human beings have learned to do together in many centuries, more effective than farming, or hunting and fishing, or building cathedrals, or making money. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They practiced agriculture here for centuries,” Glaser told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For centuries, he terrorized the natives who dwelt in the region. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The weight of years, decades, centuries of hate and violence—it all gathered in the air and pressed down on my shoulders. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The various well temperament tunings that were very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries tried to strike a balance between staying close to pure intervals and avoiding wolf intervals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s an honor of the century! Several centuries, in fact!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Across the deadline, in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, the Black Belt community was growing. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But over the centuries, the differences between gantlet and gauntlet have become fuzzy, and today’s dictionaries say gauntlet will do for all occasions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps a safe means of hibernation for humans will be found, so that the space travelers could be frozen and then reawakened centuries later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Bureau has had one policy for dealing with magicians for over seven centuries. Lock them up and throw away the key.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

DRACO: We have to find them—if it takes centuries, we must find our sons — HARRY: We have no idea where they are or when they are. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There was a story in those cups—a story that went back more than a half century. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been nearly a century since scientists measured the electron’s mass and charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was the twentieth century before people thought seriously about this, and there were three men who seemed to be ahead of everyone else in the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Erasmus’s best efforts, Cicero’s model held more or less continuous sway up to the nineteenth century. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the country inhabited by the Ka’apor, on the mainland southeast of Marajo, centuries of tinkering have profoundly changed the forest community. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In any case, the two countries had stayed alive over the centuries mainly by warring on each other. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a considerable time—some centuries—the new scientific knowledge was confined within the boundaries of Europe and the ships and colonies of Europeans abroad. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century, Helmholtz and Donders had begun trying to measure the capacities of the human brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Zero is not the only number that was rejected by mathematicians for centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It could be that she was in the same situation as the Working Boy, a seer and philosopher cast into a hostile century by forces beyond her control. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confederate Memorial Day was declared a state holiday in Alabama at the turn of the century, soon after whites rewrote the state constitution to ensure white supremacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the late nineteenth century the recurrence of this pattern had become obvious to many observers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When you stand still for over two centuries while the world whirls past, things happen. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was just past twenty-one; the century was not yet one year old. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not that the Cliffs were impossible to scale; two men were known to have climbed them in the last century alone. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

These people had struggled for a quarter of a century to reach their understanding, and now their Indian Summer was before them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Allan Pinkerton, in the nineteenth century, was known as “the eye,” Burns, in the twentieth century, had become “the ear.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As they climbed, Babi told them that Bamiyan had once been a thriving Buddhist center until it had fallen under Islamic Arab rule in the ninth century. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century it was claimed, in all seriousness, that Columbus’s contemporaries thought the world was flat and expected him to sail over the edge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They dragged themselves to the cellar, which was nothing more than a dirt room underground, built a century ago to store canned goods and potatoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Aristotelian system would outlast Alexander's empire; it would survive until Elizabethan times, the sixteenth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

After more than three centuries of rule, the white minority was conceding defeat and turning over power to the black majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained how in former centuries, before the arrival of the French, the Abomey kings had enormous palaces and very nice clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth century held one last great surprise for chemists. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The nature of light was a problem that had consumed scientists for centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Yet it is clear that belief in witchcraft among the educated elite diminished rapidly in the early eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew that, even though he was wearing a nineteenth- century velvet suit, had a broken watch on his wrist, and had just eaten a huge meal in an ancient kitchen. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the “movement” that Aristotle had so vividly imagined centuries before. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Here he was walking around in the middle of the twentieth century trying to explain what a ghost had done. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in so many other fields, the study of attention broadened and deepened as the twentieth century sped along. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then we came out of the tunnel and onto the platform, and I understood why: we were no longer in the nineteenth century, nor even the twentieth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Strauss looked backwards at the dying century, in songs of heartbreaking, Mahlerish delicacy, like ‘Morgen!’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Stevie Wonder, surely one of the greatest of all twentieth- century musicians in any field, was one such gatherer of styles. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He thus missed the chance, half a century ahead of anyone else, to be the discoverer of dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was, in effect, the starting point of the twentieth century’s preoccupation with what we now call ‘world music’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This number was increased over the following century, as wizards became more confident in their methods of concealment. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Riot Gear. It’s retro. It’s beat up to look like one of the big twentieth- century riots. It’s been big since earlier this week.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the classics. Okay, let’s try something this century.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that the double negative was declared a sin against the King’s English, on the ground that one negative canceled the other. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The witches have talked about this child for centuries past,” said the consul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“According to my readings, they were once quite popular among the upper classes, though I’m sad to say they’ve gone out of fashion in the last century or so.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Both of Aurelia’s older brothers died before their father, one in battle, and one in mysterious circumstances, a fate that befell a number of heirs to the Caesars down the centuries. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like the monster it had once commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As well as banning women from singing in church, the Church authorities in Rome in the early seventeenth century had issued a prohibition on opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Within one century of European colonization, 40,000 years of Aboriginal traditions had been mostly swept away. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This theme of the body as a machine was developed in the seventeenth century by another Italian, Giovanni Borelli, who was an older contemporary and friend of Malpighi. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Summer fevers were common visitors to all American cities in the eighteenth century, and therefore not headline news. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

