"You should know that in a past life you were a first-century Italian poet, " he said.
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Flavius Josephus, a first-century historian, and not a Christian, has a reference to Jesus in one of his books.
DeYoung, the "United by Faith" co-author, says the first-century Christian church grew so rapidly precisely because it was so inclusive.
Then it might be the white-shoe Wall Street establishment of fifty years ago against the embodiment of twenty-first-century post-ethnic America.
The hero (Keanu Reeves) is a twenty-first-century information courier, whose surgically reconfigured brain can be hooked up directly to computers.
Twenty-first-century corporations are far more than the products they sell, the people they employ or the profits they return to shareholders.
The starting point for that program, the twenty-first-century equivalent of Social Security, should be universal health care, something every other advanced country already has.
This was in the year 2000, and I thought that this was the best gift, a good way to begin my twenty-first-century American dream.
Maddin has discovered a new kind of cinema, the welding of silent-film techniques, avant-garde imagery, and twenty-first-century technology (there are digital effects smuggled in throughout the picture).
"The narrative is not always straightforward, as places are different, " says Audrey Singer, an immigration expert at Brookings and co-editor of Twenty-First-Century Gateways, a book published earlier this year which identifies new trends in immigration.
But he responded with backbone, progressing from an overnight 71 to finish 119 not out - his 57th first-class century - from 219 deliveries.
First-innings century-maker AB de Villiers made only three before he was trapped leg before by the persistent medium-pacer McDonald, and the key breakthrough came in the third over with the second new ball when Kallis was bowled off an inside edge by Johnson for 45.
Sri Lanka earlier added 167 runs to their overnight 303-3, with Kumar Sangakkara turning his first-day century into 232 - his third double ton in Tests.
In his most consistent display since returning from ankle and side strain injuries mid-way through the summer, Flintoff scored his first half-century since scoring an unbeaten 72 against New Zealand in Hobart more than a year ago.
By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club.
So, Joe and I and Peter hope to make this the first 21st-century team.
For Bopara, part of England's winning ICC World Twenty20 squad, it is his first half-century of the season.
Sir Don wore the cap during the 1947-48 series against India, during which he made his 100th first-class century.
But ten Doeschate ploughed on, reaching his first first-class century of the season by pulling Chris Schofield for four.
It was the Australian's 13th first-class century for the champions.
Westwood and Maddy again fell cheaply and although Chopra battled away for his first half-century of the summer, once he was dismissed by a Sidebottom yorker the Bears folded.
Chanderpaul's 29th first-class century was a timely return to form for a player whose highest score in two Tests and five one-day internationals in Zimbabwe last month was 39.
The court came to be seen as a victim of its own success, and by the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century appeared to be collapsing under its own caseload.
Ludgrove's said the price paid for Bradman's last-Test cap surpassed the previous record set by the cap he wore in the 1947-48 series against India, during which he made his 100th first-class century.
Alastair Cook (52) went soon after, having made the tour's first half-century off 67 balls including seven fours, when he was tempted into driving Willett's perfectly pitched delivery which spun through the gate.
But Nash held things together with his first half-century of the season, finishing on 85 from 149 balls with 11 fours, while Hodd (21 not out) helped him add 60 in 26 overs to secure the draw.
They were made to pay as Trescothick went on to almost double his score and was given excellent support by Langer, who made his first half-century in 11 Championship innings, in a stand of 169 for the second wicket.
They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.
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If there was one crumb of comfort for England to take to the second match of seven in Hobart on Friday, it was the innings of Pietersen produced in registering his first half-century in international 50-over cricket since 2008.
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