Sentences with phrase «area earlier this century»

Dromm said he believed the economic growth in the area earlier this century is related to the?

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Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

Examining personal diaries, newspaper reports and advertisements from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Schmidt noted the way Christmas was once celebrated in department stores like Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, which featured hymn - singing and elaborate religious symbolism that turned the store's cathedral - like central area into a commercialized version of a church.

Consultation between missionaries of different denominations who were working in the same or nearby areas began quite early in the nineteenth century.

Yes, I was an early exponent of naysaying in this area, deploring the experiments in a Christian Century editorial.»

Park District recreation programs during the early 21st century continued to grow in all areas.

During the 1990s and early part of the 21st Century, both towns were wrestling with the same dilemma: how to revitalize commercial areas and housing stock without changing the character of the communities that made them desirable in the first place.

The Viking Age did not last long — it's generally defined as beginning in the late eighth century and ending in most areas by the early 12th century — but the explorers still capture our imagination today.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

EOS scientists have earlier pointed out a large earthquake may occur any time in this area southwest of Padang — the only place along a large fault where a big earthquake has not occurred in the past two centuries.

This is a very serious question for anyone attempting to revive the glories of earlier centuries, and although Hoodbhoy may risk making the same mistake himself when he recruits Ibn Sina or al - Razi to prove that «the seeds of modernism» can be detected among famous Muslim scientists a thousand years ago, it is an area in which conservative Muslims, Christians, Hindus or anyone else ought to take great care.

The area now is closed to recreation and commercial logging, but more than 80 percent of the land was logged during the early 20th century, and a large swath of dense, second - growth trees grows there now.

Precipitation anomalies have been stronger and covered larger areas in some earlier centuries than during the twentieth century,» according to Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, historian and climate researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of this study.

Cholera first infected humans in the early 19th century in Bengal, a region that straddles what is now the border between Bangladesh and India, and the bacterial disease still sweeps through the area regularly.

English physiologist Charles Sherrington suggested in the early 20th century that this blending was a mysterious psychological process occurring in the mind, requiring no actual confluence of messages into a single brain area.

A Neolithic megalith dating form about 2000 BC and a Celtic necropolis dating from between the 5th and 2nd century BC have been found in this area, attesting to early human activity.

Although allegedly located in the wheat - growing area of World War I Texas in the early part of the 20th century, the film was shot on location in Alberta, Canada over a two - year period.

The conflict in this area in the early decades of the 21st century has been formally resolved.

In the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankind.

Based on studies dating back to the early 20th century, coloring generates wellness, quietness and stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity.

It's the core of a metropolitan area with more than two million people and has been a center for business since fur traders entered the area in the early 19th century.

The U.S. had abundant free - roaming dogs from settlement times until the advent of motorized transportation in the early 20th century, which gradually drove working animals out of the streets, closely followed by the introduction of regularly scheduled urban garbage disposal, enclosed sewers, near - universal access to indoor plumbing in urban areas, and home refrigeration.

The most spectacular structures in Chichén Itzá were built during that period — 11th to the 13th century, but the whole area of Chichén Itzá includes both Toltec and earlier, Mayan structures.

In the early part of last century this area of West Kingston had been the site of large squatter communities living roughly in shanty dwellings without proper plumbing or electricity.

[2] The park is named after Julia Pfeiffer Burns, a respected resident and rancher in the Big Sur region in the early 20th century, who lived in the area for much of her life until her death in 1928.

This area of the world is a UNESCO World Heritage site, with homes and churches carved into fairy chimneys as early as the 4th century.

His humorous lecture painted a very real picture of just how difficult it was for the city folk of Portland to even find their way to the Cannon Beach area in the early twentieth century.

A section of the beach was referred to as «Ink Well» and «Negro Beach» in the early 20th century when it was one of the few areas in California where African Americans were allowed to enjoy beach access in a largely segregated society.

The area was first settled by Europeans in the early 19th century, though by 1830 it still had a population of just fifty.

Early 19 - century Greek revival with antique furnishings - In downtown residential area; 4 mi from airport...

Although small in extension, it offers plenty of museums, parks and interesting areas where you can witness some of the legacy left by early 20th century architecture.

Christianity, introduced as early as the 4th century, took strong root and still functions as a socially cohesive force in the Christian areas.

The area was considered strategically important by the early 19th century Settlers and this is reflected in many of the...

The area was considered strategically important by the early 19th century Settlers and this is reflected in many of the well - preserved buildings.

Locals say that there is a spirit which dwells in these mountains and forests — a spirit which has captivated thousands of people from all over the world since the area was first opened up in the early part of this century.

Whilst a burial site dating from the seventh century has been discovered in the area, Wilderswil itself is first mentioned in early twelfth - century writings and may have grown up around Unspunnen Castle, the ruins of which may still be visited today.

Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top American Viticultural Areas in California, and all of the United States, with a history dating back to the early nineteenth century.

Among the many attractions in the area, one of the most important is the Fiestas de Pedro Romero festival (a 19th century style bullfight fair) held in early September in the famous Plaza de Toros de Ronda bullring.

Within these chronological boundaries are three areas of strength: Federal portraiture, 19th century landscape painting, and early 20th century realism.

The gallery has established its greatest following in the area of late 19th and early 20th Century American painting and sculpture; and has recently developed an inventory of Post-War Contemporary art.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

Organized in collaboration with a seminar from Clark University, the exhibition will be presented with thematic emphasis on botanicals, landscape, abstraction, and portraiture — areas that dominated much of the production of cyanotypes in the early twentieth century and recur in contemporary work.

At the same time, the exhibition will establish a bridge to caricature, comics and the animated films of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and thereby illuminate the beginnings and interconnections of this thematic area.

Starr's area of specialization is in American paintings and prints from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Oglethorpe offers an exhibition of works by early - 20th - century artists depicting gritty scenes of old New York including John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, George Luks, Robert Henri and George Bellows culled from private collections within the Atlanta metro area, the High Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The prints depict various locales around the area in the early 20th century.

A lover of 17th - century painting, Opie looked to Hans Holbein as inspiration for her earliest sittings; lately, Leonardo da Vinci has led her to think about light and how it breaks and illuminates certain areas while pulling others into shadow.

The collection contains notable works by artists living or working in the San Francisco Bay Area from mid-twentieth century to the early twenty - first century, highlighting a story of experimentation of the artists of the region.

On a floor area of 21,000 square feet at the Piano Nobile of Palazzo Reale, the exhibition features artworks by 127 international artists, depicting the theme of maternity in art from the early - 20th century to the present.

The industry developed in Kenya in the early 20th century, with wealthy European and American visitors paying landowners to guide them on hunting safaris in the area.