The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

And this is why so many scientists a half a century ago were agnostics or atheists.

Sixty years ago most archaeologists believed that brochs, usually regarded as castles, were built by immigrants who had been displaced and pushed northward, first by the intrusions of Belgic tribes into what is now south-east England towards the end of the second century BC and later by the Roman invasion of southern Britain from AD 43 onwards.

The research team went on to " point out that, in recognition of the fact that dysprosium is named on the basis of a Greek word meaning ' difficult to get at ,' that the searchers for another element a century ago found it difficult to get to California.

They claim that that rainforests 50 years ago covered 14 % of the world's land surface, now only cover 5 – 7 %, and that all tropical forests will be gone by the middle of the 21st century.

The didgeridoo was introduced to the Kimberlies almost a century ago but it is only in the last decade that Aboriginal men have shown adverse reactions to women playing the instrument and prohibitions are especially evident in the South East of Australia.

Science fiction author H. G. Wells noted, " Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago.

Environmental changes resulting from modernization — such as more intellectually demanding work, greater use of technology and smaller families — have meant that a much larger proportion of people are more accustomed to manipulating abstract concepts such as hypotheses and categories than a century ago.

' A modern respondent might say they are both mammals ( an abstract, or a priori answer, which depends only on the meanings of the words ' dog ' and ' rabbit ' ), whereas someone a century ago might have said that humans catch rabbits with dogs ( a concrete, or a posteriori answer, which depended on what happened to be the case at that time ).

Today's average adult from an industrialized nation is taller than a comparable adult of a century ago.

A century ago, nutritional deficiencies may have limited body and organ functionality, including skull volume.

: One century ago, in November 1904, John Ambrose Fleming FRS, Pender Professor at UCL, filed in Great Britain, for a device called the Thermionic Valve.

A century ago the Haiǁom people spoke a Ju dialect, probably close to ǃKung, but they now speak a divergent dialect of Nama.

More recent contributors to the loss of forest cover include the growth in cattle herd size since their introduction around 1000 years ago, a continued reliance on charcoal as a fuel for cooking, and the increased prominence of coffee as a cash crop over the past century.

First populated more than 13, 000 years ago, the country produced complex indigenous civilizations before being conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century.

Users of such systems do not accept product obsolescence at the same rate as domestic users and it is entirely likely that despite having been installed over 20 years ago, many 68000-based controllers will continue in reliable service well into the 21st century.

Both were founded more than 800 years ago, and continued as England's only universities until the 19th century.

Although the okapi was unknown to the Western world until the 20th century, it was possibly depicted 2, 500 years ago on the façade of the Apadana, at Persepolis, as a gift from the Ethiopian procession to the Achaemenid kingdom.

Although it was codified in the 19th century, when all the social sciences were established, political science has ancient roots ; indeed, it originated almost 2, 500 years ago with the works of Plato and Aristotle.

The Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) has, in the past, been a leading United States denomination in mission work, and many hospitals, clinics, colleges and universities worldwide trace their origins to the pioneering work of Presbyterian missionaries who founded them more than a century ago.

Prior to the southwards migration of the Tai people from Yunnan in the 10th century, the Indochina peninsula had been a home to various indigenous animistic communities for as far back as 500, 000 years ago.

The Tiber was critically important to Roman trade and commerce, as ships could reach as far as upriver ; there is evidence that it was used to ship grain from the Val Teverina as long ago as the 5th century BC.

Some believe tatting originated over 200 years ago, often citing shuttles seen in eighteenth century paintings of women such as Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Madame Adelaide ( daughter of Louis XV of France ), and Anne, Countess of Albemarle.

* The Arians of the fourth century by John Henry " Cardinal " Newman in " btm " format

In the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman presented a detailed defense of educational perennialism in The Idea of a University.

Although there have been hundreds of orchestrators in film over the years, the most prominent film orchestrators for the latter half of the 20th century have been Herbert W. Spencer, Edward Powell, ( who worked almost exclusively with Alfred Newman ), and Alexander Courage.

Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, and many others.

Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th century American business.

