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Licorice has been used for centuries as an expectorant to loosen phlegm.

Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago.

I came across a few centuries you, only you to see only the face appeared in the dream.

If ever a work of art had a right to feel over exposed, it is Michelangelo's David, naked in the heart of Florence for nearly 5 centuries.

Most are not even aware that raw milk has been used throughout the past centuries as a means of combating various illnesses.

With names enduring for centuries it is possible that the sign above the door is as old as the pleasure of drinking itself.

When Euclid originally laid down the axioms of his geometric system 23 centuries ago, one of them seemed less than obvious.

We have watched for centuries as the Light of change grew stronger and stronger, until now the dark ones are in retreat!

For centuries the dark berries of European black elder (Sambucus nigra L. ) have been traditionally used as a winter remedy.

We were surprised to see that it was being built entirely from solid pieces of rock and marble, like buildings of previous centuries.

There is no doubt, however, that the Mayas must have been familiar with cocoa several centuries earlier.

What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same.

People will continue to wrangle over relations between the state and religion in the Arab world, just as they did for centuries in Europe.

These dogs have been used for centuries as a do-all farm dog.

In terms of development, China is at least decades, if not centuries, behind the United States.

No kind of animal would have survived through the centuries if the weak members had lived. And has always been a law of nature.

The graph below the images tracks the surface elevation of Devils Lake from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.

In the years to come, Yoda would study these techniques, learning the ability in a role he had not played in centuries: an apprentice.

The artist took a scene that had dominated art for centuries and gave it a completely new perspective.

This act marked the end of four centuries of Ottoman -Turk rule and the beginning of thirty years of British rule.

She will indeed continue to heat up with many more eruptions of what you know as volcanoes in the centuries ahead.

Forging welding was the first form of welding and for many centuries the only one in general use.

Within a matter of centuries, human intelligence will have re-engineered and saturated all the matter in the universe.

Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.

The Vatican is divided into departments that rarely communicate with one another, out of a centuries-old culture of secrecy and autonomy.

It is an herb native to Paraguay that has been used for centuries as a sweetener.

Echinacea has been used for centuries to help support strong immune systems.

If everybody in London, New York, and Moscow were exterminated, the world might, in the course of a few centuries, recover from the blow.

After all, a decrease in solar output known as the Maunder Minimum helped freeze Europe for a few centuries.

The early scientific study of chemistry, known as alchemy, grew up in the first few centuries A. D. at Alexandria in Egypt.

Barges have been a favorite means of transporting goods on Ducth rivers and canals for centuries.

Over the centuries, smallpox has been one of mankind's most feared and deadly diseases with a history dating back at least 3500 years.

The Athens of Socrates and Plato, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, is often seen as home to a first golden age of conversation.

The fork was an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it.

For centuries there were differences of opinion among the specialists as to which stones deserved to be called sapphires.

During the six centuries which had gone by since the death of the Prophet the original ardor of his followers had considerably cooled.

There is nothing necessarily wrong with that: it's a system that has worked well for centuries and if you are happy with it, then fine.

"Here, maybe this will help, " he says, and he pulls a little picture out of his wallet. An old portrait, really old, like centuries old.

The last ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a termination.

"My own feeling, though, is that this gold was probably taken out centuries ago, " he said.

Nothing more was heard of him until the battle of Marathon centuries later.

The sea still serves as a byway, grocery, laundry, workplace, and playground for the local inhabitants, just as it has for centuries.

This achievement did not arise quickly, of course; it took centuries, and war was the crucible out of which it came.

His Neoplatonic outlook may perhaps have been common in Ireland, as it was among the Greek Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries.

If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.

This may be one of the reasons why, after centuries of neglect, Bronzino is now having a renaissance of his own.

and prisons shifted firmly back to state control, at least where states existed, for the next two centuries.

But we must listen to what Mr Obama says about this division and the dramatic way it has, over three centuries, structured American society.

Optics has been a subject of fascinating investigation in the last three centuries by a large number of eminent scientists.

The shirt has been a common piece of clothing for men and women for a great many centuries.

So to try to say what the impact on the next few centuries is going to be at this stage I think is really foolish.

