At the turn of the 20th century, the total population was 53,000.

Unsuspecting guests were served stewed turn of the century Turkish figs for breakfast.

So around the turn of the last century, I started to think, Wouldn't it be wonderful if one could take this logic and turn it upside down?

So today s talk of oil scarcity, which began at the turn of the last century, should come as no surprise.

Indeed, in terms of growth of output per employed worker, Japan has done quite well since the turn of the century.

By the turn of the 20th century, most paper was made from wood pulp, but cotton is still used in specialty papers.

So we call this a piece of emotional engineering that uses up to the minute 17th century technology to turn nouns into verbs.

By the turn of the century physicists had also discovered three types of radiation emanating from atoms, which they named alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.

This led to the development of a Māori protest movement which in turn led to greater recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi in the late 20th century.

Industry wide, one American worker in fifty at the turn of the last century was killed or seriously disabled each year in work related accidents.

But the granddaddy of all the Chinese American dishes we probably ought to talk about is chop suey, which was introduced around the turn of the 20th century.

For one thing, the divisive war in Iraq may turn out to be the last act of the twentieth century rather than a harbinger of the twenty first.

Let me leave the last words to someone who's rapidly becoming a hero of mine, Humphrey Davy, who did his science at the turn of the 19th century.

After the Lumières came representatives from Pathé and Gaumont to open offices, after the turn of the century, to make motion pictures on location for Russian audiences.

Around the turn of the century, he designed Villa Leuring in the Netherlands, and Villa Esche in Chemnitz, two works that show his Art Nouveau style in architecture.

Around the turn of the century however, Anglo Spanish relations began to improve, resulting in the peace of 1605, ending most privateering actions and leading to a neglect of the Royal Navy.

The remaining five states in the peninsula, known as the Unfederated Malay States, while not directly under British rule, also accepted British advisers around the turn of the 20th century.

That, in turn, would create a new European identity and narrative, a new reason for the EU to exist in this century, a way of rejecting the divisive politics of old.

Thus, the idea that Y might turn out to be a latter day X defining the nature of America s international role in the twenty first century may not be far fetched.

At the turn of the 21st century, sociology (Wolf and Fukari) and historiography (Pym) take a relevant role, but also globalization (Cronin) and the use of new technologies (O Hagan) are introduced into translation studies.

Whether these efforts will succeed in putting biomedical research on a more sustainable footing remains an open question. This could still turn out to be biology s century.

The great gift of secularism, in turn, has been tolerance. Despite horrific twentieth century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.

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

Five years ago, at the turn of the century, we adopted the Millennium Declaration, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which set targets for us to address major development problems of the world, especially in developing countries.

1701 1800 A.D. (18th century) The 18th century is considered the zenith of the Enlightenment.

The linguistic turn was a major development in Western philosophy during the early 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy and the other humanities primarily on the relationship between philosophy and language.

1901 2000 A.D. (20th century) During the previous century, the practice of science became professionalized and institutionalized in ways that continued through the 20th century.

20th century In the 20th century, Pluto was discovered.

But the last decade of the twentieth century was also indelibly stained by ethnic cleansing in ex Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda, and during the current decade the tide has seemed to turn against the rights cause.

Asked to name where to turn to understand what was going on in 2008, Summers cited three dead men, a book written 33 years ago, and another written the century before last.

The eastern portion of Heilongjiang was ruled by the kingdom of Balhae between the 7th century and 10th century.

The Ghibelline Visconti family was to retain power in Milan for a century and a half from the early 14th century until the middle of the 15th century.

The military role of a sniper (a term derived from the snipe, a bird which was difficult to hunt and shoot) dates back to the turn of the 18th century, but the true sniper rifle is a much more recent development.

In the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, images were made using photographic equipment.

China s Show Trial of the Century

Europe s Non Deal of the Century

And over the years, around the turn of the 20th century, it started to take on this other kind of deception this definition for any artificial interest in, or association with, an object through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.

This is best illustrated by Turkey, where Obama has ignored Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s heavy handed efforts to annul free speech and turn himself into a twenty first century Sultan.

19th century In the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century, the Russian Navy had the third largest fleet in the world after Great Britain and France.

This is unfortunate, and could turn out to be so dangerous that even die hard anti Americans end up longing for the passé American century and the US role as a global force for order.

Our ways of approaching agency and authority turn inside out to reflect the reality that no one has the answers to the challenges facing citizens in this century, and everyone has the responsibility for trying and participating in finding them.

Newspapers have always been the primary medium of journalists since 1700, with magazines added in the 18th century, radio and television in the 20th century, and the Internet in the 21st century.

The end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, and how that Hanging Chain model translates into archways and vaulting.

In the 19th century, and in the interwar and depression years of the 20th century, international default came in buckets.

Beginning (1914 1916) Free speech movement At the turn of the century, an energetic movement arose, centered in Greenwich Village, that sought to overturn bans on free speech.Kersch, Kenneth Ira, Freedom of Speech Rights and Liberties under the Law , ABC CLIO, 2003, pp.