Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, mentioned storms of frogs and fish.
The project to safeguard the Altar of Peace, erected by the Emperor Augustus in the first century B.
The only surviving Roman text on architecture was the treatise written by Vitruvius in the first century B.
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Back in the first century the Qatar peninsula was known locally as Catara.
Christmas as we now celebrate it in the church is nothing at all like it was in the first century.
Its history goes back to the Emperor Domitian in the first century.
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But it is rational, sound and in harmony with sport, not as it was in the days of " Chariots of Fire, " but as it is in the twenty first century: Unrelenting, mercilessly competitive and unsparingly achievement-oriented.
In the twenty first century, popularizing science is not merely a philanthropic, democratic option, but rather a definite need of our society.
Just as leadership changed from growth in the late 1990s to value in the first part of the 21st century, followed by an extended period of leadership from foreign funds, our greatest conviction is that fund leadership will continue to change over time.
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Their parents and grandparents came here, with the Japanese government's blessing, in the first decades of the century, and you can see why.
Japan faced the problem in the first years of the century.
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Patented in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, the first postcard was created for the world fair in Chicago in 1893.
Paul Kennedy, a Harvard historian, in Preparing for the Twenty-First Century published in 1994, summarized differently the situation of the Muslim world.
The captain was fit to lead Australia in India, scoring a century in the first match and making 266 runs at an average of 38.
The region was absorbed by an expanding Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century.
The posters document the era of "B-Movie" film-making in the first half of the 20th Century, covering genres such as westerns, war films and musicals.
Finally, a clear indication that for the first time in the 21st century, the President of the United States will act like it's the 21st century.
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Even the invention and widespread use of the telescope in the first decade of the 17th century did not radically change man's view of the heavens.
Armed with fresh data, the ONS has taken another look at what happened to the economy before and during the recession: they now think growth was a bit stronger in the first years of the 21st century, but the recession itself was deeper, with a total drop in output of 7.1%, not 6.4% as previously thought.
The figures show an increase in Welsh-speakers for the first time in a century.
Having a sponsor to speak up for you when you are not in the room and when others of influence may not realize your worth is the recipe for success in the twenty-first century workplace.
One in five residents was born outside the U.S. The city attracted the second-highest number of new, foreign-born residents in the first decade of this century, after the more populous New York.
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When the system was first invented in the 19th century it worked well enough.
Miletus greatly surpassed all of the other Ionian cities in its maritime ventures and commerce, founding its first colonies in the eighth century B.
Their journeys began a millenia before the arrival of the first European explorers in the 16th Century.
Some of the issues John Kennedy faced will sound familiar to readers in the twenty-first century.
It is my confident expectation, and more importantly it is the confident expectation of the government of the United States, that that will be very different in the twenty-first century.
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Moreover, it is the first international economic instrument that is explicitly guided and driven by consideration of fairness and equitability, which sets the stage for a new international economic order in the twenty-first century.
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The Project, which began in 2009 as a book compiled of stories about what it means to be a good man in the twenty-first century, has sparked a national discussion about both goodness and masculinity.
According to Ageing in the Twenty-first Century: A Celebration and a Challenge, governments will need to adopt a wide range of policies and laws aimed at supporting the elderly and protecting them against discrimination.
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