Individualism is the 21st century's epidemic.

China at the beginning of the twenty first century is not Bismarck s newly unified Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Tom Wujec demos the 13th century astrolabe

Lakshmi Narayana 15th century stone, 34 inches.

hat does a nineteenth century Apache leader have to do with twenty first century Saudi millionaire?

Understanding the other will pose the 21 st century's greatest social challenge.

There's a poem written by a very famous English poet at the end of the 19th century.

In the 21st century, we are returning to the ways of the 19th century.

Kyrgyz beside a traditional nomadic dwelling in the early 20th century.

The early 20th century was an age of tremendous political and social changes in the city.

A twenty first century Quixote tilting at the windmills of canned politics?

By the mid 20th century, the Igbo people developed a strong sense of ethnic identity.

The same applies to the two greatest European criminals of the twentieth century.

In fact, broadly speaking there have been three different Swedish models since the late nineteenth century.

And instead, they'll be planning for the future and starting to build the 22nd Century Enlightenment.

And this one, this is a replica from a 15th century device.

Another factor arose from the fact that Tamils, on the whole, had been open to a succession of Portuguese, Dutch, and British administrations from the 16th century onwards, while most Sinhalese lived under their own king in the Kandyan kingdom until the 19th century.

Japan Social Darwinism has influenced political, public health and social movements in Japan since the late 19th and early 20th century.

The Parima community was converted to Adventism by foreign missionaries in the first half of the 20th century.

Or look at the US at the 19th century's end the furnace where the future was being forged, as Leon Trotsky called it.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has described the Soviet Union s collapse as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.

Seeing the title sequence reimagined for the 21st century shows us that the more times change, the more they really stay the same.

He's called an isthri wala. But he's carrying a 21st century instrument.

Right, it was the first great Republican president of the 20th century who taught us about environmental thinking Teddy Roosevelt.

Asia is rich in dynamism, but relatively thin in influential political, economic, and security related institutions, in contrast to Europe, which often lacks dynamism but is institution heavy.

So ladies and gentlemen, I'm very happy to announce, this gift of the 21st century to the world from India, Gandhian engineering.

So Islamism is the problematic idea that really created a lot of problems in the 20th century Islamic world.

This is the Qalandar community. They are a marginalized Islamic community who live across India, and have been in India since the 13th century.

You see increasingly that the world now looks actually, for us Europeans, much more like Europe in the 19th century.

The waist of the average 21st century American male is 39.7 inches, according to U.S. health statistics.

Liliane in her blog Independence '05 wrote about the difference between the old and modern Laila of the 21st century.

However, records do exist that refer to practices of nipple and genital piercing in various cultures prior to the 20th century.

Where were you the 29th? the 30th?

But the deeper historical reasons for improved workplace safety lie in an array of legal institutions developed by workers, employers, lawyers, and lawmakers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. American workers' organizations, for example, developed insurance benefits for their members and sought to exercise collective control to improve workplace safety.

But the deeper historical reasons for improved workplace safety lie in an array of legal institutions developed by workers, employers, lawyers, and lawmakers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Japan in the second half of the 20th century had stable politics, due in large part to a good constitution and democratic institutions.

The Franco German relationship, central to much twentieth century conflict, now forms the core of modern Europe.

When you hear the word tulip, you might think of the Netherlands, maybe even the 17th century tulip mania.

Eugenism as a science was hotly debated at the beginning of the 20th century, in Jinsei Der Mensch , the first eugenics journal in the empire.

These are my valentines from 2005 and 2006.

Until the 18 th century, books were comparatively expensive their ownership was limited largely to the propertied classes.

Is Asia today replaying the balance of power games of late nineteenth century Europe, with China in the role of Germany?

Some scientists say that the average human lifespan could reach 90 years or more by mid century.

This is from a 16th century Aztec scroll showing a man about to eat a psilocybin mushroom and at the same moment get yanked up the staircase by a god.

Some definitely remind of the legacy of Kozma Prutkov, a fictional character of the mid 19th century, who mocked arrogant officials some 150 years ago.