Sentences with phrase «ushuaia early last century»

Early last century, people were not very sensitive to the plight of Jewish people in Germany.

Almost the entire top - 10 for Massachusetts is players from early last century or even before then, but recent Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Bagwell ranks fifth — without a single one for the hometown team that drafted him.

But the business of making rugs — not to mention tweed, lace, shoes, and wire fencing, all of which rolled out of Clinton by the ton early last century, slipped away to China and India.

Crazy ants from India were accidentally introduced to Christmas Island early last century.

But not since Freud's pseudoscientific theories early last century has psychiatry claimed any broad theoretical basis for making sense of our normal and abnormal feelings, thinking and social behaviours — the complexities at the heart of being human.

Early last century, the big friendly giant of the Jurassic was stripped of its iconic name due to the obscure protocols of nomenclature.

Farmers in America discovered this early last century when they tried to fatten their cattle by feeding them coconut oil.

«It is referential to a doomsday cult from early last century and is meant to evoke solidarity between women who want to take over the world.»

On the other hand the fact that it's based on a Boris Vian story leaves room for a little hope, because he's a brillant, underrated author of the early last century.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

One way to get there is by taking a 5 - kilometer train ride run through raised sphagnum moss bogs and a sub-Antarctic forest via the Tren del Fin del Mundo (Train to the End of the World)-- a train line built by Argentinean prisoners exiled to Ushuaia early last century.

Jamison Guesthouse was built early last century on the escarpment about the Jamison Valley, close to bushwalks and major lookouts.

The House now known as York's Corner started its life as an opium den somewhere near Newcastle Harbour early last century.

Built early last century as the Union Bank of Australia Ltd, the premises

You have already shown a complete inability or unwillingness to grasp the incredibly obvious causes of warming early last century, so I'm not going to waste my time with someone like that.»

Deforestation in the US was particularly intense until some measures started to be taken early last century.

They can explain some warming early last century, but can not explain total 20th century warming.

There are literally hundreds of studies, reconstructions, research papers and graphs of solar cycles, and the vast majority show an increase in solar activity early last century, and a flat cycle after about 1970.

However we know environmental pressures became unsustainable at least early last century when Americas population was about 70 million people.

Victor @ 244 complains about people trying to allegedly minimise the warming period early last century.

You have a fairly regular pattern of volcanic explosions over time but it varies for short periods and it did this early last century.

I personally think solar activity volcanic activity and CO2 were all clearly very significant, and about equally significant early last century.

It doesn't change the fact that lack of volcanic activity contributed to warming early last century, because warming is only what a thermometer measures, and this volcanic activity thing is the thing you are denying.

In Australia, less frequent flooding from early last century to the mid 1940's, more frequent flooding to the late 1970's and again a low rainfall regime to recent times.

Firstly, it's a little known fact that the greenhouse effect was first postulated early last century.

But unless you include the Sun early last century and clouds in the latter part — which are related to SST decadal Pacific variation — then you are nowhere near explaining surface temperature changes.

You aren't thinking about the warming period early last century, because we know it was a relatively brief period, and so lacked huge significance, and was caused by a combination of CO2 emissions, high solar activity and low volcanic activity and the later two factors haven't been apparent since the 1970's modern warming period.

The number of 35C days has already increased fourfold from 5.6 days per year early last century to 22 days per year since 2012, according to their report.

The apology recognised that the practice of forced adoptions occurred from early last century into the early 1980s, and was particularly institutionalised between 1950 and 1975.

Linoleum was commonly used in homes early last century, but has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years because of being eco-friendly.

Not exact matches

Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) gave up on Twenty - First Century Fox stock earlier this year, it disclosed Monday — just as the owner of Fox News was embroiled in a widening sexual harassment scandal that culminated last month in the ouster of political commentator Bill O'Reilly.

«If war and revolution marked the last century, the competition for prosperity and the marketing of ways to enjoy that new wealth is moulding the early years of the 21st century,» Becker writes.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Last week I shared two such examples, including Scottish gambler John Law's four - year experiment with paper money in the early eighteenth century, which ruined France's economy and laid the groundwork for the French Revolution.

In the early part of last century, it was the building out of railroads, resulting in skyrocketing real estate prices and ending in yet another crash of both Florida real estate and railroad stocks.

Over the last century, the worst years for the rich were the early 1930s, the heart of the Great Depression.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

The author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last living links to an era in early 20th century America in which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

There are a number of useful early chapters on the historical context of the debate between science and religion, where the authors juxtapose and compare the differing positions taken by various prominent psychologists / neuroscientists during the last century.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

One of the greatest achievements of New Testament criticism in the last century has been to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the gospel of Mark formed one of the principal sources used both by Matthew and Luke, and that it is both the earliest and in some ways the most important of our gospels.

So here at last, from a reputable, if unamiable, Roman historian, we have an account of the beginnings of Christianity, in the late twenties or early thirties of the first century.

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

Science can not deal effectively with the appreciation of beauty, the enjoyment of personal relationships, judgments of value as to good and bad; its leaders nowadays are modest in their claims, unlike their ancestors in the last century and the early days of this one.

Quite early in our history, the Jeffersonians opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts; and even the nativists of the last century were concerned primarily about Catholic immigration and access to the franchise.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

This was a characteristic of the early evangelists who first attracted the attention of newspapers in the last century.

The last earlier Pope to be so recognized was Gregory X, of the thirteenth century, and the only one of his successors to be granted the title of saint was Pius X, of the fore part of the twentieth century.