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The old church on the hill dates back to the twelfth century.
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The wedding will be held in a 17th century church.
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This hairstyle was popular in the 1990s.
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At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.
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During the 20th century, Manchukuo was a puppet state.
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Can you imagine what the 21st century will be like?
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It is the 27th of June of 2013. The Blue Dreams are plural. The Blue Dreams are many. Interlingua is not the only one. For decades now, there have existed other Latinate conlangs, different projects. And in the future, some hope for others. But it has been the Green Dream, Esperanto, that has succeeded for more than a century. Reforms attempted upon Esperanto have met with failure over the decades because genuine Esperanto has an artistic balance with which one cannot tamper. Esperanto remains enduring. Amongst the Blues, my vote is still Interlingua. More people should give it a chance. Esperanto's accents give a charm to the language that perhaps boosted its survival over the years. There are substitute systems.
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During the 15th century, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of Imperial China.
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It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.
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Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.
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For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way.
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As most of the world was warming up between 1910 and 1980, some areas south of the equator near the Andes were actually cooling down, and then afterwards had no change at all until the middle 1990s.
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