The Mulliner factory, in the small English village of Crewe, is more akin to a medieval guild than a 21st-century car plant.
Yet in the past half-century microbe and plant samples from exotic locales around the world have been one of the richest sources of new drugs.
"By the late 21st century, European plant species are projected to shift several hundred kilometers to the north, forests are likely to contract in the south and expand in the north, and about half of the mountain plant species may face extinction, " the EEA says.
He took Australia past the 300 mark and was well on his way to a first World Cup century when he looked to plant Nehemiah Odhiambo over the ropes and was caught at long-on.
The economically distressed villages are 2 miles away from Ilion, where a 2-century-old Remington Arms gun plant is a major employer.
We will have to wait until the middle of the century for a practical nuclear fusion plant to come into being.
Today she owns roughly half a dozen pieces of his work, including hyacinths spilling out of an 18th-century basket, a white rose plant in a clay pot, and a bouquet of clematis.
Foster Wheeler went through a bigger crisis at the turn of the century, when a series of costly power plant contracts led to the company's near collapse.
With its rebuilt 15th century cathedral, shipyards and a fish-processing plant, Ceuta is viewed by Spain as the more strategically-valuable enclave.
Whereas tangible assets like plant and equipment drove a company's value during much of the past century, intangible assets such as brands, patents and trademarks are what create value today.
In the 19th century, the splendor of these private compounds rose along with the prices for henequen, a plant in the agave family used to produce twine and rope--"green gold" that made the plantations' owners fantastically wealthy.
Rosemary and John Nicholson were a middle-aged couple with an amateur interest in plant-hunters those obsessive gardeners who sailed the world from the early 17th century onwards, looking for exotic trees and shrubs to delight their sponsors, the owners of the great English gardens.
So this is a very sad time when a plant closes that's been the cornerstone of your community for, you know, most of the century.
Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
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