Sentences with phrase «than a century later»

More than a century later, Selby's grandson published the never - before - seen photos in a book: «When San Francisco Burned: A Photographic Memoir of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906.»

More than a century later, the 1945 Legislature adopted it as the official state motto.

Some of the organization's founding members are still familiar names more than a century later, including realtor Henry Ceperley (whose name is seen today on Ceperley Park in Stanley Park), Hastings Saw Mill's R.H. Alexander, real estate broker M.A. McLean, and the city's second Mayor, David Oppenheimer (whose name is seen today on Oppenheimer Park).

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

1 More than a century later, epidurals have become the most popular method of analgesia, or pain relief, in US birth rooms.

More than a century later, the Museum of London will be displaying the entire collection for the first time.

When Harley Granville - Barker put pen to paper at the first iteration of Waste in 1906, he could scarcely have comprehended the contemporary relevance his play would carry more than a century later.

Specific references to the northern capital appear more than a century later at La Corona in written records of Calakmul royal ceremonies and a local nobleman's transformation into a ruler under the supervision of Calakmul's king.

But the only account of that prediction comes from the historian Herodotus, writing more than a century later.

More than a century later, X-rays are still providing us with magnificent images, like this one of a stingray.

EINSTEIN said it couldn't be done, but more than a century later the velocity of a zigzagging dust particle has been measured directly, proving his theory right.

More than a century later, the textbook description of episodic memory (conscious knowledge of an event) is a more sophisticated version of that same basic idea.

More than a century later, researchers are going back to that idea in search of new ways to fight cancer.

«The Russian mathematician Andrei Markov (1856 — 1922) could never have suspected that his Markov chains would be used for weather and climate models more than a century later,» says Jesse Dorrestijn, who saw an opportunity...

More than a century later, thanks to generous tax breaks, picturesque locations and abundant English - speaking crews, Ireland is still a popular destination for American studios — the country's remote Skellig islands supplied the dramatic location for one of the most memorable...

More than a century later, Watch Hill is still beautiful and still caters to the moneyed elite, making it the perfect spot to launch the 2015 Mercedes - Benz S - Class coupe.

She was only two - foot eight - inches tall, but her legend reaches out to us more than a century later.

Now, more than a century later, author Lindsay Faye has continued that tradition with her own Holmes adventures in the modern - day incarnation of The Strand.

More than a century later her letters were discovered in the attic of her family home, finally revealing her secret.

More than a century later, my local librarians had tagged this ancient book with an RFID chip so you could check it out automatically just by running it across a scanner.

More than a century later, the beach town has stayed true to its bohemian roots — while also becoming the most romantic city in America.

The tradition of recording landscapes in drawing continues more than a century later with works by Caspar Wolf (1735 — 1798), Adrian Zingg (1734 — 1816), Francis Towne (1739 — 1816), and a delicate and sensitive study of clouds on blue paper by Johann Georg von Dillis (1759 — 1841).

Here the curators, Jennifer Tonkovich and Marco Simone Bolzoni, trace the influence of the court, the birth of a print culture, and a budding market in collectors (like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe more than a century later).

More than a century later, Ann Rea visited Collioure with one of her mentors, landscape painter Gregory Kondos.

Now, more than a century later, the painting and the artistic movement it inspired serve as inspiration for an exhibition at Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London.

More than a century later another critic and painter, Lawrence Gowing, staged an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in which he presented the great man essentially an abstract artist, thereby turning him into a precursor of Pollock and Rothko.

This seventy year period of anomalous solar behavior was studied again more than a century later by Edward Maunder, whose name would ultimately be associated with this period by Jack Eddy.

We've heard bold predictions about the future of electric vehicles before, like when Thomas Edison made a prediction in 1914 that still hasn't panned out more than a century later:

More than a century later, despite irrefutable scientific evidence for climate change, mainstream media coverage of situation in the US has scarcely improved.

More than a century later, that promise still holds true.

More than a century later, his heirs sat atop a $ 15 billion enterprise built on real estate development, manufacturing and the Hyatt...

More than a century later, his heirs sat atop a $ 15 billion enterprise built on real estate development, manufacturing and the Hyatt hotel chain.

Not exact matches

More than two centuries later, its fate is still tied to Canada, the United Kingdom and, with the merger with Coors, the United States — three countries where it is struggling to keep a share of an ever - shrinking beer - drinking market.

It shows Nintendo, which started life in the late 20th century as a playing - card manufacturer, staying true to its ethos of focusing on fun, rather than just flashy technology.

Late 19th - century Americans loved railroads, which seemed to eradicate time and space, moving goods and people more cheaply and more conveniently than ever before.

Mindfulness may sound like the latest buzzword, but the centuries - old notion of enjoying the present moment is more than trendy philosophy.

Although the term (it means «for life») wasn't coined until the 1960s, understanding of them began more than a century ago when Ilya Mechnikov, a Russian - born Nobel laureate in the late - 19th and early - 20th centuries suggested drinking sour milk containing bacteria — which sparked a fad diet in Paris.

Trump's latest proposal intensified what was already shaping up to be the biggest trade battle for more than a half century.

Three centuries later, in 1850 — 9, energy consumption had risen to 1,833 petajoules, a total more than 28 times as large as the earlier figure.

Measures of inequality in the late 18th century are problematic, but the best scholarly estimates indicate that colonial U.S. had lower Gini coefficients than in other countries with measures of inequality.

These higher temperatures mean Indianapolis will see a likely increase of up to 15 additional deaths per 100,000 residents by late century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 31 additional deaths.

Meanwhile, there are few beneficiaries of financial capitalism that have done better than Goldman Sachs, which was founded in the late 19th century and went public in 1999.

The latter brand any practice or teaching later than the third century of Islam (salaf) as satanic innovation (bida «-RRB-.

It was one of more than 800 monasteries closed by Henry VIII but the ruins later became a centre for the Picturesque art movement in the 18th century.

At the time of the purchase, wrote Morrison later, «I had no other thought nor ambition than to keep the Century within the Disciples denomination, both as to its editorial outlook and its constituency....

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

Perhaps more significant even than the rise of the rationalism of the early era of the Enlightenment is the rise of the historical consciousness» of the late Enlightenment and the nineteenth century.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Why the use of such a harsh term when there are still so many questions left unanswered regarding Pius» actions during the war years, and more than a half century later the Vatican recently announced that it could still not open its archives on Nazi «Papal relations for «technical» reasons.