* 1868 Theophilus Watkins, F. Smith and Newman Patterson construct a gravity flow irrigation canal from the Frio River that operates for a century.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Houck ’ s various lines were consolidated under the name of St. Louis & Gulf Railroad Co. Later Mr. Houck sold out to a syndicate headed by Newman Erb, who in 1902 sold out to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company.

In the early 19th century, the reforming zeal of Provosts John Eveleigh and Edward Copleston gained Oriel the reputation of being the most brilliant college of the day and the centre of the " Oriel Noetics " — clerical liberals such as Richard Whately and Thomas Arnold were Fellows, and the during the 1830s, two intellectually eminent Fellows of Oriel, John Keble and The Blessed John Henry Newman, supported by Canon Pusey ( also an Oriel fellow initially, later at Christ Church ) and others, formed a group known as the Oxford Movement, alternatively as the Tractarians, or familiarly as the Puseyites.

This subsequently became the " finest private school in England " and had many famous pupils in the 19th century such as William S. Gilbert and Cardinal Newman.

Promenade concerts had existed in London's pleasure gardens since the mid 18th century, but on 10 August 1895 impresario Robert Newman arranged the first series of indoor promenade concerts, in the Queen's Hall in Langham Place.

Newman, together with Jerry Patch and Michael Roth, surveyed Newman's songs to find those that, taken together, depict the life of an American artist in the last half of the 20th century.

The immediate effect of his suspension was the sale of 18, 000 copies of the condemned sermon ; its permanent effect was to make Pusey for the next quarter of a century the most influential person in the Anglican Church, for it was one of the causes which led Newman to sever himself from that communion.

In the final Tract XC, Newman argued that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, as defined by the Council of Trent, were compatible with the Thirty-Nine Articles of the 16th century Church of England.

The initial use of the phrase was by John Newman in the nineteenth century, placing Anglicans as a via media between the Calvinist and Lutheran Protestant traditions ( inspired by the works of Richard Hooker ).

Anglicanism was generally classified as Protestant, but since the " Tractarian " or Oxford Movement of the 19th century, led by John Henry Newman, Anglican writers emphasize a more catholic understanding of the church and characterize it as more properly understood as its own tradition — a via media (" middle way "), both Protestant and Catholic.

An old theory of 19th century writers ( Latham, V. St. Martin, Rambaud, Newman ) which, according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, is based on ' less convincing proof ', suggested an identification of the Agathyrsi with the later Agatziri or Akatziroi first mentioned by Priscus in Vol XI, 823, Byzantine History, who described them leading a nomadic life on the Lower Volga, and reported them as having been Hunnic subjects before the time of Attila.

As well as being a monument to the Reformation, the memorial is also a landmark of the 19th century Oxford Movement, propagated by John Keble, John Henry Newman and others.

Nor is this a new attitude: in the mid 19th century Edward Newman, having earlier mentioned the mark on the thorax wrote: " However, let the cause of the noise be what it may, the effect is to produce the most superstitious feelings among the uneducated, by whom it is always regarded with feelings of awe and terror.

* The Newman Flower Collection of Handel Manuscripts-works by George Frederic Handel, as well as items of Italian music from the early 18th century, including the Manchester Violin Sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi ( previously undiscovered violin sonatas autographed by the composer ) and the Four Seasons concerto partbooks.

In the late 18th century the Sir Robert Newman Company that was one of the most powerful fishing establishments in Newfoundland, set up a business in St. Lawrence.

Dr. Christopher Newman Hall LLB ( May 22, 1816-February 18, 1902 ), born at Maidstone and known in later life as a ' Dissenter's Bishop ', was one of the most celebrated nineteenth century English Nonconformist divines.

The nonjurors would have an influence on John Henry Newman and other Tractarians in the early and mid nineteenth century.

Canon Robert Newman Milford ( 1829 – 1913 ), Rector of East Knoyle, Wiltshire ( 1865 – 1912 ) and Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire ( 1896 – 1912 ); their son Humphrey Sumner Milford was highly influential in early 20th century music and literature as Publisher to the University of Oxford.

A memorial in the church to William Newman tells us that in thanks for the kindness shown to him when he was brought up here as a poor London boy in the 18th century he left £ 500 to the poor of Kettlestone forever.