One hundred years after the Red Summer, and despite significant gains made by African Americans in the past century, serious racial issues continue to plague the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Nor, more puzzlingly, did he gain any fame or even much attention from half a century of consistent and increasingly selfless achievement. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The twentieth century put enormous pressure on classical composers to carve out a new role for themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

African-Americans have always occupied the lowest level of the Southland’s great social pyramid, but as the new century progressed the region seemed unable to decide who it despised more: blacks or poor whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

CFCs also hang around for a long time–about a century on average–wreaking havoc all the while. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I was sitting there on a bannister or something. And I saw him come up the steps,” she said over half a century later. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It must also be accomplished quickly enough to be grasped by human memory, and not spread over many centuries. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was to become the standard textbook in advanced astronomy for the whole of the sixteenth century, and in it Peuerbach and Regiomontanus did not hesitate to criticize Ptolemy for his errors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Construction began in the first few centuries a.d. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

None knew how long he hath already lived; he may still thrive a full century more, there upon that isle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The universe dissolves with him—until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself and begins again to dream the great cosmic dream. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was noble; a face sculpted from an aggrieved aristocracy that was bleeding out through weak tributaries in the long delta of the twentieth century. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leading astronomers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were fascinated by comets, and even Newton became a little giddy over them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries after, people imagined that they could discern ghostly samurai armies vainly striving to bail the sea, to cleanse it of blood and defeat and humiliation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those Indigenous peoples and their descendants resisted invasion of their homelands and centuries of destruction and exploitation by the colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