Augmentation of labor by breast stimulation has been used in a variety of cultures for centuries.

As film shows how much the tradition has deteriorated over the centuries.

In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.

Harvested in the wild, currants have been used for centuries as food and medicine.

Four centuries, two centuries, and one-and-a-half centuries: 2009 offers a fine excuse to celebrate two of the great iconoclasts of history.

The first mirror was a pool of still water, and for untold centuries there was no other mirror to take its place.

Istanbul, once known as Constantinople, has for centuries been a meeting place between East and West.

Packed with antioxidants, olives and their oil have been used for centuries for health.

The faculty compensation system of American higher education, in terms of practice, or to the theory, has been a centuries-old experience.

Centuries ago a guard would have been posted at the door, and he wondered if perhaps that custom would have to be revived in the days ahead.

Pharmacopoeias have been used to control the quality of medicines for centuries.

it had been a Buddhist temple and about seven centuries ago it became a Hindu temple and in place of the Buddha they had put a Hindu idol.

Republicans have the right to filibuster under centuries-old rules that this page has long defended.

And anyway, the marketing idea behind it had been around for decades, if not centuries, before safety razors were invented.

The performance theory has been used for several centuries to evaluate the performance.

The extract from the herb St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) has been used for centuries in many folk and herbal remedies.

The economic history of the last two or three centuries provides ample illustration for the beneficial effect of this capitalistic method.

using energy from the sun. Solar cookers, or ovens, have been used for centuries.

If I ask the value of my life, I can only measure myself against the centuries and then I must say, Yes, it means something.

Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an old snakeskin.

It was an age in which the human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before.

India's tea trade has not changed much since the British started cultivating it there nearly two centuries ago. But changes are brewing.

Anything that has lasted for centuries is worth a closer look to see if any part of the concept will work for you.

For several centuries, people have different opinions on him, praising or criticizing him for different purposes.

But a host of examples stretching back over the centuries bear witness to the long-term link between monetary growth and inflation.

Over the last 50 years we've been a bit careless, just as we've been careless with our oceans and rivers over centuries and polluted them.

All that's an old tradition. It dates back several centuries, you know.

Through the centuries, flowers have been used for cooking in every conceivable way.

In many small Italian towns where local families have stayed put down the centuries, the entire population often shares just a few names.

John, from the beloved disciple, had been a favorite name for centuries all over Christendom .

The US and Europe, after all, have between them have enjoyed the best part of two centuries of effortless political and economic hegemony.

The government claims that the law will overcome centuries of exclusion, at last giving the children of the poor equal access to education.

A remarkable weight management patch containing traditional pharmacopeial herbs which have been used for centuries to control appetite.

Battling centuries of ignorance and isolation, he drags millions out of the Dark Ages and forges a new nation.

Oatmeal has anti-inflammatory properties and has been used for centuries to soothe skin.

Terraced hillsides-- Terracing techniques have been used for centuries in mountainous areas.

Ever since Josiah Wedgwood invented marketing a few centuries ago, it has been used to increase productivity and wealth.

Just as it seemed weird five centuries ago to see someone read silently, in the future it will seem weird to read without moving your body.

In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.

We have many reasons to feel proud of being Latin American, and of how much we have built over these two centuries.

"Why this huge isolation of the church and this huge focus on cover-up in the church when it has been going on for centuries? " he asked.

This was as true of the Cold War as it was of the world wars and the earlier wars of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

After all, this argument goes, countries in Europe did not always exist as nation states; just look at Germany or Italy two centuries ago.

Throughout the centuries up to today, the Bible continues to be the most read, translated and printed book in all languages.

Manuscript publishing actually expanded after Gutenberg and continued to thrive for the next three centuries.

Four centuries after his death, King Henry IV of France is being laid to rest. Or at least his head is.

Centuries ago, the word "beeline" was made to describe this thin line of bees flying through the air.

Even now, almost two centuries after his birth, physical traces of him are everywhere.

Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky.

And the relationship to landscape was that of farmers who have been farming the same piece of ground for 40 centuries.

Over the centuries, there has been a variety of shared attributes that have brought together the communities we know as 'the Chinese'.

DURING the four centuries that it has been studied in detail, the sun has usually behaved in a regular manner.

