• Known for installations that bring a new perspective to landmarks and architectural objects, Nishi has constructed a fully decorated living room in which the 13ft-tall figure of the 15th-century explorer holds centre stage.

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  • Infrastructure minister David Cretney said the work will "help to bring the town centre in to the 21st Century".

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  • And it is true that the hotel has been at the centre of much of this century's Filipino history.

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  • The principles behind the new design follow the Fibonacci mathematical sequence discovered by Leonardo da Pisa in the 13th Century and echo the spirals at the centre of a sunflower or pine cone.

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  • It also plans to repair and refurbish a 19th Century outhouse and covert it into a visitor centre.

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  • Lord Justice Leveson was speaking at a University of Technology Communications Law Centre symposium entitled Privacy in the 21st Century.

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  • He suggests that the cross of St Cuthbert, abbot of Lindisfarne when it was a European centre of Christian learning in the 8th century, has a wider appeal because it was also adopted by the Prince Bishops of Durham.

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  • Fox Studios Australia, an offshoot of Twentieth Century Fox, is turning Sydney into a leading production centre.

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  • Tajin is thought to have had its heyday between the early 9th and early 13th Century, at which point it became the most important centre in north-east Mesoamerica.

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  • Cinema appreciation in Ireland can be traced back to the final years of the 19th Century, when eager Dubliners would gather in the city centre to watch silent films incorporated into variety shows.

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  • The top security "red zone" includes the city centre, the summit venue, the 13th-Century Ducal Palace, and the waterfront where hotels and cruise ships hosting 1, 500 delegates and 5, 000 journalists will be located.

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  • Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.

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  • No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.

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  • He told the newspaper that any plan for Newport's city centre should be based on how it must look in the 21st Century - with "a greater mix of businesses, accepting there are some shop units that aren't going to be shops in the future".

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  • The centre will examine far right political development and culture since its early 20th Century inception.

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  • The West Indian fell short of a century when he edged Liam Plukent through wicketkeeper Phil Mustard, leaving Sutton to take centre stage.

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  • Nottinghamshire County Council said it wanted a new Sherwood Forest visitor centre to offer its 350, 000 guests an "experience for the 21st century".

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  • Mr Blair has been persuaded by Lord Jenkins that the division of the centre-left between Labour and Liberals has been its besetting weakness in this century.

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  • And half a century's worth of observations on tropical cyclones collected by America's National Hurricane Centre showed that wind-speeds in such storms dropped suddenly on Saturday (the worst day was Friday).

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  • But it was Trescothick who took centre stage after Worcestershire captain Vikram Solanki put the visitors in, making his third century in six Championship innings.

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  • In the centre, the architecture ranges from neo-Baroque, turn-of-the-century mansions to sporadic Soviet-built boxes losing their tiles.

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  • Until the XV century, Otrar, together with the rest of the Great Ortar Oasis, represented the main urban centre on the marginal zone between southern towns and northern steppes, between settlers and nomads of Central Asia.

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  • In an echo of that memory, the Millennium Centre's slate is inscribed by the sculptor Ieuan Rees with a couplet from the 15th Century poet Guto'r Glyn, a couplet which makes mention of slate as a building product to be treasured.

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  • The path runs through the centre of the island linking Ramsey and Castletown and is said to have been recorded in the 13th Century Chronicles of the Kings of Mann and the Isles.

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  • In its city centre, a number of historic attractions survived WWII and are worth a look: a 14th-century cathedral, a solid old town hall, a good history museum and a surprisingly interesting military museum.

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  • The council said work would now start on further exploration of the medieval and 18th Century parts of the building to explore how it could be turned into a library, wedding venue and council services centre.

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