These mansions had been built by wealthy white families in the late nineteenth century and included two to four bathrooms, electric lighting, gas furnaces, and steam heat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even after three centuries, some were still sharp enough to cut. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For one lively half century Pennsylvania had a virtual monopoly on one of the most valuable products in the world, oil, and an overwhelmingly dominant role in the production of a second, coal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It suffices to know that they appear time and time again across the centuries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Until recent centuries, these areas were still occupied by hunter-gatherers—Native Americans in the first three cases and Aboriginal Australians or Native Siberians in the last two. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For millennia the center of Jewish life had been planted firmly in the Middle East, but in the tenth century an opportunity for Jews arose in Spain. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I go to sleep by a campfire that looked like it was built by a boy scout, and I awaken in the middle of the eighteenth century.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the line from Vesalius to Harvey is so clear that it makes more sense to follow it to its logical conclusion now, before returning to the development of astronomy in the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Grace is correct. We need help. My family has tried to do this on our own for centuries. But now that Mrs. Malvolio and her uncle seem to know...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hooke and Newton were both, as far as their science is concerned, entirely seventeenth-century figures, though they did both live into the new century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The early sixteenth century was a bad time for the Roman Catholic Church and its allied heads of state in Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Up and down the river, an assortment of tall ships with black hulls—schooners and sloops dating from the previous century—also lay at anchor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the process of eking out those new notes took so long that we don’t even know in which century it happened. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“No, silly. Granddaddy explained it to me. The century is merely the marking of the passage of time. Time is man-made and comes from England.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The combination has been in use for six hundred years throughout the English-speaking world, though with greater frequency in the nineteenth century and in the United States. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A second that felt like a century passed before it wrapped its trunk around the rest of the blade and turned away from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After centuries of misery, slavery, injustice, and foreign interference, the people of Haiti had claimed their country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Though Grammer and Hale generally moved in different circles, White established that they’d known each other for years, from the time when Hale had first appeared in Osage territory, at the turn of the century. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had been contaminated with toxic chemicals over a century ago. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Until well into the twentieth century, getting to the nearest train station was a two-day wagon trip. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They are discussed in Book 5 of Quintilian’s Institutes of the Orator, a work which dates to the first century CE. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The buildings were built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the first handful of Norwegians showed up on the shores of Iceland in the ninth century, the papar decided the country had become too crowded—even though it was still all but uninhabited. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Separate Representation of Voters Act aimed to transfer Coloureds to a separate voters’ roll in the Cape, thereby diluting the franchise rights that they had enjoyed for more than a century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been alive a century ago when it had happened, but elders deep in their palm wine still spoke of it on occasion. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed that in the thirteenth century, Mongolia sent a huge fleet of ships to invade Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Kreisler was among the greatest violinists of the twentieth century. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was 37, still young by our standards, but on the threshold of old age by those of the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The countryside is scattered with Roman remains from centuries past—blocks of carved stone and broken columns and foundations—overgrown with vines and brambles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of handing on the tried and tested chants, as had been the norm in earlier centuries, Hildegard made up her own chant tunes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Where could Western music go once - as it seemed at the end of the nineteenth century - all possibilities of the existing system of twelve notes and key-families had reached saturation point? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Visitors also encountered the latest and arguably most important organizational invention of the century, the vertical file, created by Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Now envision this kind of fertile back-and-forth happening in a hundred ways with a hundred cultures—the gifts from four centuries of intellectual exchange. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It perhaps comes as no surprise that the plant was harvested to extinction by the first century ce. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece, began to write toward the end of the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you can see, it includes queens and kings and pharaohs from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such as Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In the fourth century BC, Alexander the Great marched with his Persian troops from Babylon to India. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“No, not you, my dear comrade. Of centuries of oppression.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“But Graetz was a great scholar. I read up on him before I started reading his history. He was one of the greatest Jewish scholars of the last century.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They went into a parlor where no one but Mrs. Cobb had stepped since the century had turned over. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A catastrophic earthquake razed Cahokia in the beginning of the thirteenth century, knocking down the entire western side of Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The buildings, which were grouped around three irregular quadrangles, dated from every period from the early Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So from the point of view of asteroid research the twentieth century was essentially just a long exercise in bookkeeping. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I guess he likes to check that book out with me because I been alive for every year of this century, and even a few years from the century before that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steps were cracked and broken from centuries of freeze and thaw and the tread of countless mules, and even in the dark the heights put her heart in her throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He lived until the end of the second century AD, or possibly just into the beginning of the third century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But by the sixteenth century the Industrial Revolution was well on the way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It belongs to Dartmouth College, of Hanover, whose famous Outing Club has been looking after it in a commendably diligent and low-key way since the early years of this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had come to Virginia in the eighteenth century and then moved west into the Appalachians in search of land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Hannah slipped into the chair, knowing it was the one the family reserved for the prophet Elijah, who slipped through the centuries like a fish through water. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went back and dusted the picture over the couch, which was of fancily dressed white people in another century having an elaborate picnic in a woods. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Like Gilbert, Galileo practised what he preached, and it was the peripatetic approach that was blown apart by his work in Italy late in the sixteenth century and early in the seventeenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jerusalem was also a holy city for Jews and Muslims, and had been an Islamic city since the seventh century. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

