Sentences with phrase «century before»

I was particularly moved by the plight of Henry's father and then the fake - Henry's quest to discover his true German family of a century before.

Western civilization was at a peak, both culturally and scientifically; to me that generation sits like white icing on the dark slag heap of the century before it, looking blindly toward the new century, the mass suicide of the Great War.

But his attention is also drawn to a desolate, abandoned house — the Grief Cottage, where an adolescent boy and his parents vanished during a hurricane half a century before.

At the end of the century before last, in the market square of the city of Baltese, there stood a boy with a hat on his head and a coin in his hand.

Okay, so Paine and Mill spelled all this out more than a century before Milton Friedman penned his seminal piece on school vouchers in 1955.

Lueken found that the median «crossover point» of the fifty - one districts across the country he examined is 25 years, which means that teachers in more than half of these districts have to teach a quarter of a century before they reach the point where their retirement benefits are worth more than their contributions.

Evaluation of the superintendent has been a key aspect of that work — MASB developed superintendent evaluation instruments and trained board members in their use nearly half a century before the requirements.

A century before many activists were using the term «school choice,» it notes, black churches were making it happen.

This is a Year 9 topic in Northern Ireland and covers the relationship between Ireland and Britain during the 19th century before an in - depth study of the Famine years.

A century before bluesman Robert Johnson's mythical confrontation at a Mississippi crossroads, another prodigious musical talent was believed to have struck a deal with the devil: Niccolo Paganini, 19th century violin virtuoso, international luminary and, according to writer - director Bernard Rose's seductive new film, the world's first rock star.

Half a century before Daniel Day - Lewis drank Paul Dano's milkshake, fellow Brit James Mason — playing another American megalomaniac in Bigger Than Life — served up some equally memorable moments of milk - inspired madness.

Red Dead Redemption 2 essentially takes place a century before the GTA timeline, but in the same fictionalized version of the USA.

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

a tradition dating back to the Tex - Mex cowboy of a century before, and margaritas as.

A dead forest in coastal Washington records a great earthquake that occurred about A.D. 1700, a century before Lewis and Clark explored the mouth of the nearby Columbia River.

While poring over historical observations of the star, they also made another striking discovery: This star hasn't survived one supernova; it appears to have also survived a supernova that occurred over half a century before, in 1954!

Tree rings used to pinpoint eruption of Icelandic volcano to half a century before human settlement An international group...

The genetic patterns observed by the researchers suggest that, for at least a century before the Civil War, there was ongoing admixture between blacks and whites.

CFCs can survive in the upper atmosphere for decades, so we may well be into the second half of the 21st Century before the injury fully heals.

Temperatures in the upper 700 meters of the ocean rose over the last two decades of the 20th century before flattening out in 2003.

«It's remarkable to be able to go back to data taken almost a quarter of a century before Cassini arrived and, armed with the discovery information from Cassini, produce this remarkable processed Voyager image which seems to reveal the plume at that time,» says Andrew Coates, a Cassini scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK.

Earth would have been a synestia for just a century before cooling off enough to condense into a solid object again, Lock says.

Professor Drijfhout said: «The planet earth recovers from the AMOC collapse in about 40 years when global warming continues at present - day rates, but near the eastern boundary of the North Atlantic (including the British Isles) it takes more than a century before temperature is back to normal.»

A century before Newton, he worked out many of the basic ideas of calculus.

It suggests we may run out of oil a century before we have an alternative fuel ready to replace it.

Krauss: The last decade has seen more revolutions in cosmology than perhaps the century before it, and our picture of the universe has changed completely, but at the same time we are at the threshold of addressing questions that I think it would be fair to say, a generation ago we wouldn't have even, not only no one [that we wouldn't have] even thought of asking, but never would have imagined would be testable.

Half a century before, Brücher was a pushy young geneticist at the University of Jena, Germany, a hotbed of Nazi ideology.

This artificial joining of two separate animals, known as parabiosis, was a staple of physiology experiments for over a century before Irina Conboy got the idea to pair an old mouse with a young one.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, new research indicates the eastern tropical northern Pacific's anoxic zone was shrinking for most of the 20th century before beginning to expand in about 1990.

«A severe strain on credulity,» scoffed The New York Times, a half century before Apollo 11 cemented Goddard's reputation as the rocket man whose vision blasted into reality.

Almost a century before Einstein was born, the English polymath John Michell speculated that a star of immense mass could exert enough gravitational force to imprison light.

Then, each immense yet fragile bone had to be lifted gently off the old armature, cleaned, conserved, and carefully repositioned on the new armature, much as Brown and his preparators had painstakingly done almost a century before.

Ada Lovelace earned her place in history as the first computer programmer — a full century before today's computers emerged.

Helping the spread The Northeast had about 30 percent fewer extreme - cold days over the past 30 years compared to the century before, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This, however, is still a century before knowledge of it came to Europe.

Also shocking: the researchers estimate that the sharks live at least a century before they reach sexual maturity.

June 30: On this date in 1908, more than a century before Russians captured February's meteor on their smartphones, eyewitnesses near Tunguska saw a sky «split in two» and «covered with fire» when an asteroid detonated over Siberia.

It was another century before someone thought of using armadillos.

Every 15 minutes, he hears the bell of Trinity's ornate clock tower — set in place half a century before the young Newton ever set foot on college grounds — punctuating the forward march of time.

November 22: 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination Half a century before Twitter and Tumblr, Abraham Zapruder turned iReporter when he captured and shared 8mm - film footage of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Republicans say they believe two remaining recounts in Senate races will return the majority to the GOP, which ran the chamber for a half - century before 2008.

It stands in the center of Niagara Square as a memorial for a United States President who was shot and died in Buffalo more than a century before.

A quarter century before Trump's successful run for the presidency, Barrett wrote a critical biography on the mogul, «Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.»

The lands are commonly known as the Cowee forest, since the land was once owned by W.J. Cowee in Berlin, a forestry company that operated in the region for more than a century before selling to the Forestland company.

This is mostly in part to the fact, that it had been popular in the first half of the last century before losing favour.

It may be another century before we fully know the consequences of feeding the population a breast milk substitute instead of the real thing.

Fast forward to the last twenty years of reproductive medicine, maternity care, and pregnancy health in the United States and things look a lot different than they did just a half - century before.

But it worked a treat as the Gunners became the first team since Preston North End more than a century before to complete a campaign unbeaten.

The idea that Wimbledon could dissolve and then reform at the bottom of the pyramid, where they'd started over a century before, was dismissed by the committee as «not in the best interests of football».

We couldn't prove the origin of polio a century before that.