Sentences with phrase «years after the turn of the century»

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

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Renting space in the magnificent Auditorium Theater, with its golden mosaics and turn - of - the - century opulence, Willow Creek Chicago has about 1,200 attenders after only a year of operation.

In England at the turn of the 20th century, a year after the death of her husband, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decides that she, her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood), and their housekeeper (Edna Best) will move out of the house of her mother - and sister - in - law.

Politics aside, these opening moments ensure one thing: writers David Simon and William F. Zorzi (ex-Baltimore Sun journalists and masterminds behind the greatest TV show of the century thus far, The Wire), director Paul Haggis (Crash, Third Person), and star Oscar Isaac (sizzling like a comet towards the A-list after his unforgettable turn in Inside Llewyn Davis) are going to make Show Me A Hero one of the most talked - about television events of the year through sheer artistic integrity.

Glorified paintings of cultural and racial superiority over the Dakota people created at the turn of the last century still adorn the state capitol's Senate chambers, even after Governor Mark Dayton set up a special committee last year to survey citizens about relocating the offensive artwork.

His work has been included in group exhibitions such as Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2013); The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2012); 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2008); 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia (2008); 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, Panama (2008); Freedom, Hague Sculpture Center, the Netherlands (2008); Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2007); 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2004); and the Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2003).

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

Briefly, Arctic warming started at the turn of the twentieth century after two thousand years of slow, linear cooling.

Arctic warming started suddenly at the turn of the twentieth century, after two thousand years of slow, linear cooling.

«The remarkable turn of the climate of Europe towards greater warmth from soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century and affecting all seasons of the year in the 1730 ′ s seems to have produced little comment at the time, though by then the temperatures were being observed with thermometers and entered into regularly maintained observation books in a number of places.»

After 25 years of relative stability, the glacier began to pick up speed at the turn of the century.

But elsewhere in Asia, work is moving ahead to turn another area more associated with conflict than conservation into a sanctuary for at - risk elephants.A year and a half after Sri Lanka's quarter - century civil war ended, officials have announced plans to use more than 100,000 acres of jungle — the former stronghold of the Tamil Tigers separatists — to help protect wildlife, The Guardian reported today.

Lynne and her husband, Hamid Arabzadeh, purchased their 3,400 - square - foot turn - of - the - century house 11 years ago after transplanting from Boston.