As with most aspects of the arts today, ivory towers are so two centuries ago.
It's almost impossible not to think of the people who played with this ball centuries ago.
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The guitar first came to African port cities in the hands of Portuguese sailors centuries ago.
Conclaves were installed centuries ago in order to rid the voting process from outside influence.
Centuries ago, fishermen would present a beribboned sturgeon for a bishop's blessing to boost their catch.
The basic point was well explained by Adam Smith those couple of centuries ago.
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We are capable, in many ways, of what centuries ago would be considered miraculous.
Centuries ago, Fingle Bridge was a major crossing point over the Teign between Drewsteignton and Moretonhampstead.
Two centuries ago, sailing ships from Britain, France and America ruthlessly hunted whales among the islands.
For as Adam Smith pointed out those centuries ago, all jobs should pay the same amount.
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And they face a dilemma not so different from the one their predecessors faced two centuries ago.
Most odd for as Paracelsus pointed out centuries ago it is the dose which is the poison.
Serbs resist the notion of independence for Kosovo, because centuries ago it was the center of their empire.
Plants that were frozen during the "Little Ice Age" centuries ago have been observed sprouting new growth, scientists say.
These various alternatives to medicine are just as ridiculous today as when they were invented, decades or centuries ago.
Astronomer Royal, William Herschel, noticed a correlation between sunspots and the price of wheat in England two centuries ago.
But the limits of judicial review remain as problematic as they were when they were debated two centuries ago.
It was realised at least three centuries ago that a single economy should have at most one central bank.
As the Bard most aptly put it centuries ago, one can be full of sound and fury yet signify nothing.
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Now many Buddhists accept that the one-time prince, Siddhartha Gautama, was born in a grove here some 26 centuries ago.
They founded many of the free universities of Europe centuries ago mainly as a means of creating educated men for Jesuits.
Centuries ago, Latin phrases embodied principles tackling the issue, which was carried forward to English common law, before there was America.
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Traders from Europe would turn up centuries ago and introduce an ingredient or dish, but before it got disseminated, the king had to agree.
Few drinks seem more Irish than one that marries the two drinks the country proudly claims to have invented centuries ago, whiskey and stout.
Egypt, the nation that invented bread 40 centuries ago, began to starve.
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More than two centuries ago, our Founders laid out a charter that assured the rule of law and the rights of man.
Poland's two great poets studied there: Adam Mickiewicz nearly two centuries ago, and in the pre-war years Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel prizewinner.
Introduced by Spanish explorers centuries ago, pigs began to expand their range.
Without Icelandic horses, Icelandic humans would have died out centuries ago.
He noticed that the branches and leaves followed the 1-2-3-5-8-13-et cetera growth series discovered centuries ago by Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa.
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