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Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.

During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.

It’s been in business nearly a century.

In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.

By the 15th century, many people flew kites in Europe.

But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out, handwriting lingered on (继续存在) well into the 16th century.

The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century

Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.

The increase of e-book sales will force the book business to make changes not seen for centuries.

Half a century later GM is a typical example of poor management.

sustainable way is the cornerstone (基石) of our nation's energy security, and will be one of the major challengesof the 21st century.

As he traveled through the homes of early 19th century nobility, Careme forged the new art of French gourmet food.

Between meals, Careme wrote cook books that would be used in European kitchens for the next century.

By the 18th century, there was a feeling of community that had grown.

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris' high society, he too called Careme to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace.

He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.

It's been in business nearly a century.

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered "eggs" that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.

People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm.

The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century.

the 20th century a highway, car, truck century—and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air, " Kasarda says.

The Vikings' first major discovery occurred in the 9th century.

They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.

This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century.

While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined.

In the early 20th century Americans believed science and technology could solve virtually all existing problems.

The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak.

A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied are search project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry

This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.

It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice,Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination (终极) of their classical education.

But a century later, her findings came under scientific criticism.

By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

Maria Sibylla Merian, like many European women of the 17th century, stayed busy managing a household and rearing children.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.

She was going to talk with slides about a town in the 18th century.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian

The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.