One hundred years ago, most folks accepted adversity as an unavoidable facet of life.
It was one hundred years ago that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.
One hundred years ago this month, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified and removed the requirement for taxes to be appropriated.
Around one hundred years ago, the US began tax credits and easy financing support for the oil and gas industries.
One hundred years ago, decorative styles like Victorian and Art Deco prevailed as architecture emerged as "art, " much like early web design.
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One hundred years ago a piece of Northamptonshire meadowland was bought by a local engineer to create a "park for the people".
Not exactly pleasant Christmas thoughts, but of course there have been much tougher Christmases, like this one nearly one hundred years ago.
One hundred years ago today, September 27th, 1905, a physics paper was dropped into the mail addressed to a German journal called Annalen der Physik.
The event held at Goldsmiths' Hall in London marked the return of the soldiers who had recreated the well-known Scott-Amundsen race to the South Pole one hundred years ago.
On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole.
One hundred years ago in Germany and Japan, 30 years ago in countries such as Argentina and Brazil, and today in places like Singapore and Malaysia, capitalist development has buttressed, rather than undermined, authoritarian regimes.
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That the income tax was created in the very year that the Fed came into being shows that at the outset, one hundred years ago, the United States was clued in to the fraudulence of its macroeconomic ambitions.
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Certainly one hundred years ago, any list of world cities that held the future in their hands would have been dominated by ones located in the U.S. (London and Berlin might have been included.) New York, Chicago and San Francisco would have made the list and cities like Detroit, St.
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One hundred fifty years ago Monday, on September 17, 1862, the Union army commanded by Major General George McClellan met a Confederate force under Robert E.
First conceived nearly one-hundred years ago during the reign of Russian Tsar Nicolas II, the BST would be the longest tunnel in the world - over twice the length of Europe's 30 mile long "Chunnel" linking Britain and France.
Nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the commitment of the United States to the enduring cause of freedom.
Shakespeare shared with over one hundred intellectual entrepreneurs 15 years ago in Argentina.
Two hundred years ago one of the pioneers of modern economics, Thomas Malthus, was warning that population was growing faster than food production and the only remedy, if you are willing to accept a lot of dead people as a remedy, would be that population would eventually be held in check by famine.
Regarding the second point: a hundred years ago, no one shed a tear for men who had to marry below their level.
Some hundred and fifty years ago, one of the princes had ridden that way, going to a wedding or a funeral in this remote district, felt hot, and ordered that rosewood trees be planted to shade the passersby.
Two hundred and fifty million years ago the Earth had one landmass what scientists call Pangaea.
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