It was due to this limitation that the great trade wind sailing routes around the world were developed centuries ago.

For several centuries, shipment has always been a main transportation way in the world trade.

It is possible to put aside deep divides of language, culture, religion, centuries of conflict and war.

He father claims to be able to trace the family back many centuries, to the time of the Conqueror.

Throughout the centuries, China has been a multi-ethnic society connected by a commitment to unity, prosperity and harmony.

In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back trough the centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of The Secret.

Ms Hakim suggests that women have more erotic capital than men to start with, mainly because they have had to work at it for centuries.

Bulls and bears have been duking it out for centuries.

Over the past two centuries, stocks have done dramatically better for investors than have bonds or any other asset class.

Although people of different ethnicities have been mixing for centuries, the subject of interracial relationships is still controversial.

Pitches have varied over the centuries, sometimes with different pitches used for different forms of music or different instruments.

They are themes which have intrigued the greatest authors of every medium through the centuries.

This is clearly not the case, if it were true, prediction of the tides could have been done for centuries.

For centuries, our economy has never been out of the financial crisis's hit.

For centuries this dog was bred as an independent guarder who makes his own decisions out in the field.

Hence, a reader of that all-important text would see the name Jesus a couple of hundred times for centuries prior to the Christian era.

The Masters will be recognized and accepted for what they are, having led Mankind out of the Dark Ages for many centuries.

"Think centuries or millennia, not decades, " said Dr. Dyson, who also said he approved of the Planetary Society project.

In the first Christian centuries marriage had been a strictly private arrangement.

Now, after all the long centuries you kept me chained in darkness, it is only fitting that I bury you in turn.

At the time of his birth, around 570, the Arabian Peninsula had been inhabited by tribal peoples for centuries.

ONCE upon a time, not so many centuries ago, there was a poor continent. Its name was Europe.

BE addition in the unknown center, this short few breath of time be unexpectedly like so long for a few centuries.

But market analysts say the centuries-old time-telling tool is trying to make a comeback.

Huge leaps have been made since the 1970s, he says, but 'it is not easy to change a history of five centuries. '

Which means that 300 centuries ago, Fred and Wilma might have had a kind of prehistoric pita bread on the menu.

Dogs have been used to aid disabled people for centuries.

For over two centuries, Angelus was one of the most vicious vampires ever to walk the earth.

But oranges came to England millennia after oysters and for centuries the phrase was as different as apples and oysters.

There have been many reports of the Sorcerer's Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr.

Member of any of several Gnostic sects that flourished in the Roman empire in the 2nd century AD and for several centuries thereafter.

Still, it would be centuries before the West was able to cast bronze as well as the Zhou.

In the Beginning, centuries ago, the marshal was the Order's military commander, the leader of the knights in battle.

A strong continuity of tradition and custom had guided the redoubtable islanders of the Far East across the centuries.

True or not, there's no doubt that Persian rugs have dazzled people for centuries.

For centuries, nay, millenniums, men have been trying to figure out how to have more sex.

For some centuries before there was experimental proof, it was believed that the speed of light must be finite.

"The Song Mountains are full of kung fu rivalries, " a Dengfeng official told me, "just as they have been for centuries. "

However, centuries later, has always boasted high standards of British public toilets are beginning to being criticized.

The arch is among the many important structural breakthroughs that have characterized architecture throughout the centuries.

In nineteen ninety-four the museum reopened in a new building made of stone. It looks like a fortress built centuries ago.

Despite being a very modern city, the South Korean capital has centuries of history, and it's all pretty easy to take in.

Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust.

If it does not, there won't be any problem in a couple of centuries because there won't be any people left to worry about it.

The UK has been a leader in polar science and exploration for more than two centuries, and is playing a major role in IPY.

If a world model is reliable, it should be able to simulate four centuries of growth -- at least as history.

The United Kingdom is the only country with a sustained history of child migration, spread over four centuries.

But I also feel that after a separation of one and a half centuries, we need to understand her more deeply.

For centuries, wise men have known this and kept it a well guarded secret.

Some insight into the body of knowledge that has been acquired over the centuries should be conveyed by a survey of physics.

