• Wildly popular in Europe and Asia--UBS even offers a Sharia-compliant note for Muslim investors--these derivatives for the average investor have been offered in the U.S. for at least two decades but were largely forgotten during the bull market at the end of the century.

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  • Wildly popular in Europe and Asia-- UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) even offers a Sharia-compliant note for Muslim investors--these derivatives for the average investor have been offered in the U.S. for at least two decades but were largely forgotten during the bull market at the end of the century.

    FORBES: Guaranteed to Go Up

  • There will still be a bit of the 23km Aletsch glacier left at the end of the century, because it is 900m deep in places.

    UNESCO: 83e

  • She also had a view of science that was unashamedly broad, taking in arts, literature and natural philosophy much in the mould of Erasmus Darwin at the end of the 18th century, whose tomes on botany and zoology were written in Wordsworthian verse.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • She was fought over by both the defenders and accusers of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain wrongly found guilty of selling military secrets to the Germans at the end of the 19th century.

    ECONOMIST: A maid for all reasons

  • From now until the end of time (or at least the end of this century), the media will compare tech company CEOs to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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  • We have come a long way since the notion of heroism that prevailed at the tail end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | What makes a modern hero?

  • And, although the Spanish empire was clearly not the power it had been in the 16th Century under Philip II, her monarchs continued expanding territorially until it reached its greatest extent at the end of the 18th Century.

    BBC: Eurozone crisis: Catalonia's place in Spain

  • The so-called head flask was found in South Shields at the end of the 19th Century.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear | Romans 'were not colour prejudiced'

  • They came to the United States with immigrants from Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century.

    CNN: , Special to

  • The average dollar bill lasts almost two-and-a-half times longer in circulation than it did at the end of the last century.

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  • The market arrived at the end of the 15th century.

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  • As Italians began to emigrate to the US at the end of the 19th Century, many settled in South Philadelphia where the market took shape to cater to the new community.

    BBC: Love, war and the Philly cheesesteak

  • There have been some pretty brazen examples in the past - perhaps none more so than the case involving the world-famous US magician Harry Kellar at the end of the 19th Century.

    BBC: The magicians who rip off other conjurers' tricks

  • Thousands of sites remain from the two centuries that separated the industrial revolution from de-industrialisation at the end of the 20th century: abandoned coalmines and steelmills, empty textiles factories and town gas works.

    ECONOMIST: Urban regeneration

  • Spreading from its agricultural origins to Korean people of all walks of life in both urban and rural areas, the dance has evolved considerably since it was brought to China at the end of the nineteenth century.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • When William Wrigley settled on gum as the way to make his fortune in Chicago at the end of the 19th Century, he had no idea that the brands he created - Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint - would still be growing, more than a century later.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | The chewing gum war

  • In some ways, this turns the clock back on television because the pattern in television, really, the pattern in all visual media since the Lumiere brothers at the start - at end of the 19th century more or less invented motion pictures has been faster, faster and faster.

    NPR: First Anniversary for Al Jazeera in English

  • If prices are falling because of advancing productivity, as at the end of the 19th century, it is a sign of progress, not economic collapse.

    ECONOMIST: Inflation is bad, but deflation is worse

  • The real point is that I was attempting to paint a picture of where technology was headed and what the world of capability of information technology would look like around the end of the first decade of this century (and then at the end of subsequent decades).

    FORBES: Ray Kurzweil Defends His 2009 Predictions

  • David Wondrich, a cocktail expert with a great sense of humor and an amazing drinking pedigree dove right in weaving the history of polar exploration with the rise of cocktail culture at the end of the 19th century, and while he was talking Mr. Lee chipped quietly away at his precious ice blocks, crafting hand-hewn ice cubes for a later use.

    FORBES: A Very Boozy Night At The Museum

  • At the end of 2nd Century A.D.

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  • But it's still slack and amateurish, and unless you have an all-consuming interest in what the newspaper business was like at the tail end of the 20th century, it's hard to see how "Lucky Guy" comes anywhere near passing the who-cares test.

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  • Quick background: in an effort to attract fellow northerners south for the winter, Bostonian James Tufts built a grand resort near Southern Pines, NC at the tail end of the 19th century in what he believed to be a place with an especially healthy climate.

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  • According to Christopher Breward of the Victoria and Albert Museum the tailed morning coat finally gave up to the lounge suit with the rise of American business culture at the end of the 19th century.

    ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

  • Celestine V, a hermit elected at age of 80, stepped down at the end of the 13th century because he felt exhausted by the office.

    WSJ: Pope Benedict XVI to Resign

  • Across the Champ de Mars from the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince is -or was - a tall statue to the maroons, the runaway slaves who are the symbol of Haiti's fight for independence at the end of the 18th century.

    BBC: Haiti's history of misery

  • But the chief editor of Ex-Libris insists that, in fact, at the end of the 20th century, the two have a lot in common.

    ECONOMIST: Erotica

  • At the end of the 15th century, the formidable gibbet was already very much dilapidated.

    NPR: Acting the Swan to Overcome the Duck

  • At the end of the 19th century, a dealer offered Harrison's personal pocket watch to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.

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