Sinai came under Muslim rule in 641, about a century after the community's foundation.
The present conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine has been going on for about a century.
About a century ago, a German horse named "Kluger Hans" (Clever Hans) was thought to be capable of addition and subtraction.
For about a century now, tree planting has been the mass-participation activity.
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But this idea and this kind of government was a product of the Founding Fathers, and it lasted only until about a century ago.
True, China has called itself a nation-state for about a century.
Western classical music was introduced into Japan about a century ago, and since then has become one of the West's most successful exports to that country.
During July 2010, residents of New England witnessed the tenth warmest temperatures recorded during that month in about a century, while those in southwestern U.S. states registered below normal.
The community dates back about a century, a response to land shortages in El Salvador - a country about a fifth the size of Honduras, but with a much larger population at that time.
Unlike CO2, which stays in the atmosphere for about a century, short-lived climate pollutants remain in the atmosphere from a few days to a few weeks (black carbon) to up to 15 years (methane, HFCs).
The incentives to reduce the debt overhang are more compelling today than about half a century ago.
So on Tuesday we face the sort of challenge that Teddy Roosevelt talked about over a century ago.
The new, glossy Umrao Jaan is a retread of the critically acclaimed 1981 commercial hit about a 19th century north Indian courtesan.
It informed journalists in August that they would no longer have to submit their work to state censors before publication as they had been doing for about half a century.
The Group of international experts was tasked with preparing a succinct document that identified issues likely to affect the organisation of learning and to stimulate debate about a 21st century vision for education.
Professor ORFIELD: No, it really hasn't been a predominantly southern problem since 1970, about a third of a century, because the south was really forced to desegregate by the Civil Rights Act and the Johnson administration.
It's about a 19th-century Italian love triangle between a handsome young soldier, his passionate, married mistress back home, and an obsessed, demanding invalid at his remote regimental posting who tries to turn his distaste for her into love.
Yet after about a quarter-century as Ruler of the Thunder Dragon people, he is still a team player.
In Key West, he told about writing "Morality Play, " a novel set in 14th-century England, about a traveling troupe of players that put on Bible plays.
As genetic sequences come in from other species, evolutionary relationships that have been argued about for over a century will become obvious.
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About a half-century ago, surgeons began successfully operating on many of them, and in the 1970s and 1980s, they increasingly operated on complicated cases.
The income tax exclusion for U.S. citizens and resident aliens abroad was put into law about a quarter-century ago partly to encourage U.S. companies to send U.S. workers overseas.
First the tension: Starting about a half-century ago, some clever academics and sympathetic judges began rewriting tort law so that plaintiffs could sue manufacturers more easily for supposedly defective products.
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But it struck Neal Goren, artistic director of the adventurous Gotham Chamber Opera, as the perfect location for the U.S. premiere of Francesco Cavalli's "Eliogabalo, " a baroque opera about a 3rd- century teenage Roman emperor whose sexual depravity was shocking even by the standards of that corrupt era.
But William Randolph Hearst III has also inherited some of his Grandfather's literary genes.(Despite the Yellow Journalist tag, Hearst the First was undeniably a heckuva writer.) Under Will Hearst's stewardship, the Examiner enjoyed a reputation for fine, punchy writing and he even wrote the forward to a book about a 19th-century comic strip called Hogan ' s Alley.
She wrote a book about Thomas Wentworth, a 17th century Englishman who was sent to Ireland to try to sort out its troubles, a rough road many have taken since.
"I now know more than I ever wanted to about the difficulties of editing a 20th Century manuscript, about copyright regulations, about the strange personal and academic resentments that still lurk in various quarters nearly 30 years after Tolkien's death, " Prof Drout said.
On paper, the ingredients inspiring "Bell" an 18th-century Kabuki play concerning a ferociously vengeful maiden who has been spurned in love, mixed with the musical and dramatic aspects of a 19th-century ballet classic about a deceived and broken-hearted peasant maid promise a concoction well-suited to Ms. Yokoshi's often outlandish theatrical creations.
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The Project, which began in 2009 as a book compiled of stories about what it means to be a good man in the twenty-first century, has sparked a national discussion about both goodness and masculinity.
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