Father claims to be able to trace the family back many centuries to the time of Conqueror.

Cholera outbreaks have been a regular feature of urban living worldwide for centuries.

But even more amazing is the windcatcher, a passive cooling device that has been used in Asia and the Middle East for many centuries.

Once upon a time, way back in the 18th and 19th centuries, the idea of utility was a way to escape subjective judgments.

Through the centuries the heart of Moscow has always been the Kremlin, the seat of the government.

This gnarled root has been a major player in Asian and Indian medicine for centuries, primarily as a digestive aid.

Those sorts of locations are perfect for finding organic matter which has been preserved for centuries, and can be dated and used for study.

Less than two centuries ago, new nations could still be staked out on terra incognita.

Don't let its tough exterior fool you, bamboo shoots have been a popular food staple in Asia for centuries.

Over the next several centuries, oceanic pH may change more than it has in the last 300 million years.

First, spreads on credit that took no account of default probabilities (bankers have been doing this for centuries, but not on this scale).

Latin America is reasserting its independence in an attempt to free itself from centuries of imperialist domination.

We had overcome centuries of gruesome history and proved to the world that America could live up to its promise.

Fenugreek has been used by mothers for centuries to stimulate the production of breast milk during pregnancy and following childbirth.

And a significant portion of the territory that constitutes the United States today used Spanish for centuries.

Best-known for its lake and its tea, Hangzhou has been celebrated by artists and poets down the centuries for its sense of refinement.

A couple of centuries ago, nearly all the world's accumulated learning could be contained in the heads of a few philosophers.

Right now, their profile is of a wildly erratic volcano that can be mild, or violent prolific in its eruptions, or passive for centuries.

After seeing this shadow-puppet-inspired dance, we felt it necessary to take a look at Tangshan's centuries-old shadow puppet theater.

Some whisper, however, that centuries of breeding with exclusive bloodlines is beginning to take its toll.

The drought persisted for several centuries, during which the Tiwanaku went into a slow decline.

NSHA PILAI: The Albanian Government is trying to end a centuries-old tradition, which still blights the lives of thousands.

London has been at the heart of a great overseas trading network for centuries.

Egg whites were a popular form of "laundry detergent" during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England.

Therefore, until his theory of the Renaissance, so is always considered standard astronomy, western astronomy have ruled over 15 centuries!

Over the centuries the word has been adopted by theorists who believe that Shakespeare was actually Francis Bacon.

This form of bioengineering is an accelerated version of the cross pollination that farmers have practiced for centuries.

Some people say that this happened in the centuries after Christ ascended into heaven.

How dare he attack beliefs and ideas which had been held for centuries?

For a hundred centuries we have fought and died, spilt the blood of our enemies and our own over an uncountable number of battlefields .

A centuries-old tradition of wearing a white horse-hair wig in court ended for many judges when a simpler new dress code came into force.

I've seen it. I've seen centuries and centuries of it. And it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable.

The building which looks like a church has a history of a few centuries.

Over the centuries quyi has blossomed into many different forms which, like the popular theater, are largely regional.

These have been handed down over the centuries by a people inclined to live with mystery, with the forces of the supernatural.

Choosing world wonders has been a continuing fascination over the centuries.

Dating back to the Qin dynasty, the traditional crosstalk shows have made people all over China roar with laughter for centuries.

Yakuza have for centuries used extensive tattoos as a sign of belonging to any group, as well as to identify its position in the group.

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral used for centuries in insulation, clothing, and fire-resistant materials.

Although this date was the start of a brand-new company, its roots and history go far back into the previous centuries.

For centuries Chinese have observed this traditional holiday to welcome the beginning of a new year.

Out of general etiquette developed over centuries, it is the men who dominate the driver's seat whenever couples plan to take a ride.

London, renowned for centuries for its infamous smog and severe pollution, today has the cleanest air that it has had since the Middle Ages.

It has been many centuries since the Mediterranean Sea was the centre of civilisation.

But the benefits of academic research can pop up in such unexpected ways, sometimes immediately and sometimes after centuries.

Can things change so much in five centuries? I didn't mean any of it in this sense , what fool!

As economic historians can tell you, this is an old story, not that different from dozens of similar crises over the centuries.