As a result, remote India was insulated from the rise of Christianity and the fall of Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Cholera epidemics come at longer intervals, the 1991 Peruvian epidemic being the first one to reach the New World during the 20th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry happened to be a very good Quidditch player; he had been the youngest person in a century to be picked for one of the Hogwarts House teams. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The arrival of the sweet potato triggered a further explosion in recent centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other thing the eighteenth century saw, of course, was some radical shifts in the style of government. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then there is the example of the religious group known as the Hutterites, who for hundreds of years have lived in self-sufficient agricultural colonies in Europe and, since the early twentieth century, in North America. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This aside, however, there are pressing 21st century learning issues that demand multicultural teaching material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the late nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants served the urban upper and middle classes, then left for the factories as soon as they could. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until well into the second half of the century, the formula H2O2 might mean water to one chemist but hydrogen peroxide to another. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here, near the planet’s mantle, you could find the last coin-operated videogames ever made, from the first few decades of the twenty-first century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Five fundamental changes thus interacted and interlocked in the course of the seventeenth century to produce modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Likewise, the celebrated rationality of the fifth century represents a retrospective bleaching of what was actually a complex and contested story. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his remote and comparatively humble situation, Michell was one of the great scientific thinkers of the eighteenth century and much esteemed for it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the century leading up to Dunstaple’s time, composers layered notes on top of each other but chose only from a very limited number of possible combinations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Once theirs had been a powerful guild, but in recent centuries the maesters of the Citadel had supplanted the alchemists almost everywhere. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If she was making even the slightest attempt to address centuries of bad press for stepmothers, she scored a Big Fat Zero. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortification plan of Coevorden in the Netherlands, as laid out in the early seventeenth century by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Our kind survived the twentieth century by hiding, not fighting—so perhaps all we need is a better way to hide.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After all, doctors had been drawing blood for centuries for diagnostic testing, and aside from the pain of a needle stick, there seemed to be no risk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In previous centuries trade focused on symbolic goods that directly engaged the king, such as jewelry for the royal family. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the average, a supernova occurs in a given galaxy about once every century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed, at times, to come and go almost daily, with the exception of Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant, who had been copying figures inaccurately into the Levy' ledgers for almost half a century. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past several decades, educators, world leaders, and theorists have produced a slurry of manifestos, visions and statements on what education should look like in the 21st century. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There had been hikikomori in Japan since back before the turn of the century, but their number had skyrocketed after the hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg began. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The coral had been smoothed over by centuries of sea wash. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A century of propagandizing ensured that the race card trumped all others. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The debate was not new in the second half of the seventeenth century, and neither were the arguments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was already a substantial underground facility here, developed over centuries to be either a clandestine refuge for government leaders in times of war or a last resort for humanity if life above became unlivable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Historical records show that frontier populations can increase at astonishing rates; in the early nineteenth century, the annual U.S. birthrate climbed as high as 5 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The outer wall, raised many centuries later, was twenty feet lower, but thicker and in better repair, boasting octagonal towers in place of square ones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The first recognition of malignancies traceable to the age of industry came during the last quarter of the 19th century. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The 14th Quartet might, for him, be a communication announcing, “Beethoven here,” answered, after passage through an undersea of time and submerged currents of human thought, by another long signal a century later, “Bartok here.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gravestones mostly flake away after a couple of centuries. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He would start, instead, with the history I had not yet learned in school, with the centuries of horror our people had experienced in Poland. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They based this speculation on the hard lessons learned during the twentieth century about the behavior of children of similar character. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the turn of the century, two British physicists tried to use the wiggle theory to solve a simple problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the fifteenth century drew on, the various Franco-Flemish courts of the Dukes of Burgundy became the artistic powerhouses of northern Europe, and it was here that Dunstaple’s new cocktail of chords really took off. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The airplane is probably the most exciting technological development of the early twentieth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Part of it might be what I represent: progress, science, and the interplanetary future we've dreamed of for centuries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Double-entry bookkeeping goes back at least to the thirteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was nothing more than a victim of modern diagnostics; in another century it would have been said of me that I was old and therefore losing my mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For half a century people had been trying to work out the size of the Earth, mostly by making very exacting measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I have a wardrobe with some props I sometimes use for my photographs. There sure also some suits in there. A couple of them are even from the nineteenth century—old enough for you?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavours of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood, then, Alexandria took shape very quickly in the waning years of the fourth century and early years of the third. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But there have been magicians named Van Helsing inside the Bureau for centuries, I think. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

More than a century later the French explorer La Salle canoed down the Mississippi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As if I had just uttered the joke of the century, the teacher burst into peals of maniacal laughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider the conditions in which, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, we live. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z