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centenary one hundred year anniversary

It's the perfect occasion to talk about it, because this year marks the centenary - the 100 year anniversary - of the start of Britain's involvement in this European conflict.

Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.

20th century

If people really landed on the moon half a century ago, why haven't they done it again?

This skull and crossbones was named based on the world-famous Captain Kidd who was active in late 17th century Britain.

Since the mid-20th century, the number of hutongs in Beijing has dropped dramatically as they are demolished to make way for new roads and buildings.

Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America. The heartache and the hope, the struggle and the progress. The times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes, we can.

For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

A woman in movement clothed in what resembles a bikini is drawn on a Sicilian mosaic from 5th century Rome.

The Viking expansion from the 9th century onwards reached areas such as Normandy, Galicia, Andalusia, Sicily and Crimea.

Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Rawandi, already in the ninth century, held that reason is man's exclusive guide to truth, a quest in which revelation is of no help.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Act your age.

Singer and actress Selena Gomez started her career at age seven on the children's public television show "Barney and Friends."

Tom lied about his age, so Mary thought he was much older than he really was.

Roger Miller entered the United States Army at the age of seventeen. He was sent to an army base near Atlanta, Georgia.

As humans age, their physical strength declines.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I love looking at everyone's colorful kimonos on Coming of Age Day.

Carbon dating was performed on the sample to determine its age.

Louis Braille, who was blind from the age of three, invented a way for the blind to read.

A working man should be paid in proportion to his skill, not his age.

Old age creeps upon us unnoticed.

I never for a moment imagined that I would still be doing this kind of thing at my age.

Can a child of her age distinguish good from bad?

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.