Over the centuries cardamom has been used as a tooth cleaner, a perfume and even as a cure to obesity.

Economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt cite centuries of data to argue that the aftermath of financial crises is always painful.

Over the centuries, the use of poisons for devious means and harmful purposes continued to escalate.

I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable.

Weaver ants have been used for pest control in China and other Asian countries for centuries.

as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

Already he has commenced His labor, and for centuries He has persevered in making new the hearts of men and the order of society.

FOR centuries raising your hand was the way you bid at auction, whether you were buying sheep or Meissen shepherdesses.

The ancient stadium AT Olympia, first used for the Games nearly three centuries ago, will stage the shot put competitions.

For centuries, Yangxunqiao has been a centre for manufacturing the foil papers used in Chinese funeral rites.

After centuries' of expansions and renovations, the palace was finally transformed into a museum of the imperial era.

Yet still older women try and lay a clamp on the next generation with a host of rules and regulations passed down over centuries.

And he would be right. But he shouldn't count on finding one right away; magnetic monopoles have eluded our best scientists for centuries.

But it is only during the last three centuries that cats have joined dogs as companion ani mals and members of the family.

After three centuries of economic dominance, the west is about to be eclipsed by a rising Asian power: China.

It seems that the time when you could easily top the results for a one-word search string is centuries ago.

During 1972 record rains in parts of the U. S. , Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the same painting is described in other collectors' catalogs as The Garden of the Hesperides.

Furthermore, technological and demographic developments of the last few centuries have created conditions which are here to stay.

As a site of historical interest, Mount Tai has been a preferred place of visit for centuries.

If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.

For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour until her discovery in 1956.

Ephesus prospered for several centuries, but when Christianity came to the region, people began to abandon the pagan religion of Artemis.

Across the centuries, our closest contact is with individuals and scholarly men of letters on the margins of the court.

We may infer that this process, continued during centuries, would improve and modify any breed.

Some ancient wisdom on this comes from the monks of the first few centuries, known as the Desert Fathers.

Room by room , a set of astonishing , eerie juxtapositions shrinks the gaps between Chinese and Flemish art across the centuries .

For centuries men have been trying to keep women down.

On Tuesday, with a simple oath that's marked the renewal of our nation's democracy for more than two centuries. . .

Over the centuries the Kalachakra teachings have been transmitted in an unbroken lineage from teacher to student.

It was not a single language as such but a group of related languages that developed over the centuries.

For nearly three and a half centuries she lay AT the bottom of Stockholm harbor until her discovery in 1956.

SOME discoveries are so unusual it takes years, decades and sometimes centuries to understand their full significance.

This cooling liquid formed a very hard rock known as granite. Many centuries of rain caused huge rivers to move violently through this area.

The century is togs ap For centuries Turks have passed the time seeping that sipping their tea in and coffee with a cigarette.

Up to 20m Africans were taken across the Atlantic between the 15th and 19th centuries, denuding many places of their most able workers.

Centuries of theologians have informed us that this discovery signified the first sexual shame.

Australia transformed from a deserted island to a high developed society for a few centuries.

For centuries Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation worked well enough to explain gravity on Earth.

Celtic was the first Indo-European tongue to be spoken rather extensively for a period of about four centuries before the coming of English.

For centuries, people have wondered about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep.

For centuries it was assumed without proof that guilt was a valuable, perhaps even an indispensable, ingredient of the civilized life.

Over the centuries, these sparse pastures have been built over time by fertilizing the rocky soil with seaweed found along the beach.

On Thursday he referred to the hopeful example of seeing centuries of violence come to an end in Ireland.

Then again, as Juvenal pointed out centuries ago, old age is only desirable if it is healthy.

Prof Yu lamented that Chinese civilisation did not make a significant world impact in the past few centuries.

For centuries, Europe was been a continent blighted by frequent and destructive wars.

Indeed, for centuries, people believed the pagoda got its resilience from its central pillar, known as a shinbashira.

It is like a mixing of two centuries and the effect is surely unique, to say the least.

For centuries the Rough Coated Collie was hardly known outside Scotland, but it is now one of the world's most popular breeds.