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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

China will spend nearly $US5 billion on harnessing the Huai river, which has been a centuries-old scourge for the local population .

It marks China's realization of a great leap from centuries-old feudalistic autocratic politics to people's democratic politics.

The results of both studies are likely to be controversial, perhaps resurrecting a centuries-old debate.

While the research might be biological, the ability to make headway on this centuries-old problem is technological.

Years of deprivation had broken a centuries-old bond between Cambodia's people and nature.

They were the aristocrats of technical knowledge, presiding over a centuries-old regime.

FOR a president facing a weak economy and declining popularity, a centuries-old murder mystery could prove a useful distraction.

The Chinese who have come to Prato, Italy, since the late 1980s have transformed the city and its centuries-old textile industry.

Britain's lawyers and judges are to break with centuries-old tradition and cease wearing white horse-hair wigs in non-criminal cases.

Bensley claimed to be a centuries-old vampire who needed blood to stay alive.

This question and answer in a centuries-old Christian catechism clearly expresses the basis of our faith in God.

He would eliminate centuries-old privileges enjoyed by the Catholic church.

China is a great country with a centuries-old history and brilliant cultures.

This makes perfect sense, especially in a region where traditional medicine has an ancient centuries-old home.

They will tell you that things have moved backwards, and that a centuries-old energetic time window for enlightenment has also been moved.

European disdain for the United States is centuries old, of course.

Together with his retirement on the pavement were Sheng Zhai, small intestine, Chen dozen centuries old, Beijing snack.

Throughout this sprawling archipelagic country, loggers are wiping out centuries old tropical rain forests.

Essentially a national park, West Lake claims to have more than 100 tourist attractions, the majority of which are many centuries old.

Centuries old, Khartoum remains to this day one of the most important crossroads in the African landscape.

India should start with something small like building railways and uptodate trains rather than rely on centuries old stock.

The by-product of this centuries old fair in Bushka, inadvertently sparks a war of minute proportions right under their noses.

Here visitors experience the fusion of past and present by walking around a mix of modern skyscrapers and centuries-old markets.

"Do not add personal bias to centuries-old TCM" .

The quest for beauty may be a centuries-old obsession, but in the present day the reality is ugly.

When the Germans began laying tracks in 1904, construction followed along the centuries-old caravan route cleared by Arab traders.

The current data now makes it clear that carbon accumulation can continue in forests that are centuries old.

Throughout the land, the Czar could at will make laws, impose taxes and change customs centuries old.

I am confident that the cause of the recent financial crisis is not this centuries-old model.

Along with Christianity the Russian masters adopted Byzantium style and centuries old technique of painting.

The centuries-old enclosed dwellings are most representative of Hakka architecture.

The Anamorphic Cup is the first product to employ the centuries old visual play of the anamorphic cylinder.

Then the centuries-old polder method was followed - building and pumps out the water enclosed in order to reclaim the land.

Vegetables are plucked by farmers from the earth next to dining tables which overlook spectacular centuries-old rice fields.

The centuries-old practice of traditional Chinese medicine is undergoing a digital overhaul.

Children dance around a maypole in a centuries-old tradition that is still thriving in eastern Europe.

Perhaps most significant is the improvement in relations with Poland, a centuries-old irritant.

A dance many centuries old, the Yangko had been suppressed by rural puritanism .

A centuries-old illustration shows Etna's deadliest known eruption, which sent rivers of lava streaming into the Ionian Sea in 1669.

Dizzying towers of rock soar above Greece's northern plains and support centuries-old monasteries.

The history of Chinese nation is centuries-old, Chinese culture has a long history, and Chinese national spirit is broad and profound.

Its stone churches and centuries-old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants stir the imagination.

Moreover, the pattern has centuries-old history and deeply cultural background.

In France, they are altering centuries-old irrigation traditions to accommodate longer, hotter summers.

Su Xiaoxiao recognized Sima Xi was her lover Ruanyu, whom she had waiting for five centuries old.

Sandu'Ao has preponderance on geographical location and has centuries-old history and relic.

As descendant of Baiyue ethnic groups, Dai nationality has a centuries-old tradition of rice-fanning.

More worryingly, sponges, seaweeds and centuries-old coral are destroyed.

Some of the recipes are decades, or even centuries old.

China has a centuries-old tradition of letting common people voice their grievances directly to their rulers.

But the value central to the CastaDiva experience is the lifestyle afforded by this centuries old mansion.

Throughout their centuries-old tradition, the Chinese discovered and adapted native plant resources for use as food, spices, and medicine.

It is the leg of the duck that has been preserved in a centuries old process of salt curing the meat.

The centuries-old cod fishery came to an end when the Canadian government proclaimed a complete fishing ban.

But as I told you before, the fruit cake has a centuries old tradition behind it.

Taihu region is one of the centuries-old rice producing areas in China.

The centuries-old Qilu culture has nurtured this vast fertile land.

Hunting with eagles is a centuries-old tradition in Eurasia.

Many of the centuries-old buildings in L'Aquila, where the 6. 3-magnitude quake struck overnight Sunday, sustained severe damage.

Acupuncture is a centuries-old chinese method of healing.

Over 25 years ago the pioneering artist was influenced by centuries-old frescoed ceilings. . .

"Underlap" is not centuries old but it does go back 24 years.

Our great motherland has the very centuries -old history.

This Thursday, millions of Americans will join family and friends to give thanks and eat a meal with thea history that is centuries old.

The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions.

After decades of destruction of ancient landmarks and centuries-old homes, a new movement is taking hold in China: historic preservation.

For others it is merely a way to share in a centuries-old tradition.

The origin of the Chinese New Year is itself centuries old - in fact, too old to actually be traced.

A charm and centuries-old praising song.

Once the centuries-old dream come true at this moment!

This centuries-old building, originally a monastery , now houses the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

Baghdad has a centuries-old history.

We have an historical opportunity to find a just and democratic solution for the centuries old political conflict.

The story of modern Japan is of the use of Western arms and technology to overturn China's centuries-old regional dominance.

Still, the reports prompted doubts of the government's ability to protect relics from China's past, many of which are centuries old.

An edge of hand blow shown in a CENTURIES old WESTERN manuscript is NO different than that shown in 1900 or 1942 or 1950 or 2003.

It's centuries old and they say its gears have killed more men than the City's guillotine.

You carry on a centuries-old tradition and keep pace with6 modern technology at the same time.

The other analyses market information that is more than two centuries old.

Gold's centuries-old popularity in China for jewellery, payments and dowry gifts ended when the Communist party came to power in 1949.

Chris Moss joins a walking holiday in the Couserans that lets visitors join in the centuries-old festivities

ended the centuries-old practice of farmers paying taxes for tilling their land

The centuries-old Trinity Church stands between two skyscrapers on Wall Street

There are centuries-old fascinating folk cultural traditions,

keeping in mind the centuries old vow

D. it is a centuries-old art