Sentences with phrase «from early last century»

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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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.

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.

(«Cautionary Verses for Children»: this title of a much used work, published early in the nineteenth century, shows how far the muse of evangelical protestantism in England, with her mind fixed on the idea of danger, had at last drifted away from the original gospel freedom.

Last season also saw our manager Arsene Wenger go level with the Aston Villa manager from the late 19th and early 20th century, George Ramsay, by leading a club to six FA cup trophy wins, so the Frenchman could go out on his own if Arsenal win it again this year.

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

The flow from 47 clustered hot springs currently serves two historic spas, the Buckstaff and the Quapaw, both on Bathhouse Row, a collection of architecturally significant structures built early in the last century.

Early in the last century, oleuropein was isolated from olive leaf extract as this phytochemical was thought to give the olive tree its resistance to disease.

Early in the last century, Dr. Weston A. Price, «The Isaac Newton of Nutrition», spent more than a decade of his life traveling, studying, and writing about 14 isolated, indigenous cultures from around the globe.

Grass Fed Raw Dairy Cheeses and Butter - Few people are aware that clean, raw milk from grass - fed cows was actually used as a medicine in the early part of the last century.

Early views of Hawaii, dating from the last decades of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th,.

The early history of the people and rulers of Tamil Nadu is a topic in Tamil literary sources known as Sangam literature.Numismatic, archaeological and literary sources corroborate that the Sangam period lasted for about six centuries, from 300 BC to AD 300.

Inspired by newspaper stories from the last four centuries, Donoghue's masterful short story collection explores the unexpected in people's lives in such varied settings as Victorian England, Civil War — era Texas, and early twentieth - century New York City.

Alongside every piece of art seemingly lifted from the early part of the last century, the audio effects go right along with it.

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One of the most significant British artists of the last century, working from the early 1960s to the present day, Jones explores the representation of the human figure.

This show's organizers should have learned from beautiful solo exhibitions of early - 20th - century artists presented recently by other Chelsea galleries: Morandi at Lucas Schoormans in 2004 and William Nicholson at Paul Kasmin last winter.

«For the last two centuries,» said Katie Pfohl, NOMA's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, «American artists have captured many different conceptions of the country and its people, from colonial American portraits that showcase the country's early diversity, to the broad range of materials and forms to be found in 20th century American art.

From early printmaking in the 90s of the last century to image scanning in medium - term, and then combining scanning, production, output, hand painting and other different ste

Works last night ranged from an early 17th century still life of tulips by the Dutch painter Ambrosius Bosschaert the elder, to an abstract, mostly blue painting by Richard Diebenkorn completed in 1982.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

In fact, over the centuries, it has premièred many modern masters and nowadays it still support and present first class emerging or established artists.Last year the exhibition program was closed with a survey of the «tomboy» Sarah Lucas, whose ironic and iconic pieces — from the early the very last production — have been exposed together for the first time in United Kingdom.

His works appear to play with the three - dimensional affects of trompe l'oeil and with theories of color in art and design from early in the last Century.

When we last heard from Tim Biskup (here), he was reaching into the annals of the avant - garde movement, blending his signature, quilt - like painting style with references to the great artists of the early 20th century.

«I wanted to have something more thematic and open to other techniques than the old chronological history of photography starting with early 19th century and going to contemporary,» says Bajac, who came last year from the Pompidou Center and wants to bring additional international perspectives, including those of Latin America and Africa, to his department.

Irwin, who has lived in San Diego for the past quarter century, is one of the last giants standing from a generation of artists who, in the early seventies, sought to bring the practice of visual art out of the studio, gallery, and museum and into the world.

SAT observations and model simulations indicate that the nature of the arctic warming in the last two decades is distinct from the early twentieth - century warm period.

Back in the MWP a solar increase could cause that couple of tenths of a degree of warming that they infer from paleo records, as it could early in the 20th century too when the sun strengthened, but that didn't last till today.

If a previously unknown Callendar had shown up at any time in the last twenty years attempting to publish papers similar to the ones he actually published in the earlier parts of the 20th century, Callendar's qualifications would undoubtedly lead a Real Climate or Skeptical Science reader to dismiss him as suffering from Dunning - Kruger syndrome.

It is also clear that particulate, sulfate and mercury pollution from coal are about as healthy as a three pack a day habit and that there is humongous excess mortality, in the UK and US during the early to mid part of the last century and in China, India and the rest of the developing world now and into the future.

Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: «A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles — perhaps as much as 50 per cent.

By the early 20th century the last vestiges of phrenology were gone from scientific medicine and mainstream neurology, but not gone completely.

If there was any truth to the claims that global warming stopped in the last 10 years, or since 1998, or since 1995, or whatever the latest claim is, then we can see from the earlier 20th Century example that we would already be seeing clear signs of that in declining trends over the last several 30 - year periods.

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.

Vocabularius, for example, a small excerpt from which is pictured here, was first published in 1475 and last published early in the 17th century.

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