"Horror as a genre," Hazel Cills wrote at the Dissolve, "so often thrives in moving forward, in figuring out what makes people tick and jump in the present, in creating new characters or establishing smart takes on centuries-old ones.
After rejecting modern approaches like sampled recordings, as well as centuries-old ones like wobbling copper sheets, Mr. Clark found inspiration in an old German book on stagecraft.
The island's century-old one-room schoolhouse is limited to kindergarten through fourth grade; it had just nine students last year.
Dave Gutierrez, a media consultant, and Tara Agen, an executive for Hewlett-Packard, paid $86,000 a decade ago for a century-old one-bedroom stone cottage with a loft and finished basement in one of those neighborhoods.
The other two versions are a century older: one is flawed and may have been a scribe's exercise and the other was part of a set of legal texts.
One of them, the Royal Liver Building, was a century old on the day the museum opened.
Its new electronic version doesn't fit on any shelf, but it is the first phase of a $55 million, 10-year overhaul that will add more than 600,000 new words -- and revise the 19th-century entries for many old ones.
Public transportation, a concept more than a century old, is one of the best available technologies in the effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The 21st-century world will be one of giants: weary old ones, like the United States and Russia, and hungry new ones, like China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
Part of the pleasure of afternoon tea is the sense of participating in a ritual, and at Temptation Tea House in Mount Kisco you have the chance to be involved in one that is centuries old, sometimes with a modern twist.
In theory, the biggest ones could be nearly six centuries old.
