The words of the decade, the century and the millennium.Reports on the competition between the American and the British language. Words chosen by the American Dialect Society; Century words issued by the Oxford University Press.CornwellTimTimes Higher Education Supplement...
In this post we’re going to look atmeasurements of time that refer to quantities of years:biennium, lustrum, decade, century, millenium If you want to review previous posts on units of time, you can do so here: Learn how to measure time and the units associated Time: basic concepts to...
In 1993 the second Lyon Biennial tried to name the century, borrowing its title "And Together They Changed the World" from Julian Beck. We were on the threshold of history, seven years before the 00s. And now, seven years after the 00s, the Biennial is out to name the decade. This ...
THE ARTS: CLASSICAL - That was the decade that was As Simon Rattle's decade-long project `Towards the Millennium' concludes its look at the century with the Nineties, Bayan Northcott asks, `What's new?' merely a collage of the familiar and not-so-new? By B ...
Adonis Creed is a fascinatingly complicated underdog for a new millennium, and Michael B. Jordan is a true-blue movie star who’s equally compelling in virtuosic fight scenes, romantic interludes, and tender sequences of mentorship. That the sequel, which Coogler wasn’t directly involved with...
Background: The lipids deposited deep in the vascular wall are hardly detectable by any available imaging modalities including IVUS and OCT. Since near-infrared (NIR) light penetrates relatively deeply into the tissues, we devised a near-infrared fluorescence angioscope (NIRFA) for two dimensional ...
y2k review article metalliferous mining geophysics-state of the art in the last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the new millennium Geophysics 76:W31–W50M.A. Vallee, R.S. Smith, P. Keating, Metalliferous mining geophysics - State of the art after a decade in the new mille...
Honourable mentions should include Minority Report, a; marker of Spielberg’s maturation of a great, adult S-F director and V for Vendetta, every bit the great S-F cinematic work we’ve seen in the literature’s canon of the last third of the 20th century. I would add that Watchmen, ...
” days. Certainly, Japanese manufacturers were still selling econobox cars, but their SUVs, crossovers, hybrids, luxury cars, pickup trucks, sports cars, and pretty much every other drivable thing you could think of were consistently among the best of the best at the turn of the century....
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot went on to top countless critics' lists and expand the band's fan base, proving that leaks may not be so bad-- and the old industry would have to own up to a more transparent standard in the new millennium. --RD October 23 __The iPod Debuts, Changes the World_...