An interim report of the Flood Tribunal found as fact that the backers of Century Radio had paid large bribes to Burke to secure favourable ministerial decisions.

The Brunkild Dike was built in 1997 during the " Flood of the Century ," when the volume of water exceeded the safe capacity of the Floodway and water lapped within inches of the city's dikes.

This is in response to the disastrous floods of 1997 ( nicknamed " The Flood of the Century "), and in early 2009.

Mr Desmond gave evidence relating to the Century Radio module of the Flood Tribunal.

Assyriologist George Smith translated the Babylonian account of the Great Flood in the 19th Century.

Niverville has been threatened by spring flooding from the Red River of the North, most recently in " Flood of the Century " when temporary dikes were hastily thrown up to protect the town from the river.

* Flood of the Century Unites Community

In 1976, it was publicly revealed that Lockheed had paid $ 22 million in bribes to foreign officials in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft including the F-104 Starfighter, the so-called " Deal of the Century ".

" The Prophet Balaam in a 6th Century Aramaic Inscription ," Biblical Archaeologist, Volume 39, 1976 ( 2001 electronic edition )

* Mauchly, John, The ENIAC ( in Metropolis, Nicholas, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, 1980, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, ISBN 0-12-491650-3, pp. 541 – 550, " Original versions of these papers were presented at the International Research Conference on the History of Computing, held at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 10 – 15 June 1976.

The Century series was followed by the Criterion series in 1976, NCR's first virtual machine system.

In 1976, Bakshi pitched War Wizards to 20th Century Fox.

NY and London: Century Co., 1923 ; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 ; Westport: Hyperion Press, 1976.

* Gasoline Alley: Comic Art as Social Comment: Changing Life in America Over More Than Half a Century as Seen Through the Eyes of a Unique ' First Family, Avon / Flare, 1976.

* 1976 " I Go To Pieces " US 20th Century Records

* 1976 " Come Back When You Grow Up " US 20th Century Records

He was also the driver of the 60th Indianapolis 500 Buick Century pace car in 1976.

Anthony Hopkins played Hauptmann in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case ( 1976 ), and Stephen Rea also played him in a sympathetic light in a 1996 HBO movie entitled Crime of the Century.

Richardson was the author of two books, The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1976 and Reflections of a Radical Moderate published by Westview Press in 1996.

Silent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976.

Critically acclaimed bestselling books followed for both-including for Dunne, The Studio, his non-fiction account of 20th Century Fox, and they became collaborators on a series of screenplays, including The Panic in Needle Park ( 1971 ), A Star Is Born ( 1976 ) and True Confessions ( 1981 ), an adaptation of his own novel.

PolyGram acquired United Distribution Corporation ( UDC ) in 1973 and signed distribution deals with MCA and 20th Century Records in 1976.

* H. Skolnik & K. M. Reese ( eds ) 1976 A Century of Chemistry: The Role of Chemists and the American Chemical Society ACS, Washington, D. C.

In 1976, Karen bought two Century City apartments, gutted them, and turned them into one condominium.

* McDaniel, Joyce L., The Collected Works of Caspar Buberl: An Analysis of a Nineteenth Century American Sculptor, MA thesis, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1976

* University of Colorado Alumnus of the Century ( 1 of 12 ) ( 1976 )

He also prosecuted Stefan Kiszko in July 1976, in what would become one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British Law in the 20th Century.

* Wine of Morning: A Novel of the First Century ( 1950 ) reprint, BJU Press, 1976

), Paston Letters And Papers Of The Fifteenth Century, ( 1971 – 1976, the authoritative version )

In 1976, Bakshi pitched War Wizards to 20th Century Fox.

Although still actively involved in running his many businesses, Carnegie had become a regular contributor to numerous magazines, most notably the Nineteenth Century, under the editorship of James Knowles, and the influential North American Review, led by editor Lloyd Bryce.

Unheard of these days, but common during the early 20th Century in North America, a " newspaper decision ( NWS )" might be made after a no decision bout had ended.

It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

* David Fairleigh – Former Rugby League forward, 1994 Rothman's Medal winner, NSW & Australian representative player, North Sydney Bears " Team Of The Century " second-rower, current coach of the Central Coast Bears

* 1993 – 1993 Storm of the Century begins to form over the North Atlantic Ocean.

Modern romantic nationalism in the United States, characterized by the myth of the frontier, the assertion of natural dominance over North and South America expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, and the belief that U. S .- style democracy should prevail over other cultures ( e. g. Project for the New American Century ), has strongly influenced American foreign policy and is influencing global conflicts, and religious, ethnic and nationalist alignments.

The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 284 pages ; Scholarly studies on the habits, manners, networks, institutions, and public roles of the American middle class with a focus on cities in the North.

Despite this, Bermuda's 17th Century agricultural economy did not become dependent on slavery as, unlike in the plantation economies that developed in English colonies in the southeast region of North America and in the West Indies, the system of indentured servitude, which lasted in Bermuda until 1684, ensured a large supply of cheap labour.

In 2001 he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.

The season ended on a sour note for Carey, being well held by Jakovich in the Semi Final and then Full back of the Century Stephen Silvagni in the Preliminary Final, where North Melbourne went down to eventual Premiers Carlton.

The Forrest family had migrated to Tennessee from Virginia, via North Carolina, during the second half of the 18th Century, while the Beck family had moved from South Carolina to Tennessee around the same time.

* K. M. Day, Canadian Fancy Cancellations of the Nineteenth Century ( British North America Philatelic Society, Toronto 1963 ).

Until the early 20th Century, an alternative Māori name for the North Island was Aotearoa.

* St James Church-in North Cray, in a conservation area near Foots Cray Meadows, has origins in the 12th Century

While it remains in the realm of speculation where 17th Century Pequot settlements were located in North Stonington, it is possible that the area in which the Village of North Stonington is currently located might earlier have been a key settlement for them, given the proximity to moving water and generally flat terrain conducive to agriculture.

For much of the 17th Century, North Stonington was thinly populated by the Pequots and European settlers.

As early as the first part of the 18th Century first-and second-generation farmers in North Stonington began harnessing the power of the town ’ s rivers and streams to establish grist mills and sawmills.

By the early part of the 19th Century North Stonington ’ s residents began to regard themselves as possessing a character separate from the communities of the southern part of the town to which they were still connected.

A few other mills in Milltown ( North Stonington village ) and Laurel Glen survived until the early part of the 20th Century.

In the early 20th Century progress arrived to re-stitch the town economically with the outer world, first in 1906 in the form of a trolley line that traversed North Stonington on its way from Westerly to Norwich.

The township consists of the following historic villages and areas: New Market, known as Quibbletown in the 18th Century, Randolphville, Fieldville and North Stelton.

In the last decade of the 19th Century, the community of High Shoals became totally-owned by High Shoals Mills, a textile company founded by Charlotte, North Carolina industrialist Daniel A. Tompkins.

Likewise, the Upper Cape Fear Valley of North Carolina was in the 18th and 19th Century the largest settlement of Gaelic speaking Highland Scots in North America.