For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.
You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.
Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.
