A port city with doors to the spicy sounds of the Caribbean and Mexico and a large, well-established black population, the Crescent City was ripe for the development of new music at the turn of the century.
It is made up of 159 granit boulders cleared from regional farms at the turn of the century and thus recalling the arduous process by which the first settlers to New England cleared the fields.
The flow of trade and investment between China and Africa had grown rapidly since the turn of the century in large part because of China's hunger for Africa's natural resources.
American inventor Thomas Edison began making short motion pictures at the turn of the century. In nineteen-oh-three, a movie called " The Great Train Robbery" was the first to tell a complete story.
Coming from the New Orleans music, where it's played to celebrate births, funerals—the celebratory aspects of the music, the parade, which, around the turn of the century, was a real popular thing.
One idea, which remained in textbooks well into my own school days, was the baked apple theory propounded by the Austrian Eduard Suess just before the turn of the century.
The World Health Organization says pregnancy and childbirth deaths have dropped 40 percent since the turn of the century, but experts fear rates will rise because of foreign aid reductions.
A new study suggest the compaign against malaria in Africa has prevented almost 700 million cases of the most deadly form of the disease since the turn of the century.