Four hundred years ago, a fabulously wealthy arms dealer and moneylender named Thomas Sutton was approaching death.
The act banning the slave trade was passed two hundred years ago this month.
One hundred years ago, most folks accepted adversity as an unavoidable facet of life.
And this is - these are codes that were written six or seven hundred years ago.
Originally settled by Berbers (roaming North African tribes), Siwa was still practically independent only a few hundred years ago.
Football faced a version of this question a hundred years ago, after a series of ugly incidents.
The cliffs were landscaped a hundred years ago when the town was developed as an upmarket resort.
Men and women have different ambitions than they had a hundred years ago.
Three hundred years ago, Thomas Twinning opened the first tea shop in London.
Two hundred years ago, New Bedford put itself on the world map with its investment in a whaling fleet.
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Three hundred years ago, entrepreneurs catered to royals who bought lavish furniture, porcelains, tapestries and jewels for their palaces.
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And their opinions of the Copts go straight back to what I was discussing from fourteen hundred years ago.
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"A hundred years ago, that's the way it was done, " said Mr. Kingsberry.
Two hundred years ago, the budding industrial revolution looked both promising and scary.
And people now are less able to grow crops and run cattle than they were, say, a hundred years ago.
It was one hundred years ago that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.
Five hundred years ago, a caravel flying the colours of the King of Portugal rounded the curve of the continent.
One hundred years ago this month, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified and removed the requirement for taxes to be appropriated.
Around one hundred years ago, the US began tax credits and easy financing support for the oil and gas industries.
It is as important as Adam Smith recognising the scale and profitability potential of specialised labour, over two hundred years ago.
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Mr. REINHART: The great pizzamakers that are coming up again, it's kind of like re-creating what happened a hundred years ago.
Now, there's an old story that Colin has told about a man named George Ellis, who lived about a hundred years ago.
Regarding the second point: a hundred years ago, no one shed a tear for men who had to marry below their level.
One hundred years ago, decorative styles like Victorian and Art Deco prevailed as architecture emerged as "art, " much like early web design.
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What creativity means to me and you today is different from what it meant twenty years ago or two hundred years ago.
One hundred years ago a piece of Northamptonshire meadowland was bought by a local engineer to create a "park for the people".
Two hundred years ago, Ottawa's prosperity depended, like Canada's, on natural resources.
Two hundred years ago, the consequences of the act of stealing from shops varied enormously, depending on the social status of the perpetrator.
Not exactly pleasant Christmas thoughts, but of course there have been much tougher Christmases, like this one nearly one hundred years ago.
Or to the designs of an ancient plot set in motion exactly four hundred years ago in the library of the King of Bohemia.
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