But at the end of the 20th century, the beginning of the 21st century, we saw growth in Africa.

So within a few years, in the late 1800s, early 1900s, all of a sudden, the barber surgeon had given way to the physician who was trying to make a diagnosis.

This spacecraft is scheduled for launch before the turn of the century.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

It was hailed as a scientific miracle in the late 1950s.

A fin de siècle mentality is not just a nostalgic feeling for the century passing away, but also embraces a deep concern for the years ahead.

There's a poem written by a very famous English poet at the end of the 19th century.

Interdependence has become a completely new phenomenon of the end of the twentieth century.

Since those systems would not be largely deployed until the turn of the century, the actual market results would not be known for some time.

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

In jail for years and they suddenly found it was another chap.

And the world's population expected to top out at something hopefully a bit less than 10 billion, late this century.

Will it remain the same and be two billion by the end of the century?

In the future, later this century, it's going to look like the red, totally out of bounds.

If enough funding becomes available, the project is expected to be completed by the turn of the century.

It should be set up before the end of the century and before there was another catastrophe.

We do expect to see a sea level rise on the order of one to two meters by the end of this century.

Modern medicine in the late 19th century began to make major breakthroughs against the infectious diseases that killed a lot of people.

But Babbage, Babbage himself was born at the end of the 18th century, and was a fairly famous mathematician.

That Earth would likely warm in the 1980's, and warming would exceed the noise level of random weather by the end of the century.

The picture I'm showing you is of Leopold Auenbrugger who, in the late 1700s, discovered percussion.

It is difficult to imagine that this brutality and savageness, not having any match in history, was committed by human beings at the end of the twentieth century, before the eyes of humankind.

3. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was an increasing awareness of the dangers associated with the narcotic drugs that had previously been widely used for pain relief, especially opium based preparations.

A new century is a new century.

Even doomsday? Particularly doomsday.

As a result, the number of people in poverty had dropped from 250 million in the late 1970s to 5.8 million, and the goal was to eliminate absolute poverty by the end of the century.

Spain In the late 1980s, Santiago de Compostela experienced a mass exodus caused by the decay and deterioration of the medieval city's historic city centre.

1. Mr. KA (Senegal) said that despite the fact that the cold war had ended, the world situation at the end of the century was much less stable than had been hoped.

Well, it started back in the late 1800s when people started settling in places like Montana.

At the end of the past century, when heat engines appeared, people were conducting experiments with ethanol derived from beet as fuel.

6. Telecommunications market analysts predict that wireless communications will be the largest growth area at the turn of the century.

Liberty has found its full expression in the market economy.

There were exceptions from this in Reykjavik where there was a great deal of construction work in the first and third decades of the century.

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?

And slowly, slowly, at the end of the 20th century, that scarcity started to get eroded and I don't mean by digital technology I mean by analog technology.

In the mid to late '80s, the novelist Whitley Strieber wrote a book called Communion, in which he described his own lifelong experiences being abducted by aliens.

It is an example of Annamese art which, until the end of the 19th century in Asia, was under the influence of the great Chinese ceramic tradition.

It's not the Middle Ages anymore, it's the 21st century.

This could be our best century ever because of the achievements, or it could be our worst.

And they were also, by the end of the century, getting healthy, and Japan was starting to catch up.

The pace of technological innovation is such that inhabitants of the industrialized world look forward to enjoying the full benefits of the so called information society by the end of the century.

The 20th century?

I have the impression that in the twenty first century the problem of international guarantees and legal regulation of the functioning of such pipelines will be comparable to the problem of navigation through sea straits which the world community spent much effort in trying to resolve at the turn of the nineteenth century.

It's a collection of nautical antiques from the 1700s and 1800s.

The state of Israel is setup, and 50 years later, in the late 60s, it's clear that Britain's role as the imperial power is over.