On Thursday, Christie's will offer French 18th-century furniture and works of art from the collection of Djahanguir Riahi, a Paris businessman devoted to the pursuit of that golden century's greatest creations.
For months militant Sikhs had been gathering in the complex of their holiest shrine, the 17th-century Golden Temple at Amritsar in India's northwest, as their campaign for greater autonomy for their Punjab homeland intensified.
In the first half of the 20th Century, Golden Gai was home to a black market and a haven for prostitutes.
Copacabana and Ipanema brought fame to Rio in the 20th Century for golden sands and the lush, forest-covered mountains that framed them.
It is safe to call the second half of the twentieth century the golden age of brands in the developed world, as one billion Western citizens were transformed into conspicuous consumers by Madison Avenue and Hollywood.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Mr Obama a ball signed by the 2011 Toronto Raptors professional basketball team, as well as a "golden-framed 19th Century antique map of North America, surrounded by drawings of North American Indians, beavers".
The middle of the last century was the golden age of social mobility.
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It is probably no coincidence that Britain's golden age in the 19th century was also a period of powerful provincial cities.
But the 21st century is turning into a golden age for bad drugs.
The 19th-century English pub called the Golden Bee (literally brought over from the UK in pieces in the 1960s) will double in size.
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When travelling Khlong Saen Saeb from east to west, motorboat buses terminate at Wat Saket, a late 18th-century temple topped by a golden stupa, and it takes about an hour to ride directly from the first stop at Wat Si Bunrueang.
Blending Persian, Greek, and even Chinese influences, the nomads' golden ornaments, dating back to the 7th century B.
The actor won both a BAFTA and Golden Globe for his performance as a 19th-century bounty hunter, and he's seen as more appreciative than Jones or Hoffman, neither of whom gave speeches when they won their honors, said Davis.
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The cycle tells the story, drawn from Jacobus de Voragine's 13th-century compendium of saints' lives, "The Golden Legend, " of the wood used for the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment mark James Bond's monumental golden anniversary with the release of BOND 50, the complete Bond experience showcasing all 22 classic films on Blu-ray together for the first time ever, neatly packaged into one cool, sleek collectable box-set.
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The majestic Basilica di San Marco and its grand Campanile bell tower that rises above Piazza San Marco, call to mind the golden age of the Republic of Venice, which ended in the early 18th Century.
The small owl, with brown and white feathers and big golden eyes, had been confused with a similar-looking species for more than a century.
Thirteen years ago, Abramson and Griggs bought an eighteenth-century house near Long Island Sound in Madison, Connecticut, where Scout, their golden retriever, frolics in the water and they can take long walks.
The golden domes at the end of this street belong to St Sophia's Cathedral, the 11th-century Orthodox gem.
While larger museums may contain bigger and better collections of 17th-century Dutch art, the Mauritshuis offers an excellent survey of all the genres that artists of the Dutch Golden Age so miraculously mastered.
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