Instead of looking only at art from the time of European conquest, this show engages five whole centuries of Kongo sculpture, ivories and textiles, looking at the economic exchanges and political developments that shaped Kongo society and art. (theguardian.com)
Over the whole century there has only been one emergency government set up specifically to apply fiscal squeeze (the Ramsay MacDonald «National Government» of September 1931). (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
The woman built what's reputed to be America's most haunted house, but the most terrible thing that ever happened to her — a whole century later — was this. (telegraph.co.uk)