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{{redirect|Centuries||Century (disambiguation)|and|Centuries (disambiguation)}} A '''century''' is a period of 100 [[year]]s. Centuries are numbered [[names of numbers in English#Ordinal numbers|ordinally]] in E ...

...has been debate around the turn of previous [[Decade|decade]]s, [[Century|centuries]], and millennia, but not so much for decades. The issue arises from the di * [[List of decades, centuries, and millennia]] ...

The Ice Memory heritage ice cores will be safeguarded for centuries in Antarctica. A dedicated sanctuary will be built at the French-Italian [[ ...he world currently melting, with their yielded information for decades and centuries to come. ...

...nations had high tariffs and many restrictions on international trade for centuries. In the 19th century, a belief in free trade became paramount in the west, ...

...omplementary fundamental concepts of chronology. For example, during eight centuries the calendar belonging to the [[Christian era]], which era was taken in use ...ontains, in addition all calendar years ''BC'', but no ''year zero''). Ten centuries after Bede, the French astronomers [[Philippe de la Hire]] (in the year 170 ...

...simply assembled into a car the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work….Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have ...

{{short description|Period of human history from the mid 18th to late 20th centuries}} ...

...societies have reached the consensus through the late 19th and early 20th centuries that private organizations should not be allowed to engage in compulsory ce ...

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, several ideologies and movements, such as the [[cyberdelic]] countercultur ===From the 19th to mid-20th centuries=== ...

...lish, English–French Dictionary'' (1962) p. 88.</ref> In the 17th and 18th centuries, the term ''Belletrist(s)'' came to be applied to the ''literati'': the Fre ...

...y pre-requisites for bourgeois development - from the 16th to the mid-18th centuries, i.e. the period of the development of manufacture from craftsmanship until ...

...gy shock. The Industrial Revolution occurred between the 18th and the 19th centuries where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport, and t ...

...riod China, The: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9W8wNtNQsoC&pg=PA151|year=2012|publi ...

...harm the person who knows it is found in many stories in the 16th and 17th centuries. In it, these stories imply or explicitly state that some knowledge is dang ...

...dependently, that the [[Donation of Constantine]], which had been used for centuries to legitimize papal temporal authority, was a forgery. Diplomatic technique ...[[Donation of Constantine]]. Valla's work preceded Mabillon by roughly two centuries, and was the first application of the principles of modern, scientific dipl ...

...">{{cite book|author=J. L. Heilbron|title=Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlTL ...

.... The latter includes the automata, popular in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring dancing figures that would repeat the same task over and over ag ...

...which was a fluid that could permeate matter. This idea had been used for centuries, and was the basis of thinking about physical phenomena, such as electricit ...

...ea of a material electrical effluvium was influential in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a precursor to ideas developed in the 18th century about "electric ...0033795000201981}}<br>{{cite book |title=Electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries: a study of early Modern physics |last=Heilbron |author-link=John L. Heilb ...

...ower (physics)|power]], an energy flow per unit time, etc. In the past two centuries, the use of the word energy in various "non-scientific" vocations, e.g. soc ...