Some countries have got immensely richer, while many others are as poor as they were hundreds of years ago.
Of course, hundreds of years ago it was distributing the wealth of the masses upwards to the kings and lords.
Should we start throwing out astronomical observations made hundreds of years ago because they were made in the service of astrology?
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Many buildings, constructed hundreds of years ago, are beyond repair, with walls unable to bear pipes or with rudimentary electricity wiring.
It probably never occurred to Native Americans hundreds of years ago to grill figs wrapped in Prosciutto (with a balsamic glaze).
Perugians hundreds of years ago adorned her image with a real crown.
Many of the beautiful concertos and sonatas you're playing today were written hundreds of years ago, long before CDs and computers and MP3 players were ever invented.
Like detectives inspecting the scene of a bank heist, astrophysicists carefully study supernovae remnants for the clues they provide to the supernova explosion itself, hundreds of years ago.
Hundreds of years ago, a book was written about the various bubbles through time: think alchemy, turning lead into gold, the South Sea Island bubble, and my particular favorite, the Tulip Bubble.
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The US adopted decimal dollars hundreds of years ago and the UK clung to pounds-shillings-pence-farthings until 1976(?) Hardly anyone but older Britons can even imagine how to divide a bill for 7 Pounds, 5 Shillings and five Pence among three diners, or the painful calculations involved.
This find is just one more piece of the puzzle about what Mars looked like hundreds of millions of years ago, when there was water on the surface.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University of California at Berkeley found evidence in data collected from 176 thriving plant species that fossil plants can help scientists determine sources of carbon in the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years ago.
The channels remained hidden because the once volcanically active region had been filled in by lava flows hundreds of millions years ago.
However, the model can already say something interesting about what might have happened hundreds of thousands of years ago.
It has old crystalline rocks from several hundreds of millions of years ago up to more recent formations of rocks including one of the largest Alpine Triassic carbonate successions, which has rich fossil remains.
They first appear in the fossil record hundreds of thousand of years ago and, at their peak, dominated a wide range, spanning Britain and Iberia in the west to Israel in the south and Uzbekistan in the east.
Trees in the woods were descendants of the first trees to grow in Scotland after the glaciers receded thousands of years ago and support hundreds of other species, it added.
Boy Scouts often hiked to the spot and built fires in the holes, so it wasn't known if the soot was from their visits or from use by Indians hundreds or even thousands of years ago, Butz said.
On this day, 45 years ago, hundreds of brave men and women gathered in the small town of Selma, Alabama to announce to the world that they, too, sang America.
Net interest margins still decline, hundreds of basis points below where they rested years ago.
Thought Equity Motion started digitally remastering men's and women's NCAA tournament games about five years ago, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process, all the while trying to figure what would get people interested in watching the old content.
Four years ago Sky TV pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into British football when they outbid terrestrial TV for broadcasting rights.
Thanks to him and Tesla, unlike even five years ago, there are now hundreds of car makers who are producing electric cars, including every single major U.S. company.
Ten years ago, companies would have spent hundreds of thousands to build a database driven website.
Just a few years ago, their industry was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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The fire that raged through Griffith Park in Los Angeles on Wednesday, burning hundreds of acres, recalled shades of similar destruction nearly 74 years ago.
Today, Chimney Rock is one of the best recognized and most unique archaeological resources in North America, home to hundreds of ruins built by the Ancestral Pueblo People about 1, 000 years ago, including the highest elevation ceremonial "great house" in the Southwest.
Its latest chips can render hundreds of millions of polygons per second, up from 1 million per second ten years ago.
The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which began a little more than 10 years ago in response to the Bush administration's plan to build hundreds of coal-fired power plants, has successfully opposed the vast majority of proposed new plants and helped to retire 130 of the dirtiest, most-polluting existing coal plants in the United States.
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