Translation of "Vergangene jahrhundert" in English

Cowries were also used as money in Africa into the last century.

Unfortunately, the past century led to considerable deterioration of the culture of scientific relations.

What progress was made in the last century?

The last century has been described, not without justification, as the century of expulsions.

And it is not to be believed that the elapsed century was the last one for these changes.

Especially worth visiting is the recreated ethno village, which will give visitors an impression of life a hundred years ago.

Compared with this, the past century with its wars and dictatorships is an atavism second to none.

When you examine the past century, in the first half of it we had two world wars - the worst in the history of the world - millions of dead.

The last century in Europe was marked by war in its first half and division into East and West in its second.

As we look back in this centennial year toward the outbreak of WWI, we see again and again that the only possible route to safety is international law, upheld by the United Nations and respected on all sides.

For the past half-century, this has represented Europe’s revolutionary recipe for peace, and has served as something of a microcosm of globalization.

In Fiji, almost half the population is of Indian origin, but these origins date back to the last century.

The ability of humans to communicate over distances has moved, over the past century, from the pace of a single human's ability to travel or deliver mail to instant communication all over the world with the press of a key - the Internet.

In fact, reading through the Memories of Sister Lucia [Fatima in Lucia's own words] is also to discover the gaze of hope that God has over the past century: a realistic gaze on the drama of suffering and sin, but a gaze filled of hope and mercy.

"Our handling of space is a very defensive, very passive one. If you look at the last century, the development of the built environment, of architecture is a consumption of space to avoid social conflict.

For its part, the century that has just ended also saw courageous witnesses to the faith, in both East and West. Even now, there are many such witnesses in different parts of the world.

In this article, we highlight some elements we had already pinpointed in previous works, with a view to opening a discussion that should result in more accurate definitions, analyzing the convulsive last century, and also drawing lessons for the future.

What is the content of justice as response to the political violence that has characterized this century?

The last century robbed us of our self-esteem, prosperity, creativity and recognition, and it robbed us of national unity.

Traveling through the century with wonderful colleagues like Maestro Masur and the pianist Lambert Orkis has been, and continues to be, an enthralling adventure.

The century that has just finished was the era during which mankind experienced for the first time perhaps to such an extent the creation and further development of secular society, a society, that is, without God.

The past century after the end of the First World War, overcoming National Socialism, rebuilding after World War II all the way to the collapse of the communist system in East Germany has shown impressively what Germans have the ability to accomplish.

How did the last century produce both new forms of difference, subordination, and exclusion even as it generated new forms of global collectives?

However, the buildings of the center of Sewell are still largely preserved and are a memory of the past century.

Inspired by the great artists who passed through or stayed in the town and the local area, it displays work by famous artists who have made a mark on the 20th century, such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Dufy and Masson.

The local population live predominantly from agriculture, far away from the hectic rush and any stress; the simple lifestyle soon invokes a feeling of being transported back to the last century.

Looking only at the last century, we recall the splendid figure of Saint Frances Cabrini, who dedicated her life, along with her companions, to immigrants to the United States of America.

The carve-up of the Near East by the British and French imperialists following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I resulted in the Kurdish nation being denied a state of its own over the last century.