Indira, a single woman in her first job, says her family has kept the traditions of their centuries-old Badaga cuisine.

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My 90-year-old grandmother has experienced in her lifetime what one would imagine happening over centuries: colonialism, a war, industrialization, the rise and fall of a military dictatorship, and maturing democracy.

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This was a lecture which provided a real insight into the life of one of the 20th Centuries great poets, who among her many accolades was asked to perform at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

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She waved her hand at them, a gesture practiced over centuries, and even though there was no magic in it, Blork was instantly quiet.

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Reinhart said she and her colleague gathered much broader data for countries world-wide going back centuries.

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New instruments and forms developed over the centuries, partly because of Japan's ongoing contact with her Asian neighbors.

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Inspired by the mansion that houses her restaurant, Elizabeth Terry researched refined Southern recipes from the 18th and 19th Centuries.

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